Defensive pressure of any kind is a real problem for us. Rohde played well but when Dai Dai isnāt in, he has to spin-dribble like 3X to get the ball over half- court. Get ready for pressure all year in the backcourt. When you only have 15 seconds to run offense instead of 25 seconds, itās a problem. We need Bliss like the desert needs the rain.
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I hope Ronchez isnāt planning on playing 4 guys 30+ Ironman minutes every game.
Not every game, but against the Manhattan Jaspers you just canāt afford to go to your bench too much
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I vote @73CAV.
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How exactly does one go about finding the gif in your post? Does searching āshit/sneezeā do the trick? Inquiring minds absofuckinlootly have to know.
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Yeah, I donāt know how to fix what ails this team, at least not with the players on this team. Just so many holes. Just Rohde, Ames, and Cofie playing above my pre-season expectations. McNeely, Buchanan, Power, Saunders, Taine all playing below my pre-season hope. Taine passed up numerous shots in his time in there. Donāt know about Sharma but apparently not impressing the coach.
Bliss not playing is all. We may never see him on the court.
The defense is awful. Donāt really think this bunch is going to figure out how to play the packline this year. Wonder if a simpler D isnāt in order.
Sorry, just a bit depressed by it all. Maybe by mid-season I will have accepted it and can enjoy the game.
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This didnāt age well. Beer me!
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We are all going to have to reset expectations and positives in order to enjoy this season. We probably wonāt win very many games going away. The defense will be choppy. There will be more blowouts against the top competition. But there is probably enough to squeeze 18 wins out of this year and have a few moments. Thatās where I am. No expectations past this year bc the entire team will reset. Maybe Ron can do what Tony never did- squeeze into the tournament and overperform seed expectation. Probably not. So have to focus each game on the little positives.
For me, today itās the growth of Rohde! Kid has earned it after going through it the last year.
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I pull up Instagram and this is what I see. Perfectly captures my own face the last few weeks
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I was actually going for a different āshit/sneezeā ā the one from the movie Hall Pass. But when I searched for it what showed up was what I posted and a quality representation of our defense tonight.
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Just need to sustain our energy across a game. Too many lapses where we took our foot off the gas. Especially defensively.
Manhattan did hit a ton of contested 3s first half and early 2nd.
All the rhythm stuff we hit first half we wonāt get against more athletic opponents.
Iāll also say that if Dai Dai doesnāt close out and get his hands up one more time ā¦ man. Letās his guys shoot with a perfect line of sight every single damn time.
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Seems like EVERY team weāre supposed to beat horribly, hits crazy contested 3s against us like itās routine. Then the commentator talks about how like 1 dude is like 2-10 on the season and has been unconscious
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We were giving up a lot of open and poorly contested threes last night. Credit to Manhattan for knocking down the shots, but our D looked really bad.
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My expectations were set in September. At least was right about one part.
Yep and they were off simple drive and kicks. Guys getting beat constantly off the dribble, defense collapsed and open 3 was there.
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There were at least two straight possessions where they cashed in a three on a pick and pop off a high ball screen. Our bigsā hedges were largely ineffective and couldnāt recover quickly enough to effectively contest.
It did seem like almost every guy got straight beat 1v1. They had one player who was really, really quick so that was understandable, but it was like everyone had trouble keeping their man in front. Not super encouraging when you consider we were playing an MAAC team.
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Thats how I saw it. Also Manhattan missed more than a couple pretty open shots
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Looked at box score this morning. Isaac Mac played 37 minutes last night. Just seems like too many minutes as we need him all year at his best.
Dang it and I said how I loved Rons rotations
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Itās way way too much for a November mid major game. Unfortunately we needed him Was a four point game in the second half and game wasnt really secure until his dagger 3 late.
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