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My hope is that Swing and Rob's 3pt shots come back in time for the conference tourney(or some other option emerges)...

(02-17-2014 11:49 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  My hope is that Swing and Rob's 3pt shots come back in time for the conference tourney(or some other option emerges)...

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/..._as_v.html

When he hit that first three falling into the chairs on the sideline against USM, I refused to cheer and everyone around me was laughing. It was the first shot in the set, and not a good one at that. Now his second one was a good shot...

The other option may end up being Madison.
Not saying he is the type player yet to take up their slack, just that he may at least get their time on the court.

(02-17-2014 11:58 AM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(02-17-2014 11:49 AM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  My hope is that Swing and Rob's 3pt shots come back in time for the conference tourney(or some other option emerges)...

http://www.al.com/sports/index.ssf/2014/..._as_v.html

When we have the cold shooting nights, I wonder why Coach isn't trying to give Purifoy and Rideau some chances. He probably feels like he has his best team on the court, and also prefers to give minutes with an eye for the future, but if Preston and Rideau hit a three or two, it might just open the floodgates and loosen everything up.

Preston won't shoot when he IS in the game.

I have all kinds of concerns when it comes to Haase:

Inconsistent intensity - The team is flat too much. We're going to have way more opportunities in C-USA for WTF losses than big RPI wins. In future seasons Haase has to find a way to have the team ready regardless of the opponent.

Defensive philosophy - Do we have one? I saw Haase mention that he wanted to play pressure defense but I have seen very little of that. With a lack of pure shooters, extending and increasing the defensive pressure could create some easy buckets. He finally resorted to that against Tulane but it was too little too late.

Game management - Timing of his timeouts is odd, to say the least.

Recruiting - Halfway through his third class and we still don't have the point guard we need. Losing Dayshawn Watkins was huge. Maybe Dickerson will finally fill that void.

Even with all that, I give him huge credit for signing William Lee. He's a landmark recruit for us and I want to see him in the Green and Gold. Lewis Sullivan is also a very good in-state player that I think will make an immediate impact.

No other choice than to hope things will be different when he has all his guys in place, grit teeth, and get through the season. Maybe we'll even get hot in El Paso. Stranger things have happened.

The inconsistent intensity can certainly not all be put on the coach. You can tell a guy to do x, y, or z, but they players ultimately have to do it. Haase can draw up the perfect play, get us open layups and shots, get us to the line, but the players have to execute. I am in the minority here, but I blame our intensity on the players more than the coach.

I am not 100% sure what our defensive philosophy is. I am also not 100% sure Haase feels he has the pieces in place to play the way he wants to on this end right now. Time will tell.

His timeouts are odd to you because they aren't what you are used to. He learned from a great coach, I have a feeling he knows what he is doing.

Recruiting. I understand this is officially Haase's third class, but damn that first one can't be on him. Most good players are already signed by that point, and the ones that aren't have likely been heavily recruited. At least he got the guys we were already after to come. And losing Watkins was an issue this year. We went hard after Coleman, and it didn't work out. It looks like we are going after a juco PG hard. If that works out, we should be in good shape. If not, we will add Brown and Calhoun into the mix.(neither may be a true PG, but they may be better than what we've had to deal with this year)

Our entire recruiting class is good in my opinion. Haase got a top 100ish national player. He got a 6A player of the year who can score in bunches. He got what should be a great shooter. He also got another freshmen who is listed at 6'8" 220 and definitely not talked about much by any of us. We also have two more scholarships, and it looks like we are going hard after another guard and forward. I want to see what we'll do when we have all guys that Haase is solely responsible for being on our roster.

John Wooden rarely called timeouts during a game.

(02-17-2014 01:11 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  The inconsistent intensity can certainly not all be put on the coach. You can tell a guy to do x, y, or z, but they players ultimately have to do it. Haase can draw up the perfect play, get us open layups and shots, get us to the line, but the players have to execute. I am in the minority here, but I blame our intensity on the players more than the coach.

I am not 100% sure what our defensive philosophy is. I am also not 100% sure Haase feels he has the pieces in place to play the way he wants to on this end right now. Time will tell.

His timeouts are odd to you because they aren't what you are used to. He learned from a great coach, I have a feeling he knows what he is doing.

Recruiting. I understand this is officially Haase's third class, but damn that first one can't be on him. Most good players are already signed by that point, and the ones that aren't have likely been heavily recruited. At least he got the guys we were already after to come. And losing Watkins was an issue this year. We went hard after Coleman, and it didn't work out. It looks like we are going after a juco PG hard. If that works out, we should be in good shape. If not, we will add Brown and Calhoun into the mix.(neither may be a true PG, but they may be better than what we've had to deal with this year)

Our entire recruiting class is good in my opinion. Haase got a top 100ish national player. He got a 6A player of the year who can score in bunches. He got what should be a great shooter. He also got another freshmen who is listed at 6'8" 220 and definitely not talked about much by any of us. We also have two more scholarships, and it looks like we are going hard after another guard and forward. I want to see what we'll do when we have all guys that Haase is solely responsible for being on our roster.

I agree the whole class is very good so far. I'm a little concerned about Calhoun. He didn't play at least the last month for Hewitt. I talked to somebody that's familiar with the program out there and was told it was for "precautionary reasons" but they wouldn't elaborate. Hopefully it's nothing that will impact his college career.

(02-17-2014 01:18 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  John Wooden rarely called timeouts during a game.

He rarely had to call timeouts.

So we've established that Jerod Haase is not John Wooden. Know who else wasn't? Gene Bartow.

(02-17-2014 12:32 PM)BlazerGreen Wrote:  I have all kinds of concerns when it comes to Haase:

Inconsistent intensity - The team is flat too much. We're going to have way more opportunities in C-USA for WTF losses than big RPI wins. In future seasons Haase has to find a way to have the team ready regardless of the opponent.

Defensive philosophy - Do we have one? I saw Haase mention that he wanted to play pressure defense but I have seen very little of that. With a lack of pure shooters, extending and increasing the defensive pressure could create some easy buckets. He finally resorted to that against Tulane but it was too little too late.

...of all the things mentioned in this thread, these two thing are probably the things I'd most want the coaching staff to hear and consider.

When we're up against hot perimeter shooting, let's ratchet up and extend the defense..... and let's not take anything for granted.

For all the talk about how well the other team shoots from three, for the year our opponents only shoot 31%. Ours is 30%, but it has dropped in recent games. For most of the year we have outshot them from three.

31% for our opponents is historically among the worse. Last two years, they shot 35% and 34%

Good point. I think all of the threes the other teams are hitting in games like Saturday is magnified by our inability to answer. Another disturbing trend vs F_U and Tulane was that our opponent came out of the locker room with a 7-0 or 8-0 run.

(02-17-2014 09:40 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  For all the talk about how well the other team shoots from three, for the year our opponents only shoot 31%. Ours is 30%, but it has dropped in recent games. For most of the year we have outshot them from three.

31% for our opponents is historically among the worse. Last two years, they shot 35% and 34%

Whoa, that's a surprising stat. Not what game time observation and general feeling would make you think. Perhaps it's skewed by the So Miss game. I know the crowds in Bartow would agree they've endured a lot of three point shots to the gut this year. I agree it's magnified by our inability to respond in kind and then to prevent the opponent from hitting another one in what seems to be too quick succession. The timing of them has sure seemed to knock the stuffing out of us at critical points.

(02-17-2014 10:17 PM)DragonClaw Wrote:  

(02-17-2014 09:40 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  For all the talk about how well the other team shoots from three, for the year our opponents only shoot 31%. Ours is 30%, but it has dropped in recent games. For most of the year we have outshot them from three.

31% for our opponents is historically among the worse. Last two years, they shot 35% and 34%

Whoa, that's a surprising stat.

Not really. Opponents maybe shooting 31% from 3 pt land against UAB but it isn't because of the Blazers defense.

(02-17-2014 10:23 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(02-17-2014 10:17 PM)DragonClaw Wrote:  

(02-17-2014 09:40 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  For all the talk about how well the other team shoots from three, for the year our opponents only shoot 31%. Ours is 30%, but it has dropped in recent games. For most of the year we have outshot them from three.

31% for our opponents is historically among the worse. Last two years, they shot 35% and 34%

Whoa, that's a surprising stat.

Not really. Opponents maybe shooting 31% from 3 pt land against UAB but it isn't because of the Blazers defense.

I would suggest the problem in the losses are generally three-fold: good 3pt shooting by opponents, bad 3pt shooting and bad FT shooting by UAB. Below are some recent losses indicating the opponent's 3pt shooting and our FT and 3pt shooting. Note than many of those missed FTs were the front ends of 1-and-1's...

LSU:3PG=10-17, 59% UAB: FT=20-26, 77%, 3PG= 1-16, 6%
MTSU:3PG=9-22, 41% UAB: FT=17-26, 65%, 3PG=5-11, 46%
UTSA:3PG=7-22, 35% UAB: FT=14-23, 61%, 3PG=8-21, 38%
UTEP:3PG=6-14, 43% UAB: FT=15-21, 71%, 3PG=2-14, 14%
UNT:3PG=8-16, 50% UAB: FT=15-28, 54%, 3PG=6-23, 26%
ECU:3PG=9-22, 41% UAB: FT=12-21, 57%, 3PG=5-25, 20%
FIU:3PG=7-14, 50% UAB: FT: 18-23, 71%, 3PG: 3-17, 18%
FAU:3PG=7-16, 44% UAB: FT= 14-21, 67% , 3PG= 5-20, 25%
TULANE:3PG=8-21, 38% UAB: FT= 26-41, 63% , 3PG= 4-18, 22%

Ick...those FT numbers are Mempiss-like in nature.

(02-17-2014 10:34 PM)WesternBlazer Wrote:  

(02-17-2014 10:23 PM)BamaScorpio69 Wrote:  

(02-17-2014 10:17 PM)DragonClaw Wrote:  

(02-17-2014 09:40 PM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  For all the talk about how well the other team shoots from three, for the year our opponents only shoot 31%. Ours is 30%, but it has dropped in recent games. For most of the year we have outshot them from three.

31% for our opponents is historically among the worse. Last two years, they shot 35% and 34%

Whoa, that's a surprising stat.

Not really. Opponents maybe shooting 31% from 3 pt land against UAB but it isn't because of the Blazers defense.

I would suggest the problem in the losses are generally three-fold: good 3pt shooting by opponents, bad 3pt shooting and bad FT shooting by UAB. Below are some recent losses indicating the opponent's 3pt shooting and our FT and 3pt shooting. Note than many of those missed FTs were the front ends of 1-and-1's...

LSU:3PG=10-17, 59% UAB: FT=20-26, 77%, 3PG= 1-16, 6%
MTSU:3PG=9-22, 41% UAB: FT=17-26, 65%, 3PG=5-11, 46%
UTSA:3PG=7-22, 35% UAB: FT=14-23, 61%, 3PG=8-21, 38%
UTEP:3PG=6-14, 43% UAB: FT=15-21, 71%, 3PG=2-14, 14%
UNT:3PG=8-16, 50% UAB: FT=15-28, 54%, 3PG=6-23, 26%
ECU:3PG=9-22, 41% UAB: FT=12-21, 57%, 3PG=5-25, 20%
FIU:3PG=7-14, 50% UAB: FT: 18-23, 71%, 3PG: 3-17, 18%
FAU:3PG=7-16, 44% UAB: FT= 14-21, 67% , 3PG= 5-20, 25%
TULANE:3PG=8-21, 38% UAB: FT= 26-41, 63% , 3PG= 4-18, 22%

It isn't Rocket Surgery. The team that hits more 3 point shots wins the game in 90% of our contests. And the outling 10% have a talent deficit.