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(03-04-2019 11:22 AM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  

(03-04-2019 10:05 AM)the_blazerman Wrote:  Haase had Robert Brown to save his haase, Ehsan does not.

With Robert Brown on an Ehsan team no one would be complaining right now.

bull****. No one player changes that our players are not taught and held accountable for executing basic team defensive principles.
Force a ball handler to his weak hand if he has one.
Don't help off of good three point shooters.
Force the ball handler to help instead of giving him a free lane.
Go over screens on good shooters, not under them.
Communicate on defense to call out off-ball screens as well as ball screens.

These are things that decently coached high school teams do as a matter of course that we routinely do not do and I'm tired of watching it.

Opposing coaches love playing against us because we are so easy to scheme against. It's sickening when game after game I hear opposing coaches say on their post game interviews some variation of "We felt good heading into the game because we saw some things on tape we thought we could exploit."

They know they can get their best players the ball in their favorite spots because we simply dont try and deny those spaces to them. They know they can get open 3's for their best shooters pretty much whenever simply by having their best shooter stand on the wing and running a simple pick and roll to that side knowing full well we will help off of a 40% three point shooter the same way we would help off of a 25% shooter (not that other teams have 25% three point shooters standing on the wing, only we do that.)

Our expectations as a fan base are so low that we have fallen to feeling good about losing games jus because we stayed close. We were wildly celebrating sneaking into a back-door tie for 5th place of the 14th ranked conference heading into pod play like we were rooting for the Flint Tropics or something.

The BlazerTalk equivalent of the Santelli Rant. Should be pinned.

Thanks for telling it like it is, Matt. You speak for a large majority of UAB supporters. The empty seats at Bartow speak even louder.