(04-02-2021 11:54 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  What do all these players have in common? (Hint: It is NOT that they think Penny can't get them to the NBA.)
They all want more playing time.
2 were given the keys, but were too inconsistent to keep them.
The others had incomplete games - but were not willing to accept lesser rotation rolls.
Unfortunately, this is the new norm. Bench guys leave.
Next conflict will be between Malcolm and Cisse. With Sam coming on board, one of the other bigs is not going to be content with part-time minutes.

Penny could go with an old-school big boy line up with two on the floor at once if one of them could hit from 10 feet consistently

pound it inside to get the other team's stretch 4's on the bench in foul trouble before they burn us too much on the other end

(04-03-2021 12:35 PM)cscottl1981 Wrote:  

(04-03-2021 11:15 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(04-03-2021 11:03 AM)tkgrrett Wrote:  

(04-03-2021 10:44 AM)holyterror Wrote:  

(04-02-2021 11:54 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  What do all these players have in common? (Hint: It is NOT that they think Penny can't get them to the NBA.)
They all want more playing time.
2 were given the keys, but were too inconsistent to keep them.
The others had incomplete games - but were not willing to accept lesser rotation rolls.
Unfortunately, this is the new norm. Bench guys leave.
Next conflict will be between Malcolm and Cisse. With Sam coming on board, one of the other bigs is not going to be content with part-time minutes.

Spot on. I don’t think this is as complicated as it’s being made out to be.

If they are leaving because of Sam then Penny must've told them they dont have much potential anyway. Sam if definitely a year away from being a year away.

Sort of like Cisse really but there are places where a player of Cisse's skills can get paid & other colleges who would love to have him where he probably would be told he'd get more PT (given the prospective presence of Dandridge & Sam A coming in to take minutes). And there's probably still an LSU option where he gets the promise of more college minutes & gets paid at the same time. Cisse has a lot of people in his ear.

This sounds like the biggest crybaby mentality on the planet. Stunning idea that other big men might be on the team in the event that someone gets hurt, gets in foul trouble, etc. A true 5 star shouldn’t be afraid of Dandridge or Sam taking their minutes.

How about this? So Cisse gets more PT, but all that does is further expose his weaknesses. I’d say he improved this season, but Penny protected him A LOT too.

If Cisse is mad about playing time he is not being honest with himself and needs a reality check.

Towards the end of the season the dunks and putbacks were disappearing because as soon as he caught the ball in a position to score...Teams just fouled him and it was like a turnover and other times he just couldn't catch the passes cleanly. Defensively and on the glass he was stellar...But this team needed scoring punch at times and going with smaller lineup gave them that.

(04-03-2021 01:26 PM)tigerengineer Wrote:  

(04-02-2021 11:54 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  What do all these players have in common? (Hint: It is NOT that they think Penny can't get them to the NBA.)
They all want more playing time.
2 were given the keys, but were too inconsistent to keep them.
The others had incomplete games - but were not willing to accept lesser rotation rolls.
Unfortunately, this is the new norm. Bench guys leave.
Next conflict will be between Malcolm and Cisse. With Sam coming on board, one of the other bigs is not going to be content with part-time minutes.

Penny could go with an old-school big boy line up with two on the floor at once if one of them could hit from 10 feet consistently

pound it inside to get the other team's stretch 4's on the bench in foul trouble before they burn us too much on the other end

Maybe Sam can hit a 10 footer...

Because I wouldn't count on two 30% FT shooters to be able to hit anything further than 4 ft away from the basket.

(04-03-2021 02:37 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(04-03-2021 01:26 PM)tigerengineer Wrote:  

(04-02-2021 11:54 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  What do all these players have in common? (Hint: It is NOT that they think Penny can't get them to the NBA.)
They all want more playing time.
2 were given the keys, but were too inconsistent to keep them.
The others had incomplete games - but were not willing to accept lesser rotation rolls.
Unfortunately, this is the new norm. Bench guys leave.
Next conflict will be between Malcolm and Cisse. With Sam coming on board, one of the other bigs is not going to be content with part-time minutes.

Penny could go with an old-school big boy line up with two on the floor at once if one of them could hit from 10 feet consistently

pound it inside to get the other team's stretch 4's on the bench in foul trouble before they burn us too much on the other end

Maybe Sam can hit a 10 footer...

Because I wouldn't count on two 30% FT shooters to be able to hit anything further than 4 ft away from the basket.

if he could, then we could play big, rebound everything, even mix in some 1-2-2 and 3-2 zone against the small, quick teams

And if i were one of those big men, the 10-15 turnaround shot is what i would work on all summer long, along with free throws and conditioning

Ike has always said we need a Dude who can bust the Trey Ball
Ike always asks if a Dude can bust the 10 ft. J or the 15 ft. J
It is nice to have the Trey Ball but, a necessity to have the 10 and 15 ft. J

We missed an awful lot of 2 foot J’s last season, too.

We did, plus lay ups, one Dude can only throw down, he needs to bust a 2 ft J

(04-03-2021 02:37 PM)macgar32 Wrote:  

(04-03-2021 01:26 PM)tigerengineer Wrote:  

(04-02-2021 11:54 PM)Tiger87 Wrote:  What do all these players have in common? (Hint: It is NOT that they think Penny can't get them to the NBA.)
They all want more playing time.
2 were given the keys, but were too inconsistent to keep them.
The others had incomplete games - but were not willing to accept lesser rotation rolls.
Unfortunately, this is the new norm. Bench guys leave.
Next conflict will be between Malcolm and Cisse. With Sam coming on board, one of the other bigs is not going to be content with part-time minutes.

Penny could go with an old-school big boy line up with two on the floor at once if one of them could hit from 10 feet consistently

pound it inside to get the other team's stretch 4's on the bench in foul trouble before they burn us too much on the other end

Maybe Sam can hit a 10 footer...

Because I wouldn't count on two 30% FT shooters to be able to hit anything further than 4 ft away from the basket.

I don't want either of them to try anything more than 6' from the basket.

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

tweet n/a........ ?sup

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

"I'm be...?"

(04-04-2021 09:30 PM)thagr82008 Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

tweet n/a........ ?sup

(04-04-2021 09:30 PM)DallasTiger Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

"I'm be...?"

Jordan Nesbitt
@jneszz
·
57m
I believe I’m be the greatest ever, I’m blessed and I just wanna thank god for putting me in the position to change my life and hopefully my story will change others life, see y’all soon
??
?
#PinnedTweets #believeinyourself

(04-04-2021 09:32 PM)thagr82008 Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:30 PM)thagr82008 Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

tweet n/a........ ?sup

(04-04-2021 09:30 PM)DallasTiger Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

"I'm be...?"

Jordan Nesbitt
@jneszz
·
57m
I believe I’m be the greatest ever, I’m blessed and I just wanna thank god for putting me in the position to change my life and hopefully my story will change others life, see y’all soon
??
?
#PinnedTweets #believeinyourself

Whatever the greatest every?

(04-04-2021 09:32 PM)thagr82008 Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:30 PM)thagr82008 Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

tweet n/a........ ?sup

(04-04-2021 09:30 PM)DallasTiger Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

"I'm be...?"

Jordan Nesbitt
@jneszz
·
57m
I believe I’m be the greatest ever, I’m blessed and I just wanna thank god for putting me in the position to change my life and hopefully my story will change others life, see y’all soon
??
?
#PinnedTweets #believeinyourself

Freshman English was the "flunk out course" at Memphis when I went there.

(04-04-2021 09:44 PM)DallasTiger Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:32 PM)thagr82008 Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:30 PM)thagr82008 Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

tweet n/a........ ?sup

(04-04-2021 09:30 PM)DallasTiger Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

"I'm be...?"

Jordan Nesbitt
@jneszz
·
57m
I believe I’m be the greatest ever, I’m blessed and I just wanna thank god for putting me in the position to change my life and hopefully my story will change others life, see y’all soon
??
?
#PinnedTweets #believeinyourself

Freshman English was the "flunk out course" at Memphis when I went there.

Doesn't seem to have changed....

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

Well at least he didn't go third person on us.

(04-04-2021 10:34 PM)snowtiger Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

Well at least he didn't go third person on us.

Well done. Count me among your fans.

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

There is self confidence and then there is delusional. Self confidence = good. Delusion = not good.

Perhaps start with just being good enough to get PT on a D1 roster...

(04-05-2021 07:39 AM)SeñorTiger Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

There is self confidence and then there is delusional. Self confidence = good. Delusion = not good.

Perhaps start with just being good enough to get PT on a D1 roster...

Maybe start with an ability to control his conduct to stay on a D-1 roster.

(04-05-2021 07:42 AM)Atlanta Wrote:  

(04-05-2021 07:39 AM)SeñorTiger Wrote:  

(04-04-2021 09:17 PM)BandwagonJumper Wrote:  

There is self confidence and then there is delusional. Self confidence = good. Delusion = not good.

Perhaps start with just being good enough to get PT on a D1 roster...

Maybe start with an ability to control his conduct to stay on a D-1 roster.

I always wondered about the kid and his H.S. team being terrible.

This tweet makes sense why he left though...He felt he was going to come in and be an immediate star. He seemed to have the tools...Speed, Strength and athleticism.

Penny needs to start evaluating these kids personality\mindset before offering. He is going to learn that he is not the recruit whisperer. Pick the kids who you fit your coaching style.