Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="OkaForPrez, post: 4184237, member: 997"] So in your first discrete argument you mention 3 starters as integral and then say we need to shake up the starting lineup. That leaves Martin & Jackson who prior to yesterday evening were both playing extremely well. Martin's toughness has bailed us out of plenty of jams including going HAM against butler. Jackson has been stuffing the stat sheet. I don't think we can say with certainty whether we would have been better defensively with Adama on the floor against the small lineup, but I would have liked to take my chances with him outscoring them on O on the other side of the floor. These are the guys you want to put in the starting line up above. We were running Polley off screens all game. O Connell was all over him. He was beating him around the curls and denying him the ball or not giving him enough space to shoot. Credit McDermott there. I think we universally see him as someone who may cost us the game. He's been turnover prone and lets his first good or bad play dictate the rest of his performance for the game. His miss of the backboard last night from three was one of the worst bricks we've seen all year. He hasn't earned any sort of trust in the lineup. None of this is to put the kid down, hes a freshman and working hard and he'll be great for us one day. He's not ready yet. We should have exploited this until they changed up their gameplan. It's been great all year and why we remain in ALL games. I don't think we do. We had a coach sell out to take away our 1 and 2 options and beg our 5th offensive option to beat them. It was sufficiently, we didn't hammer it every possession, we should have. Remember that every option you want to switch up on the offensive end has a corresponding impact to the defensive end keeping us a top 25 team. Polley was getting attacked every possession on ISO when he was in the game. Hawkins get's lost a lot and is foul prone. Gaffney is the closet thing we have to a change of pace option and god knows he's had his struggles too. This is subjective and unfair. [/QUOTE]

Verification: First name of men's bb coach

Forum statistics

Threads: 164,416

Messages: 4,395,433

Members: 10,208

Latest member: jskwrite