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Bcatfollower said:
I disagree, citing the Nebraska game, mick didn't make the difference at this point. A team cannot win consistently without some reliable offense. We have no one to count on.
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I'm not saying Mick makes them a great team and I agree about the offense. I think your misrepresenting what I'm trying to say. My point is simply Mick wouldn't go into half time with 4 time outs remaining and only having scored 13 points. If Mick is on the sideline VCU doesn't make 15 threes because he makes adjustments to prevent it. In absence of a player who leads Mick is the engine behind this team. He's not John Wooden but much of what we have seen in the past few games you would not see if Mick was on the sidelines. He does make a difference. There's a reason he is he head coach and Larry Davis isn't.
 
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Bcatfollower said:
I disagree, citing the Nebraska game, mick didn't make the difference at this point. A team cannot win consistently without some reliable offense. We have no one to count on.
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agree.

mick has more contact with this team then some belive. plus this is the team he built. regardless uc should beat tulane and ucf with bearcatmick coacing uc.
 
When you let a bad team hang around and shots start falling for them, bad things are gonna happen. Everything about this game was a lack of effort. We didn't rebound. We played horrible defense. Tulane tied the game on a dunk because our guys missed their defensive assignments and someone was wide open. We made a play to take the lead, but I can't fathom how, with 4 seconds left, we give a guy that much space to pull up for a shot that would beat us. We should have been draped all over him. This team is young and inconsistent. They beat some good teams and have lost to some bad ones.

We are now squarely on the bubble. Luckily for us, the bubble is soft this year...but we can't afford more losses like this. And we won't have any chance of winning a single game in the tourney, assuming we make it, if this lack of effort continues.
 
Bearcatmatt said:
When you let a bad team hang around and shots start falling for them, bad things are gonna happen. Everything about this game was a lack of effort. We didn't rebound. We played horrible defense. Tulane tied the game on a dunk because our guys missed their defensive assignments and someone was wide open. We made a play to take the lead, but I can't fathom how, with 4 seconds left, we give a guy that much space to pull up for a shot that would beat us. We should have been draped all over him. This team is young and inconsistent. They beat some good teams and have lost to some bad ones.

We are now squarely on the bubble. Luckily for us, the bubble is soft this year...but we can't afford more losses like this. And we won't have any chance of winning a single game in the tourney, assuming we make it, if this lack of effort continues.
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The complacency by the players is what is killing me. There's no way this team should lose to Tulane or ECU.
 
jacobkdoyle said:
We aren't going to make the tournament as an at-large unless we win out in the regular season.
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I agree with you. Unfortunately, I think there is absolutely zero chance of that happening. This team has hit a wall and has fallen apart. We are down to 9 scholarship players and no head coach.....recipe for disaster. Oh yeah, and we can't score...again!!!!!
 
What is the point of having timeouts if you don't use them in a 13 point half? I can't get over it. What is he saving them for? What could possibly have gone so much worse in the 2nd half where you'd need 4 timeouts? And the only reason we used 1 was bc it was the end of the half and we were going to lose it. Absolutely blows my mind.
 
jacobkdoyle said:
What is the point of having timeouts if you don't use them in a 13 point half? I can't get over it. What is he saving them for? What could possibly have gone so much worse in the 2nd half where you'd need 4 timeouts? And the only reason we used 1 was bc it was the end of the half and we were going to lose it. Absolutely blows my mind.
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If you aren't going to go for a shot right at the end of the game, then you HAVE to call a timeout after Clark's layup. There is no way they make that type of shot against a set defense.
 
Bearcat_NTS said:
If you aren't going to go for a shot right at the end of the game, then you HAVE to call a timeout after Clark's layup. There is no way they make that type of shot against a set defense.
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I agree. We could've made them catch it coming to the ball. I can't believe Tulane didn't call one there. They had one left, right?
 
There has to be something behind the scenes for this team to lose focus after big wins against smu and uconn. The bearcats body language is noticeably terrible and mind numbingly hard to watch.
 
CPAW29 said:
There has to be something behind the scenes for this team to lose focus after big wins against smu and uconn. The bearcats body language is noticeably terrible and mind numbingly hard to watch.
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Just an immature team. These guys have never won a thing, so I'm not sure why they think they are above having to show up against the Tulane, Houston, UCF, ECU, and South Florida type teams.
 
bearcat jeff said:
I'm not saying Mick makes them a great team and I agree about the offense. I think your misrepresenting what I'm trying to say. My point is simply Mick wouldn't go into half time with 4 time outs remaining and only having scored 13 points. If Mick is on the sideline VCU doesn't make 15 threes because he makes adjustments to prevent it. In absence of a player who leads Mick is the engine behind this team. He's not John Wooden but much of what we have seen in the past few games you would not see if Mick was on the sidelines. He does make a difference. There's a reason he is he head coach and Larry Davis isn't.
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Yes, there is a reason. Rick Pitino's footprint is on his resume.

Pitino hired Mick because he was trying to catch Huggins and wanted to steal his assistant. This is the only reason Mick got that job. Huggins gave Mick an incredible opportunity. How many non-collegiate players get assistant jobs? Mick left to go to our primary rival and presumably use insight obtained working here.

As it turns out, search firms like to see Pitino on the resume and that's why Mick got a very easy first job. And then the circumstances landed him the job here.

A good portion of the fan base understands why Mick rose through the ranks so quickly and will never embrace him. Personally, I don't hold it against him. It's dog eat dog. Good for Mick.

It's nearly impossible to win at Furman and LD performed at that school better than anyone in recent history. He didn't sell-out the person who made him to get ahead.

You have know way of knowing how this team would perform under Mick. When this team performs well, it's Mick's program and scheme. When they struggle, it's substitution patters and timeouts.
 

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