I think last night was the first time Ron coached to not lose. Went to a shortened lineup and adjusted to match up as opposed to enforcing our will on an inferior opponent. It was like the fact that they wouldnât roll over terrified him of catching a LâŚ
I wouldâve liked to see more attacking the basket with the bigs like they were doing early. Also wouldâve liked to see more TJP minutes and atleast a couple Sharma & ARob minutes.
I see it differently. I viewed it as him recognizing who his best players are and wanting them to start playing together as much as possible.
Whatâs confusing about that was the lack of going back to TJP after what (my opinion, atleast) were 6 pretty good minutes out of him. Knocked down a nice look and played atleast passable defense. Heck even had active hands and got a steal.
Itâll be interesting to see what they do against a similar Holy Cross team. They start 5â10â then basically all 6â6â guys. Will he feel the need to run the guard heavy lines again?
If the intent is to play Rohde and McKneely together, then two of Buchanan, Saunders, Cofie, and Power have to get a lot of reps together managing the rotations, which last night meant more time for three of them.
Having two perimeter defenders who routinely get beat baseline (or wing) 1x1 requires lots of rotational help, and theyâve got to get that down before Florida and Memphis if they want to be competitive.
I would say there is 0% chance that Tony knowingly screwed Ron. Theyâre pals, not to mention that sort of thing is not in his DNA.
Bottom line after catching up is that Sodie was royally screwed
Dick Bennett put it in his contract with WSU that Tony would be the HC when Dick retired. Tony tried to do the same thing, but was rebuffed. WSU was more desperate when they were negotiating to pull Dick Bennett out of retirement.
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I just donât think TJ Power has shown me anything to think heâs even better than Kody Stattmann.
I mean you gotta give him more time than 6 games. He probably shouldnât have been starting to start the year and was much better in his few minutes off the bench (they were early first half, not like heâs fallen out of rotation). Build on that and build him up.
While I think Tony had a pretty good eye at identifying talent, thus, being followed on the offer trail by Self, Shyer the Shyt, he missed on a few as well. How many guys on our roster would see minutes other places?
Land Mallory and everything will fall in place⌠we have the rest of the pieces. Need time to come together and figure it out.
Six games in TJ Power vs. four years Kody Stattmann?
Power is 28% from three and Stattmann was 30%. At least Power has time to improve.
At least five â because they already have: Saunders, Power, Ames, Rohde, Lang.
McKneely and Buchanan certainly would, too. And Gertrude and (probably) Bliss. when theyâre healthy.
SoâŚ. Like everyone?
Has lang seen the court?
You said roster.
Heâs redshirting (for now).
Officially a RS
Thanks did not know
He needs to improve his form if thatâs going to happen. Not going to happen if he keeps palming the ball and generating sidespin.
We will not be competitive in the ACC if weâre playing a rotation of 6 guys and Taine as the spot 7th.