East Texas PM Post Game Thread

[DogMania]

Poor Danny; it seems the guards didn't have enough trust to lob the ball in to the 5's, but Dan insisted. Sure enough, nearly every one was dropped. He will keep insisting, and eventually it'll probably succeed. It's a long road to March.

I looked for a good place to chime on and this is as good as any. DH said leading up to the game that the team was not finding the bigs inside like they did last season. So many of the perimeter players were either forcing it inside or trying to make the extra pass when in the paint, or in some cases our bigs fumbling the ball.

These early games are about learning and working on things when they know making mistakes aren't going to cost them the game. Also, DH is spreading the PT around more liberally the develope as many players as possible while developing some semblance of chemistry.

In Mau, I expect to see more minutes from Karaban, McNeeley and probably Ball and less minutes (some though) from Ross and Stewart. We'll continue to see splits between Diarra & Mahaney and Samson and Reed, with whoever is playing the best will get more PT, unless foul trouble is a factor. And maybe Ross gets some minutes at the two if Ball struggles or gets into foul trouble.

Although I would have liked to see a much cleaner game last night, I'm not too worried.

Let's see if something like that plays out.

 

[Waquoit]

I looked for a good place to chime on and this is as good as any. DH said leading up to the game that the team was not finding the bigs inside like they did last season. So many of the perimeter players were either forcing it inside or trying to make the extra pass when in the paint, or in some cases our bigs fumbling the ball.

These early games are about learning and working on things when they know making mistakes aren't going to cost them the game. Also, DH is spreading the PT around more liberally the develope as many players as possible while developing some semblance of chemistry.

It's a precision offense and precision comes with time and practice. That's evident from watching the Rockettes. It doesn't come overnight and that's why the harping on it now drives me crazy. Is it a lack of effort? If not, I trust it will come. We have 3 big pieces that just got here.

 

[superjohn]

It's a precision offense and precision comes with time and practice. That's evident from watching the Rockettes. It doesn't come overnight and that's why the harping on it now drives me crazy. Is it a lack of effort? If not, I trust it will come. We have 3 big pieces that just got here.

He's using different combos and the team is just flat out bored playing terrible teams. If they look terrible in Maui there should be some reason to worry but not after kicking around the ball against A&M Commerce in a 35 point blowout.

 

[Stew Crew]

Not true. Last year we saw the same exact performance against Mississippi Valley State, in the same spot of the schedule. The last cupcake game before the MTE started

Maybe not the best performance of the year but we didn't have 19 turnovers or an assist/TO ratio below 1.