(02-26-2023 04:45 AM)82hawk Wrote:  2. I understand the Keatts/Siddle philosophy of freedom on offense if you play good defense, but that freedom destroyed us in the second half as Kelly as we abandoned our "get a touch in the paint then pass for an open shot" philosophy which worked fantastic in the first half, and regressed to our "jacking three's if you feel like it" philosophy which has put us in many a hole before.

3. We are a team with NO gifted scorers(except Farrar), i've said it before and i'll say it again. YET, when we are struggling to get a basket, and don't get one over the FINAL TEN MINUTES of a game, Farrar is getting splinters in his ass watching us flail away in a half court offense. WTF? And this is common. I don't care what Farrar does wrong Siddle may not like, he isn't the guy shooting 1-7 from the field doing wrong. Put him on the court to score some buckets and settle us down on offense, it's that simple.

5. Siddle. Stop going to post game interviews and blaming the players while you never take any blame. It's worse than saying "they made some tough shots"....

^^This^^. Not that I disagree with your other points, but ^^this^^ for sure.

So here's the way I see it: with all of the talk earlier about whether a 3 or 4 seed was better - whether it was better to play Hofstra before Charleston, or vice versa - it was easy to ignore the inconvenient fact that we are far from as sure bet to win our first game and even get to that point. We were far from dominant against the rest of the field, and now are winless against our fellow occupants of the "top four".

Coach Siddle really shortened to lineup last night , playing only 8 people ("the guys I trust" plus (seemingly) begrudgingly playing Farrar. He didn't give Ross minutes to get him more tournament ready. He didn't even let Enoh sniff the floor on Senior Night. And the two players who got us 25% of our points, Farrar and Harvey, played far fewer minutes than the other 6 players who saw the floor last night.

So now we are highly likely to face Drexel first...and face the very real prospect of getting bounced in the first game - unless we do something different. Not just play with great intensity for 40 minutes, be tough, etc.

Something different, or there's no way we beat Drexel, then Charleston, then Hofstra in a three day stretch.