sailordeac
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disrespecting opponents and arrogance, we are up shit creek, and yes the coaches are to some extent responsible for it but we have too many shortcomings to just blame the coaches
Not to lose to GA Southern and Liberty.lol you guys turned on Manning QUICK. We look like a play-in tourney team that lost the best player in college basketball. The heck did y'all expect?
Kudos. Well said.Eh, that's pretty fair given my posting history. I do think we made the tourney ahead of schedule last year based on what Manning was handed. I think losing our entire front court is a raw deal for him. I think next year's class is outstanding and we'll be right back in the tournament. I think with even moderately decent play from guys that shouldn't be putting up absurdly bad numbers we win these first two. I've played basketball my whole life and I'll always believe players decide games, not coaches.
But even I didn't mean to pay lip service to the significance of these losses. This is pretty epic on the spectrum of bad, and while making the tourney was impressive last year, our performance there was decidedly not impressive and really spoiled the end of the year in my mind. I buy the excuses above but only to an extent - and it certainly doesn't cover this 0-2 start. The incredibly poor individual performances may have turned what should have been close wins into losses, but if our best outcome is barely beating Ga Southern and Liberty that's sure as shit on the coaches. Tonight's team looked like they were sleep-walking for 75% of the time, which is hard not to correlate with Danny's demeanor.
Lots of season left, but damn.
Something IS wrong.
Collins left and Dinos surprisingly left.
Our remaining big men are just tall guys who suck at basketball.
My experience w/ Wake Forest Basketball so far this season: A play in 4 acts
Act I - November 1st: "I really hope our soft non-conference schedule won't come back to bite us on selection Sunday!"
Act II - November 3rd: "Well, a win is a win... I mean, it's only an exhibition and Queens University of Charlotte is ranked #2 in all of Division II!"
Act III - November 10th: "It's only one game... I mean, Georgia Southern returns a lot of talent and they'll probably win the Sun Belt Conference this year. Won't be such a bad loss when you look back at the end of the season. Probably motivates the team!"
Act IV - November 14th: "Liberty University? What in the fuckity fuck is Danny Manning doing? We aren't going to win a single game this season. Burn it all down to the ground! I hate my life."
All of that only took 2 weeks. Took 2 whole weeks to ruin the next 4-5 months of watching college basketball.
After finally finishing this thread, I agree most with this post. I would add that Arians(hope I spelled that right)also knew how to play.
As a group the guards weren't great last year, so it's not surprising that they are who they are.[/QUOTE
WOW, I could have saved 135 dollars by not buying season tickets. :bowrofl:
sailordeac;2987598[B said:]disrespecting opponents and arrogance[/B], we are up shit creek, and yes the coaches are to some extent responsible for it but we have too many shortcomings to just blame the coaches
This is the face that Danny Manning saw in his nightmares last night.
I want to know how it is possible for Rich Washington to be worse than Wilbekin on defense. Supposedly they are both spot up shooters, but one is like 6'4 or 6'5.
Also, how the hell does the entire team collapse on the ball under the basket and leave multiple shooters WIDE OPEN! blows my mind