[quote=âNiner National, post:165, topic:28610â][quote=âNugget, post:163, topic:28610â]I am naturally optimistic about the Niners. Even when it makes absolutely no sense to be. I think that is why I never got on the Fire Lutz bandwagon until it was over, and then I had to admit that it needed to happen. With Major I have been as optimistic as possible. I knew that our budget mandated that we hire a âtake a chanceâ kind of guy, but that has always been our approach. Sometimes we won - Mullins, Watkins, and even Lutz for a lot of years. Sometimes we lost - Pratt and Wissel. I havenât been sure which bucket to put Major into.
I like that he has recruited bigger players. I like that he has recruited the Charlotte area. I like that his team has more discipline on and off the court than the 4 years before him. I knew that upgrading our talent was going to take a few years, with incremental gains, and I was willing to do that. What I cannot get past is when we are up 11 at the half, and then the other team comes out to begin a 17-2 run I donât see the Coach making adjustments. If we were Duke it would make sense to stay steady and keep doing what we do, but we arenât. We do not have a record of that working, just the opposite in fact. I want to see adjustments. Even if it doesnât work I will be able to tell that we are trying. I bet the team wants him to make adjustments too, because when it isnât working they need leadership.
I have come to the conclusion that Major is not the complete package that we need him to be. His strengths are real, as are his weaknesses. As nice as it would be to replace him with a coach that is a real game changer, I think the only way that happens is if we take a chance and get lucky this time. We all want a proven winner, with personality and recruiting skills but I just donât think we have the money to hire that guy. We are going to have to try and find someone that becomes that guy. The thing that scares me most about where we find ourselves is the next guy could be worse. We have been there before.
I guess I am going to put my optimism in a box and join the Fire Major crowd, but I am realistic enough to know that we are not going to get Bruce Pearl, or Gregg Marshall, or probably anyone else I have ever heard of. Letting Major go is to accept the roll of the dice. Of course if we win 4 of the next 5 I reserve the right to be optimistic going into the conference tournament.[/quote]We were down 4 at the half I believe. That 17-2 run started before the end of the first half.
Our offense looked good for the first half of the first half. Our guys were moving and making pretty good passes and decisions. Then the offense completely changed and we fell apart. I actually commented to my dad during the early parts of the game that our offense looked a lot more crisp and active than Iâd seen it most of the year.
A good coach doesnât let you lapse into the s*** we had to watch the second half of the game for extended periods of time. A good coach calls a timeout and gets things back on track. We call timeouts and look just as bad as ever afterwards.[/quote]
Right you are N_N, it was 36-32 Marshall at the half. We led by 11, 30-19, with 7:51 left in the first half. My disatisfaction with our lack of game-time adjustments stands.