Mutiny on the Bounty

[Nbnylon]

One thing we can always count on is this Board trashing everyone when things don’t go well. Its been a very rough season but remember Sha is trying to get how many new faces to come together? It’s not an easy task but as long as they buy into Sha’s program it will be ok.

This is one of the more athletic groups we have had in a while. Yea they can’t shoot straight at the moment, but things will get better.

We always seem to turn the tables somewhere around Christmas, when league play begins. I am the ultimate optimist and believe this year will be no different, albeit a little tougher with the huge turnaround in roster.

Keep the faith.

Go Pirates!

 

[halltheway]

I liked your post hoping you're right...I only wish.
I was always the fan with the glass half full.
This year the glass has a big hole in the bottom...

 

[Hall Is Life]

They deserve to be trashed. From the top down, they are an embarrassment. Coleman said out loud that they didn’t practice hard? My question is— why not? And why the hell would you say that?? Lots of teams have lots of new guys. If it takes half a season to get them to learn how to play basketball, then the system is broken. Looking at you, coach.

 

[HallGuy23]

One thing we can always count on is this Board trashing everyone when things don’t go well. Its been a very rough season but remember Sha is trying to get how many new faces to come together? It’s not an easy task but as long as they buy into Sha’s program it will be ok.

This is one of the more athletic groups we have had in a while. Yea they can’t shoot straight at the moment, but things will get better.

We always seem to turn the tables somewhere around Christmas, when league play begins. I am the ultimate optimist and believe this year will be no different, albeit a little tougher with the huge turnaround in roster.

Keep the faith.

Go Pirates!

Rah rah, go team! Make sure to hand out trophies too. Maybe go for ice cream afterwards? Go little engine that could seton hall!

 

[Piratz]

We’ve lost to Fordham, Hofstra, and a winless Monmouth team - who lost to Presbyterian by double-digits in their last game - drilled us by 12 on our home floor. We already have 2 Q4 losses.

We are a month in. 8 games. A quarter of the season. The Hall is 359th in tempo, 342nd in offensive turnover %, 358th in 2PT%, 356th in FT%. It’s a terrible watch, there’s nothing compelling. The results are worse. We’re lucky to be 4-4 thanks to hot 3PT shooting in SC. We’re watching basically the worst offensive basketball in the country.

Sometimes bad is bad. It’s bad.

 

[ivyhillparkk1963]

Keeping the faith. Remember the early Big East days. Petitions to fire PJ and rumors the Big East was going to boot the Hall.
Several years later almost national champs.
Hope for the best... didn't get much worse then those days...

 

[Hall Is Life]

We’ve lost to Fordham, Hofstra, and a winless Monmouth team - who lost to Presbyterian by double-digits in their last game - drilled us by 12 on our home floor. We already have 2 Q4 losses.

We are a month in. 8 games. A quarter of the season. The Hall is 359th in tempo, 342nd in offensive turnover %, 358th in 2PT%, 356th in FT%. It’s a terrible watch, there’s nothing compelling. The results are worse. We’re lucky to be 4-4 thanks to hot 3PT shooting in SC. We’re watching basically the worst offensive basketball in the country.

Sometimes bad is bad. It’s bad.

Free throw percentage says it all. That’s not an accident. We are terrible. Anyone who solely blames the players and doesn’t blame the coach is delusional. He put this roster together and chooses to play this style of “basketball”, NIL be damned. But at least we’re the 5th best scoring defense in the country!

 

[Piratz]

The people on this site are diehards, supporters, they contribute time and money. They’re not going anywhere despite deserving better and having a right to complain when they’re funding the roster.

But clearly something is very wrong with how this team was put together and coached. Teams struggle, need time, sure, but this?? It’s ok to hold the coach accountable while knowing there’s a lot of ball to still be played.

 

[shu67]

They deserve to be trashed. From the top down, they are an embarrassment. Coleman said out loud that they didn’t practice hard? My question is— why not? And why the hell would you say that?? Lots of teams have lots of new guys. If it takes half a season to get them to learn how to play basketball, then the system is broken. Looking at you, coach.

They don't deserve to be trashed at all. The fair weather posters on this forum deserve to be trashed. We all knew this was a rebuild year and there were going to be hiccups. Anyone thinking otherwise and unhappy with the results has rose color glasses on. Basketball is above all else a TEAM sport. You have 10-15 kids who never played together, and you expect a winning season? Get real!

 

[catholicman]

The people on this site are diehards, supporters, they contribute time and money. They’re not going anywhere despite deserving better and having a right to complain when they’re funding the roster.

But clearly something is very wrong with how this team was put together and coached. Teams struggle, need time, sure, but this?? It’s ok to hold the coach accountable while knowing there’s a lot of ball to still be played.

The roster construction has some glaring flaws. Some of our aquisitions are not D1 college players. Very athletic perhaps but not D1 college players.

Another big problem seems to be Sha's apparent refusal to focus enough on offense. If you can't put the ball in the hoop, then no matter how hard you play in practice, you should not see the court come game time.

 

[Hall Is Life]

They don't deserve to be trashed at all. The fair weather posters on this forum deserve to be trashed. We all knew this was a rebuild year and there were going to be hiccups. Anyone thinking otherwise and unhappy with the results has rose color glasses on. Basketball is above all else a TEAM sport. You have 10-15 kids who never played together, and you expect a winning season? Get real!

Bahaha really with this? This was never supposed to be a rebuilding year. There are no such thing as rebuilding years anymore. We had some very knowledgeable posters here claiming we were super deep and athletic and that we would be in the middle of the pack.

Look at what coach brought in here. Rather than retain Kadary or Dre, he wanted to spread the love. We lost to Monmouth. Inexcusable. Get real!

 

[shu67]

This is where you messed up.

1. Listening to so called knowledgeable posters who have obvious bias.
2. Expecting a super deep athletic group who NEVER played together to translate into a team that can win many games. If you ever watched or played basketball you surely know above all else it is a TEAM game on both defense and offense!

 

[Hall Is Life]

This is where you messedup.

1. Listening to so called knowledgeable posters who have obvious bias.
2. Expecting a super deep athletic group who NEVER played together to translate into a team that can win many games. If you ever watched or played basketball you surely know above all else it is a TEAM game on both defense and offense!

Excuse me for expecting to beat bad teams. Excuse me for expecting to beat bad teams last year. Give Sha another pass. What will the excuse be next year? What was the excuse last year?

 

[JoePeppitone2012]

I'm sorry but I'm usually a positive SHU guy on here but this year is a disgrace and I will call out the failure of the athletic department and this team overall. I will not ignore it on a SHU message board. Will I renew my season tickets of course, I'm a fan but I'm not in denial of what is happening this year.

They stink

 

[NYC Pirate]

I believe we need to reset and establish a new set of goals for this season. The energy is negative right now and that's understandable. The play in all honesty has been terrible except for the defense in several games. The sad part is that we are only a couple of days into December and even participating in the NIT looks to be in the rear view mirror. That may or may not be true?

Personally, i agree that Sha could have the team playing better as the season moves along. Thats been his trademark as a coach. It may also be a DePaul/Gtown year. Most important that can not become the Norm. So, the sense of urgency is already there as far as planning future program strategy.

 

[SPK145]

2. Expecting a super deep athletic group who NEVER played together to translate into a team that can win many games. If you ever watched or played basketball you surely know above all else it is a TEAM game on both defense and offense!

Other programs are clearly doing just this though under the same circumstances.

 

[MooneyHall07]

This is where you messed up.

1. Listening to so called knowledgeable posters who have obvious bias.
2. Expecting a super deep athletic group who NEVER played together to translate into a team that can win many games. If you ever watched or played basketball you surely know above all else it is a TEAM game on both defense and offense!

None of the following are really mutually exclusive:

1. Sha did a good job his first two years and is a good coach.
2. It takes time for a brand-new team to come together and fulfill its potential.
3. Expectations should be kept realistic for this season.
4. Lack of NIL is still holding the program back.
5. Sha did a really good job getting this team to play together on defense.
6. Sha did a really poor job on getting this team installing any kind of offensive system.
7. The program and this team specifically should not lose to Hofstra, Fordham, or Monmouth this or any year.
8. The program and this team specifically should never be <100 in the Net.
9. The program and this team specifically should not be at the bottom of Kenpom's offensive efficiency ratings.
10. Fans have a right to expect a whole lot more from a high-major program than what they have received this year and have a right to question the direction of the program.

 

[HallBall02]

Unacceptable performance to date irregardless if you are a die hard, fair weather fan, a casual fan or otherwise. (If you are on this message board, you are a die hard fyi)

I don’t like the talk that Sha walks on water, is tied up by low NIL resources, shouldn’t listen to others or change how he runs his team. The Monmouth coach is dead wrong there, Sha needs to do better.

I also don’t like the talk that Sha is on the hot seat. He had them working hard (but not smart), defense is mostly good. We also have two ok wins.

Unfortunately, the goal every season is to make the tourney and unless a miracle happens, that ain’t this year. It doesn’t matter how well we do in big east conf, last year proved that. Plus big east might be more down this year…

Sha is our guy but he needs to improve and learn. These OOC games are way more important here than at St. Peter’s, where you just need to win the conf tourney.

I don’t think Sha gets that.

 

[HallGuy23]

This is where you messed up.

1. Listening to so called knowledgeable posters who have obvious bias.
2. Expecting a super deep athletic group who NEVER played together to translate into a team that can win many games. If you ever watched or played basketball you surely know above all else it is a TEAM game on both defense and offense!

You’re trolling right?

 

[Rockaway]

Team game hope is difficult when your players can’t shoot.When you are in college and you are CYO shooters you are in for a long awful season with your main realistic objective is to finish next to last in conference and even that may be a pipe dream.