When is Mingo's brother announcing? It is so bad he may not get enough time to wait for that. More likely scenario is Mingo portals and his brother doesn't come.
2025-26 PSU MBB Thread
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It was supposed to be two days ago, but he pushed it back. I think it will be Baylor, they are throwing tons of $ around, but now that they are bringing in NBA cast offs, they may be following the IU football model and going for older guys who just happen to be ex pros.
They delay is probably due to $, since they are paying out a large amount to the NBA guy, my guess is the Mongo family is renegotiating
PSU Fans to Rhoades: “ I gotta lot of problems with you people!”
Went 2-3 zone… Wisky ran a simple 1-3-1 offense against it. PSU… let the middle open… when ball was passed to the wing the Wisky player was allowed to penetrate to the middle…and my absolute favorite… PSU allowed the short corner to catch the ball. I so wish I saw a team play this defense when I coached!
That's because Wisconsin is by no means a powerhouse team this season; at best, they're just a good Big 10 team that's not going to win anything of importance. Yet, they waltz into Rec Hall and dismantle this hapless PSU team.
It seemed like they never practiced the defense before. Rhoades just decided to finally try something new and said "hey lets try a zone" and they just went and stood in spots. My favorite was when Reed was the block-corner defender on the right side of the offense. Wisconsin had noone on his half of the floor and he was playing defense almost up to the Ft line extended around 17 ft from the hoop. There was noone within 10 feet of him, he had to help on the high post guy but just stood and watched.
I’m waiting for Kraft to fire Rhoades and give a PSU hoops “NATTY. 
is the expectation” speech.
is the expectation” speech.That's the point. When you're at a tremendous talent disadvantage like PSU is against basically everyone in the Big 10, the easiest thing to do to at least be competitive is to play hard-nosed defense, which requires mostly effort and desire rather than pure talent. It's coaching negligence that this team plays very poor defense and is content with scoring over seventy points but still getting blown out by fifteen or twenty points.
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Isn't that the speech you all gave when you wanted chambers fired?I’m waiting for Kraft to fire Rhoades and give a PSU hoops “NATTY.
his teams at VCU were built on pressure D, his first year was the same but he relied on Ace last year and now none of the guys know how or like to play D.
He would be better off going to a big city and finding 5 tough kids who are super competitive and can move but might not be great basketball players. They would at least keep the team in games defensively
That was the highlight of the evening.
The second time a kid has made the putt this year - which is amazing (90 foot "putt" over a basketball court - to a "hole" that looks to be about the width of an actual golf cup).
When I saw the first one, a month or so ago, I thought I could go to 200 games, and not see that happen again. I was very wrong.
I've said before that this is what Ben Howland basically did when he took over a bad Pitt program; he had a team filled with a bunch of junkyard dogs who played ugly basketball but very quickly began to win a lot of games in the best conference in basketball, after which he and Jamie Dixon began to attract a higher caliber of player.
Yeah PSU does not have the money, history or cache to get the top end kids. They need to be a team that is 'different' than other teams and thus hard to plan for. Something like Loyola Marymount or at least a super up tempo team, or maybe a bunch of white guys who shoot 3's and play a 2-3 like Syracuse, or a dirty in your face defensive team that slows it down and plays in the 50's, try something....
In his last decade Boeheim (POS) didnt get the talent he used to but he still won games because his defense was different than everyone and teams weren't prepared to play that style
Blocking out is fundamental to rebounding. Work for inside position, stick your butt into the opposing player, try to back him away/seal him off, and get your hands in position to grab the rebound. It takes effort and perhaps it's effort they don't want to expend?
Seems like he doesn't understand what worked for him at VCU in the A10 doesn't work so well in the B10 due to the talent differential. Even his mentors at VCU Smart and Wade had to adjust their defensive approach when they moved up the competition ladder.
I also have some doubts about whether Crispin is the right person for the offense. Way too much staring and dribbling and not enough player and ball movement.
He need shooters to do what he wants, they don’t really have any except ones who don’t play D
Try to emulate what Tony Bennett started at UVA. His teams played suffocating defense and did not have the talent of Duke or UNC but still went toe to toe with them. We won't get UVA level talent but need to get guys who will grind and hustle on D like what Bennett got out of his teams.
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Penn State is not going to end the basketball program. I have no idea why some of you are calling for the University to kill the sport at the University: That's never going to happen. No matter if they lose 100 games in a row it's not ending. So get used to the losing or call for a new coach, or check out completely, but the sport stays.
Huggins did that for years at WVU. He didn’t have shooters very often, but they won a lot of games.
This may not be a popular opinion but Chambers teams always played hard. The program would be better today had PSU not fired him.
Probably, just because he would bring in better, tougher, players. He was a bad x/o guy but his kids played hard for the most part.
FRENCH. ONION. DIP. Lot's of it.At Penn State, you get what you pay for.
I don’t have any issues with firing Chambers. He got them to mediocrity, which for Penn State was an improvement, but there is nothing wrong with trying to do better. So you move on and find the next guy. Well, that is not looking good. Is it his coaching? A lack of dollars to “buy” players? I don’t know.
On the other hand I don’t really care anymore. It’s hard to give up on things you enjoyed or followed for so many years. The fact is minor league sports, what the college game is, just dont get me interested. I find myself enjoying high school basketball.
On the other hand I don’t really care anymore. It’s hard to give up on things you enjoyed or followed for so many years. The fact is minor league sports, what the college game is, just dont get me interested. I find myself enjoying high school basketball.
Photo on the left: Before the opening tip.
Photo on the right: Immediately after the opening tip.
This is what I mean about the guys not wanting to play defense and not being very good at it. Mingo loses the ball and the guard from Ohio State brings it down in a three on two or 2v1 kind of break. Rice has the man with the ball, but then as soon as he gets to the three-point line, he turns his head to the ball and runs to the guy going down the right wing, leaving the guy, a clean path to the basket. Fortunately, their guard chose not to take the layup and kicked it out to the left corner.
Nobody takes the ball.
Sloppy ball handling.
The offense is just passing the ball around the perimeter. Dillione is the only one trying to penetrate.
And of course OSU gets a 3 pt opportunity on their 3rd attempt.
Next possession they don't even get a shot up.
Has Mingo already decided to portal? He shows no effort.