(03-23-2018 11:27 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(03-23-2018 11:07 PM)Antarius Wrote:  

(03-23-2018 06:05 PM)Tomball Owl Wrote:  

(03-23-2018 05:34 PM)Antarius Wrote:  

(03-23-2018 12:54 PM)ranfin Wrote:  Not sure I get all the negativity on Pera after one season. Our situation looks pretty similar to Rhodes after one season. Maybe he should be given another season or two?

Rhoades took possibly the least talented squad I have ever seen and produced a product greater than the sum of the parts. Pera took a not so talented squad and produced a not so talented but super shoddy mess. Big difference. Rhoades also had a clear and obvious plan - a focus on hustle and full court press... I am not sure what Pera's strategy is other than out recruit the opposition (Like Failiff) and shoot 3s at an astonishingly horrible clip.

Now half his team is leaving, resulting in an all but guaranteed failure next season. Hence the negativity.

In the interest of accuracy, I'm calling BS on your comments.

For all of Rhoades talk about 40 minutes of full court pressure, his teams only pressed in short spurts. Talking a plan and executing it are two different things.

As to "half the team is leaving", 2, maybe 3, players is far from half the team. When the total gets to 6 or 7 like Rhoades last team, I'll accept your comment.

Of course we didn't run a 40 minute press. Short handed that's how you lose games. It would be like sprinting at the get go of a 1800m. But we ran press when we needed to and it was responsible for a few wins in year 1.

The 6-7 losses you refer to was post Rhoades.. so it isn't what I was referring to. Much like the grad transfers in football this year that is part of a regime change.

Pera has lost half his starters. And more are possibly on the way. That didn't happen when Rhoades was coach.

Sorry. The 6-7 losses were from Rhoades 16-17 team, not Pera's 17-18 team. Semantics maybe, but I don't put those losses on the new coach.

Half his starters? Come on Ant. I know you are better at math than that. So far only one regular starter has announced he's leaving. No offense to Miles, but he only started a 5 games mid-season. And if Austin leaves, he was barely playing at year's end and only started 4 games at the beginning of the season.

Stop exaggerating. The situation is bad enough without the errant claims. Did you even attend a game this year?

It's on neither. Same way as I'm not chalking the football transfers to Bailiff or Bloomgren. You can count it for Rhoades if you want, but it doesn't materially affect the year 1 comparison. Both started with relatively bare cupboards.

There's at least 3 transfers that we've heard about. And possibly more to come. You are correct that one full time starter is leaving so far.. and 2 part time starters as well.

My broader point is I saw nothing this year that indicates next year will be any better with or without the transfers. And to me, that's a massive problem.. because I had the exact same feeling after watching year 1 of Bailiff and Braun and a very different feeling on Langley and Rhoades.

And the transfer issue isn't an exaggeration. Some of these guys were likely to be significant contributors. And we didn't lose them during Rhoades tenure like this. Rhoades each year seemed like it would be better than the last. Do you feel that now?

How is it exaggerating to say we are in deep **** and seemingly have no plan to fix it?