Funny. I don't think it's true or intended that way. He's been a friend of the family member for quite some time. Before I was born. Don't believe he feels that way at all. But hey keep preaching fire MICK. It should get you far.
I completely agree. Our defense still has so many holes. It was really poor last night. Majority of Memphis's 3's were wide open. I just don't understand why we constantly look like we are scrambling around and out of position. Why is our defense such an issue when we have all returning players from last year except for 1 or 2 guys?
That story is 100% true.....so take it for it's worth to you, that's fine.
In the mean time I will keep preaching, you keep supporting mediocrity, Mick's already proven that he won't get you too far.
I really wouldn't take much away from this game in terms of an increase in pace. Cincinnati has played this style against Memphis in all three home games since we became conference mates again. We won 97-84, 77-65 and 76-72. We have always done a good job of playing an uptempo game against teams that like to push the pace. We have yet to force an uptempo game against any other type of team. Look at our home scores this season since December: 87, 75, 79, 70, 76, 70, 76. That is an average of 76 points per game. However away from home we haven't scored 70 points since the Bowling Green game in December. Since then, here are our point totals away from home: 65, 61, 55, 69, 57, 54, 65. That is an average of 61 points per game. I have no faith in us being able to put together a good offensive game away from home because there hasn't been any evidence of it.
That story is 100% true.....so take it for it's worth to you, that's fine.
In the mean time I will keep preaching, you keep supporting mediocrity, Mick's already proven that he won't get you too far.
I completely agree. Our defense still has so many holes. It was really poor last night. Majority of Memphis's 3's were wide open. I just don't understand why we constantly look like we are scrambling around and out of position. Why is our defense such an issue when we have all returning players from last year except for 1 or 2 guys?
Kenpom is good if you know what you're looking at. The advantage of that site is that it does a nice job of taking the opponent noise out of the numbers. Yes, teams like Pitt will still break it early in the season by dominating garbage so efficiently, but on the whole it's not an easy system to game and not many would care to try. You can get a good feel for how and where teams beat you by looking at those numbers.
1 thing I like about the Memphis game is we are usually good aren't affected by athletic players. Being long and jumping high isn't really a big factor against us historically while some teams can't hang athletically with Memphis. My main concern is that Lawson can really score even against good defense and we have had trouble shutting down top scoring threats. Lawson can get his similar to DeCosey without being open. I think Memphis needs 20+ from someone to beat us.
can we at least direct all this shit to a specific cronin/state of/future of the program thread? there's no point rehashing the same things over and over again all over the place.
hey we looked pretty good last night - the guys must have ignored that steaming shitpile coach!
hey we looked pretty good last night - guess you cronin haters can eat shit!
it all buries the actual discussion of the game.
can we at least direct all this shit to a specific cronin/state of/future of the program thread? there's no point rehashing the same things over and over again all over the place.
hey we looked pretty good last night - the guys must have ignored that steaming shitpile coach!
hey we looked pretty good last night - guess you cronin haters can eat shit!
it all buries the actual discussion of the game.
Memphis made a lot of tough shots also. Late in the shot clock. Memphis has pretty good players.
One was a drive where he got it stripped. And I think the other was maybe the pass downlow that ended being swiped and then fell in clarks hands for a half second. Then Clark and a Memphis player fell to the ground and Clark got a foul phantom foul.
I think my favorite play from Last night was actually the under the basketball bank shot tip by Ellis.
Was a huge possession that he made count.
That ref just called that foul bc it looked weird. He didn't even take into consideration whether Clark was actually making contact with the Memphis guy or not. One of those "automatic" calls that I can't stand.
What game were you watching? I saw our players scramble around, out of position and give up good looks from 3. I also saw them standing flat footer watching the Memphis player with the ball and get schooled on cuts to the basket.
I'll say this again as I said before, Memphis has good players. Probably better than most of ours. Get it
Yeah they have good players but what does that have to do with us being out of position, standing flat footed, getting beat on cuts?