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Quote from: Lycidas on January 19, 2016, 12:39:21 PM

Our problem is that we don't have the personnel to run CM's pro style, up-tempo offense -- yet he has to run it to attract the high level recruits we want to land..  (No point guard makes it near impossible to run any style offense, of course.) You can say that any shot is better than a turnover, but isn't it really all about shots that go in?  Mussini as primary PG is easy to defend, and we lose the team's best outside shooting threat in the process.  Sima down means that opponents' bigs can key on stopping an undersized Yakwe, when he's most effective coming from out of nowhere for blocks.  Mvouika doesn't look for his shot when games still matter (no points in first half last 2 games), and Johnson's never seen a shot he doesn't like. Lousy FT shooting, unforced turnovers, and inability to inbound the ball under our own basket only make everything worse, so we're left with no margin for error.  We'll win a game when we shoot 50% from three and play a team that's coming off a big win and looking past us.  Even with all that, we are playing better as a team than we did in the pre-league games -- which probably says more about our early performances than it does about our current chances to win games in the Big East.

Paragraphs are nice eh?

Lycidas is, otherwise, an excellent poster.

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Quote from: Poison on January 19, 2016, 10:10:19 AM

He has a lot of work to do in the off season. All of our freshman do.

All everyone's freshmen do.

They key isn't whether or not they need to work at their game in the summer. It's whether or not they understand what's necessary. More Lavor Postells. Less Willie Shaws.

Mussini has Mullin and Richmond to tell him what to do.. Willie Shaw had the Jarvae and anyway he spent his summers at the race track.

Jarvis's time here obviously came with plenty of problems, but for the most part, players improved while he was coaching them. Shaw was not interested in getting better.

But Shaw is still playing for the Globetrotters--must have learned something.  Sorry it was not while in school

To me, I see it as a shame. He looked like he was going to be a stud for us at first. But I'm glad that he's doing something even if it's not real basketball.