That's about as low a insult as there is. Palmeiro never even got to the WS let alone win one. And he used PEDs.
Good point. Sans the PEDs. We do need to keep all the longevity records in context.
You’re making up stuff to be mad about
I agree with a lot of that but we also stopped giving him the ball and resorted to jacking up bad shots and AK putting it on the deck when we had the lead.
I disagree
Yes. This has been talked about. He's going to get his numbers because he's a big, physically talented starting five. He unfortunately has no feel or instincts. @KingAG used a term on a thread this week that described him fairly accurately. He's not the only one on this team where that term applies.
Go ahead and find one of those hyperbolic statements. Most I may have said was that he’s an NBA guy.
This was not a good loss. We had one of those a week ago. This one threatens the BEC and 1 seed. This was a bad loss.
He wasn't getting open and when we went to him twice in the final 10 minutes he took fadeaway hooks and clanked a front end of a 1 and 1.
We lost the 1 seed but that's the least of our worries problems right now.
You're 100% right on his inability to seal. I've watched him off ball a number of times where he just doesn't make himself a solid target. I'm not a student of how you teach that, but I see other bigs do it and make it look easy. He struggles.
We actually got 15 points off the bench and Ross played great. The bench while not a big strength was decent this game.
We honestly look really slow. On defense, we can’t stand in front of our guys in an offense. We don’t seem to get too many open. Looks like even some of the shots Braelyn we’re making were ridiculous. Why is it that we can’t get open? Looks.\
worst part is that it begann to feel like a tail spin and we never responded and yes, it could go on. The free-throw shooting is indicative of a bigger problem. They are just soft. Soft teams don’t make improvements and just keep doing things at a bare minimum. And that is on Danny - I mean it is a coaching thing when we talk free throws.
That’s a good point. It took an A-level coach until the 16th game of the conference season to scheme out a way to keep it close enough to win (the cold streak for UConn at the end was the icing).
What good is a 1 seed if you have to play a 2 seed on their home court?
I think running PnR with him as the recipient takes away a lot of the mental side that he struggles with and allows him to focus on just finishing. Asking him to figure out the angle for low post entries/seals consistently doesn’t seem to workout, and he can’t consistently process the floor when he receives a high post opportunity. He’s a pretty good play finisher when all he has to do is catch and release.
Evidently, this concerns me a lot more than it does most people here. In a recent post-game presser - I think it was after St. John’s or the prior game - Hurley said that he wished Eric’s camp looked at the journey the same way Clingan’s did. I was shocked to hear Hurley bring that up in a presser, and I interpreted his comments as frustration with Reibe’s camp and chatter coming from them. Not going to speculate, but that kid needs to be in Storrs beyond this year.
