I don’t know what the answer is anymore, the one sport I truly love to watch is ruined, add in the Giants and even the Yankees and I gotta figure something good will come out of this mess. Coleman could be that guy but sophomores are always erratic and he’s one step down or one year away. We are young but there is talent on the floor. Too late at this point to change anything. A year from now Sha will be either a hero or a goat.
Did you just really say that the 2020 roster had no depth besides Powell?
I did not say no depth besides Powell. I said it was not a particularly deep team. And they weren’t. The rotation was 7 guys. And it was constructed exactly like I said. One or two stars (Powell and Sandro, although Sandro hadn’t fully broken through yet) and a few of guys who played their roles well. Yes, Rhoden was on that team but he wasn’t yet what he would become. He was a role player. Same with Samuel.
i think hes a good coach but he's becoming willard like in his stubbornness and it's clear he's not a GM. And you have to be a GM now.
Whatever gets you through. If we were projected to be a Sweet 16 team, you would be a season ticket holder for 40+1 years.
I was at the game when they blew the 5 run lead, Judge dropped the ball in center, Cole failed to cover first base. Talk about games that make you disgusted. This one ranks up there. My opinion on Yankees is tainted.
What's going on is Sha put together a team that doesn't have enough skilled players offensively and far too many projects. And no PG. We can't play complementary basketball and so we lose games to weak teams.
This going to be what be needs to recognize moving forward at this level. You don’t have the time to develop and retain even a small group of good players so the more players you add to that the harder. Plus we don’t have the budget.
I think after trying it one way this season, Shaheen might just come around to this way of thinking for next year. It might be the only way, unless he wants to keep essentially buying lottery tickets and hoping five tainted/damaged/unproven guys with big upsides all pan out every season. Hey, if it all broke the best possible way this year, we could've been pretty good. As it turned out, almost none of them are breaking right -- at least so far.
Another problem with the 13 lottery ticket method is that the fans don’t know any of the kids. They aren’t invested in any of them yet. In the past, fans might show up in a rebuilding year to support what could be a bright future. Who is showing up to watch a bunch of players no one knows yet, and who will probably transfer at the end of the season anyway, lose games?
Bc he wants to maintain a level of defensive intensity for 40 minutes and believes it comes from this approach to depth. He doesn’t value offense the same way. It’s also why his teams are always bad offensively. Look at the turnover rates too. Too many players, too little emphasis.
Our defense is absolute ass. Intensity has done nothing.
Is it fair to question with our pace of play, why do we need 10-12 guys? Can't we keep up the intensity with 8? It would be hard to argue if we were and up and down the court team high number of possessions, but that's clearly not us at this point.
I completely agree with this. Nothing adds up on this team. That's why the offense is as bad as it is. It's tough to have a deep rotation when you have (1) a small NIL - you need to take too many risks to fill the rotation - and (2) so many new players trying to be worked in.
You have to go back 35 years to find that example. We don't have an Anthony Avent on our team, let alone coming off the bench. Jay Wright was successful with 7-8 guys most of his tenure. And I'm not really sure in the 90s we had many people saying let's give Sha less minutes and use the depth more.
No pace of play is a reference to the number of possessions not how good or bad. As for 70 points. That might be true going forward but that was not the case vs the crappy teams we barely beat or lost to.
rarely do you have data and real insight from a decision you make. in this case it is resounding clear that the depth strategy with our NIL funds doesn't work. the risk is much greater than the reward. we're seeing it live.
Not necessarily. The rules change next year with revenue sharing, so this strategy while ineffective this year, might be effective next year, we just don't know. I do think you have to question why the recruiting strategy to be deep, but play a style suited for no depth.
Sure, if we get a live ball turnover or a run out, we should take advantage but I don't think we're good enough offensively to win an up and down the floor contest. In my opinion, our best chance of winning right now is to play the best defense we can and take the air out of the ball on offense.
We have a terrible turnover rate with a slow pace. And are a terrible 2PT shooting team. Maybe we could get out on the break more to help that 2PT, but either way it probably doesn't matter what we try. I simply can't stand holding the ball for 10 seconds to start a possession. At least move the ball. It's terrible to watch, players lose momentum.
