HoopsFan03

Will be interesting to see what the crowd is like tonight. Was a pretty good sized crowd last Friday for St. Thomas but not sure how many people will be back after watching that game.

Too long. 2 seasons I believe. So this year and then 2 more years (through 25-26 season). Someone correct me if I’m wrong.

Because we’re finally into conference games where every game matters and teams are doing crazy in depth scouts and game plans!! Teams are just making us settle for 3’s and clogging up every driving lane. It appears as though we do 0 scout or game planning

Final score was about what I expected. Can’t believe we shot that many 3’s. It is truly mind blowing!

Why is Brady D back in?? We need points….

Agree. He needs to keep being aggressive towards the rim!!

SDSU can’t grab a defensive rebound because we keep missing it so bad from 3 lol

We are getting clowned on again. This is so bad

Imagine if we didn’t have Tyree for these games….

Down 10 just like that

Anyone know why Lieutenant Deng is in street clothes?

Sather doesn’t do the subbing currently. Stevens the assistant coach does the subbing. Stevens did the subbing the beginning of the season last year and it was so bad that Sather started to do the subs. Not sure which is better but something needs to change.

Today is it. Didn’t the announcers say he is shooting 40% from the line on the year?

These refs sure love to blow the whistle. Let the boys play!!

That might have been the worst lineup I have ever seen! What are they even thinking??

Does Midco know they can zoom the camera out a bit?? This is brutal camera work

I don't understand how after that game on Friday, the decision/fix is to start Brady D.... head scratching

I liked what I saw from Pemberton. She has some talent for sure.

Well he is starting now so this is possible!!

This is my first women’s game I was able to make this year. Not sure I’ll be coming back to another one this season

This team has some serious limitations just based on the roster we have. No shooters, like at all. And no legitimate big man. Not sure how those 2 issues were not addressed at all during the off-season. That is absolutely mind blowing. You asked for some specific details that I would change so I'll list some below for you or whoever would like to read (in no specific order). Stop playing TT and Amar at the same time. Neither of them are legitimate big men, but they both are even worse out on the perimeter. Neither of them are 4's. It ruins all spacing on offense and then gives up so many mismatches on the defensive side. Please please please stop playing them both at the same time! Stop running whatever their current "motion" offense is. There is no spacing and we get no motion out of it. With the current roster and 0 shooters they need to try create as much spacing as possible. Passing to the wing and setting double pin down's for guys like Brady D and Eli Brooks is the dumbest thing I have ever seen. Run a 4 out motion with lots of ball screens that you allow players to play free out of and make plays. Create advantages out of this. Stop this high hedge ball screen crap. Very few teams run it anymore because it puts your backside defense in such a crappy position. And then even if you have good backside help it puts your big man in an even worse spot and then you give up way too deep of post ups (which is especially bad with our lack of true big men). Ball screen defense can and should change a lot of games depending on matchups. Go to an 'ice' coverage or just switch all ball screens and figure it out from there. Push the ball as fast as possible and create easy baskets in transition. Our halfcourt offense is very limited. We need to get easy points in transition. We currently walk the ball up the court every possession. That makes 0 sense. Fix the rotation and subbing. Stop playing Brady D. Need more energy from the bench and all the redshirts. Think of St. Thomas's bench and then think of ours. Our bench energy SUCKS! Basketball is all about creating advantages (which we aren't good at). St. Thomas showed exactly how to do that. They continuously sought out advantage after advantage. For example, any time TT or Brady D was in the game they put them in a ball screen and got some sort of an advantage out of it. If they switched they just took them off the dribble and blew by them every time for a layup. Or they got the big man to pop off the screen and created a wide open 3 out of it. Those are just some thoughts off the top of my head. Take this information however you would like. Happy New Year and hopefully more wins in 2024!!

No. I don’t think he is a good coach. As plain and simple as that. I would rather watch UND win and we haven’t under Sather. As a former collegiate player I see the game differently than the majority of people watching and with a deeper understanding. I have pointed out exact stats, X’s and O’s, and other legitimate reasons for why I believe he hasn’t been successful at this level. Anybody on this board can take any of that info however they would like.

And one that we just gave an extension to this offseason……..

Brady was just out there running cardio last night. Did absolutely nothing in his 14 minutes. Our subbing/rotations were absolutely terrible again. How do you not at some point put Mayar or even Mara in to see if they can provide a spark?!? The lack of adjustments or even trying to make adjustments by the staff was mind blowing last night! Just stand there and stare at a play-call sheet the whole time. Again, he’s in over his head.

I guess some people didn’t notice/realize but my last post about our gameplan was 100% sarcasm. Tonight was 90% on the coaches/staff and 10% players. The players play but they were not put in positions to be successful.