Cats @ Trees (FSN, Comcast)

[06panther10]

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I'm not real smart, but here's what I think...

(Please forgive me if I ever, I mean ever--- disagree with what coach Jake is doing because he is the coach and he knows so much more about this team than I do...)

Our offense sucks. Let me say that again. Our offense sucks. We have players, but we run the most motionless offense in America. (Oh, I forgot...Coach Jake...don't question him...he knows this team more than I do. Man, I'm sorry. I forgot.) BTW- let's bring the MVC player of the year off the bench while Jordan can't catch...can't shoot...can't dribble...can't pass..and has no footwork.

My prediction...EC will start every game from now on....

The line-up at the end of the year..

Coleman
Josten
Reed
Koch
Montgomery

You don't win games by subbing 4 players at a time....Dumb..dumb..dumb.

I'm not at practice...I'm not a coach...and I should mind my own business.....

But...is there anyone else out there that thinks maybe Coach Jake is in over his head?

I agree with all of this...

[UNIPNTHR]

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How come our offense only "sucks" when we lose?

Sometimes when we win, our offense still sucks. Luckily we play pretty stout defense... most of the time.

[clenz]

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I was frustrated that it appeared on television that we came out flat.

But we had good energy coming of the bench in Coleman. I think I said this before but I'll say it again. He can bring all the energy in the damn world off the bench, but if we come out flat as hell (ala last night), it won't matter.

Pair that with the fact our offense sucks, it has all season for the most part and not just last night, we don't have a PG (part of the reason our offense sucks), JE is about as aggressive as a pacifist hippie after his 5th joint, and the apparent lack of passion in our overall play; and we have a recipe for disaster.

But what do I know? I'm not at practice or with the team. It's not like I don't know any of the players, oh wait I do. I don't have all the grad school stuff or assistant coaching; so I obviously don't know crap about the sport of basketball.

I guess we just wait for a PG and hope that fixes our problems.

ON THE PLUS SIDE I thought Reed, Montgomery, and Veit played very hard in the second half in that mop up time.

Maybe we should try playing them more and bring their energy off the bench.

[Matt Trump]

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Real simple....ISU shot over 54% from the 3, and shot better from the 3 than closer in. And per standard practice, this far exceeds their normal shooting success. Teams appear to save it for UNI I guess.

How does the saying go? If it happens once its random, twice is a coincidence, and 3 times its a trend.... Its been well more than 3 times at this point.

[Matt Trump]

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Sometimes when we win, our offense still sucks. Luckily we play pretty stout defense... most of the time.

Yes, and when there is no d there is zero chance to win.

[clenz]

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Iowa shot 56% or so against us the 14% or so 3 days later against IaSU. Us giving up the 3 at a high rate doesn't just seem to happen every once in a while. Like Matt said, it seems to be a trend at this point

[Matt Trump]

Re: Cats @ Trees (FSN, Comcast)

I'm not real smart, but here's what I think...

(Please forgive me if I ever, I mean ever--- disagree with what coach Jake is doing because he is the coach and he knows so much more about this team than I do...)

Our offense sucks. Let me say that again. Our offense sucks. We have players, but we run the most motionless offense in America. (Oh, I forgot...Coach Jake...don't question him...he knows this team more than I do. Man, I'm sorry. I forgot.) BTW- let's bring the MVC player of the year off the bench while Jordan can't catch...can't shoot...can't dribble...can't pass..and has no footwork.

My prediction...EC will start every game from now on....

The line-up at the end of the year..

Coleman
Josten
Reed
Koch
Montgomery

You don't win games by subbing 4 players at a time....Dumb..dumb..dumb.

I'm not at practice...I'm not a coach...and I should mind my own business.....

But...is there anyone else out there that thinks maybe Coach Jake is in over his head?

The only thing wrong is the prediction that Coleman will start, cuz its obviously not happening.

[BCPanther]

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Yep...Jake is terrible. Lets go find a top notch assistant from a major program. It worked really well last time...

[jegbomb52]

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Josten is / was terrible tonight. Bad play, bad coaching, bad officiating...it is the trifecta. Pair that with the trees living a dream, and you have a worthless game.

Oh my goodness! Someone talking bad about a player by name. What happened to the panthernation I used to know that would slap me around in a thread for five days because I talked bad about Ben Jacobson or Brian Wingert?Apparently it is okay now, but not when I used to do it

[BCPanther]

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It's OK Jeg... You didn't rip Adam Viet. That's the one that makes the natives restless...

[OhNewby]

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ON THE PLUS SIDE I thought Reed, Montgomery, and Veit played very hard in the second half in that mop up time.

It was Haak not Veit playing. He probably played well enough, to get some more minutes, in fact you'll probably see Haak at point and Josten at 2 in some upcoming games.

Reed played hard but was 0-6 from the field. That's not going to help us.

I'm not sure it was "mop up time"...Jordan, EC and Koch played the whole game. I think Coach Jake was going with what he thought were the best players, at least last night.

Dunham was 0-4, all on open shots, 1 rebound (6' 6") and 2 turnovers. I really think he'll be on the bench for Illinois State.

Montgomery played very hard, and really was a bright spot, he even made some tough 3's.

[Matt Trump]

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It's OK Jeg... You didn't rip Adam Viet. That's the one that makes the natives restless...

Or the last few years was Brooks McKowen

[BCPanther]

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You can't sit Dunham at this point. He does too much in handling the ball and helping to run sets in the half court... His huge minutes are a direct result of not having a point guard.

If Ahelegbe was healthy, Kerwin would only be playing about 25 minutes a night instead of 35...

[panther91]

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How is 2 out of 14 teams going off on us from three a trend?

[Matt Trump]

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How is 2 out of 14 teams going off on us from three a trend?

It is when you look at losses over the last 1.5 seasons.