Webergrad02

I think your win tonight and UNC's loss puts you in drivers seat for the 3 seed if you can just take care of business at home, A Montana loss gets you a 2 seed. EWU looks desperate and you have to stop Harvey early. Eastern could be scary if they make the tourney. 1, Weber 2. Montana 3. North Dakota 4. Northern Colorado 5. Sac State 6. Eastern Washington 7. NAU

I think he probably needs to go. I don't understand how this team can get used on the boards like they do. The team lacks toughness and mental focus. I see every coach in the Big Sky, I personally don't see Jones making alot adjustments. I see him putting his arms out and complaining all game. That is usually the sign of coach with little toughness and focus,

I think you will need to play Eastern differently than you played Sac. They do take threes but they like to test you with Jois first to see if he can take it to you. If he gets two quick fouls the three fest will begin as he goes to the bench. The kid that has recently come back from injury has disrupted chemistry a little bit. But he went off for 30 the other night. If Harvey is on, its going to be a tough match up. Offensively there will not be a lot of room in the paint. I do think the coaching edge goes to Hayford and the eagles. I have seen Hayford make adjustments, I am not sure Brian Jones knows how to make in game adjustments

I think Brian Jones is over matched in the Big Sky. I think it has been a harder transition than he originally thought. Someone on that staff has been able to recruit some pretty good talent to North Dakota. However, most of your players play me first type ball. It might be out of the frustration of not knowing when they will get to touch the ball again. I have heard two different Big Sky coaches say that top to bottom UND is the most talented team in the Big Sky. I see very little adjustments being made and I do wonder if Jones is the right guy. Can you pay enough to get a decent coach? I thought Northern Arizona over paid for Murphy but it seems to be working. Idaho State has turned the corner under Evans. Maybe it is time to cut ties with Jones and head in a new direction.

Good luck tonight. Montana has not be rebounding very well, so the 5 guard line up may work. After Montana has ripped my heart out as a Weber fan for the past 5 seasons, I would like to see you beat them on their floor. Tonight may be the easier road win of the Montana swing. Here's to some good open shooting and great ball movement.

I think Weber has been having some of the same issues with player selfishness as you guys have experienced. Luckily we have had a few games where we have improved the ball movement and gotten on track. I particularly watched to see how the other players reacted when Huff drove to the basket. Most of the time they stood there knowing the ball wasn't coming back out of the paint. It is pretty easy to defend a team when you can collapse four guys down low and have no worries about the open 3. Huff is the most talented player offensively in our conference, but the team would win if he also made the guys around him better. I sit fairly close to the opposing bench at Weber, so I studied Brian Jones style when he visited last year. I felt like very few adjustments were made offensively and they primarily ran high screen and isolation plays even though it was completely snuffed out. In your games I've watched this year, I see that not much has changed. Lots of guys just go to the basket with their head down the whole way. The sequence where Huff went off with some spectacular plays against ISU was amazing. But if you look at the second play in the sequence where he made the circus shot, he had an open guy cutting in from the wing that would have had a much easier shot than his. I think the me first mentality is plaguing both of our teams. I don't know if Jones has lost them team or just doesn't have the balls to bench the guys that can't play in the team concept. I like the addition you bring to our conference. Hopefully your guys can figure it out. You deserve better from 7 seniors with that much talent. Thank you for letting me add my .02 to your forum.