Slow starts & rebounds

[4UConn]

Improvement starts with team defense. We're just getting beaten, and I mean badly.

 

[Ripper32]

We're a 2.5 pt favorite in the 2nd half. You have to be crazy to take that after that pathetic display.

 

[TRest]

We have been brutal rebounding in the Ollie years.

 

[JMick]

We have been brutal rebounding in the Ollie years.

Considering we don't even have a real bigs coach, it's to be expected.

 

[mdkhusky]

this is a funny time to be on the boneyard. over reacting about everything. well be fine

 

[Dove]

Down 14...

 

[Ripper32]

A Brimah sighting. Good to see.

 

[Dove]

Stoner...meet the in laws!

 

[cohenzone]

I'm out of the country and the ESPN feed here is showing the SMU/UM game, do I've been following the ESPN feed and all of your comments. It's still early and tte comments about missing tte tournament are, at the moment, off the wall. But the hallmark of KOs teams has been wildly inconsistent performances within games, especially on O and noticeably ball and player movement. Mystifying on a team where all the coaches were guards.

Napier and a great run of D hid a lot of that in a championship run that would have ended after one game but for Brima's heroics. I don't know how tonight will turn out, but the inconsistency is bad news especially since the ball movement and team D looked much better in early games. A lot of tte issues at both ends has a lot to do with weak post play, too. I know the opposition wasn't that good, but we looked sharper than we often do against early weak teams.

Too late for me to last the game. Good luck guys.

 

[nomar]

Chemistry is a real thing, and this team has yet to build any. Hopefully it'll come in the next couple of weeks before the league season starts.

I'm really disappointed that Miller doesn't rebound or defend, and that Gibbs is so hesitant running the point. But I'm hopeful that they'll eventually figure it out.

It's chemistry. We have talent but this TEAM stinks right now.

 

[Dove]

Purv


EDIT: now watch him get 3 treys in 3 minutes

 

[Dove]

Best part of the game so far is following a Sip of Sunshine with a Sea Hag.

 

[BugsyCT]

Offense is looking good 2nd half. Just need to defend and make a run. Down to 12.

 

[Dove]

Here we come?

Stone enters our block party.

 

[Ripper32]

How is that not a foul?

 

[CardiacAndre7]

Can we get a damn call? Refs preventing runs for us rn

 

[Ripper32]

We have no pg and it's killing us.

 

[Giddyup5]

need Brimah back in for defense

 

[August_West]

The problem with digging these holes is that we aren't good enough defensively to let our anemic offense chew away at the lead. I dont know what we will end up looking like a couple months down the road but right now we are simply a pretty mediocre basketball team just by the eye test. we have had similar issues four games in a row.

 

[CardiacAndre7]

OLLIE FOR GODS SAKE CHANGE SOMETHING UP, GO TO PRESS CUZ WE OBVIOUSLY CANT PLAY HALF COURT DEFENSE, THE ONLY THING THAT HAS CHANGED THIS HALF IS WE ARE ATTACKING THE RIM BETTER, DEFENSE IS STILL AWFUL SO DO SOMETHING ABOUT IT

 

[BugsyCT]

The O has looked much better this half, and yet we're still down by more now than at halftime.

Frustrating game.

 

[Giddyup5]

-12 on the boards at half...-19 now.

 

[Ripper32]

So if we lose, we play WVU? Or is this one and done?

 

[tzznandrew]

The O has looked much better this half, and yet we're still down by more now than at halftime.

Frustrating game.

I'm genuinely confused about what's a foul in the paint.

 

[Matrim55]

I'm genuinely confused about what's a foul in the paint.

Amen. I try not to complain about the refs, but I think we've got a few gripes this evening.