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21 minutes ago, Lonestar88 said:

That's why I said next year. That is giving him grace.

He said earlier that he'd prefer Russell Westbrook over Chris Paul on the Rockets so maybe lower your expectations. 

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I don't care if we lose every game the rest of the season, I won't miss RT. 

In fact that always just pisses me off. Tom Herman loses to Maryland and "Miss Charlie Strong yet??". Um, no. One has nothing to do with the other. 

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It’s year one and he inherited scraps and had to pull pieces from the portal to form a patchwork team … the only real WTF so far has been the lack of a ball handling guard on the roster … no idea if we competitively offered several portal PGs and they just ended up going to other places but if we didn’t throw chips at some serviceable PGs and thought Mark and Pope could fill that role that’s a huge evaluation fuckup already

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I can blame Miller for Traore. He recruited him from Xavier, so he knew what he was getting. And that is a one trick rebounding pony.

I don’t mind a backup big who can rebound so long as we didn’t overpay and we aggressively tried to fill the gaping hole at PG
Posted
18 hours ago, MotownHorn said:

I'm just kidding around friends. I also do not miss RT. I had higher hopes for this squad, though. 

Thought it was odd on Wednesday when Lowell made a point to mention RT was in the building.

Especially when you consider that he didn't often seem to be while actually our coach. 

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Posted
4 hours ago, Gut Wagon said:

Especially when you consider that he didn't often seem to be while actually our coach. 

Is that the look he was always making on the sidelines? With all squinting?

"Huh where AM I?!?!?!?"

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having a defense this bad with a schedule this weak does not portend success for conference play.

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our 101st ranked defense is the second worst unit in the sec thus far, bested (worsted?) only by OU’s 116yh ranked defense. teams like bama and vandy will drop 100 on us. 11 teams in this league have top 50 offenses. if miller doesn’t figure something out soon it’s going to be an especially rough year for this team and program.

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This is not a good defensive squad. Not good individually. Not good defensively as a team. It is staggering how bad our perimeter defense is in particular.  Our guards don't play tight 1:1 defense, they don't fight through screens, and our bigs are basically worthless perimeter help defenders.   

Pope and Wilcher are particularly noteworthy bad defenders.  Weaver provides hustle, but isn't really a very good individual defender either.  Mark can play decent defense... when motivated.  Half the time there is a 3, it seems to be in the face of Vokietaitis who is failing to close out.

Add it all up and our 3P% defense is #287 in the country.  And our ability to create steals and turnovers is #303 and #283 in the country.  Horrid, horrid defensive work from our guards.

When I hear Pope say that "we will do better", I want to see him start by putting in effort on the defensive end.  Our guards are 6'2, 6'3, 6'4 and 6'5 and have plenty of athleticism.  Weaver should be able to lock down the best opposing guard.  Same with Wilcher. They should be smothering.  Nope nope nope.

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