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"... never got things going offensively...", I think that is stating the obvious.
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"... never got things going offensively...", I think that is staying the obvious.
Like how he says we have to have urgency as a collective while saying that with the most laid back demeanor. The team is taking on his personality.
Disagree. The team looks to the coach on how to carry themselves on the court. Yes, there is still individuality between the players but as a collective they tend to take on the coach’s personality. Just look at the football and basketball teams of years past. Even professional teams. CDS has even said it himself this preseason on how he doesn’t want to get too high or too low because they players watch and feed off that.This is unfair. "Toughness" and "urgency" have nothing to do with how one speaks or carries themselves outwardly.
This is like people thinking coaches give 'win one for the Gipper' speeches at halftime to 'fire 'em up'.
Disagree. The team looks to the coach on how to carry themselves on the court. Yes, there is still individuality between the players but as a collective they tend to take on the coach’s personality. Just look at the football and basketball teams of years past. Even professional teams. CDS has even said it himself this preseason on how he doesn’t want to get too high or too low because they players watch and feed off that.
I never said they don’t care. Even in my first post that you responded to. I pointed out how the coach wants urgency as a collective yet seems to be not coaching with urgency himself. And pointed out that it seems the team is taking on the personality of the coach. Are you saying the coach doesn’t care? Cause I don’t know how we took that leap about the players otherwise.You're basically saying they don't care. Is that what you believe? If the answer is 'no', then you agree with me.
I remember hearing him in an interview earlier this year say that he will “have this thing turned around in 90 days.”Like how he says we have to have urgency as a collective while saying that with the most laid back demeanor. The team is taking on his personality.
No matter how bad it went, it is just 1 game. Sometimes there are games where nothing goes right. Hopefully blowouts do not become a trend.
I don't disagree, we've only looked cohesive in spurts. I had low expectations for the season going in, but 30+ point blowout losses should not be the norm. I expect to see competitive play in ACC games by mid-January. I don't want to see future seasons starting like this year.Except at this point it really isn't just one bad game. It's not the end of the world, and it's possible things get turned around, but we've looked less than impressive against an 0-6 GSU team and two teams from 1 bid leagues, one of which is 2-4 with two 20 point losses.
And playing to a depth of 12 players was promising in figuring out different floor fives for different situations., the 12th being last year's student walk-on sophomore forward redshirt #35 Emmer Nichols. William Emmer Nichols is the namesake great grandson of the Georgia Tech great tennis player Bill Moore of the mid 1930's, for whom the tennis center was named before the current center name. He donated money for an upgrade during the tenure of AD Homer Rice. Emmer is a solid basketball player, being in the top 50 high school players in the state of California two years ago. He turned down basketball scholarships to follow the footsteps of his great grandfather and his brother to Georgia Tech. That was Emmer's first game as a Yellow Jacket, though not under the best of circumstances. He is also an honor role student as well in Economics and International Affairs. The other two non-scholarship players are 5th year player 2LT Carter Murphy, commissioned from the Air Force academy, with his Operations Research masters being funded by the Air Force. Freshman student walk-on Marcos San Miguel is a Computer Science major. There are many good reasons to support this and all team through thick and thin. Many will be future donors as many of us are since back in the day when we saw or played our first Yellow Jacket game.Well, no ACC network means no watching the replay of the game for me, so I’ve got nothing but what I saw in the highlights and box score.
This is what I was afraid of after the Umass Lowell game. We are undisciplined on offense and not there yet on defense. There are a ton of question marks on this team right now, and they need to be fixed quickly.
The only silver lining I see is that Baye has arrived and had some moments of impressive play (along with George). The 7 TOs is ugly but the 3 blocks, 8 rebounds and 8 points look good. Oh, and we finally shot free throws well. Other than that, it is all negative.
Win or lose, I’ll keep cheering. Go Jackets!