It's always gonna be "prove it." I'm not even mad (at the voters, at least). The team had one game this week and it was an absolute stinker. I don't care how the voters treated the other schools. If ya stink, ya ain't ranked.Fuck it. To the cbb well educated voter, a neutral court loss to Iona is at best just as bad as a home loss to the full healthy UNI squad. However one merits 6 spot drops, and one merits 11 spots, in the eyes of the voters.
This goes to show, even with pre-season accolades, the perception for us is always going to be heavily laced with a "Prove it" undertone. I know all the press conferences and news clippings of coach and the guys say they dont pay attention to rankings, but you know they do. If Saturday's loss doesn't piss them off and motivate them on its own, hopefully this will.
I dont know, man. I'm having a hard time slicing that record up in a way which wouldn't leave us with either too few quality wins, or too many bad losses to go with the good wins to even sniff a 7. It's too early for nitty gritty quadrant talk- so much about the quality of our opponents is subject to change, and we won't have true NET for another month. But where it all falls today, if what you say does come to fruition (and it's definitely plausible), I'm sweating bullets between 2 and 6 pm after the A10 title game, let alone thinking 7 seed.
My head is swirling with more thoughts that I could fill many more posts with, but I'll let it rest and hope that the next week proves some of them to just be reactions in the moment.
Shit, I need to find more/new hobbies or something.
BR, I'm not so sure that they were gassed as they just took a big sigh and decided to play the final 9+ minutes like it was 0-0. The energy during that run was incredible, I don't think it just goes away in one possession. Prototypical Schmidt comeback, do everything right and overwhelm the opponent until X points are erased, and then reset. The whole reason it's tied now is because you played with purpose and not "0-0 let's see what happens" play that got you down 19 to begin with! That's maddening. And yeah, I know you can't keep it up for another 9+, but maybe see if you can just stretch a lead. Shit, get a lead maybe...Our guys were totally gassed after the big run to tie the game. How can’t he see that?
I dunno bi, I agree with bill. The team was gassed after that run. It took alot out of them. The reason you cant play like that for 40 min is because its not sustainable. Shoon cant play 20 min straight. Cool is not a huge drop off, have to get him in there. I think bill summed it up well. Let's chill a little. This is a veteran group and look what it took, a guy going off for 35 points. Stay the course. Uconn just barely beat umes tonight at home. Shit happens over the course of a season.BR, I'm not so sure that they were gassed as they just took a big sigh and decided to play the final 9+ minutes like it was 0-0. The energy during that run was incredible, I don't think it just goes away in one possession. Prototypical Schmidt comeback, do everything right and overwhelm the opponent until X points are erased, and then reset. The whole reason it's tied now is because you played with purpose and not "0-0 let's see what happens" play that got you down 19 to begin with! That's maddening. And yeah, I know you can't keep it up for another 9+, but maybe see if you can just stretch a lead. Shit, get a lead maybe.
But it does go hand in hand with lack of bench because at some point they were or would be gassed and needed subs. This whole ironman 5 thing is very overrated and frankly stupid and shortsighted both this year and for the program going forward.
I dunno bi, I agree with bill. The team was gassed after that run. It took alot out of them. The reason you cant play like that for 40 min is because its not sustainable. Shoon cant play 20 min straight. Cool is not a huge drop off, have to get him in there. I think bill summed it up well. Let's chill a little. This is a veteran group and look what it took, a guy going off for 35 points. Stay the course. Uconn just barely beat umes tonight at home. Shit happens over the course of a season.
How do we know they’re capable or incapable, though, when they never see action with the lights on? Game situations are totally different from the monotony of daily practice. Some guys really turn it up a few notches on game day.UNI was not a bad loss. They could end up being Q3, but will still likely be a top 150 team at absolute worst. More likely to be 60-100.
Nonetheless, the reason for some worry is that the guys we brought in don't seem ready to contribute this year.
AKC is a strong 6th man. He can fill in for a game or 10 minutes and we won't miss much.
Q. Adams might be able to spell for 5-10 minutes a night, but doesn't seem to give much offense to offset having any of our starters on the bench for extended minutes.
Linton Brown will hopefully be able to provide a spark when he plays. I think he is a slightly better version than AJ Vasquez during his freshman year.
There's just not much room for error when you only have seven maybe eight capable players.
Can't argue with that. We've played a lot of close games, and it is still early in the season.Beat me to it, Bill. We cant even speak on the bench outside of Coul, because they're not getting any run. Brown and Adams havent even played in the second half of a game, excluding garbage time vs Marquette, since Siena. There's no reason for that.
Duro did fine in 2 minutes against Canisius. Save for one blown defensive assignment- which everyone has- JNT was fine against Siena. There's no reason some of these guys cant me mixed in for a couple of minutes at a time, individually, One guy mixed with 4 starters isnt going to be detrimental.
I mean, in 2018- if you put Chef, Brock, Ayeni, Amadi and Kaputo on floor at the same time, yeah that's a disaster. But each of them when brought in individually to mix with others on the floor brought value. There's just no way that the entire bench outside of Coul is so bad, that the same can't be true of them.