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Re: How can...
« Reply #20 on: January 18, 2016, 11:30:51 PM »
2 tops 1 likely 0 quite possibly

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Re: How can...
« Reply #21 on: January 19, 2016, 08:49:00 AM »
continued development of the team has the squad playing much better then early in the season but the loss of Sima was crucial.  I think with Sima we may have won 1 or 2 of the close games we lost.  Any word on when he will be back??

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« Reply #22 on: January 19, 2016, 08:57:08 AM »
Who's playing better than they did early in the season? 

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« Reply #23 on: January 19, 2016, 09:02:54 AM »
The team as a whole has improved, defense is much better, ball movement is better.  The problem early was the team was not cohesive and I see consistent improvement in this area.  Teamwise, Johnson is the only significant problem, man takes a lot of bad shots.

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« Reply #24 on: January 19, 2016, 09:12:24 AM »
We might have sima back for the last month or so if he is only out 4-5 weeks. I think we have a chance to win 2-3 games. I would be surprised if we won 0 games but you never know. The number of wins this year is obviously irrelevant but going 0-18 regardless of how short handed the team is would be embarrassing.

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« Reply #25 on: January 19, 2016, 09:32:17 AM »
We have had to many bad teams and bad seasons. This is not the least talented team, but it is the least athletic. I have never seen a team get so few easy baskets. We also don't shoot free throws well. I don't think we wiin a game not because I think we are that bad. But because we are so easy to stop. We beat a good Syracuse team because they didn't pressure mussini and allowed him to shoot.  The entire team shot great that day.  Under similar circumstances we could be successful. I don't expect a team to play off us in conference. Marquette and creighton seem to be less athletic. Maybe we have a shot there.
Defense has been better. Our defensive game plan has been better also. I don't think we were as prepared as we should have been earlier in the season. I think we beat NJIT and incarnate wood now.

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« Reply #26 on: January 19, 2016, 09:33:47 AM »
Who's playing better than they did early in the season? 

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« Reply #27 on: January 19, 2016, 10:10:19 AM »
We have had to many bad teams and bad seasons. This is not the least talented team, but it is the least athletic. I have never seen a team get so few easy baskets. We also don't shoot free throws well. I don't think we wiin a game not because I think we are that bad. But because we are so easy to stop. We beat a good Syracuse team because they didn't pressure mussini and allowed him to shoot.  The entire team shot great that day.  Under similar circumstances we could be successful. I don't expect a team to play off us in conference. Marquette and creighton seem to be less athletic. Maybe we have a shot there.
Defense has been better. Our defensive game plan has been better also. I don't think we were as prepared as we should have been earlier in the season. I think we beat NJIT and incarnate wood now.

I agree with everything you said, except in regards to talent. I think this is the least talented team. Hill, Lawrence, Jackson, Gray and Hamilton were actually more talented. They didn't have great, or even good players at every position, but at least they had an appropriate player for each position.

Mussini, IMO is a better version of Max Hooper. We have him running the point. Some say he can play off the ball next season, and possibly start at the 2 guard position. I think he's overmatched there as well. He has a lot of work to do in the off season. All of our freshman do.

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« Reply #28 on: January 19, 2016, 11:16:59 AM »
Yawke, Ellison, Amar, even Mussini when you factor in the far better competition.  Although he is sporadic, I think Durand has played better.  I didn't see the Gtown game and understand that was a debacle, but the way the team played in the first 4 BE games was much better than earlier in the season.


Who's playing better than they did early in the season? 

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« Reply #29 on: January 19, 2016, 11:19:29 AM »
We are Nostradamus predicts 1 win. Durand Johnson scores 32 points including game winner. Mullin gets so excited with win that he falls off scorers table and sprains his knee. Crystal ball a little foggy so I can't see who we beat. I also predict Marillac posts that see he was right about Johnson being good.
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« Reply #30 on: January 19, 2016, 11:30:50 AM »
1 win, DePaul at CA likely victim

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« Reply #31 on: January 19, 2016, 11:33:17 AM »
1 win, DePaul at CA likely victim

I think the win will be against someone we don't expect.

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« Reply #32 on: January 19, 2016, 11:49:33 AM »
He has a lot of work to do in the off season. All of our freshman do.

All everyone's freshmen do.

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Re: How can...
« Reply #33 on: January 19, 2016, 12:03:18 PM »
1 win, DePaul at CA likely victim

I think the win will be against someone we don't expect.
Dance team?

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« Reply #34 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.

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« Reply #35 on: January 19, 2016, 01:32:08 PM »
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.
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« Reply #36 on: January 19, 2016, 01:43:29 PM »
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.


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Re: How can...
« Reply #37 on: January 19, 2016, 02:55:52 PM »
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.

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« Reply #38 on: January 19, 2016, 06:25:27 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.

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Re: How can...
« Reply #39 on: January 19, 2016, 06:51:05 PM »
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