You guys crack me up. Do you seriously think Mullin should have been able to coach one or two conference wins out of this team? Its purely delusional.
When your bench consists of yakwe, trimball and Ali, the starters have to play defense in a manner that keeps them on the floor. Two fouls before the 10 minute mark earns a trip to the bench; a third any time before halftime is the same, and a 4th earns you a seat until the last 5 minutes of a game - intensity drained.
Lovett and Ponds are a 2 headed nightmare even for good teams, and everyone else - Clark, Owens, and Ahmed play supporting roles. Simon can be the maestro at full strength.
Imagine a good supporting actor playing the lead in a big movie - in the deniro, Brando, pacino roles in the godfather. Abe Vigoda?
You get the point. Remove Lovett and Ahmed becomes option 2, and Ali becomes a minute eating sub. You cant win like that.
Before you idiots run Mullin out of town, let's see what he does with a talent laden roster and judge him then. You want to be critical of him as he matures as a coach, fine. But john wooden, Bobby Knight, or more accurately two guys who ran away when their best players departed- Riley and Phil Jackson- wouldnt win here with this roster in its current depleted state.
Starting a fire Mullin movement at this moment is just disgusting and I hope that some of you in a Kmart job competing against Amazon worry about getting fired because your store just doesn't have the quality to compete.
This year is starting to suck, but the roster is continually improving - at full strength this is a bubble team, nothing more. A deep talented roster is right around the corner, do you can judge Mullin then. Until then, let's just shut up about firing him. Its just unnecessary nonsense at this point.
I would actually take your missive seriously but you are same guy that voted to put a mad man in office as POTUS and likely think the Republican Tax Plan will benefit high tax states like New York or any other blue state.
Before the Lovett injury most of the idiot savants here were predicting we would win half our Big East games and become a bubble team in March?
Now you say "
You guys crack me up. Do you seriously think Mullin should have been able to coach one or two conference wins out of this team? Its purely delusional. When your bench consists of yakwe, trimball and Ali, the starters have to play defense in a manner that keeps them on the floor. "
Of course it is "the players" and not Chris Mullin! They just cannot grasp his highly technical offensive sets that rely on taking 3 point shots by anyone and everyone from Shamorie, Ahmed, and Lovett but also Clark, Owens and of course Alibegovic and Trimble. Apparently the smartest player on this team is Kassoum Yakwe who knows his limitations. I of course disagreed with most here and thought we were always an NIT team even if we split every conference game because we don't have any players willing to crash the boards and Mullin has no designs on designing an inside/outside game.
But yes I believe Mullin should have won at least half our conference games with the talent he has THIS YEAR even if he is the most technically incompetent coach in the conference at present. No, he won't be fired because mom and pop can't afford to pay off any more coaches. And as a Republican you should understand that the Lavins, Mullins, Slices of the world will collect their paychecks win or lose while we five and dimers schlep to the games in 10 degree weather to sit in a high school gym to watch kids play NBA basketball with 3 star talents only to be schooled by better prepared teams.
