2024-2025 season

[shep]

Lots of TOs by players dribbling into trouble. 
 

I thought the D was much better v Bethel. Last night was a step back.

[ND-fan]

I thought that Bernhard could turn the corner as coach and she has recruited better talent here in last two years but what I see is we get players here and if anything I see regression in their fundamental basketball as their careers move along. The program right now should be playing better basketball with the talent we have here now. Chaves needs to address this by end of the season and probably they need to move Mallory into another roll at UND. If Mallory is ever going to coach at this level she needs to be assistant with another coach learn how they develop players and teach fundamentals to their players. I have feeling she has couple of assistant coaches that could help her now but  she is falling back into her style of coaching as she played basketball not trusting or wanting to change.

[Farawayfan]

3 hours ago, ND-fan said:

I thought that Bernhard could turn the corner as coach and she has recruited better talent here in last two years but what I see is we get players here and if anything I see regression in their fundamental basketball as their careers move along. The program right now should be playing better basketball with the talent we have here now. Chaves needs to address this by end of the season and probably they need to move Mallory into another roll at UND. If Mallory is ever going to coach at this level she needs to be assistant with another coach learn how they develop players and teach fundamentals to their players. I have feeling she has couple of assistant coaches that could help her now but  she is falling back into her style of coaching as she played basketball not trusting or wanting to change.

You are seeing talent where it doesn't exist!

[ND-fan]

• Yes, there is talent on this team. Pemberton has talent and has even gotten better without coaching .  Schiller can become very good point guard. Ibrahim is rough but with some work on fundamentals should have been redshirted last year but we needed some length.  Piekny looks to be long and quick and has nice shot. Horne, Demers, and Volmer (if she gets healthy) can play minutes in various rolls. Couple of other freshmen to early to tell what there future.  The players I have mentioned are quick enough to be effective at Division I and with proper coaching we would see the talent come through. The rest on team I don’t think should be playing division I basketball they have some skills to play at this level but not enough to succeed .This how I see it now with this team. The elite team in Summit is South Dakota State they could end up being top 25 team this year but will be hard to get to with rest of the Summit. North Dakota state and Oral Roberts will battle for number two in conference. St Thomas will round out top four. The rest of Summit will be question who has most home wins to come in fifth. Should be year of playing your players who have most talent and see if can develop beginnings of competitive team. We need to still find players with length and speed priority in next years recruiting class and again and again.

[shep]

On 12/17/2024 at 9:42 PM, HoopsFan03 said:

Neither. Both are so far behind it’s unbelievable 

After last night, there’s lots of hope for men

[Farawayfan]

11 hours ago, ND-fan said:

• Yes, there is talent on this team. Pemberton has talent and has even gotten better without coaching .  Schiller can become very good point guard. Ibrahim is rough but with some work on fundamentals should have been redshirted last year but we needed some length.  Piekny looks to be long and quick and has nice shot. Horne, Demers, and Volmer (if she gets healthy) can play minutes in various rolls. Couple of other freshmen to early to tell what there future.  The players I have mentioned are quick enough to be effective at Division I and with proper coaching we would see the talent come through. The rest on team I don’t think should be playing division I basketball they have some skills to play at this level but not enough to succeed .This how I see it now with this team. The elite team in Summit is South Dakota State they could end up being top 25 team this year but will be hard to get to with rest of the Summit. North Dakota state and Oral Roberts will battle for number two in conference. St Thomas will round out top four. The rest of Summit will be question who has most home wins to come in fifth. Should be year of playing your players who have most talent and see if can develop beginnings of competitive team. We need to still find players with length and speed priority in next years recruiting class and again and again.

D1 talent is different from just having talent.

[108498]

Does anyone know what color UND will wear today in Laramie? I would love to wear the same color jersey. I have a green and a black one. 

[petey23]

Saw UND is down at half at Wyoming.

UND's has turned it over on half....yes, half of their possessions. That is 6th grade girls basketball level.

[SiouxFan100]

Down by 13 at the half at Wyoming 

same old same old

16 turnovers - just under an amazing one a minute- just not improving - after Mal acknowledged the problem and said they were working on it 

1-8 from three

doing good rebounds 

[SiouxFan100]

Of the nine players that Wyoming has played so far the shortest is 5’ 10”.  Lots of length 

we are still out rebounding them though 

[SiouxFan100]

Lose to Wyoming 73-41

we scored three points in the 4th quarter 

we had 29 turnovers  - they had 17 steals - we can’t dribble or pass as we had six assists 

we were 2-13 from the three

demers had 13 points - only player over six points today

we are doing ugly with no end in sight

[fightingsioux4life]

11 minutes ago, HoopsFan03 said:

Some horrible basketball being played….

But the real question is, what's the team GPA and community service hours?

[gfhockey]

And how’s culuture

[SiouxFan100]

Pretty tired of sucking so bad - gotta think  - never mind - for whatever reason we aren’t doing it

[NewUndFan]

Is Mals contract up at the end of this year ? 

[SiouxFan100]

20 minutes ago, NewUndFan said:

Is Mals contract up at the end of this year ? 

I am afraid it doesn’t matter. 

[UND1983]

Only 29 turnovers, not bad

[ND-fan]

Today I couldn’t watch the whole game after watching 2 1/2 quarters of where we had series of four or five possession's with resulting in turnover and there announcers talking about it and Mallory not even calling timeout I finally shut the game off. I know what Mallory’s game plan of pushing the tempo not letting Wyoming control tempo work ball into there post player and control possessions. I had watched South Dakota get beat badly earlier by Wyoming badly playing to Wyoming game plan. The reason South Dakota got destroyed they didn’t shoot even 20% from field and they couldn’t match up and rebound with Wyoming. I believe if we played Wyoming game we had chance to have won todays game. Mallory just won’t play control game she wants up tempo game but with experience we have it’s not going to work because we can’t have near 30 turnovers a game. Second when we’re trying push like we did today our players were tired and making poor decisions.

Second I don’t understand, we should now have gotten down to seven or players who are going to be players for conference season but I am afraid she hasn’t come to that rotation. With her still playing at least 12 players there’s no jelling with starters or subs with starters because we may only have one to two starters on the floor at time. It was good to play number of players early in preseason but by now we should know which players you believe are ones carry in conference season. I got to believe Mallory has her preferences and assistants are pushing some of younger players so we haven’t settled on rotation. This is going to be long season and our record probably will end up at 10-19 give or take 1 or 2 wins either way. Also we are not getting assists anymore but everyone playing for themselves to get playing time. Same as last year not team playing but group of individuals reflects back on the coach.

[NDPROUD]

What has happened to this team since Nov 8th? They have gone from playing some fairly decent team ball and being competitive...to this. The first few games they played as a team with a WE attitude, to now it's every lady for themself? As questioned earlier, where are the assists?? We have D1 guards turning the ball over because they dribbled the ball off their foot, traveled, or threw the ball away with a bad/weak pass because they couldn't handle the pressure. What is this coaching staff working on in practice? Maybe they need to go back to the basics of dribbling, passing, ball protection, team play and, for God's sake...mental strength.

The talent is there for them to be playing and competing far better than this. They need to believe in themselves!

I personally don't like to see our coach being combative with the refs, every game. I'm all about standing up for our players, but there needs to be some tact incorporated also. Technicals don't do anyone any good, especially embarrassing the team.

 

[gfhockey]

11 hours ago, UND1983 said:

Only 29 turnovers, not bad

Not bad at all Clark 

[ND-fan]

I couldn’t say it better but I don’t think it’s coaching staff but the head coach she is only one component from year to year with the team. Chaves needs to turn his attention here this program is in far worse shape than football or even soccer team were at before changes were made. I think they need to come up with position move for Mallory now and see what assistant coach could do with the program in last half of the season.

[NDPROUD]

26 minutes ago, ND-fan said:

I couldn’t say it better but I don’t think it’s coaching staff but the head coach she is only one component from year to year with the team. Chaves needs to turn his attention here this program is in far worse shape than football or even soccer team were at before changes were made. I think they need to come up with position move for Mallory now and see what assistant coach could do with the program in last half of the season.

I'm not in favor of a mid season change, this team has enough challenges right now. If the assistant coach is good he'll use his influence to make a difference now. If we change coaches, it's after season and we look for a D1 coach...IMHO. 

[ND-fan]

I am not usually in favor of mid seasons changes either but like some said he was hired for possible head coach if things didn’t work with Mallory. This is my reason for change things are heading south fast lately. I am hoping for 5 more wins with no changes and if we continue step backwards we may only see couple wins first game exit tournament. Second I don’t want to watch when we’re getting beat by 30 or 40 points by NDSU , SDSU, and Oral Roberts on home floor but I will probably watch just because I’m keep hoping we will turn things around and these players deserve better than their getting in coaching.  I think UND needs put more effort in women’s sports we have gone from coaches that turned over programs transition from DIi to DI that competed to where they went to NCAA tournaments  to now we can’t even get in top 1/3 of the conference. This should not be acceptable and needs to be fixed. This is much worse than football everyone one was complaining about football but womens basketball has had much more success in past and if done right we could become again factor in women’s basketball SDSU is proving it right now.

[SIOUX29]

This is another case of AD doing easy when he hired her, instead of doing right. This coach has to go. She should have been let go after last year. 
 

She obviously can’t judge talent because we have what 3 players that look D1? When you practice against subpar talent and then have to go play talent, they can’t keep up with the pace and make poor ball decisions. 
 

We never controlled the two games against NAIA schools this year. We finally had to pull away. Up 5 at 1/2 against (3-7)Dickinson and down 3 to (8-4) Mayville at 1/2. NAIA schools in ND. 
 

Coach needs to go sooner than later. Who cares that it’s mid season. What do we have to look forward to with her at the helm?

 

[NDPROUD]

All good points.