Viet

[clenz]

Re: Viet

Nope. I'm starting Brown, Jared, Jordan, Koch, and Reed...Yep Reed gets to play when I'm the coach.

I'm kidding ofcourse I start EC, he rarley leaves the floor for me. I play the base 10 min half and he plays probably 8 minutes a half for me. Goes five, sits for a two then plays the rest. Unless we don't need him out there or he is in foul trouble

[DRAKELAWPANTHER]

Re: Viet

I would play only EC for the full 40 minutes. No other players. Just Coleman.

[UNIPNTHR]

Re: Viet

I would play only EC for the full 40 minutes. No other players. Just Coleman.

And the win percentage would be roughly 117%

[BCPanther]

Re: Viet

We would also be ranked number one and the NCAA Tournament would have been cancelled because we all know that we would be absolutely untouchable if EC started...

[jman2004]

Re: Viet

All humor aside, I don't know if anyone said anything like the sarcastic comments here. No one is claiming that we'd be 11-0 with EC starting.

We're claiming it's stupid NOT to start him. It makes Jacobson look dumb.

[Panther AC]

Re: Viet

Actually it was Atila Santos. Atila had some of the physical tools and athletic ability to be at this level but was lacking the full set. He's done fine for himself up at Minnesota State (D2) I believe.

This was a fine recruiting class for us. Viet's a great shooter who is in a bad slump. The DIII comment was laughable, it's not like it was a miracle the guy is a DI player. He was offered by Creighton and Drake in HS as well because he could shoot the 3 and over the course of his career here he's done just that. If I remember correctly, Viet was actually the first one to committ out of this class and had more than a little influence on Brooks and Josten (AAU teammates) and in turn helped a bit with Stout who played AAU against that trio regularly.

Good points MT. We can always count on you to put things in the proper perspective. Let's hope Viet gets out of the slump soon along with all of our outside shooting improving!

[SteinPizza]

Re: Viet

Good points MT. We can always count on you to put things in the proper perspective. Let's hope Viet gets out of the slump soon along with all of our outside shooting improving!

Is it just me, or has our outside (3 point) shooting been in a slump for about 3 or 4 seasons? We have good games every once in awhile, but for a team which supposedly heavily utilizes the 3 pointer...we're not very good, or at least not nearly consistent enough.

We certainly aren't good enough to rely on getting hot from 3 against better teams. Think back a few years to the Georgetown and Wisconsin games for examples of what I'm talking about - we had plenty of open looks both games and couldn't hit them. Same this year with Iowa, although they're not in the same league as the other two talent wise.

[DRAKELAWPANTHER]

Re: Viet

I think this is right, Stein. I remember us ragging on Benny J his last year due to his seeming inability to hit the open three. Poor shooting nearly cost us down the stretch that year...and has continued to plague us the last two...

[UNIPNTHR]

Re: Viet

Seems like we end every year on a stretch of games where we can't buy a 3 pointer. Generally it gets chalked up to a short bench and guys' legs were gassed after the grueling MVC season/tourney. Now we've got a relatively deep bench compared to recent history, early in the season so we should be fresh, and we still can't hit 'em...

What if we added to the mix a couple of Princeton-esque sets with a few cutters to the basket, back-door looks, etc? Obviously we can't do our normal routing without a steady diet of treys, because they'll sag a zone on our big men. But we have posts that can pass well. Can we make up for slow perimeter shooting with more movement and screens, find some easy layups?