Conyers has one of the best shots weāve had in ages. It is criminal that we arenāt creating shots for him. I think He, Harrison, and whenever Mingo or Bradford are hot, could all score in truckloads, but Fearneās stupid offense handcuffs us.
We should be pounding it inside and passing back out to open shooters. And run better motion and screens to get layups for our drivers like Bradford.
Our offense is PAINFUL to watch. I feel like Iām watching a bad middle school coached team.
I canāt even tell if we have an offense we are trying to run or if the plan literally is to run out the shot clock and whoever has it with 8 to go has to try to create their own shot. I thought it was the players last year but itās an almost entirely different roster of more athletic, more talented players and weāre getting the same results. At this point I really donāt know if we can afford to replace Fearne and we havenāt even started a search for the person who would make that decision. Hill screwed us in so many ways. He was in so far over his head itās going to take years to recover from all of his mistakes.
I believe 9 players got to chuck up 3ās today. So yes we apparently like shooting the 3 in this offense (and everyone gets to shoot them!), even though we are a poor shooting team (FTās included).
Not sure i see us ever being a big scoring team with this team, with the way we shoot it and only scoring 54 today at home! May want to just focus on D.
I like Fearne, but I should have saw this coming. A professional coach rarely performs well at the collegiate level. You cannot coach the players like they are a Pro.
I left at halftime today. First time Iāve ever done that. The Ron/Fearne era is a joke. If year 9 happens, Iām probably done with tickets. We donāt defend and offense is even worse. We pass it around (if we donāt turn it over) and eventually drive to the basket with 8 seconds left and throw something up at the rim. Our tempo is 362/365. Give me the days of the chuck and duck with Bobby. Fun to watch most times.
#23 St Johnās and Ole Miss both topped it with 20 each in their game at MSG on Sunday. In fact, Red Storm had more TOs than made FGs.
Anyway, had thought weād be 5-5 at this point, so not too far off. Hopefully we can string some Ws together as we finish up OOC and begin conference play with a so-so Temple squad.
But thatās the issue they are pros now. You canāt coach them like you used to - like how Ron wanted to. You arenāt going to retain players and build continuity.
You have to be able to manage your financial roster with the right players, then get the new group of players to buy in every year. Maybe the issue is Fearne isnāt a good professional coach.
Pro coaches donāt deal with a new roster every year. Coaches must be able to adapt to the new landscape. I would think all the one and done coaches like Calipari would have a leg up. They have been doing this for years.
Coaches shouldnāt be managing the roster financially. All schools should have a GM in place by now or they are in danger of getting left behind.
Fearne just teaches an antiquated system and he canāt change. The inability to change will be his down fall. He needs to go unfortunately.
I think itās that this system needs some level of continuity. He had success 2 years ago with a mix of old and new.
Honestly, our system doesnāt even look like a system to me. Itās like we need overwhelming talent to make it work. What we are doing isnāt producing an outcome that is greater than the individual pieces added together. Iād say itās less than that sum.
Compare that to some of the teams we have lost toā¦ Davidson is down, but their system beat us handily. It was certainly obvious yesterday against USU. I really wish we played like USU. Heck, Shaw played more inspiring ball than we did and deserved to win.
We look old, tired, vanilla and I expect us to pretty much lose any game we play. Itās a surprise when we play well which is sad.
It would also be nice to go inside to our 7ā-2ā center to free up outside shots. We were better earlier in the season when he was scoring down low. Itās a shame not using him on offense.
Exactly.
Every single time down the court (besides fast breaks) Bonke should be getting a paint touch to either go 1v1 on his defender or to make the defense collapse to allow him to kick it back out to allow our guards to either be ready to shoot or to drive and kick via an extra pass.
Also, Bonke can do a better job at re-posting up after getting a touch and kicking it back out and our guards can do better at looking to get it back into him. If anyone doubles Bonke then we should be doing a better job at moving off of the ball and relocating for an open look.
Donāt be ridiculousā¦ā¦ 7ā-2ā centers belong at the top of the key setting screens
And trapping guards up top while their center rolls to the basket.
Just because they āshouldā be treated as pros because they are paid, doesnāt mean treating them as pros is the best way to get production.
I stated this earlier about treating the playes as pros. Yes, contractually they are pros, but the system around them as a 19-23 year old is still college and mentally they are still college kids. This is a big disconnect here and probably at most universities.
The locker room drama in college athletics has got to be a nightmare.
Coaches want to coach, they are not contract negotiators.
I think thats the challenge. They are pros - they are taking money to play and that comes with responsibilities. It is true they are college kids and likely not ready for that.
I keep saying they want all the positives with being a pro and all the positives of being a college student without dealing with the negatives of each. At some point that doesnāt fly.
Davidson, App, Richmond, Utah St did not have better players. The difference was coaching. And coaching will be the difference in almost every loss this year. I wanted to give Fearne a chance to build a team but now, it appears to be just a dream.
Utah State absolutely had better players!