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RE: Men's basketball at Drexel 02/16/2023
(02-17-2023 07:11 AM)70shawk Wrote:  
(02-16-2023 10:26 PM)billthebighawksfan Wrote:  We really are fortunate to have won. Team needs to play better on both ends. Hope they expand the bench for Saturday just a bit.

Agreed. I think part of the problem is that we have been scouted to death, and people have learned to take away a lot of what had been working so well for us - like the classic "give it to Shy at the end of the game and let him take his man one-on-one for the win" play. Even Ray Charles can see that coming , and teams are just not going to give him the lanes to do what he had been doing. They challenge us to beat them by doing things we haven't been doing all that well.

But the good news for me was that after going down by 15 mid way through the first half, our guys manned up and showed character. And thank goodness for Nick Farrar last night.

Scouting UNCW isn't hard since all you are scouting is player tendencies, not any sort of offensive scheme. We are going one on one and have the fewest assists in the conference, so there isn't much to scout. And Shy had the "hot hand" at 4-13 from the field and 2-2 from the FT line? Meanwhile Tra was 9-16 from the field and 8-9 from the FT line. Yeah, the obvious choice was to go to Shy....
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RE: Men's basketball at Drexel 02/16/2023
Drexel scored 27 in the final 26 minutes prior to the OT's. Ugly is the right words. We were without a point guard once again and Amari Williams left with injury with about 2 minutes left in regulation and never returned.
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UNCW had 4 points in the paint in the first half and finished with 28 points in the paint for the game. It's like groundhog day for this team every single game. Get to the paint no matter what the defense is trying to do to stop you. Collect fouls and go to the FT line if you have to, but get in the paint. Somehow we manage to forget this almost every single game and as a result we have to fight back from double digit deficits time after time. It's not rocket science.
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RE: Men's basketball at Drexel 02/16/2023
(02-17-2023 08:29 AM)82hawk Wrote:  UNCW had 4 points in the paint in the first half and finished with 28 points in the paint for the game. It's like groundhog day for this team every single game. Get to the paint no matter what the defense is trying to do to stop you. Collect fouls and go to the FT line if you have to, but get in the paint. Somehow we manage to forget this almost every single game and as a result we have to fight back from double digit deficits time after time. It's not rocket science.
The game planning with this staff is Horrendous 75% of the time. The halftime adjustments are very good 75% of the time. Can we not just get it right coming in and then you don't have to adjust?
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It was ugly and we were lucky. Without Farrar draining threes and Amari Williams out of the game at crunch time and both OTs--we lose that game! But it's a win!!
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I know Tra played well against Drexel and did a lot of things, but if I were Siddle i'd have dropped the "toughness chain" around the neck of Farrar. Dude deserves some recognition for what he did last night and that would have been a simple gesture that would have meant a lot to him i'm sure. And he earned it.
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RE: Men's basketball at Drexel 02/16/2023
(02-17-2023 01:12 PM)82hawk Wrote:  I know Tra played well against Drexel and did a lot of things, but if I were Siddle i'd have dropped the "toughness chain" around the neck of Farrar. Dude deserves some recognition for what he did last night and that would have been a simple gesture that would have meant a lot to him i'm sure. And he earned it.

right! If not for Big Nick we probably lose by 20. HE bailed us out when the ship was sinking.
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Farrar was fun to watch. 19 points in 15 minutes is pretty impressive. He plays like a guy 30 lbs. lighter than he is.
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RE: Men's basketball at Drexel 02/16/2023
(02-17-2023 01:12 PM)82hawk Wrote:  I know Tra played well against Drexel and did a lot of things, but if I were Siddle i'd have dropped the "toughness chain" around the neck of Farrar. Dude deserves some recognition for what he did last night and that would have been a simple gesture that would have meant a lot to him i'm sure. And he earned it.

Agreed. Farrar just came in and fearlessly - and successfully - shot when it was needed.

Listening to Coach Siddle speak about Farrar on the last Seahawk basketball show, for example, he seems almost reluctant to say too much nice about Farrar. I frankly thought in Coach's post game interview last night he underemphasized Farrar's importance to the win. My hunch has been that there are things he has wanted Nick to do, but hasn't been doing, and would like to limit his playing time until he does them...but he can't right now. So his praise for Farrar is faint, and gestures like the Toughness Chain not being given to him might reflect that.
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RE: Men's basketball at Drexel 02/16/2023
(02-17-2023 05:07 PM)70shawk Wrote:  
(02-17-2023 01:12 PM)82hawk Wrote:  I know Tra played well against Drexel and did a lot of things, but if I were Siddle i'd have dropped the "toughness chain" around the neck of Farrar. Dude deserves some recognition for what he did last night and that would have been a simple gesture that would have meant a lot to him i'm sure. And he earned it.

Agreed. Farrar just came in and fearlessly - and successfully - shot when it was needed.

Listening to Coach Siddle speak about Farrar on the last Seahawk basketball show, for example, he seems almost reluctant to say too much nice about Farrar. I frankly thought in Coach's post game interview last night he underemphasized Farrar's importance to the win. My hunch has been that there are things he has wanted Nick to do, but hasn't been doing, and would like to limit his playing time until he does them...but he can't right now. So his praise for Farrar is faint, and gestures like the Toughness Chain not being given to him might reflect that.

In other words, he'll take the good with the bad. But isn't that what you have with every player? Whatever faults Farrar may have he is a net+ player on the court, meaning he creates more points than he costs you. Guess what, if every player on the court has net+ numbers you WIN. Like it or not SOMEBODY has to put the ball in the net and on a team that has trouble scoring, Farrar can do that. If you do all the "things" Siddle wants you to do, but you can't score, who cares?
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(02-17-2023 05:34 PM)82hawk Wrote:  
(02-17-2023 05:07 PM)70shawk Wrote:  
(02-17-2023 01:12 PM)82hawk Wrote:  I know Tra played well against Drexel and did a lot of things, but if I were Siddle i'd have dropped the "toughness chain" around the neck of Farrar. Dude deserves some recognition for what he did last night and that would have been a simple gesture that would have meant a lot to him i'm sure. And he earned it.

Agreed. Farrar just came in and fearlessly - and successfully - shot when it was needed.

Listening to Coach Siddle speak about Farrar on the last Seahawk basketball show, for example, he seems almost reluctant to say too much nice about Farrar. I frankly thought in Coach's post game interview last night he underemphasized Farrar's importance to the win. My hunch has been that there are things he has wanted Nick to do, but hasn't been doing, and would like to limit his playing time until he does them...but he can't right now. So his praise for Farrar is faint, and gestures like the Toughness Chain not being given to him might reflect that.

In other words, he'll take the good with the bad. But isn't that what you have with every player? Whatever faults Farrar may have he is a net+ player on the court, meaning he creates more points than he costs you. Guess what, if every player on the court has net+ numbers you WIN. Like it or not SOMEBODY has to put the ball in the net and on a team that has trouble scoring, Farrar can do that. If you do all the "things" Siddle wants you to do, but you can't score, who cares?

Agreed. And, in fairness to Siddle, it seems like Farrar has the green light when he is in the game - so Nick isn't looking over his shoulder every time a shot doesn't drop. I'm guessing that there are defensive things that Siddle has a beef with ?

But like you say, others are laying bricks and he's dropping threes, what's not to like?
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(02-17-2023 05:57 PM)70shawk Wrote:  
(02-17-2023 05:34 PM)82hawk Wrote:  
(02-17-2023 05:07 PM)70shawk Wrote:  
(02-17-2023 01:12 PM)82hawk Wrote:  I know Tra played well against Drexel and did a lot of things, but if I were Siddle i'd have dropped the "toughness chain" around the neck of Farrar. Dude deserves some recognition for what he did last night and that would have been a simple gesture that would have meant a lot to him i'm sure. And he earned it.

Agreed. Farrar just came in and fearlessly - and successfully - shot when it was needed.

Listening to Coach Siddle speak about Farrar on the last Seahawk basketball show, for example, he seems almost reluctant to say too much nice about Farrar. I frankly thought in Coach's post game interview last night he underemphasized Farrar's importance to the win. My hunch has been that there are things he has wanted Nick to do, but hasn't been doing, and would like to limit his playing time until he does them...but he can't right now. So his praise for Farrar is faint, and gestures like the Toughness Chain not being given to him might reflect that.

In other words, he'll take the good with the bad. But isn't that what you have with every player? Whatever faults Farrar may have he is a net+ player on the court, meaning he creates more points than he costs you. Guess what, if every player on the court has net+ numbers you WIN. Like it or not SOMEBODY has to put the ball in the net and on a team that has trouble scoring, Farrar can do that. If you do all the "things" Siddle wants you to do, but you can't score, who cares?

Agreed. And, in fairness to Siddle, it seems like Farrar has the green light when he is in the game - so Nick isn't looking over his shoulder every time a shot doesn't drop. I'm guessing that there are defensive things that Siddle has a beef with ?

But like you say, others are laying bricks and he's dropping threes, what's not to like?

Farrar has clearly passed Enoh as a back up big man when Kelly is in foul trouble. It was evident last night when Kelly picked up some early fouls and Farrar came off the bench for him. So I don't see where Siddle has an issue with Farrar at this point in the season? Early this season when he sat on the bench, yes, but that hasn't been the case since conference play.
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(02-17-2023 06:55 PM)Seahawk2010 Wrote:  Farrar has clearly passed Enoh as a back up big man when Kelly is in foul trouble. It was evident last night when Kelly picked up some early fouls and Farrar came off the bench for him. So I don't see where Siddle has an issue with Farrar at this point in the season? Early this season when he sat on the bench, yes, but that hasn't been the case since conference play.

Listen to what he had to say in last night's postgame interview, and on this week's TV show when talking about Farrar - it sounds like begrudging praise to me. Then compare it to the effusive praise I've heard from him about some other players.

He is playing Farrar because it's his best option, but it sure sounds like he's not excited about it to me.
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