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11-29-2020, 03:32 PM #181
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11-29-2020, 03:51 PM #182
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This is a good thread because it exposes the divisions among posters.
I reject your premise. There is not universal agreement there has been no progress. If you read the posts associated with this thread you could reach that conclusion rather easily. There has been progress. We are 3-0 playing better basketball with only eight healthy scholarship players, half of whom (since you said you went to U.C., I'll point out that 50% of eight is four) had never played in a game with anyone else on this team just one week ago. So, let me say that again. We have eight healthy scholarship players and only four of them have ever played a game together. Yet, we won three games in three days. That's progress.
In addition when I look at individual personnel we have better players than last year. That's progress. When I look at team chemistry I see players playing together and communicated better. That's progress. When I look at the adjustments Coach Steele made over the last three games, I see creative decisions and a willingness to try new player combinations. That, too, is progress.
I'm not sure what you mean when you say board posters are "hating on you". Do you mean others disagree with you? If that is what you mean, why not say that? I don't hate you for posting ideas with which I disagree. I support your expressing your opinions. It makes for good debate even if your thinking is incomplete, your prose filled with jargon and your overall message garbled.
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11-29-2020, 04:12 PM #183
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11-29-2020, 04:17 PM #184
Last season, we brilliantly managed an average of 13.9 TO’s per game. YTD through 3 games, we’re tracking at 9.7. Last year was a shit show with TO’s, cardiac stress every time the ball went up behind the arc, the Gooden/Naji effect, frequent poor play to end a half or begin the second half.
Nothing like any of that this season, save for the poor shooting performance against Bradley (couldn’t watch the Toledo game).
Team chemistry and heart appear to be rock solid with this bunch. That’s culture - that’s Steele.X A V I E R
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11-29-2020, 08:59 PM #185
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11-29-2020, 09:37 PM #186
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11-29-2020, 10:10 PM #187
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11-30-2020, 08:30 AM #188
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11-30-2020, 09:10 AM #189
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11-30-2020, 09:19 AM #190
It appears that the HC gives a sh*#, and since he is the one that decides who plays and who doesn’t, I’m guessing that KyKy understands that now.
I’d bet you could ask any HOF coach you care to talk with and they would also give a sh*#. Offense and defense don’t have to be either-or. It is quite possible to be good on both ends of the court. The great players, and the great teams, excel in all areas of the game. As Steele pointed out in his remarks, often time playing good defense is more a matter of “want to”, than anything else. KyKy’s problem in the Bradley game was that he didn’t seem to have the desire to play defense, so Steele sat him down. Good for him. People have complained for the last year that Steele wouldn’t discipline certain players on last years team. That he let them do what they wanted. Now he sits a player that isn’t playing hard enough to suit him, and people want to criticize him for that? Wow, just wow.
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