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I agree Mustaf will help against pressure. RE: comparison of Mustaf and Dalrymple: Both were/are physically dominant, did/do a lot of their work down low and were/are uninspired scoring from the outside. Our three primary ball handlers this season are George, Sturdivant and Kelly. We lose...

Based on the film I've seen of Mustaf so far, he looks like a Bruce Dalrymple kind of player. I think the staff will look for another scooty, on the ball player this Spring.

I think that stuff will get better when we have better back-court depth. When it turned out that Lance Terry and Amare Abram were not going to play, that left the team very light in the back court. Deebo and Reeves may be listed as guards, but they play like wing forwards and don't handle...

Every player that played worked hard to impact the game in some manner. Very few instances of passivity. I think the players might be starting to get it. FSU is a scrappy team and we competed and didn't wilt. The way Deebo played on both ends and the way Gapare played on the defensive end are...

What he said was, coaching is manipulation. He used a term, 'manipulation,' that has negative connotations. If had said, "coaching is inspiration," that would have carried a more positive connotation. But even inspiration is, technically, a form of manipulation. I think people need to get...

With regards to roster re-tooling: Stoudamire said preseason that, "personally, I like high school kids." He elaborated to say that he wants to know as much as he can about the kids he is recruiting and that the transfer portal window is so short, he doesn't have the opportunity to get to know...

I was surprised at how lazy the team's play was. We were totally lax on three point close-outs and on offense, we were just jacking up whatever. 6 Assists? Seriously? We were outshot from the floor 53% to 30%. Stoudamire's presser was more exciting than the game. He doesn't relate to...

I have to agree with this. A lot of "Sophisticated" fans who are trying to keep things real will discount wins against weaker opposition. But those same sophisticated fans should be able to recognize good basketball regardless of the quality of the competition. For instance, we should be able...

I do think it is a good idea for the majority of the pre-season to be used for conference Dual Meets formatted like the ACC-SEC challenge. That way pre-season shedules would be more systematic based on a conference round robin structure. It would be beneficial specially if there were no team...

I believe that was the first game this season that we won with defense first. We swarmed the boards, hit the floor, contested dribble penetration, didn't bite on the first fake, etc. Second game in a row where Ndongo hit the deck to save a possession. That is the level of commitment needed...

During a good stretch of the game, Kelly was really playing physical defense on the perimeter. He is making strides there. George is also a physical player on the perimeter.

Well, at least the kids played hard. Some good moments. We out-shot them by a considerable margin (46% to 32%) and from three (33% to 19%) But same old. Minus 11 in offensive rebounds. Minus 11 in second chance points. Minus 11 at the free throw line. Stoudamire decided to go small at the...

The offense has been inconsistent. In games we are shooting well, we can win. But the defense has been consistently bad. Our offensive efficiently rating is #241 out of 352 teams (68th percentile), which is not good. Our defensive efficiently rating is #266 out of 352 teams which places us in...

I think Leatherneck has his finger squarely on the issue. While the dynamics are largely multi-factorial, I think this season comes down to culture shock after a coaching transition. While the talent pieces have not, but rarely, come together in a complimentary way, the foundation of what...

Understand the concern. Everyone wants to see the positive trend lines and this team has tanked. Everyone is panicking because of what that might portend. But to make a reasonable forecast we are going to need, and are going to get, more data points. Lots of people reject the notion of...

A Ah, so Root thinks the remainder of the season will, for at least some players, be a time of redemption. At least there will be that window. That could be. He did say quite recently that coaching is manipulation. So, his present hard line rhetoric could be some sort of motivational...

I think it was in the pre-season that Stoudamire said that he wouldn't immediately yank a player for a mistake because he thought there were better ways to correct players than showing them up under the lights. But I guess this team doesn't play with enough self-respect to get that...

Some tasty quotes from Stoudamire's pre-Louisville game presser: "The game can't be strategic until we play hard." "There are consequences for not playing hard." (as in benching guys or "processing" them after the season?) "I'm not going to compromise my standards to win a game." (as in, I...

I have no memory of that game! I guess these games get blocked out of my mind. Can't understand why. Thinking about it, I think I remember the great moments and tend to move-on from the really bad ones.

I have been trying to think of another game where we got blitzed like that. I think in Pastner's second or third season, Duke blitzed us with threes in the first half and they were up way over thirty by the end of the first half. They might have won by 50. I think that was a team with Zion...