What do you want to see in the next 60 days?

[Idiocuse22&]

I have no idea how people think Coaching is an issue here

Talent/recruiting/Roster building go ahead

Coaching what are we basing that on?

Is this a serious question?
my bad
there is no way

 

[Idiocuse22&]

I wish Red well and Im sure he is a good fella and all but listening to his interview before the game today on the radio...he sounded like he had no idea what he was talking about...ya know...you know..ya know ya ya know?
Ya know?

I like the guy...he is not a P5 head coach.
Sorry Bro, Im not either. Not many are.
Carry on...

 

[Red2003]

What did you think of Starlings performance today when we got ahead by 13 with about 10 minutes to go?

Came back to my post this morning to say told ya so. Just kidding of course.

JJ has been testing our patience all year though. He simply can’t play the way he has a few games plus the 7 games he was injured. The value is not there with him.

 

[OrlandoCuse]

I wish Red well and Im sure he is a good fella and all but listening to his interview before the game today on the radio...he sounded like he had no idea what he was talking about...ya know...you know..ya know ya ya know?
Ya know?

I like the guy...he is not a P5 head coach.
Sorry Bro, Im not either. Not many are.
Carry on...

I’m wondering if his lack of communication skills is directly related to his inability to be an effective coach. I can see him saying “you need to shoot better” or “you need to play defense harder” to his players, which really isn’t coaching. If you don’t understand the game and how to create a system to take advantage of other teams’ weaknesses, while maximizing your team’s strengths, AND (MOST IMPORTANTLY) COMMUNICATE that system to your players, you will never be a great head coach.

 

[kcsu]

What did you think of Starlings performance today when we got ahead by 13 with about 10 minutes to go?

I thought the entire team played tight. VT adjusted their D and we didn't. We played like a losing team down the stretch.

 

[Nicknack]

If we make JJ a priority, then the team construction will already be at a huge disadvantage. Choosing to build around a player that is not a facilitator, isn't a shooter, isn't a defender, and isn't an efficient scorer isn't a good piece to build around. So right off the bat our roster is flawed.

Completely agree. My position has been for a while now that if JJ is the focal point, you have a flawed team. That said, I'd still like to keep him but he needs a dose of reality (like what Bell got). That is, no more green light and if he takes bad shots, sit him. If he refuses to play D, sit him. He just CAN'T play like he has this year next season.

Why would he come back then? Right now he has the ball in his hands all the time and can control the game so if the plan is to take that away from him why would he come back? If you were him why would you come back for your senior year if the team that you just played for decided to take the ball out of your hands and not make you a focal point?

Because he doesn't have better options (maybe). I don't think any high major team would want him doing for their team what he has for ours. If he wants to continue heaving up shots whenever he wants, not facilitating, and refusing to play good D, he may have to go somewhere like Univ of Delaware.

Last year we talked about how Judah leaving would be good. I don't understand why people want to get rid of our leading scorers, and 1 of our best (if not best) players. We have to retain someone(s). Complete roster overhaul year to year and sinking NIL money into a mass amount of new players isn't a strategy for success. Need a core to build around unless our pockets are deeper than we think.

Last year was different though. We thought Westry would be joining the fun. We also thought/hoped JJ would be better and maybe even at the 1. There was hope.

 

[hoopsupstate]

Completely agree. My position has been for a while now that if JJ is the focal point, you have a flawed team. That said, I'd still like to keep him but he needs a dose of reality (like what Bell got). That is, no more green light and if he takes bad shots, sit him. If he refuses to play D, sit him. He just CAN'T play like he has this year next season.

Because he doesn't have better options (maybe). I don't think any high major team would want him doing for their team what he has for ours. If he wants to continue heaving up shots whenever he wants, not facilitating, and refusing to play good D, he may have to go somewhere like Univ of Delaware.

Last year was different though. We thought Westry would be joining the fun. We also thought/hoped JJ would be better and maybe even at the 1. There was hope.

I agree. This is the exact reason Red subbed the way he did this year. You sub because you’re looking to find someone who can be successful. When you have givens, your rotations make more sense. If Red knew he could get ”Good Cuffe” like Saturday, he would be a regular rotation guy. Unfortunately, Cuffe is not consistent and when he tries to do too much, he’s a turnover machine. Watching MSU yesterday shows what happens when your subs come in and play hard, compete and HELPS the team. They just wear teams down and pull away down the stretch. Watching our subs, you just hope they can get the ball down the court and get a decent shot.

 

[tbonezone]

What do you want to see in the next 30 days?​

an end to the DARKNESS we've been suffering

 

[miamicuse]

I’m wondering if his lack of communication skills is directly related to his inability to be an effective coach. I can see him saying “you need to shoot better” or “you need to play defense harder” to his players, which really isn’t coaching. If you don’t understand the game and how to create a system to take advantage of other teams’ weaknesses, while maximizing your team’s strengths, AND (MOST IMPORTANTLY) COMMUNICATE that system to your players, you will never be a great head coach.

Red is not a good communicator. He mumbles and fumbles in the pressers, kind of like Patrick Ewing did, sometimes not sure of the point he is trying to make.

But he may be a better communicator on the court, running practices and drills, I don't know.

Now it's even worse due to the terrible team performance that can no longer be explained by youth, needing time to gel, needing time to acclimate to a system (what system), you can tell he has zero confidence, avoiding eye contact, trying to find words (the same words), he looks broken and resigned...and you can't do that as a HC.

I feel bad for Red being stuck like my this trying to clean up the JB's mess only to tumble down this slope.

 

[tbonezone]

Red is not a good communicator. He mumbles and fumbles in the pressers,

well he does answer questions unlike captain snark. the pressers are 1000x better.

 

[miamicuse]

well he does answer questions unlike captain snark. the pressers are 1000x better.

While he does answer questions his answers are kind of one dimensional if you will.

"The team looks tired and uninspired".

"We talked about bringing energy and passion to the court every time we play".

"What does the team need to do to improve"?"

"We talked about playing defense and going after rebounds..."

"What's going on with Bell's shooting"?

"We talked about doing a better job finding him at the spots he likes..."

 

[TinyManInside]

I’m wondering if his lack of communication skills is directly related to his inability to be an effective coach. I can see him saying “you need to shoot better” or “you need to play defense harder” to his players, which really isn’t coaching. If you don’t understand the game and how to create a system to take advantage of other teams’ weaknesses, while maximizing your team’s strengths, AND (MOST IMPORTANTLY) COMMUNICATE that system to your players, you will never be a great head coach.

I sat behind the Cuse bench many times in the early 2000s into the 2010s, and probably went to 60 practices while I was in grad school at SU. What you’re describing is not that far removed from what I often heard from Boeheim, I was amazed by how incredibly simplistic the coaching was at times. The difference is, JB was saying “go rebound better” to John Wallace and Hakim Warrick. Red is saying it to Jyare Davis.

 

[TinyManInside]

Saying “go make some shots” to Preston Shumpert is not the same as saying it to Lucas Taylor.

 

[OmahaCuse]

Saying “go make some shots” to Preston Shumpert is not the same as saying it to Lucas Taylor.

Saying go get us points to Dion Waiters is not the same as Kyle Cuffe off the bench. I like Cuffe by the way wish he was 6’5” 220lbs would be in the NBA