Many thought new coach new system more athleticism, abandon 2-3, coupled with JJ and Judah best backcourt in the conference… gave hope to outperform recent historyOn par with recent history. Don’t really understand all the criticism considering how crummy we’ve been for awhile. Just maintaining our status.
Offense doesn’t look any different than it has in recent years.Many thought new coach new system more athleticism, abandon 2-3, coupled with JJ and Judah best backcourt in the conference… gave hope to outperform recent history
Re: Jesse. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. We had this debate a couple of months ago, and you said, meh, you didn't think we would miss Jesse because Red would play differently.C+. The Tenn game almost turned in our favor and could have made this grade quite a bit different...
Outside of that the roster has been incomplete from day 1. When Westry returns and we get a look at his impact on the team it will be interesting. The Jesse situation made things really tough. Not just losing him but losing him unexpectedly where it was scramble mode.
It's a less talented roster than expected with JJ struggling, Westry injured and Benny being a giant mess. Judah needs that more dynamic backcourt mate that JJ hasn't shown to be. Chance hopefully can change that.
We've watched years of zone. Now it's a mtm team. Everything looks and feels differently with a mtm team. Chance is an elite defender. I'm curious what the defense looks like with a truly elite defender out there. If we can get to our next league game at 9-3 I'd say he's a solid B.
I see hardly any toughness or leadership. Outside of Colgate, the team completely melts down and folds if they get down by double digits. And those blowout losses and meltdowns gave me no confidence that we have a chance in every game we play. But that’s just me. I’d give him a C so far.I’m giving him a B+ The team has some toughness and we’re getting better.. I feel like we have a chance in every game we play. that was not the case last year. The program is headed in the right direction.
Re: Jesse. I hate to say I told you so, but I told you so. We had this debate a couple of months ago, and you said, meh, you didn't think we would miss Jesse because Red would play differently.
I agree that most people, including the coaching staff, never imagined that JJ would struggle as much as he has, which has definitely affected the outlook of the team. Plus, the Chance injury.
My out of conference prediction was 7-4, so I agree that people had lofty expectations if they thought we would have a better record than that. I’m surprised how immature we look and that this Benny thing has gone downhill the way it has. I didn’t expect miracles from him, but I did expect he would mature. Bell and Taylor have shown progress, so that reflects well on Red.B/B- Gotta include the recruiting he did this summer in the profile. He pulled in nice transfers that we fans mostly wanted and we snapped up Freeman which was a huge get. We are 6-3 and anyone dreaming in year 1 we would be better than that right now were not being realistic. Red has things to figure out though with the team/identity and we should have some patience with that. He is 9 games into year 1.