Florida about to lose to TN at home
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Only our fans want to run off good coaches when they lose a game to an inferior team. Welcome to college basketball.
upsets happen in college basketball. Crazy huh? I am not happy about the loss and it was definitely a bad one, but I also know that we have had a pretty good season so far and one upset loss to Georgia does not ruin the whole season. 19-6 and ranked, where do you think we should be at this point? 22-4? Ranked in the top ten?
You can't even have a rational discussion about it because your nose is so deeply anally implanted. The people who have been calling for a change (which do not include me, I might add) have done so for several years and not just after losses. It's the accumulation of 14 years of pretty good results that seem to have peaked. Some people think we can do better. It has nothing to do with "one game," which seems to be your transparent attempt to make people feel like they are jumping to an irrational conclusion when they have had 14 years to make up their minds.
I was curious when I saw WV struggling with Providence last Sunday and got on their message board. Late in that game, people were railing on Huggins' "lack of play calling" at the end and how he's struggled with drawing up good plays all year. I didn't see anyone go as far as to say "they wanted a change", but I thought it was funny how similar they sounded to this board in a game they ended up winning on the road. Also, I think it's funny because I bet 90%+ on this board would kill for Huggins to draw up plays for us late in games.
After all, they now have THREE losses to teams with an RPI over 100. Pack it up, its baseball season. The lunatic fringe fan base at it again.
DawgatAuburn said:
You dawg think we should be Kentucky. We never will be but we have done pretty good under Stans. I also know as a former player that sometimes it just is impossible to play with energy. That is the team I saw today other than Bost. It burned us and we will not be the only home ranked team to lose today. It happens but some of you sure look like you want to fan the flames when we lose. If we don't throw a bad pass or Steele hits his shot in regulation it is academic, but it is pretty obvious when Moultrie has a sub par game, we are in trouble. Most on here always jump to the conclusion it is coaching, I will say it is 99% on the players to make plays. We didn't today, they did. I guess your fans with the 14 year observation think the 3rd winningest coach in the SEC should be fired. Now, that is irrational thinking.
Dawgbreeze said:
You're a fn idiot. Stansdburry sucks. Our basketball program is nowhere close to what it should be. His *** should have been fn fired after last year. You and people like you are the problem. Believe we can't do any better. Screw you and yours jackhole.
I have never said we should be Kentucky. Or Duke. Or Kansas or North Carolina. That's just you trying to deflect attention from the facts. The fact is there's plenty of room between us and Kentucky for us to move up in the world, but we've not been able to do it.
I totally disagree that it is 99% players. Again, that's just you trying to deflect your hero's shortcomings. Players a large part of it, but without a plan to put them in position to make plays, a staff to prepare for each opponent (because they're not all the same, which we seem to forget), a head coach to motivate the team when they aren't at their best, and an ability to manage the game from the bench (when to sub, when to call time outs, etc), then you get mediocrity.
I don't the I have ever seen you balm eStansbury for anything. You act like the guy is perfect. And to say 99% of blame/credit should always go to the players tells me you don't know **** about basketball. That is just a stupid statement.
I have been happy with Stan's for the most part this season, but today was one of his typical losses and is inexcusable
I have been happy with Stan's for the most part this season, but today was one of his typical losses and is inexcusable
You really struggle with reading. Every statement I make is not an absolute or an extreme, yet that's how your thin skin interprets it. Like when I say we can do better, I mean we can be better than we are now without being on the level of Kentucky, which is how you try to spin it. I'll try to type slower so you can keep up.Dawgbreeze said:
The head coach is not the only one who has to motivate. Never said that. But he better be able to dig down and find something to motivate his players if they are playing like crap at home against a 2 win conference team. Ideally you would have a home crowd to help with that two, but Byrne and Stricklin whored out the Hump for a few thousand extra dollars, and in the process turned our home court advantage into a neutral court. Unfortunately for Stans, he needs those few points a true home court can provide you.
There was no problem today with our sub patterns. Part of that is because we had some awful misses on recruiting this year, we haven't allowed Shaun Smith and Roquez any opportunity to develop, and Wendell sucks. So we are stuck with seven players. Hard to screw that up. Need I remind you of the hockey line substitutions Stansbury employed two years ago? And it was just a few years ago that we regularly played just five guys in the second half.
At the end of regulation, I thought playing it out was the right call. We had 25 seconds, the offense on our end of the court, and plenty of time to do whatever. And let's be honest. If we called timeout it's not like we were going to go to the wipeboard and draw up something new. We were going to run something there that we already had in the arsenal. It's just as easy to make that call from the bench and not allow Fox to set his defense or make any substitutions. The problem, of course, was the horrible shot we ended up taking.
Now at the end of overtime, that was just stupid. We should have called timeout when we got the rebound. Failing to do that, we should have called it when we got close to mid court. We might not have gotten a better shot but we couldn't really have gotten a worse one.
So we lost because of offensive rebounds and being gassed. To me that's more of an excuse than it is a reason. I thought it might have had a little to do with the fact that UGA had one player on their roster capable of scoring enough points to keep them in the game, and we failed to take that away from them.
Florida lost to a better team than we did today. Creighton lost to the team who is leading their conference and headed to the NCAAs (coached by Gregg Marshall, who I really like), and Ohio State lost to a top 10 Michigan State team. So those are stupid comparisons to try and deflect the facts aGAIN.