This just doesn’t make sense when in an ideal world, the board was dreaming of lineups of Diarra, Mahaney, Liam, Karaban, and Johnson at the beginning of the summer.
What are the other options? And don’t say double bigs or Abraham.
Ahmad was hurt and he never gets to play through a mistake or two. I think we need to let him go. This upcoming stretch might not be the best time, but we are running out of opportunities to get him going.
It's a double dribble if it's on your hip too.
Abraham was always going to be a development project. It’s foolish to think he’s going to make a difference this year.
He’s terrible defensively and has flashes for sure. But do you think he’s played well this year? This is his first poor performance? He’s been scoreless four times in the last nine games and he has, by far, the worst +/- on the team.
The announcers were saying we were around -102 foul shots this year, -91 in ‘23, and only +47 last year. From memory, don’t quote me. That means we pretty much play 5 on 8 almost every game.
There's no time like the present. The rest of the regular season is essentially moot
Watch him go off next week against Depaul and disappear against Marquette. Thats Alex
Nowell still looks lost out there. The game is too quick for him still. Giving him too much too early can ruin his confidence. Not to mention that for the last 5 games, PG play has not been an issue.
Fouls killed us again 4 less fouls and maybe we would pulled this lit
That's what was said about Ross too and he hasn't developed. The thing is college basketball is no longer really a development sport.
Idk, winning back to back titles seems like a dynasty to me
You are way more likely to hurt someone’s confidence by not trusting them and pulling them whenever they make a mistake over giving them responsibility and letting them play through mistakes.
This one specifically was not the wrong call at all. It was noticeable. Getting the ball caught on your hip doesn’t happen every possession.
Well said, the negativity is over the top. They played a tough team in a tough atmosphere and a team that played to save their season. Despite the terrible games by Ross and Stewart and not much from Karaban or Reed, they still almost won tha game, minus McNeeley.
I disagree. We need more from that position. We can’t do squat with the ball off the dribble and we are horrendous with the shot clock running down. We need another guy with some ability to put it on the floor. Yes, Ahmad looks lost. I want him to get through it. Probably too much to ask, I know. We just need more from someone.
Last year yes... This year no.
He could play through them in practice. This ain't rec sports. We're looking to win and right now, playing a Hass/Mahaney platoon gives us the best chance to win
Yes, double bigs for parts of the game would be better than playing four on five offensively with Ross. It’s too late to hope that our defense gets better without making some changes. Samson is mobile enough to guard 4s and him being available to help rather than being pushed around under the basket is worth a shot.
Karaban not playing well is becoming more and more of a trend
