an entertaining game. Not particularly well played, in fact downright awful offensively for both teams. But it was competitive pretty much the entire way and it was a fun game.
This year won’t be a success overall on paper, they just don’t have the depth and the talent. But if they bring effort on the boards and defensively, they’ll win their fair share. I was impressed with both. I want to see that game in and game out, we will compete.
And for all the “what great ball movement, we haven’t seen this type of offensive genius in YEARS” after IPFW, as I said, wait until a bigger sample size. For those that thought we’d be “fine” with our outside shooting, it’s going to be an issue this season. We just don’t have many good shooters. I think KSU is good, they’re tough and physical. I don’t know that they’re an NCAA team, I suspect they’ll be middle of the pack in conference and fringy for a bid. But certainly good competition and a good measuring stick for where we are.
The turnovers killed, obviously, so did the missed free throws. But the offense was absolutely hideous. What we saw today was a complete abandonment of any offensive clue and the bail out, one size fits all, very easy Marv 2.0 offense. Roll the ball out there, dribble as much as you want, make a play for yourself or somebody else. It’s brainless, it’s easy, and if you don’t have talent that can play one on one, it’s ineffective, desperate and ugly. Hardy is the only one that can really make plays on the entire team but he’s no PG by any stretch. He was “good” but it was clear out and freedom, which he’s good at.
Kstate anticipated no changes to our desperate offense so they just tightened up a bit and took away some alleys and we looked lost. It was almost a mirror image of last years’ 40 minutes per game offense. The weave and just the looks and strategy. So I was wildly disappointed with that.
We thought the addition of Tillman would bring us a couple more wins on the season. If he shows up a little bit today, UNLV wins. He was awful.
That said, because the way we defended and really hit the boards, I’m not upset, we will be more competitive this year than I think maybe we should be. Overall, I do think it was a plus because of that.
I don’t know what we will do offensively. Though they (KSU) are good defensively, other teams can focus and take away Jonah and do some similar things to the Rebels. That offense isn’t hard to defend if you don’t have the talent and we don’t. We will struggle offensively against like and better teams if this is what we are going to throw out there on that end. But defense and rebounding can save more heartache than we want. Id really did look like a Marv team that rebounded and defended and, very importantly, didn’t crack and implode.
A ton to clean up but there were some impressive things that shouldn’t be overlooked.
I know, I know, unfair post, straight hater, egregiously negative, end of the world stuff. Sorry for that.
This year won’t be a success overall on paper, they just don’t have the depth and the talent. But if they bring effort on the boards and defensively, they’ll win their fair share. I was impressed with both. I want to see that game in and game out, we will compete.
And for all the “what great ball movement, we haven’t seen this type of offensive genius in YEARS” after IPFW, as I said, wait until a bigger sample size. For those that thought we’d be “fine” with our outside shooting, it’s going to be an issue this season. We just don’t have many good shooters. I think KSU is good, they’re tough and physical. I don’t know that they’re an NCAA team, I suspect they’ll be middle of the pack in conference and fringy for a bid. But certainly good competition and a good measuring stick for where we are.
The turnovers killed, obviously, so did the missed free throws. But the offense was absolutely hideous. What we saw today was a complete abandonment of any offensive clue and the bail out, one size fits all, very easy Marv 2.0 offense. Roll the ball out there, dribble as much as you want, make a play for yourself or somebody else. It’s brainless, it’s easy, and if you don’t have talent that can play one on one, it’s ineffective, desperate and ugly. Hardy is the only one that can really make plays on the entire team but he’s no PG by any stretch. He was “good” but it was clear out and freedom, which he’s good at.
Kstate anticipated no changes to our desperate offense so they just tightened up a bit and took away some alleys and we looked lost. It was almost a mirror image of last years’ 40 minutes per game offense. The weave and just the looks and strategy. So I was wildly disappointed with that.
We thought the addition of Tillman would bring us a couple more wins on the season. If he shows up a little bit today, UNLV wins. He was awful.
That said, because the way we defended and really hit the boards, I’m not upset, we will be more competitive this year than I think maybe we should be. Overall, I do think it was a plus because of that.
I don’t know what we will do offensively. Though they (KSU) are good defensively, other teams can focus and take away Jonah and do some similar things to the Rebels. That offense isn’t hard to defend if you don’t have the talent and we don’t. We will struggle offensively against like and better teams if this is what we are going to throw out there on that end. But defense and rebounding can save more heartache than we want. Id really did look like a Marv team that rebounded and defended and, very importantly, didn’t crack and implode.
A ton to clean up but there were some impressive things that shouldn’t be overlooked.
I know, I know, unfair post, straight hater, egregiously negative, end of the world stuff. Sorry for that.
