a lot of people are quoting my post as if i didn't outright say that sanogo had a bad game. i did!! obviously, he had a bad game. obviously, numbers alone don't define performance. i'm just remarking that the dude always puts up numbers. do you remember what it was like in the nolan-brimah-facey-onuorah-cobb-carlton era when our front court would disappear for long stretches of games??
Adama had 7 offensive rebounds and we had 15 offensive rebounds and only 11 second chance points. Thats a lot of missed bunnies
The "little bulldozer" who uniquely gets away with shoving and elbowing his way as "backs down" opponents has been everyone's darling including the refs for most of his career. The passes he gets from refs at times makes me think we are playing Georgetown back in the John Thompson era.
I feel you… kind of need to go have AJ play as aggressively as possible. Has to learn to attack that himself eventually. Hopefully next year…
I strongly disagree that this line up is an improvement over this years line up. I expect Samson Johnson to start over Akok and either Diggins or a transfer in the backcourt with Hawkins.
You saw Diggins get stripped twice in 1 minute his last time out?
There's no chance Gaffney is our starting point guard next year and it's weird you think the team would be better with Gaffney as the starting point guard.
I think if we play 10 times this year, Nova goes 7 and 3 against us. They're elite and disciplined. System Basketball.
Agreed. But we saw him continue to get a lot of minutes this year at the expense of developing Diggins early on. Gaff’s minutes were drastically cut second half of the year and we had Jackson running point. I’m not confident Hurley can make the move away from Gaff.
I don’t see Akok starting next year as he barely got any time this year
Doesn't your last statement prove the 3rd one wrong? Why wouldn't you trust Hurley to move away from Gaffney when as you correctly stated, he did exactly that and barely played the second half of the year?
There is also no chance cole is coming back despite your season long claims otherwise.
I se a trend of the thinking here that I agree with. That being that we should have a better team or a more experienced team next year. When I was a little kid and the Brooklyn Dodgers were still in Brooklyn the saying by Dodgers fans every September was “ wait till next year”. Then they moved to LA LA LAND.
But he had 10 assists because we needed someone to come on the double team to help Cole constantly.
Hurley CANNOT allow Gaff to be our starting guard next season. We need an Al Durham type transfer. If not, at that point you just do what Creighton did this season and run with the kids(meaning start Diggins)
Right. And Gillespie has multiple skills. It wasn’t like they stopped him. He just did different things. It was a case of pick your poison with him. They doubled him to shut down his scoring and he went to pure point guard mode and found the open man. He had 10 assists and a couple of guys missed or he might have had 12-13.
I’ll assume it was a typo, but we lost by 3
Indeed
What's that about Phil Nolan?
Source?? Losing only Polley and Whalley to my knowledge. I think we need (no, desperately need) both Cole and Martin because we don't have anything near to being replacements for them. They're sure as heck is no one in the wings pushing them out. The lack of playing time for the underclassmen and the rest of the bench will ensure that we will be utterly unprepared for next year if they move on.
You left out his great decision making under duress pretty much beat us destroying great defensive stands turning stops into points.
