We could've held for a last shot. There was only a couple second difference. UCF shouldn't have had a chance to do anything. Then of course he fouled on top of it.
Why after the 4 minute timeout and being up 20 do you not put in Jenifer to get him some minutes and give Troy a rest? Troy played 37 minutes. Very stupid on Mick's part. You play a crappy team and your PG of the future can't log more than 3 minutes.
He doesn't care offense comes and goes but defense needs to be perfect every time....
That mentality has gotten us real far in 10 seasons. No doubt defense is important but you're exactly right. Mick doesn't care about offense.
He does, I just don't think he knows how to coach it. Coaching defense is a lot easier as it's more effort related. Offense relies heavily on skill. If my memory serves, Mick had pretty good offenses at Murray St (I know it was MSU, but they were still good relative to their competition).
What I don't understand is the lack of fundamentals year after year. I can't recall one team under Mick that was good at running a fast break. They had 3 easy opportunities tonight in the 2nd half for layups and they didn't convert any of them because they weren't properly run....Also, passing to the block and using picks are two other areas that have always been terrible under his regime.
Not first time its happened. He has not been playing well. If I had to guess it is probably deeper then that. He didn't even get in the other night. You do not watch practice or know the full story so to make blanket statements on who should be playing is not a good thing.So he gets exiled even when we are up 20? He isn't perfect but he and jenifer should get some minutes to grow.
Terry Nelson said he told Ellis to start playing like he's 1st team All-AAC.
Also, Quadri's big problem is he thinks/acts like every time he has the ball on offense he HAS to try and score. He forces everything and doesn't let anything with the game come to him.
He actually has stopped shooting so much in the last few games he was in.
I remember earlier in season, he was shooting on something like 23% of the possessions he was in the game for.
I just think of him like a he's the stoner on the team... only he doesn't need to smoke weed to be a stoner. Just spacey headed and makes terrible decisions
I really don't get the Jenifer discussion that seems like it's been ongoing since long before the season ever started. The kid played well in a scrimmage and since then he's been pretty terrible. Any chance he has gotten to play he surely hasn't made the most of it.
Mick is a pretty bad coach but even he's smart enough to know that you can't afford to play JJ on this team. These guys are trying to get into the dance, what possible good can come from giving more minutes to JJ or Quadri??
You don't develop guys who clearly aren't good enough yet to handle the bright lights by just throwing them to the wolves when you're fighting for your NCAA tourney life on a game by game basis. Bitching about JJ and Quadri getting minutes is about the stupidest possible thing a fan of this team could be complaining about.
The reason there is a need to develop Jenifer is that as of now there is no other PG on campus. In my day you forced your way in the line up by beating the starter everyday in practice and excelling in limited minutes you got from games. Its especially tough on JJ because your personnel my not be in tune with your game. JJ and Troy are to very different players right now. The team reacts to their style. Right now that is Troy.Up 20 vs UCF isn't exactly "the wolves". But I don't disagree. Those 2 guys have had a hard time fitting in. Hard when you're on the outside of the rotation looking in and getting random spurts for minutes. But for this season, we've made our bed. Those guys won't help us. Cronin just talked last week in an interview with Rothstein about needing to develop Jenifer. He always says that. I think it's just kind of a talking point. I've given up on the idea of either one of them being of any value down the stretch.