In watching highlights, it appears we kept it relatively close until the last 10 minutes. What happened?
It’s easy to blame Manning for everything, which he deserves, but this team has a real talent deficit in the post and at point guard. We have no post presence on offense or defense, so when the opposing team slightly tightens their pressure, and the threes stop falling , we go on long scoring droughts. We can’t get the ball inside ( poor passing team) and we have no one down low to stop penetration and we get killed inside with easy baskets.
Who's in charge of getting and retaining talent on the roster?
It’s easy to blame Manning for everything, which he deserves, but this team has a real talent deficit in the post and at point guard. We have no post presence on offense or defense, so when the opposing team slightly tightens their pressure, and the threes stop falling , we go on long scoring droughts. We can’t get the ball inside ( poor passing team) and we have no one down low to stop penetration and we get killed inside with easy baskets.
It’s easy to blame Manning for everything, which he deserves, but this team has a real talent deficit in the post and at point guard. We have no post presence on offense or defense, so when the opposing team slightly tightens their pressure, and the threes stop falling , we go on long scoring droughts. We can’t get the ball inside ( poor passing team) and we have no one down low to stop penetration and we get killed inside with easy baskets.
Yup. It's still Manning's fault that he's so miserable to play for that everyone but the coach's son leaves.
In watching highlights, it appears we kept it relatively close until the last 10 minutes. What happened?
Coach's son has to be enjoying that 40 mpg he gets.
The crux of the issue for me is program building. Dave Clawson had a specific 3yr and 5yr plan for building out the program and he was going to stick with it no matter the wins or loses. Manning has never had more than a this month plan. He masks it in not caring about wins or loses. Even someone who can coach will eventually fail wi t out a vision or a plan.
Manning's greatest failing imo is not that he is a shitty coach but that he had and has no vision as to how to build out a program and sustain it. His only strategy seems to be "got length?"
Speaking of which, when Brandon missed the two technical free throws last night, Randolph was visibly (and understandably) upset. I could read his lips.
My first thought was, "Having this father/son dynamic just isn't healthy". Nepotism is rarely a good idea.
Who should be playing instead of Brandon?
A decent point guard that the head coach recruited.
Like the one who bolted.
Might as well pull for the kids to win guys, Manning will be back next year, shouldn't be, but WILL be. (barring some off the court issues which is not Manning's style). Wellman has done a terrific job over the past several years in most every sport, except the one we love, Basketball. Both the men and women are near the bottom every year, very little good has been done at the Joel, we have no excitement from our coach and we seem to be treading sand (or quick sand if you prefer) in player development. Because he has been such a good fund raiser and been good in all other sports, he will be here until he decides to retire, probably 2 years from now. Sucks but it is what it is.
Like the one who bolted.
Like the one who bolted.