Mind boggling bad coach:
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“They played hard, proud of the effort. We’ll get em next time.”
Standard CKK line after a loss.
Standard CKK line after a loss.
A lot of teams including Florida are getting blown out in the second half because of poor offense against a superior defense. Kansas lost to Baylor after leading by 23. However, ball handling at the center position, poor shooting by Thomas, ball hogging by Thomas because of poor shooting, and in our case, a real effort to win was wasted by poor recruiting at the center position, the PF position, and the lack of ball movement because if you pass it back to Thomas you won't see it again.
I thought Menzies would be the worst we’ve ever seen here.
Knowing how you feel about Menzies... someone help me off the floor!
Difference is KK is a good dude. MM is a used car salesman POS who is more worried about optics than he is about wins.
KK also wasn’t ready to be a HC when he was given the keys to the jalopy that is UNLV BB.
It is just the same mistakes. We do the same thing every time down the court on offense and defense, especially defense. For some reason we love to leave the weak side wing always wide open so we can double the weakside post for some reason. The worst part is the help defender is in poor position to do anything helpful when we do double. He is typically 100% useless in that spot and he leads to wide open shots because of it.
We don't trust our man to handle their assignment with off the dribble regardless of the match up, so our bigs just abandon their guy for an easy dump off at the worst and an easy offensive board at the best. Sure we have a good amount of blocks, but unless we can retrieve the ball after the block, it will lead to an easy second chance bucket every time. Because we have 2 guys out of position.
Our offense is spread the ball out and wings go one on one, with a dribble handoff for Rishwain for a tough, contested shot. We do very little to give Bear the ball and clear out. Now the shine on that has worn off some, but it is still a viable option against most teams in the conference if we give him room to work and a reasonable kickout lane if they double.
It just sucks because I think we have the talent to be much better this year, and especially last year. If we had a less predictable defense and any sort of actual offensive structure that was catered to our strengths, we could easily be a tournament team.
But we keep getting exploited due to our predictable tendencies and we do nothing to change.
We don't trust our man to handle their assignment with off the dribble regardless of the match up, so our bigs just abandon their guy for an easy dump off at the worst and an easy offensive board at the best. Sure we have a good amount of blocks, but unless we can retrieve the ball after the block, it will lead to an easy second chance bucket every time. Because we have 2 guys out of position.
Our offense is spread the ball out and wings go one on one, with a dribble handoff for Rishwain for a tough, contested shot. We do very little to give Bear the ball and clear out. Now the shine on that has worn off some, but it is still a viable option against most teams in the conference if we give him room to work and a reasonable kickout lane if they double.
It just sucks because I think we have the talent to be much better this year, and especially last year. If we had a less predictable defense and any sort of actual offensive structure that was catered to our strengths, we could easily be a tournament team.
But we keep getting exploited due to our predictable tendencies and we do nothing to change.
That and Menzies took a blowtorch to any goodwill or respect he had for his comments about UNLV towards the end of his tenure.
I agree he wasn’t ready, didn’t pay his dues, got in on name. It was short cutting it to a decent job. That’s why merit is the best way to run things, earned.
KK is a much better person than MM in my opinion, Rice was a great dude too.
In the end, it’s results. He’s a 500 coach.
If you look at Menzies resume, it was fine on paper. Won a lot of games at New Mexico State but our AD was too dumb to dig any further and examine the resume a little deeper as NMSU was already winning games, the soft schedules etc.
I’m convinced that like CKK, Menzies got this job because of Lon Krugers recommendation. That was more than enough for TKM after several disastrous attempts to hire a new coach.
My current worry about Harper is that he would be utilizing Lon’s recommendations which will be keep CKK for one more season, let him bring in a great class etc with DTJ returning. Im worried that the local press has NOT mentioned anything about CKK’s seat being warm even, let alone scorching hot.
You know we’re in the midst of a 4 game slide and zero talk about CKKs job security in the press? Doesn’t sit well with me and I think the plan is to blame injuries and point to the incoming class and transfers for reasons to stick with him.
I’m just reading the tea leaves and people need to get ready for another season of CKK. Look at the UNLVMBB X feed, already pumping up their signees for next year.
Menzies was bottom of the barrel, very last choice. He wasn’t even a fallback option. The problem is everything was so butchered and the president said, just give it to him, he will take it, the mess is over. Len Jessup was just as horrible for UNLV as anybody else. They coulda reset. They wanted to. Jessup said no.
Im sure being clowned on by the media, not just locally but nationally as well pressured the administration to just give it to Marv. People like Len and TKM aren’t used to criticism or scrutiny, so when it came they panicked.
Ironic, considering they publicized the search.
But I’m seriously concerned that Harper and UNLV are going to give CKK another go and possibly give him a one year extension.
