No Ledge for Me

[Khan4Cats]

Some people can go to the ledge if you want.

I will not.

Did anyone reallly think that we would start the season at better than 2-2 considering we had three road games in the first four, in three places where we have like 10 wins all time combined among them?

Frankly, I will be quite pleased to be 2-2 with 3 straight home games coming. Yes, I'm disapppointed in how we played these last two road games and that we couldn't build on a 2-0 start, but we are only at the halfway mark for the year, plenty of ball left to play.

[panther91]

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It has to get better than the last two.

[Panther-Sheik]

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Not worried about 2 losses...I AM worried about 2 blow outs.

[Kyle]

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I am not going to the ledge either, but I am concerned. Everyone is talking about how the team needs to peak at the right time and even use this rational to justify the controversial coaching strategies. Right now we seem to be digressing instead of improving. Hopefully we didn't peak during the 3rd game of the season vs UMass; because after 14 games I'd say that is best performance by far.

[Panther-Sheik]

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I hope no one confuses criticizm with giving up for me. I am not giving up on this team or this season, but I am feeling very dejected. I'll be out in full force at the next home game. Hopefully we can wash away this road trip.

[jman2004]

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I hope no one confuses criticizm with giving up for me.

I think many on this board get those two confused and it's quite annoying. I'm not giving up. I spent a lot of money for my season tickets and I will again next year and the year after and the year after.

But we've lost ballgames that we should have won and that's frustrating. I don't care what our career record is at these particular facilities. This team, this season, is capable of beating Indiana State and Illinois State. It bothers me that they can't prove it and I can't help but wonder why.

[unigriff]

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typical trend...1 half team...2nd half that is. Can never recover from a 15+pt deficits in the 2nd half to win too many games. A score within 7 at the half, Great shot to win for this team.

[unigriff]

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not to hard knock the this team cuz i know stout and other graduated seniors played on the team this summer, but the level of international competition must have been not so great if we lost only 1 game with pretty much this same group of guys minus a couple graduates and we are 10-5.

[Panther-Sheik]

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not to hard knock the this team cuz i know stout and other graduated seniors played on the team this summer, but the level of international competition must have been not so great if we lost only 1 game with pretty much this same group of guys minus a couple graduates and we are 10-5.

Shorter shot clock and more run and gun style necessary in international play. Why we didn't carry that over to the regular season I don't know. We could have used the summer experience to shock some teams, but with the longer shot clock, we seem to have reverted back to our original, "comfortable" style of play. I didnt' get to see any of the summer games, but that is just an opinion of mine as to why this current team seems so much different than the USA team.

[Khan4Cats]

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Shorter shot clock and more run and gun style necessary in international play. Why we didn't carry that over to the regular season I don't know. We could have used the summer experience to shock some teams, but with the longer shot clock, we seem to have reverted back to our original, "comfortable" style of play. I didnt' get to see any of the summer games, but that is just an opinion of mine as to why this current team seems so much different than the USA team.

Good post. I agree that I think some of the shorter shot clock type offense would be nice to see from this team a little more.

I also think that none of the teams in Thailand probably played anywhere near the type of pressure, in-you-face defense that we see from teams in the states. They generally tend to be more offensive oriented in their skill sets if you follow pretty much any of the foreign players that come to the U.S. for college or pro, except maybe Dikembe Mutumbo.