One of the major issues this season is the frequency of subs and the lineups that come from them.
Today again it was a big issue. IMO you can NOT play ALo and Tyler together unless it is the last resort, you just can’t. They are too small to be in the game together.
You also can NOT play ALo and Baugh at the same time. They are essentially the same player but one is bigger. You get no offense with either.
Penny has to stop subbing so much and let guys get in a rhythm.
Next, our defense is not good no matter what the numbers say. We switch all the time but it only puts us in bad positions. Today ALo and Tyler both we’re forced to switch and we’re driven under the basket by SMUs big man. That caused 2 problems: either the big guy got the ball and causes someone to help from the wing leaving their man wide open for a 3 or the big man scores.
I am at a loss.
(01-25-2020 06:33 PM)memphissince86 Wrote: [ -> ]One of the major issues this season is the frequency of subs and the lineups that come from them.
Today again it was a big issue. IMO you can NOT play ALo and Tyler together unless it is the last resort, you just can’t. They are too small to be in the game together.
You also can NOT play ALo and Baugh at the same time. They are essentially the same player but one is bigger. You get no offense with either.
Penny has to stop subbing so much and let guys get in a rhythm.
Next, our defense is not good no matter what the numbers say. We switch all the time but it only puts us in bad positions. Today ALo and Tyler both we’re forced to switch and we’re driven under the basket by SMUs big man. That caused 2 problems: either the big guy got the ball and causes someone to help from the wing leaving their man wide open for a 3 or the big man scores.
I am at a loss.
Penny is stubborn
The 1-5 switch killed us last game and again tonight.
Playing Lance at the 5 and lester at the four also made no sense. Penny trying to blaze his own trail. He needs to go more traditional. Malcolm can't stay on the floor because penny is putting him in situations where all he can do is fail
Honestly, if we're going to let them screen once and get the exact matchup they want, like Tyler on a center, and we don't have a recovery plan and just let them back him down, then we should just play zone the whole game.
Agree on the 1-5 switch. It's not helping this team
It needs to go, problem is it's almost February
Yep. The substitution patterns don’t allow anybody to get in a groove. It’s just so obvious.
If I had a nickle for every time I saw either ALo or Tyler guarding number 22 under the basket, I could go buy me a cheese krystal right now...
on the positive side, it appears he has finally settled on his 9 man rotation.
After DJ dunked to go up 70-59 Memphis did not score again
That included the three consecutive turnovers after the under 4 media
There were a few good open shots outside those that were missed, while SMU did not miss theirs during that stretch
Team at this moment very much resembling the 2010-2011 team, which was heavy with talented but very inexperienced kids. It hurts but after Wiseman was gone these things were probably inevitable. Talented but youngest team in college basketball and they made a few too many mistakes down the stretch. Had little to do with subs
Kind of started with that ill advised three from 8 feet behind the line by Lester. A classic freshman mistake. Team rolling, wants the dagger, takes a bad shot. Things kind of cascaded from their
This one hurts, where before winning 4/5 of these games in this stretch was a goal, now it needs to be 4/4. Road win at UCF (a loss in Orlando and team is solidly on the outside looking in) then the three home games with UConn, Temple and USF. Win those, learn from today’s mistakes, and sit at 18-5. 17-6 will be bubble. 18-5 will be solidly in.
The only issue we have is Penny. I always thought he'd be a better assistant than head coach and boy did I want to be wrong. I wasn't.
Penny is going to just have to be more flexible...
He wants to play the way he wants to play...The more teams see his style the easier it is for them to break it down.
Switching everything is leading to mismatches all over the floor and a scramble drill. It also leads to not being able to play a true big (Malcolm) which caused matchup issues today.
Jank didn't need to do much coaching on offense today. All he had to do is set a screen get the matchup he wanted and our defense just collapsed. If we didn't help their big just scored over a smaller player.
Penny is running a talent based offense...Beat your man, get the rim or get FTs.
Penny is also running a talent based defense...Switch everything and the PLAYERS should be able to guard whomever they end up on.
It is time for Penny to start putting these kids in positions to succeed. Right now there are so many times these kids are put in positions that all they can do is fail.
All you guys are such great coaches. Who again do y’all coach for?
I know people don’t get it, but what is wrong with this team is youth and inexperience. Sure Penny and staff make mistakes as well. But inexperience is the biggest problem we have. You guys will see. This will be a totally different team in another month.
(01-25-2020 08:30 PM)uskjtc02 Wrote: [ -> ] All you guys are such great coaches. Who again do y’all coach for?
I know people don’t get it, but what is wrong with this team is youth and inexperience. Sure Penny and staff make mistakes as well. But inexperience is the biggest problem we have. You guys will see. This will be a totally different team in another month.
Whose inexperience are you referring?
The coaching staff, the players or both?
Because the way we are performing right now is more on the staff than the players. Other staffs have a gamelan for our team now...We are not a complete unknown like we were earlier in the season.
How our staff adjust to strategies teams are employing against will us determine how successful we will be.
Players mostly. But the coaches are too.
Call Billy Donavan and ask if he'd like to come back to college.
(01-25-2020 08:30 PM)uskjtc02 Wrote: [ -> ] All you guys are such great coaches. Who again do y’all coach for?
I know people don’t get it, but what is wrong with this team is youth and inexperience. Sure Penny and staff make mistakes as well. But inexperience is the biggest problem we have. You guys will see. This will be a totally different team in another month.
I hope you’re right but the team seems to be regressing.
(01-25-2020 08:46 PM)memphistiger89 Wrote: [ -> ] (01-25-2020 08:30 PM)uskjtc02 Wrote: [ -> ] All you guys are such great coaches. Who again do y’all coach for?
I know people don’t get it, but what is wrong with this team is youth and inexperience. Sure Penny and staff make mistakes as well. But inexperience is the biggest problem we have. You guys will see. This will be a totally different team in another month.
I hope you’re right but the team seems to be regressing.
No they don’t. They played very well in the first half and most of the seine half. Last 6 minutes killed us.
(01-25-2020 08:53 PM)uskjtc02 Wrote: [ -> ] (01-25-2020 08:46 PM)memphistiger89 Wrote: [ -> ] (01-25-2020 08:30 PM)uskjtc02 Wrote: [ -> ] All you guys are such great coaches. Who again do y’all coach for?
I know people don’t get it, but what is wrong with this team is youth and inexperience. Sure Penny and staff make mistakes as well. But inexperience is the biggest problem we have. You guys will see. This will be a totally different team in another month.
I hope you’re right but the team seems to be regressing.
No they don’t. They played very well in the first half and most of the seine half. Last 6 minutes killed us.
Maybe look at who the COACH had on the floor the last 6 mins.
This collective group couldn't coach a church league 12 year old team to more than 1 win.
We got 1 problem. These guys don't know how to defeat a zone. Penny will figure it out.
The rest of you relax your brain and go back to your video games. I recommend you skip the NBA games and play a retro 1st person shooter. I read that regression is okay for short periods in child development. Take a hit of that and leave the heavy lifting to the local legend.
(01-27-2020 07:53 AM)ImaTiger Wrote: [ -> ]This collective group couldn't coach a church league 12 year old team to more than 1 win.
We got 1 problem. These guys don't know how to defeat a zone. Penny will figure it out.
The rest of you relax your brain and go back to your video games. I recommend you skip the NBA games and play a retro 1st person shooter. I read that regression is okay for short periods in child development. Take a hit of that and leave the heavy lifting to the local legend.
Oh knowledgeable one, only problem with your logic is we didn't loose because we couldn't defeat a zone. We lost because the coach didn't have the players on the floor who had been defeating the zone & more important because the players on the floor couldn't defend the SMU perimeter game - and I believe this is clearly due to the coach's relationship bias. What else could it be to have 2 5'9" guards on the floor when SMU was getting hot from the perimeter - there is no other logic.