Yes. Last year's team was really bad. Go back and look at the quality of the teams they beat in February. The league was way down.
It doesn't really matter though, because the most important thing is this team is having a better season than last year's with respect to making the postseason (aka all that matters).
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02-22-2020, 11:29 PM #211
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02-22-2020, 11:32 PM #212
Are you the guy who didn’t have the stamina to watch through the last WIN because it was too hard on you emotionally? Yes, we would be a better team with Hankins, but we can’t change that. Seasons are up and down, as are eras.
We are building something back up, and it won’t be as fast as anyone wants....but I believe we will see it happen. I refuse to let it make me miserable if it doesn’t happen as easy or fast as I want it to happen. Hell, I’m a loyal Bills fan!
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02-23-2020, 06:54 AM #213
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True but I dont agree when people or coaches say it doesnt matter who starts because the minutes breakdown is what matters. Completely disagree with that. Setting the tone for the game is so important. Go with the best five players on the team. Scruggs, tandy, naji, free and jones
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02-23-2020, 07:29 AM #214
1.This is the issue with Miles sitting out this season. I think we all understand he wasn’t stepping in day one at the level of Hankins this year, but had he been in there getting some playing time this year, he would have helped with rebounding and been disruptive with his blocking and maybe he could be at Hankins level by next year.
Now he has zero real college game experience and our other returning bigs are not exactly rebounding machines who scare opponents with their defense of jumping/ blocking ability. Unfortunately it looks like we will struggle with our rebounding next year (with Jones graduating, with Ramsey’s knee issues with Miles having no real college game experience and with no bigs in the ‘20 class), which is going to put even more pressure on our outside shooting to be better. Are we really going to be that much better?
2.No it is not as fast as we want. We had better hope we do not miss on any of the ‘20 recruits and that we can land at least one or two legitimately BE level grad transfer in the off season (preferably a really good rebounder and/or a good shooter).
Steele put a lot of stalk in this core four being able to take their game to the next level. One of them has answered the call. One has looks like a freshman bust and the other two have talent but have regressed because they are simply mentally lazy players who think they don’t need to be coached or maybe they simply need a coach who is in their face -Bobby Knight style- when they make stupid make takes instead of the Opie Taylor “come on fellas” approach we get from Travis.
When seniors and Juniors are continually turning the ball over with same stupid, lazy passes and getting for the ball taken away from them like they are freshmen, the coach needs to take some responsibility. I think Steele will keep getting better at coaching different types of players but he is currently too lax for this particular team. He and his staff are Struggling miserably at getting their players to make smarter decisions. On the other hand, this team is clearly not as talented as the one two years again and in some respects not even better than last years team.
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02-23-2020, 08:11 AM #215
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02-23-2020, 08:13 AM #216
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And if I don't think X is going to win 10 minutes into the next game I'll turn that one off and give up on it to. Is that an issue for you? If so I really don't care.
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02-23-2020, 08:20 AM #217
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02-23-2020, 09:11 AM #218
What would your minutes breakdown look like? I mean I guess KyKy could play a few more yesterday (although he wasn’t exactly forcing the issue) but my point is it’s kinda like rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic as far as this team’s issues are concerned. It would be different if Q was still playing 30 a game.
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02-23-2020, 09:55 AM #219
While I was frustrated by the loss, I certainly am not losing my head. I was simply making an observation. Maybe using the word "culture" was a mistake. I played a lot of basketball growing up, I feel like I know a little about the game. The difference in the pre-warmups was very noticeable. I am definitely on the Steele bandwagon and I haven't posted one comment on this site disparaging him. It was not my intent to judge him or the program with my initial post. If you read my second post, I admitted I was an old fart and probably knew nothing. It was just an observation that stuck out to me before the game today. Maybe I'll just say I was very impressed with Nova's pre-game business like approach and leave it at that.
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02-23-2020, 09:55 AM #220
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