Article Chris Jans pushes back on question about NCAA Tournament loss being a letdown - Dan Morrison
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Unforced turnovers.....we had a bunch. This wasn't Baylor beating us. It's a letdown.
I get it though, he has to respond positively to look good for future employers.
I get it though, he has to respond positively to look good for future employers.
Didn't realize he's just 1-6 in 1st round tournament games. That together w/ a statement one of you made yesterday I believe saying this team was playing better in Dec and Jan than they were in March makes you think next season is reeeeeally critical for him in many ways
wont beat good teams when you let one player shoot whenever he wants despite shot selection... and said player isnt required to play any defense.
gotta hold stars accountable or you'll always have the ceiling of hoping to get in on a good year.
gotta hold stars accountable or you'll always have the ceiling of hoping to get in on a good year.
I won't be surprised to see your target moving along to another team, so we will need to find another drum to beat.
No good team wins by letting any player play with those privledges. If he chooses to leave... he wont get the rope he does here... and quiet honeslty, he'd be stupid to leave. He's a role player on good teams
This season was very Howlandesque. Consequently it was not a pleasant experience. I enjoyed Jan's first two seasons much more because playing up to your talent level or slightly above is fun to watch. Witnessing an inconsistent, underachieving team push the rock up the hill one day then let it roll back down the next is miserable.
its all a bluff. He'll be back. He wants to be a star. and be paid. There is a reason he was hardly recruited out of high school
The problem isn't Hubbard it's the other guards. I think with a better supporting cast we have a better version of Hub. He's a great shooter that was sometimes forced to do too much because no other guard could score consistently. We have to get some guards that can play defense and be steady scorers to compliment him.
totally disagree.
He takes awful shots. He doesnt distrbute the ball. He doesnt rebound.. and hes easily one of the worst defensive players in the entire league.... on top of that he's only a 34% three pointer shooter... and a 35% shooter for his career. Thats not even top third of the league. It took him 15 shots a game to average 18 points. Thats extremely inefficent.
The only way hubbard is a winning player on a winning team.. is if hes a sharp shooter that drastically improves his shot selection. Think about Alex Dillard on the arkansas 40 mins of hell teams. Thats what he is. If he's asked to do anything more than that.. the bad outweighs the good.
If Hubbard is your main guy.. you'll never be a top tier team. He needs to be option C. Problem is we dont even have someone that can make him option B
We're kind of saying the same thing. I think Hubbard was forced into his role because of the lack of other options. I understand that his %s aren't where we want them to be but if we were able to get a PG and let Hubbard handle the ball less I think his numbers would get better.
I also agree about the defense but I never have expected a whole lot from him on that end.
5-10 shooting guards arent really a thing in basketball anymore. Not high level basketball. Length is key.. also being able to defend.
Again the only thing hubbard has shown throughout his career is that he is a volumne scorer. If hes allowed to shoot a bunch of crazy shots, he'll eventually hit enough of them to score 16-18 points a game.
He's shown hes not a PG. Not a defender... and contributes little to nothing in other areas of the game... like creating for others.
He's not someone that should be built around.... and if he were on any of the teams playing in the sweet 16, he'd be a role player or get a quick seat on the bench the first time he hoisted up a 25 footer then didnt play D on the back end.
His sweet spot would be a guy that comes off the bench for a good team and is able to bring immediate fire power. If hes hot he can be ridden, if hes not, he sits.
I have no idea how Jans runs a practice but I imagine it's damn intense. I wonder if the team simply runs out of gas towards the end of the season.
If gas was "mental stamina", yeah, they ran out. Otherwise, they should be conditioned.