2024-2025 season

[GoodGood]

Turn it over on last possession of the game. Seems fitting 

[NewUndFan]

And who does Mal put in at the end of the game when we need 3 to tie !!??? HURST biggest liability on the team and she throws the ball away again !!!  Mal absolutely needs to go ! Those girls are so close but the need a real coach ! 

[Kab]

Schiller missed 4 free throws and 6 turnovers , 21points 

‘not sure why Mal has her doing so much on inbounds plays 

their coach pressed just enough on the inbounds to cause turnovers, Mal no answer 

[sioux24/7]

Get these girls a coach and they might have something. 

[Und246]

Hurst is a total liability on offense and defense. She should never be in the game. What is Mal doing?  It is so obvious. 

[UND92,96]

Per the Herald, Beal is no longer on the team. 

[ND-fan]

yes it has been obvious for last few years and I thought Mallory would learn but she hasn’t improved other than this has been her best set of assistant coaches. We had another night of 23 turnovers and some miscues from our players but look at their minutes they were tired most had played nearly entire game. If you look when we control our turnovers we usually win the game. If you go to box score  we out rebounded them, made 3 more free throws and shot same percentage. The difference is they put up 9 more shots and we gave up 11 more points off turnovers.

[ND-fan]

I thought this was likely coming players leaving with younger players moving ahead of older players. Beal looking at her potential when she came here has been disappointment for us and for her too! She is so athletic and has size and quickness but her offensive skills never developed to where she could get playing time. Her defense was above average but for 2 guard you need that ability to score from outside as well as on the inside. I don’t know if was our not being able to help her develop or it was on her for not getting to next level. What ever it is I wish her well going into the future. Don’t be surprised if we see more changes coming especially after the season.

[Kab]

I think Mal is too stubborn and too inept to change things 

[fightingsioux4life]

6 minutes ago, Kab said:

I think Mal is too stubborn and too inept to change things 

Stubborn? Sounds like a couple of other coaches on campus. One has been replaced, the other should be.

[forksandspoons]

Chaves made an interim head coach that went 2-19 the full-time head coach 

[HoopsFan03]

1 minute ago, forksandspoons said:

Chaves made an interim head coach that went 2-19 the full-time head coach 

@jdub27 said that was the right decision……

And that it could go either way if she gets an extension or not this year……

[GoodGood]

19 minutes ago, HoopsFan03 said:

@jdub27 said that was the right decision……

And that it could go either way if she gets an extension or not this year……

@jdub27 also said he doesn’t think it’s a big deal our coaches said they don’t care about wins and losses 

Meanwhile, on a podcast this morning, Rick Pitino said the first thing you need to do as a coach is instill with the team how much you hate losing. It’s almost like good coaches care about wins and losses 😉

[UND92,96]

I realize it falls on the coach regardless, but is the bigger problem right now X's and O's, or the fact that there is so little depth? There are only eight players on the team who average 10 or more minutes per game (really only seven since one of those is no longer on the team), which leads to at least some of the starters playing arguably too many minutes. Nobody on either SDSU or NDSU's team is asked to play 30-plus minutes per game, whereas UND has three players doing so. It takes a toll over the course of a season. I can't help wondering how many more wins UND would have had this season with just a couple of more solid role players off the bench. The kinds UND probably could have had but never offered and are currently playing at UMary and other area NSIC schools.

[F'n Hawks]

14 minutes ago, UND92,96 said:

I realize it falls on the coach regardless, but is the bigger problem right now X's and O's, or the fact that there is so little depth? There are only eight players on the team who average 10 or more minutes per game (really only seven since one of those is no longer on the team), which leads to at least some of the starters playing arguably too many minutes. Nobody on either SDSU or NDSU's team is asked to play 30-plus minutes per game, whereas UND has three players doing so. It takes a toll over the course of a season. I can't help wondering how many more wins UND would have had this season with just a couple of more solid role players off the bench. The kinds UND probably could have had but never offered and are currently playing at UMary and other area NSIC schools.

Honestly, a 8 or 9 player rotation is very common especially once conference season starts. Agree though mainly, still need solid minutes from those depth players and get them to buy into a role 

[GDPritch]

On 2/21/2025 at 9:56 AM, ND-fan said:

I thought this was likely coming players leaving with younger players moving ahead of older players. Beal looking at her potential when she came here has been disappointment for us and for her too! She is so athletic and has size and quickness but her offensive skills never developed to where she could get playing time. Her defense was above average but for 2 guard you need that ability to score from outside as well as on the inside. I don’t know if was our not being able to help her develop or it was on her for not getting to next level. What ever it is I wish her well going into the future. Don’t be surprised if we see more changes coming especially after the season.

How both Beal and Hurst were ever rated 3 star (?) recruits is absolutely beyond me. 

[GDPritch]

20 hours ago, UND92,96 said:

I realize it falls on the coach regardless, but is the bigger problem right now X's and O's, or the fact that there is so little depth? There are only eight players on the team who average 10 or more minutes per game (really only seven since one of those is no longer on the team), which leads to at least some of the starters playing arguably too many minutes. Nobody on either SDSU or NDSU's team is asked to play 30-plus minutes per game, whereas UND has three players doing so. It takes a toll over the course of a season. I can't help wondering how many more wins UND would have had this season with just a couple of more solid role players off the bench. The kinds UND probably could have had but never offered and are currently playing at UMary and other area NSIC schools.

To your  point, if juniors Beal and Hurst had played up to expectations when they were recruited this would not be an issue. 

[ND-fan]

Beal and Hurst not meeting expectations has had effect on where the team is. But we do have several freshmen on the team I believe if Mallory had worked with them earlier this season could be playing bigger roles on this team. Piekny, Volmer, and Mathern have shown flashes this year they could provide minutes and roles on this team but true to form Mallory has lost patience with these players and then would sit for number of games or only see a minute or two a game. I can say Beal was also in this group too and I can see where Beal as Junior now didn’t see any role for her play regular minutes. I know I don’t know what happens internally with these players but coach  has to figure out roles with these players and then you carry through developing role for these players but you can’t just yo yo these players where don’t use them for number of games and then expect them to play exactly what you want in this role you have to coach them to what you want and is in there ability to do that. I look at Piekny she was getting fair amount of minutes earlier this season until she was sitting on bench. Mathern same thing played number of games then was not even in games and now she playing again no consistency to develop these players. Volmer was hurt early and after that hardly seen the floor. I believe she could have provided some minutes of rest for Schiller.  I think Schiller would have even better numbers if she would have had few less minutes because she would have been better at the end of the game. I look at SDSU coach Johnson has developed younger players quicker by playing them giving minutes fill in certain roles and coaching them correcting their mistakes as they go. This is why there teams are really deep and he is able recruit the talent he does because they know get some playing time. This is one of the reasons we need better coaching here Mallory hasn’t been able to learn but just believes what she does is right and when your loosing you need to self evaluate and figure out how to win. She has had 5 years we’re still only winning 30% of our games and had only one winning season with one done in the Summit tournament.