(12-10-2022 05:19 PM)holybovine Wrote: I don’t know how you all can muster up so much energy to talk about this team. They’re dreadful. And selfish.
The end.
Dreadful, I agree. I think only one player is selfish and he has been so since he entered High School as VERY tall young man with incredible skills for his age. He knows nothing else but being the center of attention for his past six years of life. That is now on the coach to address and change, after all we all saluted him when he got Emoni to sign with EMU.
I'm just stunned with this team's lack of effort and general hustle:
This team commits a bunch of fouls, but few are aggressive in nature. They are "reach in and holds" when beaten off the dribble. I would love to see those fouls committed when contesting rebounds or attempting steals instead, but those would indeed require effort that only Lovejoy expends.
50/50 balls have become 90/10 in favor of the opposition because of our passivity.
We are not a tall team, one might suspect that an occasional full-court pressure with more agile defenders might yield results, but not us. I also might surmise that small EMU would be a fast-break team looking for quick buckets. I would be wrong.
We have no pattern on offense either. Acuff is a good shooter but clearly not a point guard with passing skills, yet that is what he has been charged to do. One good thing; we don't get offensive screen fouls like our competitors, but that is likely due to the fact that we DON'T set screens very much. We just stand around.
I simply refuse to believe that Stan Heath as a coach that would intentionally put such a product on the floor as his historical accomplishments would refute such. That stated, I AM TOTALLY BAFFLED AS TO HOW THIS TEAM IS PLAYING.