Shaq continues his string of making my blood pressure rise. No bueno.

(11-25-2014 07:54 PM)bearcats23 Wrote:  Overall much better ball movement and effort tonight. If we close out and rotate better on defense we are winning this by 12+ and the competition is better than on Sunday. Hope we can put them away, which we have had trouble doing.

Agreed. Without those open 3's we gave up due to our lack of rotational/help defense, this isn't even much of a game right now.
Encouraging to see Clark be more assertive too.

(11-25-2014 07:55 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Shaq continues his string of making my blood pressure rise. No bueno.

Rath, you have always had a refreshingly honest assessments of Mick's teams.....

Does this not strike you as particularly pathetic offensive team, even for Mick's standards?

I live out of town so I can't catch as many games as I used too, but watching that first half made my head hurt.

This team lacks an identity. They don't play great defense. They most certainly don't play sound offensively. Three games vs. cupcakes and this team is 315th and 233rd in the country in scoring per game and field goal percentage respectively. That is absolutely pathetic.

I know a lot of year left but at what point this year do we say Shaq is a bust? At what point does Mick admit it and drastically reduce his minutes, role, and expectations for him on the team?

my gosh we can't run offense....AGAIN

Hey Shaq, that little square above the backboard with the red numbers counting down, don't feed a guy in the corner with 2 on it. I'm sure you'll catch on your Sr. year.

like Clark

If this keeps up with Shaq, he needs to be shown the door at the end of the year.

we look like a bunch of timid rabbits out there....first good team we play is going to rip our heads off

so Sanders lets it hit him in the legs and roll all the way to the other side of the court and he half heartedly runs after it?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!? That would have found him the end of the bench the rest of the night if a former coach was still here.

With the comments on here, you'd think we were losing by 20 to Mt. St. Joe

They can't even pass the ball to the right team.

....Moore's ineptitude is getting to me.

The offense might be ugly but by god that Cronin can dress...didn't know this game featured 2 top 10 best dressed coaches...

http://espn.go.com/blog/collegebasketbal...ed-coaches

"Cronin doesn’t like to talk about his suit guy. But the fact that he has a suit guy means that Cronin deserves consideration for this list. His refusal to follow the status quo -- sort of like college basketball’s Nicola Formichetti -- magnifies his courageous stand in the face of the haters who question his flashiness."

this may be the worst offense I have seen under Mick...and that's REALLY REALLY saying something

(11-25-2014 08:13 PM)InspectorHound Wrote:  With the comments on here, you'd think we were losing by 20 to Mt. St. Joe

Xavier would beat this team by 15-20 right now. That's the harsh reality. UC looks AWFUL.

(11-25-2014 08:15 PM)JFlight21 Wrote:  

(11-25-2014 08:13 PM)InspectorHound Wrote:  With the comments on here, you'd think we were losing by 20 to Mt. St. Joe

Xavier would beat this team by 15-20 right now. That's the harsh reality. UC looks AWFUL.

XU would take that ball and shove it up our buts with a candle on it. What that means exactly I have no idea, but it's what they would do.

(11-25-2014 08:03 PM)JFlight21 Wrote:  

(11-25-2014 07:55 PM)rath v2.0 Wrote:  Shaq continues his string of making my blood pressure rise. No bueno.

Rath, you have always had a refreshingly honest assessments of Mick's teams.....

Does this not strike you as particularly pathetic offensive team, even for Mick's standards?

I live out of town so I can't catch as many games as I used too, but watching that first half made my head hurt.

This team lacks an identity. They don't play great defense. They most certainly don't play sound offensively. Three games vs. cupcakes and this team is 315th and 233rd in the country in scoring per game and field goal percentage respectively. That is absolutely pathetic.

Couple things I keep seeing....we are living on junk around the rim and 3 balls. No screens, very few set plays and we are throwing the ball around the perimeter most possessions way too deep. We are regularly passing the ball around up top 30+feet from rim. Makes no sense and accomplishes nothing.

Running no plays for guys in paint. Poor Gary just slides from block to block like it is 7th grade CYO ball looking to cherry pick a bad shot for a rebound.

Zone defenses all seem way quicker than our offensive players, too. Lot of these guys sure seem very defended way too often.

they are showing that #25 jersey....wish this team had Danny Fortson on it about right now.

is it just me or has Kevin Johnson digressed?