I think it was more than that. The team abandoned all team concepts for most of that second half. Most possessions were zero or one pass, then a poor shot. That led to the poor shooting % more than just a cold half. Don’t blame them, the coach that talked most of them into what he was selling abandoned them last week before their season was over. I respect them for playing in the NIT and putting forth two solid efforts where they didn’t flat out quit. Coach Golden has his work cut out for him rebuilding a winning, team first culture.
wow, probably one of the worst half of basketball played this year. Everyone forcing shots and only one guy even made any. No defense of the rim, no rebounding unless someone was standing alone way outside, bad passing from standing around on offense. I know Todd Golden saw today what we have been accustom to for seven years. Chuck and duck, small ball. He better be ready to recruit because we are in trouble as a program. When you wait nicely to let a coach wander aimlessly around, this is the result. Let’s go get some bigs and learn to block out and rebound. If we stay with small ball I probably have to find a hobby that provides positive vibes. I guess I feel like Tennessee right now. Bombed out in the last game. A long off season is coming.
Just went to ESPN.com and realized we had a game today. Totally missed it working at my computer all day. Looks like I didn't miss anything. Looking at the box score, I am trying to figure out how they out rebounded us by 11 but we got up 11 more shots than them. Both teams with identical 3pt and FT shooting (20% and 73% respectively), but they had a big FT advantage (+11 taken, +8 made). MJ 1-7 from 3, Phlan 0-6 from 3. Yikes. Glad I missed it and won't have to ever watch this version of Gator basketball ever again. Well, we won one more post-season game than Kentucky, so there is that. Until next year....
I had no intention of watching this one. I felt the team would play decent at home but stink the place up on the road. I am more than ready for a change. Coach Golden can bring in his own people and began a transformation. I know some want to cherry pick some of the current coaching staff to remain, but that is up to Coach Golden. I have no problem with him terminating all three assistant coaches. Those recruits who have signed, along with the underclassmen eligible to return, can make up their own minds as to whether they want to be part of the rebuilding process. If they don't want to buy into what the new coach is preaching then hit the portal.
Almost as disturbing as the second half itself was the announcers' observation that offensively we had very little movement allowing Xavier to collapse around Castleton with two or more players whenever he got the ball. When you shoot 33% from the field including 6-30 from "3", you really need to be less predictable than what we did today
yes I do. But no on this team with the exception of perhaps Reeves has the talent that Walsh had or the shooting ability (certainly not Jones) and yet he was allowed to shoot brick after brick after brick. Is Kennedy that poor a shooter???? I doubt it!! In addition, despite tearing ligaments in his ankle, Walsh led us to an SEC Championship in 2005 something we haven’t even come close to winning in over 7 years with the mercenary squad of players that are revolved into our program every year thanks to MW. I gave Billy a pass on that one because Walsh was generally good for 3-4 3s a game. Jones wasn’t and will never be.
I know I just took a dig on them because we could have beaten them easily if our players played up. To potential.
What season have you been watching? We barely finished over 500 and didn’t in the SEC league play. This team played inconsistently all year which is a sign of poor leadership. MW actually had some athletic players who had high Basketball IQs, but could not get them to come out day in and day out and play to a high level of excellence. I think Reeves and Lane are going to tear the league up next year. Golden has to make getting them, Jitoboh, Felder, Kennedy and the incoming freshmen locked in for next year. We see how MW raised Louisiana Tech and brought us a gem in Duruji.
I actually felt he had 1st team ability, and had he been in the right program like at Auburn, Tennessee, or Kentucky he would have earned it. Can you imagine Michigan in the tournament with him still on the team??? Castleton needed consistent perimeter shooters to open up the paint for him, and the only one who demonstrated any reasonable consistency was Reeves, and he wasn’t allowed to start until much too late in the season.
