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This is another mental test. You get these bizarrely officiated games every so often. You have to adjust and play through it. They are consistent on the offensive fouls. I don’t agree with the calls, but they are consistent
I agree with the comments above about too much dribbling and the ball needing to go into the post more.
The dribbling increase may be coming from having two PGs on the floor so much, but I will say the Gott’s previous teams have been much better at pass and cut which cuts down on the dribbling a lot.
I’d also like to ask Gott what it is about the UCLA offense that makes us a consistently strong offensive rebounding team. That is one thing his teams have consistently done well and I just don’t believe it’s coincidence.
Nice job with the zone in the second half. We defended the 3 a lot better out of it. We have a lot of good players. Maybe not any great players, but a lot of good ones. I like Caleb Martin more each game.
The issue that I have not seen addressed and I’m very curious about is if the police force is hostile and aggressive to the black people in Ferguson and it is a predominantly black community, why do they continue to elect local officials (city council & mayor) that tolerate their hired LEO to behave in that manner?
This just reinforces Stick’s earlier comment about the “leaders” not wanting the perception of racism to go away. In a town with an overwhelmingly black population (at least that’s what I’ve seen reported) the government should be one that deals with whatever the perceived issues are. It’s not like trying to reform the entire federal government. If the people and their leaders really want it to change they have all the power they need to make it happen.
If virtually all bigotry has gone away, then that area in/around St. Louis wouldn’t have the issues it has today.
What issues are those? You imply that all of the issues that exist in the black community are the result of bigotry. Is black on black crime the result of bigotry?
If blacks today are being taught the kind of hatred of whites that was taught in reverse 50 years ago, then maybe we do still have a long way to go. I would say that I see at least some evidence that that is the case.
Martin Luther King would vomit if he watched Al Sharpton operate.
Well, if some of “the engineers” on here who have it all figured out would have ventured off and taken an elective in Criminology, you’d all be able to “understand it”…
Flashback to 1967, I’d just finished a fast pitch softball game at Ft. George G. Meade, Md and we’d headed to the local pub in uniform(softball, not olive drab) afterwards…Hadn’t been there long and a newscast came on the TV about MLK being killed…Next day, we started hearing rumblings about sending a group of us that were assigned weapons to go to DC because of the riots…Without freakin’ ammo! The small group raised so much hell that the order was quashed immediately. Damned if I was gonna go down there without ammo and with a rifle that had not been zeroed in a year! Sure hope they are not doing something stupid like that with these NG’s from Missouri..
Makes you wonder though, if the agitators are ever gonna quit agitating and let race relations in this country cure itself? I sure don’t feel like I did in the early 60’s, the late 60’s or whatever. There’s a group of people out there that don’t want the divide to ever be bridged! What say “ye Al etal”???
The first two counties in SC desegregated their public schools in 1970. Mine was one of them. I will never forget going to school that first week with the National Guard posted along the streets in full riot gear. I will also never forget that 14 years later I played racquetball at a private club in Houston as the guest of a black friend of mine. That is how much times changed in the South during that stretch. In the years since, virtually all signs of bigotry have gone away. There are still individuals out there who are prejudiced and there always will be, but the problem is a very minor one. Stick hits the nail on the head with his comment above. The perception of racial injustice is the source of power and money for a prominent group of bigots who want to keep this issue stirred up for their own personal gain.
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Interesting take on the weaknesses. You would not expect a guard heavy team to have those problems.Rye – Turner and Lee both make me cringe when they are trying to dribble during crunch time. Both are well below average in that department from what I have seen. Unfortunately Caleb Martin makes me more nervous. Is there any thought of playing Wallace in obvious foul shooting situations?
On the FT shooting stretch where Cat and Lacey went 1-6. Prior to that stretch Lacey was 7-7 and Cat was 5-6. I just can’t rag on Lacey for going 8-9 for the game even though the one miss was at a very critical point in the game. Cat has typically been better than 60%, so hopefully that was a blip but 6-10 doesn’t get it for your primary ball handler.
I was expecting Frenchie to improve his finishing during the off season. At this point I just hope he is on the Richard Howell progression plan. He works his tail off the entire game. He just needs to figure out how to put the ball in the hole off of the offensive glass.
As the Wolfpack fan who cheers every year that we squeak into a crappy bowl for us to end up in Shreveport, I am offended by the phrase, “avoid a trip to Shreveport.” Playing Meeeechigan in Detroit isn’t exactly a trip to Disney. I am intrigued by the possibility of receiving our bowl payout in Bitcoin.
The FT shooting almost did us in. We have a bunch of 3/4 weapons and figuring out who to play from night to night will be critical.
You can already see that Abu is fourth in line for minutes among the bigs and Caleb will dominate the minutes off the bench for the smalls. Lee is going to do a lot of watching from the pine. Nights where Abu and Lee play significant minutes will be when Gott is searching or when we have foul trouble.
Washington has reacted poorly to coming off of the bench. He’s forcing a lot.
Keep forcing it!
