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Post by aussielion on Jan 29, 2016 1:43:20 GMT -5
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Post by lionsroar98 on Jan 29, 2016 1:51:29 GMT -5
Can we just please PLEASE stop playing Herman? If that happens, I will be happy with the rest of the year.
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Post by lionsroar98 on Jan 29, 2016 1:54:25 GMT -5
Also I will have nightmares about BYU shooting layup, after layup, after layup, after layup, after layup, after layup, after layup..
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Post by t on Jan 29, 2016 3:05:33 GMT -5
The injured BYU' player's shoulder must be attached by paper mache if running into Spiers hurt him. Precisely, Seljass is a piñata. I saw some Baby Lucas tumble out of him when Spiers set the pick on him. At least the Lions won the full head of hair competition. A more accurate nickname for BYU than the Cougars would be the “Receding Hairlines”. They can prefix the name with “Fighting” if they want to. That would work on a couple of levels. Oh, and switch their uniforms from jerseys to leisure suits. They look like a bunch of Duke of Cambridge, Prince Williamses out there on Check-out-time-is-11am-court.
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Post by ALioninWinter on Jan 29, 2016 3:06:51 GMT -5
Aussie - after watching the two Bay Area games and the first half of the home game against BYU, I said I saw "a few glimmers of hope" for the team. That's the most positive I've been this year. I'm still holding out hope for those glimmers, but it's tough after watching tonight's debacle. I didn't expect them to win in Provo. Shoot, I didn't expect the game to be close. But it was far worse than "not even close." BYU backed off late in the game. If they hadn't, it would've been a 40-point loss. BYU can put together a good game but they aren't even close to being a top DI team. Yet the Lions still lost by 40.
I don't really blame the players. They're trying. They're working hard. They're doing the best they can with the skills they have and with the instructions they're getting.
The bottom line is we still don't have many horses in the stable. We have two DI quality starters and a couple of decent bench players. That's a start (my glimmers) but it's not near enough.
Then, when I look at the "contributions" being made by the coaching staff, I just shake my head and wonder how it's going to get better. Yeah, I know, wait til next year when we add Manuel, Gipson, Sykes, etc. ..... Maybe. I've heard that line before, and none of them are exactly lighting up the scoreboard in their respective leagues this year. No excitement here until I see those guys actually playing.
I had high hopes when CMD was brought on board. But he hasn't shown me anything yet. All of the TV commentators gush over him but I've not seen anything yet that I would attribute to a good coaching move. I know, he deserves time. And time he will get. I certainly hope I'm wrong but it sure looks like it's a long tunnel.
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Post by golions1444 on Jan 29, 2016 11:51:14 GMT -5
I'd say at this stage of our program building I can live with a blow out loss to the top 3 teams in the league if we win our games against USF, Santa Clara, San Diego, pacific, Portland, and are competitive against Pepperdine. So let's see how the 2nd half of the season goes. If we are 6-4 I will be very happy
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Post by ALioninWinter on Jan 29, 2016 12:14:16 GMT -5
I believe you mean 5-4, with losses to Gonzaga, st Marys and maybe Pepperdine to go along with last night's loss to BYU. I will be amazed. We have a shot at moving up in the standings (over last year) only because San Diego, Santa Clara and maybe Portland are in the same condition we are. But remember how we handled Portland in the first game.
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Post by lmu2015 on Jan 29, 2016 12:41:04 GMT -5
I expect to finish 5th or 6th this year, less than that would be disappointing. Then for the next 3-4 years we hopefully can consistently get that 4th spot. Maybe by Dunlap's 5th year, or 4th by his count, if things go really well we can be expected to compete for a top 3 spot. The Big 3 all have amazing coaches and they keep having great recruiting classes, we won't be able to compete with them until 2-3 years after we start recruiting on their level, and that hasn't happened yet.
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Post by lmu2015 on Jan 29, 2016 12:48:16 GMT -5
As for the game...
2-22 from deep is atrocious, and there is no way to look good when you shoot like that. Bad shooting nights are going to happen but giving up that many easy buckets is inexcusable. Off shooting nights happen, but effort and communication should be there 100% of the time. To be honest, we really didn't play any different on defense last night than we did last match-up, I think the great shooting and dunking display just distracted us from it. So having an off-shooting night to bring attention back to those issues is good every once in a while. If you are going to have a bad game you may as well have a REALLY BAD game, get it all out your system, learn from it, improve from it, and show up ready for the next one.
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Post by waterboy on Jan 29, 2016 13:37:14 GMT -5
We made up for poor offense with absolutely no defense.
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Post by husky on Jan 29, 2016 16:39:58 GMT -5
It was difficult to watch. During the second round of conference play, coaching tends to come into play more. Adjustments are made to shore up weaknesses noted in the first round. Fortunately I am given to understand that we are blessed with a really great coach so we should be OK. Given that, we can only hope that last night was a fluke.
We can complain all we want about our talent but we still led BYU by 10 at halftime last week and ended up with a relatively close score. So while talent is very very big there are other factors. As for Herman, I concluded last year that he is not NBA ready; I guess the coach now views him as a "project" a big Baby Huey, if you will; I don't think he will play him very often the rest of the way.
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Post by LIONS90045 on Jan 29, 2016 20:30:20 GMT -5
On the other hand, I think Dunlap played some guys in the latter part of the BYU game who usually get limited minutes in order to assess their longer-term viability as team members. I continue to believe that Dunlap will be cold-hearted about cutting "dead wood" or guys who he decides will not measure up to his standards. This also depends on who he can land in the recruiting area. Herman may be one of these - he could be a stud in DII ball.
McClendon is not on the "bubble" list in my opinion - he got time to give him experience, after all he is a true Freshman along with Tutu.
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Post by lmu2015 on Jan 30, 2016 11:27:46 GMT -5
I really liked the way McClendon played on Thursday, if it wasn't for his high foul rate I think he'd be playing 5-10 minutes per game. I just hope neither of them transfer after the season.
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