Our basketball team the last 2 games.
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Yea the defense is bad especially down low and against the three. Although I thought Bear Wilson helped a lot last night. He's a good rebounder, defender with very long arms and he constantly fights for position. Tough player. We've found another Brandon Vincent with him.
We still have no depth. I think the team is running out of gas and add losses on top of that - just in a terrible mindset.
Should have both next season. I really think we'll see, much to the dismay of the Ray bashers, a tremendously improved team right away next year just from these issues being resolved. If not, then the heat will truly be turned up on Ray, and rightfully so.
Our bigs are bad at D; terrible at help D. There's just no other way around it. A guard should never be able to drive baseline past our bigs. It's the difference between having your baseline foot two feet from the line and having it ON THE LINE. That stuff was driving Bobby Knight nuts when they called our game against UF and rightfully so.
When you don't close that gap on the baseline, everything breaks down. You either give up an easy layup, or someone else has to leave their man downlow and it turns into an easy dish-and-dunk. All of that because someone doesn't get in the right position on D.
When you don't close that gap on the baseline, everything breaks down. You either give up an easy layup, or someone else has to leave their man downlow and it turns into an easy dish-and-dunk. All of that because someone doesn't get in the right position on D.
If we're worn out, that's on the coach. There is no reason you shouldn't be able to get through a college basketball season with a seven man rotation. Many teams have done it. These guys are 18-22 years old and they play two games a week.
This team just does nothing well. They don't defend, they don't rebound, and they are anemic offensively.
This team just does nothing well. They don't defend, they don't rebound, and they are anemic offensively.
Borchert is the worst defender I have ever seen in the SEC. Bar none. There may have been a player as bad defensively, but not worse.
Not to keep beating a dead horse, but these are the kind of posts that we couldn't even discuss during Stans' tenure, which is why it was so frustrating to get on message boards and why there was such a divide in the fanbase.
You couldn't get on here and say "Ravern not being able to guard anyone 1-on-1 on the perimeter affects our entire defense" or "we don't have anyone that can penetrate or create their own shot which limits us on offense." We couldn't even discuss our personnel without being attacked and EVERYTHING going back to Stans sucks and the reason Ravern can't guard anyone is because he hasn't been "developed." If we happened to have a personnel deficiency it was overlooked and we found a reason to spin it to say it was bad coaching.
I'm just relieved we can discuss basketball now without it turning into "Borchert can't guard anyone because Stans sucks!"
If you have noticed in the two games Wilson has played extended minutes we make a run . He brings toughness, rebounding and it looks like His teammates play better when he is in the game. Notice he doesn't loaf getting back and I love that he is always in position witha block-out when the shot goes up.
would you say that is a lack of Coaching? Cutting of the baseline is in Coaching 101
Thank you for that observation. Most teams play a 8 man rotation. Some play 7. The lack of players is a ******** excuse. Richard Williams very seldom played over 8 players. The problem is we are awful fundamentally on offense and defense.