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Played SDSU and it was close down to last two minutes but two Myers took over down the stretch and Johnson timeout to set up the two players was difference. I thought we needed timeout to settle things and give rest to our players. We played better defense but still gave up to many points to have a chance to win against this team. We still need to also work on three point shooting when we’re tired need to get our legs set and relax on our follow throughs seem liked we were rushing our shot. This is best we have played SDSU since joining the Summit but we’re still long way to go before we can definitely beat them. They still have way more talent on team and have length and quickness far deeper than we have. We need to keep recruiting better like the last two years. This is progress for us and gives us hope for strong finish to the season.

I just checked they wear this attire at NDSU and even at home so it must be approved by their administration.

This team is undersized at the 5 with that and not as quick at the 2 & 3 leads us to terrible defense by us getting set up with many mismatches. This really showed up against SDSU with them having 4 young quick players at the guard position who could drive and were shooting unbelievable 3 percentage. Cluff we couldn’t matchup and if we gave help their guards were open or got edge on drive because of Cluff or even Wilkinson. Then they were effective in defending Eaglestaff so we became very mediocre team. We are missing T and Omot players we added to replace them are undersized and do not have exceptional skills other teams have to deal with. We did replace point guard position with Panoam who has exceptional skills around the basket but still needs work on his defense and learning how to take advantage of opposing players. It appears to me we have invested into many high school development players of size that are not capable of playing at this level when we needed depth that could play now. This team has three very good players on the staring 5 and one very good role player but is now lacking very good 5 player and good guard at the 2 to 3 position which we had last year with Eaglestaff and then having exceptional 3 with Omot last year.

I was wondering if anyone knows what has happened to previous coaches at UND in football who were not retained what are they doing or where they have moved on to?.

Yes, they are playing more as team now and I do think that Sutter has done a lot to improve their play. I have noticed even at timeouts he and other coaches are more in discussion with players giving information to the players. I think Mallory more into player rotation and working the referees recently during the game and has delegated some technical parts to her assistant. I will give her credit for this we are seeing improvement on our fundamentals and maybe we can crawl up in Summit standings and have chance to win few games in conference tournament. Still long way to go to reach that goal and see if we can continue improve.

Larkins is having hard time getting good shot with us having Horn and Mathern both players having length and enough quickness to defend. See how yotes respond.

The next three games will determine where we stand in Summit. The first game is against South Dakota and is at home and in my estimation probably a game we should win and is team similar to us in rebuilding mode. Second game is against South Dakota state at Brookings a game we have small percentage winning and would be real upset if it happens. Third is NDSU at Fargo and game Mallory would like to win with hard feelings from past several years but Jory Collin’s has owned Mallory in his 5 previous season winning 9 out of 10 games. Likely hood is NDSU win again playing at home and in the past having out coached Mallory on making adjustments to Malory’s. Both teams are both young but SU has more length and does have couple senior leaders. If we win one game we would be position to compete for fourth in the conference. If we loose 3 probably would be looking for the 5 or 6 place in the conference. If we would win more than one game in next three we could be position to compete for up to third place. The loss to ORU other night makes it difficult to reach any higher in the conference by giving up game at home. These next three games will show how far we have come and if we capable of reaching higher level of play. I have doubts yet but also have seen some improvement of playing better basketball but now when level competition improves do move forward or revert back to what we have been last few years. Let’s hope we are moving forward.

Lucky we’re hitting our free throws but I don’t see how they loose to NDSU by only 10 and then NDSU turns around beats ORU by 10. If Denver starts to hit hitting few shots they still could comeback in the fourth.

This looks like Hutters defense he had Mayville and similar to their offense of players spread looking for three and trying to go inside with a post or drive by forwards. Still to many turner overs but least most of them haven’t been in layup the other way. The last quarter and overtime’s we reverted to Mallories offense. If it’s true Mallory let me coach I all I have to say when we’re playing Hutters basketball we become pretty good team. Pemberton is scorer but good coach would have worked on getting her To look for assists up. Mallory likes star player roll you see it her player choices like Hurst in past and Owen this year players are aggressive in looking for their shot. Mallory doesn’t have lot of patience to run offense she wants to run and gun. If that doesn’t work we end up putting poor shot or turnover trying to drive force a shot. Mallory should delegate and learn something new because her future will depend on successful UND can learn what Hutters has brought to the program.

This was much better game in long time.KC couldn’t matchup with Schiller and will be somebody to build around. The match up zone on defense seems to be working and we’re not getting beat on mismatches and screens and rolls. This looks to be the defense Mayville state was running under Hutter. The test comes next week with ORU at home and Denver a team they should beat. Still not convinced anything has changed yet.

UND, players and fans deserve better than this how bad does it have to get before a change is made. She has had at least three different sets of assistant coaches in five years but bottom line is they all have had same problems of to many turnovers and lack of consistent offense to build on. Second she talks of playing good defense but our teams struggle learning to play defense. Finally these teams become more of five individuals instead of team working together. This team was playing team ball better earlier it showed in number of assists they had now look the numbers keep dropping. I would let Hutter finish season when he was at Mayville his teams played as teams he had over 10 years of high level of success. How staying the course is going to be better for the program I do not understand we’re not going to get better and how can we get much worse. I think now we are going to finish dead last in the conference.

I think it is both they were over evaluated as talent and second they have not progressed since they were freshmen. I don’t know work ethic but I have to believe it’s there. Beal has the most raw talent she quick, has length, and runs and jumps very well. She has been three years her shooting if anything has gotten worse and I got to believe this gets back fundamentals. Hurst came here and showed early she could be force inside offensively but she also could shoot a three and now that is all she does. Second her evaluation my major concern would have been if she be quick enough to play especially defense. I know she has been hurt by injuries but here again where is our strength and conditioning for our athletes. I think we have been behind number of schools on this in all sports. I think whole athletic program has fallen behind other universities in how recruiting is done, strength and conditioning, and changing to keep up with what new athletics. This goes to administration need improvement evaluation to see how we’re doing each year in our sports compared to other universities.

When will UND and Schmidt announce new coaches do we have timeline or is when positions openings are closed.

FCS is in process of major flux with the last two major conferences of FCS the Valley and Big Sky under transition now being targeted by FBS for mining coaches out of top programs and targeting top talent for portal. Because of our geographics and population the top schools were not targeted to move up to FBS instead they are just coming in with money to allure away coaching talent and elite players to go into the portal. Majority of FCS had fallen back because of money issues for funding sports but these conferences had been able to maintain there quality of teams. The Bobcats coach and even Bison coach were said to be in contention for some these openings in FBS. These coaches being involved in National championship games probably reason for them still being in place. i believe FCS is probably not going to see number of high level talent we have seen in last 10 to 15 years. I think NCAA getting IVY league teams now being part of FCS playoffs have secured reason for maintaining FCS. UND has been given a break now to become relevant in the conference and becoming a factor in recruiting in the region. I just see that maintaining program year after year is probably not in cards when ever you have success it’s going to be poached and you have to start all over not way football was for prior 50 years.

I don’t think we can look at anybody a cupcake in our Summit schedule most of teams have some good division I wins. Look at our schedule we need to play at high effort performance to get win. This team we have is not deep and we are in need of another 4 or 5 player and we don’t have point guard that can score on the drive. If I would we’re bet on finish for this team we are probably 5 in conference.