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Message: [QUOTE="Nicknack, post: 5291554, member: 1003"] A lot of good points, kcsu. I echo a lot of what you're saying especially the chaos and mess on the court we're watching. The one thing that I'll say about giving Red credit for what he did last year (sure, I have no problem with that) but I think this is overstated on this board. I tend to think it was more of a PG who carried the team on his back at times and got us some wins that otherwise would have been losses. I'm not a Mintz fan, but he was a lot for other teams to handle at times and we have no one like that this year. The other thing that is really apparent to me is that last year we had more clarity of what we were trying to do versus this year's mess. In the first half yesterday, two things screamed out: 1) Lack of talent, 2) Lack of a consistent approach to what we're trying to do which leads to a lack of clarity of roles. I'm no basketball coach, far from it. However, it's painfully obvious to see. I don't mean to slam Carlos, he's doing what he can but for us to "have" to rely on him for 36-37 minutes a game is a death sentence. No way we can compete against good teams with him logging so many minutes (in addition to what else we're putting on the court - way too many zero offense production). He logged 40 minutes yesterday yet scored 2 points and had 4 turnovers to go along with his 4 assists but apparently he's the only guy who can dribble. It took about 15 minutes in the first half before Bell got even a reasonably good shot from 3. That's just awful. We can't run something offensively for our best shooter to get an open shot? I don't even know what to say about Bell this year. How on earth do you regress this badly? I feel for him in that regard. Lampkin does what he can but I've said it before, if he's your best option on offense, you're in trouble. He's a great talent to have within the system but not as your featured guy wearing #44. I was surprised by Jyare yesterday. He struggled mightily. Not sure why he got pulled so early in the game to return later but perhaps Red has a good reason. I'll give him a pass as he is usually much better. Lastly, what a shame that we're wasting a year of Donnie. Who knows how good he could be if he were on a decent team. Maybe the silver lining is that we're so bad that he won't get much attention and we will get another year with him (although I'm not holding my breath as another team could come in and poach him). [/QUOTE]

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