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Our lack of athleticism and strength keeps showing up game-after-game. That will not change this year.

I like the fact that we really pushed the ball on offense. Helped our scoring today.

The motion offense is problematic if you can't shoot 3s or FTs.

Also, we don't make plays when we NEED to make plays.

If we have a big man strength coach it is not apparent.

Entertaining game. A little too much hero ball down the stretch. Two of the turnovers one in the first half and another in the second half, due to Bailey's weakness when receiving a pass.
Skogman will be tough to replace next year

Logan got the rebound off a missed FT when Matt called T.O. in the backcourt, so he would have been shooting 1 and 1.
I don't know if that's why he called the timeout, it's just conjecture.

Cocks win in OT at Mizzou, 71-69. Didn't shoot well, either inside or from three. They won by going 16 of 18 on free throws. Wish the Cats had even come close to that.

This isnt working.

Didn't Coach McKillop, the elder, bring a foul shooting guru on to campus in the preseason?

If we could shoot well, we would. If we could dunk, we would. It is likely to be a long rebuild. In the current MBB environment, I really don't think teams can stay in the top 100 without a large NIL budget.

i77cat wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:14 pm

If we could shoot well, we would. If we could dunk, we would. It is likely to be a long rebuild. In the current MBB environment, I really don't think teams can stay in the top 100 without a large NIL budget.

NIL money did not lose this game.

You can improve shooting.
You can improve free throws.
You can coach players to get better & tougher.
Cochera, Skogman, and Logan have all improved quite a bit.
Grant is Grant and will always give 110%

I don't understand some of our issues when we have so many coaches and they have so much time with the players throughout the year. For goodness sakes we have been having problems boxing out on foul shots and inbounding the ball for the last several years.

bagelcat wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:54 pm

Logan got the rebound off a missed FT when Matt called T.O. in the backcourt, so he would have been shooting 1 and 1.
I don't know if that's why he called the timeout, it's just conjecture.

Logan got the rebound off the missed FT. There was nobody close to him. Because we didn't advance the ball before the TO was called, we had to take it out from the end line against a set, pressing defense. GW stole the ball; we fouled and Garrett made one of two. I maintain that was a huge coaching error at a critical time in the game. Advance the ball and then call TO if you want. Much easier to in-bound the ball when you have the whole court to work with.

Dr. Bliss wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:56 pm

bagelcat wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 13, 2024 5:54 pm

Logan got the rebound off a missed FT when Matt called T.O. in the backcourt, so he would have been shooting 1 and 1.
I don't know if that's why he called the timeout, it's just conjecture.

Logan got the rebound off the missed FT. There was nobody close to him. Because we didn't advance the ball before the TO was called, we had to take it out from the end line against a set, pressing defense. GW stole the ball; we fouled and Garrett made one of two. I maintain that was a huge coaching error at a critical time in the game. Advance the ball and then call TO if you want. Much easier to in-bound the ball when you have the whole court to work with.

And then we did it again later in the game, but at least we didn't have to in-bound from the end-line.

85Wildcatsky wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:55 pm

i77cat wrote: ↑

Sat Jan 13, 2024 6:14 pm

If we could shoot well, we would. If we could dunk, we would. It is likely to be a long rebuild. In the current MBB environment, I really don't think teams can stay in the top 100 without a large NIL budget.

NIL money did not lose this game.

You can improve shooting.
You can improve free throws.
You can coach players to get better & tougher.
Cochera, Skogman, and Logan have all improved quite a bit.
Grant is Grant and will always give 110%

I don't understand some of our issues when we have so many coaches and they have so much time with the players throughout the year. For goodness sakes we have been having problems boxing out on foul shots and inbounding the ball for the last several years.

I agree that NIL money didn't cost us this game. It will cost us plenty in the future. I hear that it hurt us in the recruiting battles that we lost to GW this summer.

Foster Loyer arranged his own NIL deal with Bojangles. Why didn't the school/coaches work with Bojangles to pass that along to a player or two on this year's team? I know two players who could be excellent spokespersons for Bojangles.

The "why we called timeout when Logan got the rebound" explanation makes no sense. Logan grabbed 7 rebounds. Let them foul him every time he does.

Sometimes our coaches make terrible mistakes, as Dr. Bliss described. We had to inbound against their press and couldn't throw the ball into the backcourt.

Our staff is inbred and rarely says, "When I was at the other place we did it differently."

we need better tailors for some of our guys. They need to lengthen their shirt collars.

I agree that NIL was not the difference in this loss. Poor FT shooting, poor shot selection, and turnovers doomed us.

Faulting the team’s athleticism is a perennial complaint. Jordan Barham our last “athlete”?

Supposedly the school and the coaches are not allowed to arrange NIL, so I would expect that to be a reason they don’t do it.