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Sha screaming getting old

Just getting torn up inside. No wonder Butler is shooting close to 60% in the half
 
Just getting torn up inside. No wonder Butler is shooting close to 60% in the half
It’s a if, it’s difficult to get talented big men in the portal when you don’t have the NIL $$.

I’ve been saying this for a while. What we got out of Jaden Bediako last year with his prior collegiate track record at a mid major, was just short of a miracle.
 
We have no inside defense at all.
Can't even intimidate never mind block a shot.
If we do, it comes from the back side.
 
Sha should have left Coleman on the bench and kept Felton in. They had it going and Coleman was just off today
Lost by way of coach yet again. WTF kind of decision is that? Our coach has no clue! None! Was that another gut feeling, coach? If I’m Felton, I can’t run away from this guy fast enough. Felton knocks down a big 3 and then gets to sit and watch the biggest possession of the game. Sha is lost and can’t be found.
 
We have no inside defense at all.
Can't even intimidate never mind block a shot.
If we do, it comes from the back side.
Gus played very solid second half minutes. Actually got some stops when he entered the game and I’m pretty sure he didn’t let Screen score on him in that time. For whatever reason, Gus is the absolute last option for Sha. But hey, at least we got to watch Okorafor and Godswill get abused all night.
 
Remember the intro press conference….. comment is not aging well…. This job is to important to me, I can’t screw it up…….
 
Remember the intro press conference….. comment is not aging well…. This job is to important to me, I can’t screw it up…….
This is just not constructive commentary and it’s getting tiring to see from posters that aren’t realistic.

No money to pay players and other teams taking your best players with more money.

It’s like bringing a AAA minor league team to the major leagues. That’s what Sha has right now.
 
This is just not constructive commentary and it’s getting tiring to see from posters that aren’t realistic.

No money to pay players and other teams taking your best players with more money.

It’s like bringing a AAA minor league team to the major leagues. That’s what Sha has right now.
That’s insulting to the AAA league. 😵‍💫
 
Anyone who knew PJ was not stunned when he was punched by a player when coaching in the pros. They were surprised a SH player never did it.
Remember the end of the first half in the E8 game vs UNLV when Barnea gave up a last second offensive rebound put back to put us down 5? PJ just screamed in his face as they were walking to the locker room. It was bad, and the TV cameras captured the whole thing.
 
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Remember the end of the first half in the E8 game vs UNLV when Barnea gave up a last second offensive rebound put back to put us down 5? PJ just screamed in his face as they were walking to the locker room. It was bad, and the TV cameras captured the whole thing.
It was disgraceful and the whole world witnessed the real PJ.
Team appreciated his coaching ability, game prep, & conditioning.
But most disliked him as a person.
 
This is just not constructive commentary and it’s getting tiring to see from posters that aren’t realistic.

No money to pay players and other teams taking your best players with more money.

It’s like bringing a AAA minor league team to the major leagues. That’s what Sha has right now.
I hear you on the disparity, but I don’t agree with the analogy. We are a small-medium market baseball team competing with high-medium and big market teams. If anyone is the AAA, it’s the low and mid-majors by and large. And yet we lost a bunch of games to them too.

This team has talent. We have a number of highly rated recruits out of prep who are on their second gig because the “bloom” seemingly fell off a bit after their freshman season. We have a few experienced kids who have showed already they can play at least a role in a high major league. We have two freshman who had solid rankings out HS. A kid who was a highly productive mid major player.

The cupboard isn’t bare. It’s why many of us thought we’d be much better than we’ve performed.
 
Remember the end of the first half in the E8 game vs UNLV when Barnea gave up a last second offensive rebound put back to put us down 5? PJ just screamed in his face as they were walking to the locker room. It was bad, and the TV cameras captured the whole thing.
Cued up to halftime

 
I hear you on the disparity, but I don’t agree with the analogy. We are a small-medium market baseball team competing with high-medium and big market teams. If anyone is the AAA, it’s the low and mid-majors by and large. And yet we lost a bunch of games to them too.

This team has talent. We have a number of highly rated recruits out of prep who are on their second gig because the “bloom” seemingly fell off a bit after their freshman season. We have a few experienced kids who have showed already they can play at least a role in a high major league. We have two freshman who had solid rankings out HS. A kid who was a highly productive mid major player.

The cupboard isn’t bare. It’s why many of us thought we’d be much better than we’ve performed.
The mix has been off the entire year. Sha has scrambled to find a rotation, two guys I thought would really be much better individually - Dual and Harmon - never materialized at a hugely important position. And then the losing starts and it all goes downhill.

When you’re 6-11, 1-5, KP #152 there needs to be a lot of soul searching by the man at the top.
 
Gus played very solid second half minutes. Actually got some stops when he entered the game and I’m pretty sure he didn’t let Screen score on him in that time. For whatever reason, Gus is the absolute last option for Sha. But hey, at least we got to watch Okorafor and Godswill get abused all night.
Screen has 0 moves and the only thing you can’t let him do is slowly dribble and back down into his spot with no perimeter guys swiping at him. Which we repeatedly let him do. Gus has a strong base but limited athleticism and size as seen when he barely contested Mcaffreys game sealing drive.
 
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Gus played very solid second half minutes. Actually got some stops when he entered the game and I’m pretty sure he didn’t let Screen score on him in that time. For whatever reason, Gus is the absolute last option for Sha. But hey, at least we got to watch Okorafor and Godswill get abused all night.
Noted. The Georgetown game also changed inside when Gus game in and beat up Sorber inside.

Gus is the answer to very few questions, but he does play physical and is the best at moving from the top of the key to the post.
 
I hear you on the disparity, but I don’t agree with the analogy. We are a small-medium market baseball team competing with high-medium and big market teams. If anyone is the AAA, it’s the low and mid-majors by and large. And yet we lost a bunch of games to them too.

This team has talent. We have a number of highly rated recruits out of prep who are on their second gig because the “bloom” seemingly fell off a bit after their freshman season. We have a few experienced kids who have showed already they can play at least a role in a high major league. We have two freshman who had solid rankings out HS. A kid who was a highly productive mid major player.

The cupboard isn’t bare. It’s why many of us thought we’d be much better than we’ve performed.
Ok it was hyperbole.

What if posited it’s the A’s this past few years against the rest of baseball? Especially when they traded away Olson, Chapman and Bassit and then let Manaea go (who the A’s got in exchange for Zobrist from Kansas City).

In other words, it’s the ownership (Fisher, who’s a jackass) and executive level that didn’t give the team anything. The team had absolutely no talent that was really—really—AAA talent.

And I don’t care what ranking these kids had in high school. That was over 2 years ago.

And since you’re a baseball guy, you above all else should know that early rankings and talent only take you so far. A lot has to do with what’s between the ears, mentors, and a host of other intangibles.

For every Harmon (top 50), there’s a Mamu (around 200, although we all knew he was under ranked). Point is, the rankings are heavily biased due to lots of unseen players and speed/lack thereof maturity. And outside of the top 20, completely arbitrary from 30-150.
 
Totally pathetic act by a coach.

Meh, he was a coach. Shep was worse, in my opinion, but I didn't play for PJ. Most of the former players of both of these guys speak very highly of them, on the record. That kind of coaching works for some people, and not for others. I still think Sha is a player's coach.
 
The mix has been off the entire year. Sha has scrambled to find a rotation, two guys I thought would really be much better individually - Dual and Harmon - never materialized at a hugely important position. And then the losing starts and it all goes downhill.

When you’re 6-11, 1-5, KP #152 there needs to be a lot of soul searching by the man at the top.
This team reminds me of the Giants. No doubt a flawed roster and a huge hole at PG, but I say the same thing to myself about this team and coach after watching the Giants. The team cannot be this bad and the cupboard is not this bare.
 
This team reminds me of the Giants. No doubt a flawed roster and a huge hole at PG, but I say the same thing to myself about this team and coach after watching the Giants. The team cannot be this bad and the cupboard is not this bare.
Regardless of sport or level, when teams lose you get this type of “culture”. When you become a losing team all kinds of crazy nonsense occur. Coaches get desperate, players start making their own decisions. We’ve lost in every way imaginable – close, big, slow, fast, when we shoot well, when we defend well – and never put it together, just like the Giants do and losing teams do because we’re a bad team that’s also very unorganized with personnel.

I’m surprised we’re this bad. I thought we’d be maybe around 8-10 BE wins… One of those rebuilding years where you see potential and an upward trend. We have none of that and haven’t even played the top-4 BE teams yet.

My misfires:

**The fact that Sha had “his” guys and was going to assemble a cohesive unit with this notion of 10-deep rotation and Noah’s Arc type of roster on a small budget. It’s been the least cohesive we’ve ever seen here and we paid for a bunch of backups at best. This was a big talking point at times when he would bitch about players inherited in Years 1-2.

**That we had a defensive team to build offense off of, that’s proven totally untrue.

**PG, specifically Dual and Harmon. Colossal busts. I still cannot believe DAW is our PG, good grief. It’s still the biggest problem as to why the season went off the rails early and the losing mindset set in as there was no excuse for Fordham, Hofstra, and Monmouth. Those games flipped the script from rebuilding to historical ineptitude.

**Aligbe and Toumi, although Aligbe is really showing now, thankfully. I’m surprised how awful Toumi is, omg. Explains why he was available so late.

I think everyone else is basically what was expected:

**We’ve watched Coleman emerge as a star player who should command the ball.

**Jenkins is inconsistent but gives you something.

**Middleton is a good 3-and-D player off the bench, maybe could be more in time.

**Felton is OK, nice shooting stroke but is not a PG; a better version of Jaquan Sanders, not a program changer or impact freshman.

**The young centers are what you’re going to get. They’ve gotten abused lately for sure but what did we truly expect? Okorafor barely played before this year. Erheriene has been disappointing after a promising few games against lesser comp. The idea was we had depth elsewhere around them.

Biggest surprise and not in a good way: Dual and Toumi
 
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