This isn't on Stansbury

[GBryne4Heisman]

There are 11,000 people there, you know you gotta win, you're going up against a top 15 team, it's Sr day, and this is how our players respond?

Varnardo is 1-5 for free throws
Turner dribbled it right out of bounds earlier
A ball went right through JV's hands
Bost missed JV on a wide open slip
Bost way out of position on D

Our players have been terrible. Whats Stans suppose to do?

 

[GBryne4Heisman]

There are 11,000 people there, you know you gotta win, you're going up against a top 15 team, it's Sr day, and this is how our players respond?

Varnardo is 1-5 for free throws
Turner dribbled it right out of bounds earlier
A ball went right through JV's hands
Bost missed JV on a wide open slip
Bost way out of position on D

Our players have been terrible. Whats Stans suppose to do?

 

[aspendawg]

With all these circumstances we should need no motivation. But in certain times, like the one's where we've forgotten to rebound and hustle someone's *** should be chewed. Stansbury is not a great motivator during times like these. Seen it too many times.<span class="infl-inline">
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[hullabaloodog]

It's inexcusable how many times Tennessee players have beaten our men to the bucket for easy layups. Our guys look like they're asleep. Varnado needs to get his nerves in check and make some buckets down low. We're also struggling to get up the court on breaks after we force turnovers. Have to pick it up to stand a chance.

But as others have said... It falls on Stansbury to have this team ready to go and to be able to adjust when things aren't going our way. Especially in a game of this magnitude.

 

[gravedigger]

what is he supposed to do.....good night. This isnt about cold shooting.

 

[dumasdawg14]

It all starts with coaching. You may not can coach hustle during the game, but you can sure sit em down on the bench for lack thereof.

 

[FireRicky]

When you have no offense and your only play in the playbook is "jack up the 3" hell yes it is Stansbury's fault.<div>
</div><div>We cut the lead to 11, got a stop and threw one pass down the floor where Barry threw up a 3 pointer before 2 of his teammates had even crossed halfcourt. Our "coach" has allowed these clowns to jack up 3 after 3 after 3 this year and there is no discipline out there.</div>

 

[jbulldog]

with a tourney bid on the lineand against a Top 15 opponent, playing to finish 10-6 and win the West what should a player have to do to get his players ready? The answer is: nothing. This absolutely pathetic lack of effort is squarely on the players.

 

[BoDawg.sixpack]

Stans has got to start putting a higher priority on those OOC games at the beginning ofthe season. It's our own fault that we have a do-or-die situation against the #13 team in the nation.

 

[BoDawg.sixpack]

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[Todd4State]

I mean, ****. Hell yes this is on Stansbury. It is his job to get them ready for the biggest game of the year.

They look like they just woke up. As in five minutes before the game.

This is totally unacceptable, I don't care if it is senior day, St. Patty's Day, or naked women day. Most of the time, our seniors actually play well on senior day and isn't a distraction at all. In fact, it motivates them. Jarvis and Barry look like ****.

This is ALL on Stansbury. This is the biggest game of the year, and they lay this turd?

 

[SirBarksalot]

Stans has got to start putting a higher priority on those OOC games at the beginning ofthe season. It's our own fault that we have a do-or-die situation against the #13 team in the nation.

He does this EVERY year costing us either a tourney berth or a seed.

 

[Xenomorph]

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[Duckmandawg]

With all these circumstances we should need no motivation. But in certain times, like the one's where we've forgotten to rebound and hustle someone's *** should be chewed. Stansbury is not a great motivator during times like these. Seen it too many times.<span class="infl-inline">
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I agree. Yes the players are playing like ****. Vanardo and Ravern would have helped us more if they had stayed in their damn dorm room. But a good coach doesn't let that keep happening for an entire half. Or for damn sure when you have cut it to 11 he gets the team back rallied to hold them together with no more damage until half. he doens't let them keep jacking three's with no one close to rebound and then other team go on another run. Pathetic just 17ing pathetic.

 

[GBryne4Heisman]

Right before the half Ravern came down with the ball, Tatum took it from him and got the lay up.
JV missed a wide open layup under the goal, then UT got a WIDE OPEN LAYUP on a back door cut. They had 2 guys back, we had 4 (WTF?)

I would like to see Stansbury going ape **** on our players, because they have been pathetic so far..

 

[JxnDawg39211]

and our shot selection is absolutely horrendous. I think Auburn exploited those weaknesses and Pearl is a good enough coach too take advantage. This game is over , I think we'll lose within 10, but its over . I was ver excited right before the game started. Rhode Island loses and Connecticut loses, and we do this

 

[aspendawg]

I understand that every player doesn't respond to that type of coaching, but at this point its put up or shut up. Get off the bench, raise your womanly voice, and get on somebody's *** for not hustling. I wouldn't tolerate <span class="infl-inline">lackadaisical play in a game like this don't care who it is.*
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[BulldogBlitz]

Our players have been terrible. Whats Stans suppose to do?

throw a chair across the floor. GET A T... get thrown out!show some life!

 

[Todd4State]

How hard is it to tell the ref to <17> off?

 

[ArrowDawg]

.....what I see, and it sux. Ultimately how any team plays in any sport, italways falls back on the head coach, even if it's a case of the players not giving the necessary effort required to win. Stansbury still has a chance to rectify this by lighting a fire under his team's *** at halftime and pulling out a miracle 2nd half comeback win. Probably won't happen, but he deserves props if they do.

I have to say though, the blame game just doesn't do it for me personally anymore. The bottom line in any given sport is whether or not you're getting the job done. So does it matter who we should blame? Will it make us all feel any better after a disappointing basketball season, or another disappointing baseball season, or yet another losing season in football? I don't get off on that ****. I just want winners, and I'm sick of us losing or being mediocre in every damn sport. That doesn't mean I'm about to quit being an MSU fan. I'll stick with it because it's in my blood, just as it is with the rest of you. But right now there's nothing to get excited about in MSU sports. Maybe, MAYBE, the football team will finally bust the trend next season. I just ain't holding my breath.

 

[SLUdog]

The coach has the responsibility to have his team ready to play. He gets paid a lot of money to do it. This team has the talent to play with anybody in the SEC at home.

 

[JimHalpert.nafoom]

It's not just you; ESPN has been talking about " so and so lost at home....ON SENIOR DAY!!" all day long.

I think Senior Day is one of those things that sounds like a huge deal to the fans and they like to imagine that it inspires the players to give 120% because "this is the last time I'll get to play here", when in reality most players aren't overly attached to the school and after five minutes it comes down to simple execution and gameplanning.

 

[patdog]

Our players have been terrible. Whats Stans suppose to do?

Maybe he could recruit players who have an ounce of heart between them.