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I still don't get how Larry Davis can sit there and do nothing while they hit like 7 3s from the same spot in 15 minutes. We had no shot bc of a coach that couldn't make a simple adjustment on the fly.
 
Not buying the "missing Cronin" impact. This is the same ugly team and effort that I watched one week ago losing to a team who couldn't beat Incarnate Word......with Cronin on the bench.

It absolutely is the worst shooting team ever, and that says a lot since Mick owns 6 or 7 of the next worst shooting teams ever.

At this point, Kevin Johnson should take a seat near the end of the bench with the walk-ons in my opinion. I can barely count on one hand anything good he has done this season.

Morman is absolutely on a far shorter leash than most of the other players. I too would put up with his ugly shooting to take the other parts of his game which are pretty solid. The team is slow and not that athletic, two things that Morman would help.

I've attended over 1100 home games in my life. I can't remember being dominated at home like that ever. This game and the Nebraska game are as bad as I've ever seen.

Thank you for telling everyone what I've been saying all offseason about KJ but no one would listen. He is no good for this team in any facet.
 
Thank you for telling everyone what I've been saying all offseason about KJ but no one would listen. He is no good for this team in any facet.

I'll admit I was a KJ backer. I thought he showed great strides late last season and had very impactful games when he got the opportunity. His play has essentially been an abortion so far this season. So has Shaq Thomas. The two guys I expected (along with Troy) to take the biggest steps forward have been MAJOR disappointments. Troy has been wildly inconsistent as well. I still think this can be a really good team by the end of the year but some guys need to start playing a lot better. We've seen flashes from many of them but no one has been anything close to consistent outside of Gary. Frustrating time to be a bearcat basketball fan.
 
Just want to express my hope and prayer for a speedy recovery for Coach Cronin. Am happy with our win and felt as if we earned it. But at the same time the Bearcats had to be distracted.Good luck the rest of the season.
 
Coach Davis never gave us a chance. This game was over 8 minutes in. I doubt we would've won anyway, but it is just so demoralizing to watch open 3 after open 3 go in. That explains the lack of energy imo.

And why the hell was Gary Clark on the bench for the first six minutes of the second half? That's when VCU put the game away.
 
Just want to express my hope and prayer for a speedy recovery for Coach Cronin. Am happy with our win and felt as if we earned it. But at the same time the Bearcats had to be distracted.Good luck the rest of the season.

Thanks. Very classy, as well as your other fans (visited your board, only one or two "belligerents " but every place has to have that haha).

Tons of well wishes to Cronin, humility in the face of our team not knowing what the hell to do with themselves without leadership; I wouldn't mind one bit if you guys showed up regularly on our schedule.

Peace to you
 
I still don't get how Larry Davis can sit there and do nothing while they hit like 7 3s from the same spot in 15 minutes. We had no shot bc of a coach that couldn't make a simple adjustment on the fly.

I'm sure his task wasn't that easy today. There's really no way to prepare for what he had to do. Plus the team was all out of it as well. This was just a write off game all things considered.
 
It's not the offensive system. It's the players within the system. They dont pass it well. They dont shoot it well. They dont create for themselves very well. Gary has a nice offensive future and so does Quadri. There is a talent problem on this team right now. Not a systematic one.

It's both. Very little movement in their offense. When you have such a talent gap you better not depend on isolations.
 
Our #1 problem is passing the ball. We take hrs rotating ball, can't make entry pass, and still can't run fastbreak.

This team may be the worst or 2nd worst passing team Mick has ever had. How funny was it when Sanders had a 2 on 1 break and could have given it up for an easy layup but instead just put his head down and kept dribbling right into the VCU player and just threw up a contested shot? Fortunately he was fouled by VCU. But I was thinking how that play was a microcosm of the passing abilities of this team.
 
No it's not. They get shots that good players should make. They do not make them. It's a talent problem. Not a system one.

OMG!!! Please don't tell me that you are arguing that Mick Cronin's offensive schemes create high percentage shots for our players? LH is 100% correct. The talent has never been here and Cronin's offense creates nothing for them as well. A blind squirrel will often find an acorn. When the opposing team's defense sucks and somehow an open shots miraculously happens, we rarely make it anyway. It's definitely a two-fold problem.
 
OMG!!! Please don't tell me that you are arguing that Mick Cronin's offensive schemes create high percentage shots for our players? LH is 100% correct. The talent has never been here and Cronin's offense creates nothing for them as well. A blind squirrel will often find an acorn. When the opposing team's defense sucks and somehow an open shots miraculously happens, we rarely make it anyway. It's definitely a two-fold problem.

Im absolutely arguing that. Im not claiming he is some offensive savant but the system in place is more than adequate to score enough points to win. You also cant judge the system that well when the god damn players dont pass the ball where they have been coached to pass it. We have maybe one player who can make a freaking entry pass. Jermaine Sanders couldn't pass the ball to Shaquille O'Neal if he played for the cats in the post. I've said it before and I will say it again. The problem the bearcats have is not about the X's and O's it's about the Jimmy and Joe's.
 
Micks offense hasn't consistently gotten open looks since he has been here. And his defense hasn't consistently allowed them either. Get an offensive coach to help and adjust practice to accommodate more focus on offense. It's time to change....been a long time.

Although to be fair to mick, if he could get 1 great shooter out there on the court it would open up the floor and his offense might work. Problem is he hasn't been able to get any
 
Not buying the "missing Cronin" impact. This is the same ugly team and effort that I watched one week ago losing to a team who couldn't beat Incarnate Word......with Cronin on the bench.

It absolutely is the worst shooting team ever, and that says a lot since Mick owns 6 or 7 of the next worst shooting teams ever.

At this point, Kevin Johnson should take a seat near the end of the bench with the walk-ons in my opinion. I can barely count on one hand anything good he has done this season.

Morman is absolutely on a far shorter leash than most of the other players. I too would put up with his ugly shooting to take the other parts of his game which are pretty solid. The team is slow and not that athletic, two things that Morman would help.

I've attended over 1100 home games in my life. I can't remember being dominated at home like that ever. This game and the Nebraska game are as bad as I've ever seen.

I saw some pretty good beatdowns in the 80's and I'm sure you did too. It's absolutely amazing you don't think losing Mick 90 minutes before that game didn't hurt. It was evident in the way the game was coached he was sorely missed. You sight the Nebraska game as proof but they played good defense in that game. Again, I AM NOT saying that is why they lost but it affected the game.
 
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This team may be the worst or 2nd worst passing team Mick has ever had. How funny was it when Sanders had a 2 on 1 break and could have given it up for an easy layup but instead just put his head down and kept dribbling right into the VCU player and just threw up a contested shot? Fortunately he was fouled by VCU. But I was thinking how that play was a microcosm of the passing abilities of this team.
Play of game(year) was caupain not giving ball up to Shaq 2on1 for dunk.
 
Im absolutely arguing that. Im not claiming he is some offensive savant but the system in place is more than adequate to score enough points to win. You also cant judge the system that well when the god damn players dont pass the ball where they have been coached to pass it. We have maybe one player who can make a freaking entry pass. Jermaine Sanders couldn't pass the ball to Shaquille O'Neal if he played for the cats in the post. I've said it before and I will say it again. The problem the bearcats have is not about the X's and O's it's about the Jimmy and Joe's.
They can't possibly practice passing. Passing can be fixed with film study.
 
Micks offense hasn't consistently gotten open looks since he has been here. And his defense hasn't consistently allowed them either. Get an offensive coach to help and adjust practice to accommodate more focus on offense. It's time to change....been a long time.

Although to be fair to mick, if he could get 1 great shooter out there on the court it would open up the floor and his offense might work. Problem is he hasn't been able to get any
I'll put new walk on in game before kj and Mormon to send message.
 
I'll put new walk on in game before kj and Mormon to send message.

That's pretty extreme but I would love if that happened. I remember in the 2nd half when Morman got the ball in the corner, ad pulled up for a jumper that he air balled or hit the side of the backboard. Coach Davis yelled at him and told Morman not to shoot that and Morman looked away and shook his head completely ignoring what coach was saying to him. Then he proceeded to act like an immature pyscho when he couldn't inbound the ball. It was really disappointing to see.
 
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