Windham should have played 10 mins per night during the preseason games. Leach is not a point guard and is killing us against the press (wait until Maryland! I saw a few minutes of their game against Washington and their press is stifling).
It is the defensive end that has kept them off the floor till now, It is a team D that a weak point breaks the whole thing down. But at this point we are seeing that they have talent and can be players at this level. Same thing was true of Mullins last year. This year he fits in with sound D so now he is getting 20 minutes plus a game
Fitzmorris should play more instead of hunger. As goofy as he looks out there I thought his length works on D esp when he flails his arms up and around.
Correct in my opinion. Hunger is absolutely awful on defense, can't jump and can't make the 3 ball, which he continues to attempt. We will need a transfer center next year.
I don't know about recruitment, but he's my early leader for most punchable face in the conference (obviously I would have loved him if we had picked him up, that goes without saying).
Fitzmorris should play more instead of hunger. As goofy as he looks out there I thought his length works on D esp when he flails his arms up and around.
Hunger has limited value if he’s not making his shot. Not a defensive presence. Doesn’t really help the ball flow except as a shooter. A step back this season, definitely.
I just finished watching the half and have no need for the second.
Not sure I agree. I think this game showed what we've been seeing the last couple games that teams will double team both Nick and Barney and that causes them some issues with turnovers etc. If we can't get other reliable scoring options we will have difficulty winning games in the future. Hopefully based on what was seen today Collins will play Jello more.
We have other guys that can score. Berry needs to be better consistently (admittedly, I’m losing faith he can be a consistent scorer), but Leach can score and in certain matchups, Nicholson can be that guy too. Jelo and Windham are getting valuable experience too.
It was just a bad game. I know you always look at things in a negative light, but no reason to overreact at this point.
Fitzmorris should play more instead of hunger. As goofy as he looks out there I thought his length works on D esp when he flails his arms up and around.
Zero positive in that game. Not making that argument. But it was a tough game coming off a brutal loss. We didn’t show up. We weren’t competitive. But just a bad day. Regroup. Move on. Have a good week of practice.
It makes our margin of error smaller, but I actually feel better about this than the PSU game. Sometimes you’re just off. We have a veteran club that won’t carry that over to next weekend.
As they said during the game. Teams tend to have about 3 of these stinkers a year. That said, this was ugly. Chello and Windham did get some more valuable minutes is about the only positive, I was switching between this game and Bears gams so I missed that Chello got up to 19 points. I see Fitsimmons got 9 as well. Basically the bench cleared
I'd rather have a really sh*tty game from our players once or twice than to get blindfolded, bent over, leveraged and made to squeal like a hamster by a bunch of grinning referees any day of the week.
