lots of game left. Have to get Palmer going offensively. The problem with the zone is rebounding but I don't disagree otherwise.
Look at the bright side we have gotten some jokes to go along with the piss poor basketball over the past 5 and a half years.
We just can't buy a shot and I'm not ready to blame Miles for that. I don't know what you can do. He gave them a day off to get their legs under them. It hasn't helped. The whole team is in a shooting slump so it's not like you can even feed one hot guy.
How many years can you excuse a lack of shooting? It's a practice issue, plain and simple.
Bullshit. It's a mental issue. Is that Miles pushing the wrong buttons? Maybe.
Probably. A good part of the problem was the selection of personnel on the floor in that last few minutes of the game and regulation. McVeigh? No Palmer? I don't care if Palmer was 0/20 I want him in the game at the end.
Tim was stupid. He could have subbed offense/defense plenty of times. But I do give him credit for finally going zone. One possssion earlier and we win the game. A lot of people will blame the kids in OT, but they bailed out their coach to get them there.
I guess it was because McVeigh plays zone well but I certainly didn't get it when we needed to score. Get the ball in Palmer's or Allen's hands and they at least get off a decent shot. Oh well.
Did Copeland (who was very hot) even touch the ball in OT? That right there is almost a fireable offense.
From the stats it looks like Copeland wasn't in the game at the end....major error. Dude was on fire.
It's almost unbelievable how much better legit teams are at shooting the ball. Miles teams will never be that, until his practice habits change. His hyper-focus on D isn't producing anything but proof he needs to switch his defenses to protect his supposedly "most athletic team ever" from being abused in man D.
You can do both and often good D spawns better offensive opportunities. Your bitch about not going to zone earlier is a good one and it clearly helped our O. It also allowed that last game winner shot by PSU though and quite a few offensive rebounds. Lots of things to question when you start off shooting that poorly but that shooting is on the players. I would have had Palmer and Copeland both in the game at the end. Palmer is way more athletic than just about anybody of that size on the team. He could have helped. IF you've ever played in college gyms you know that there's a ton of variables. The variable backgrounds used to just kill me from gym to gym and then if you add in the crowd behind it gets even tougher.
Yeah we know. It's 6 years of players shooting well below average from distance. All the players fault, we know your schtick.
Athletically superior guys who can shoot the rock consistently don't usually transfer especially to NU. But Gill has become a better shooter at NU. Copeland seems to have become a better shooter at NU. Glynn takes too many tough shots but he seems like he's gotten better. Palmer was a good shooter when he got here but he's streaky. His transfer was discipline related. So we shot lights out against Minnesota and now have been in a slump for a couple of games and that's reason to blame Mile's for his practices? I'm sorry, I'm not buying it. Practice time is limited by the NCAA so if these guys want extra shooting work, they have to do it on their own. IF anything, I'll fault Miles for his substitution patterns and defensive choices but I really question whether something Miles is doing in practice has anything to do AT ALL with our sporadic shooting.
