Nobody perceives that. Everyone just got a 4 year upclose look at coach fourth choice.
He was talking about the culture of transferring and free agency. In the context of stability. Most likely culture will be built on being the highest payer of players now.
Ledlum has bad hands? Where do you see that? Totally disagree.Bottom line we knew there was a real problem when we lost like 5/6 in a stretch of conf games. Pretending it’s ok we lose every big game is a loser mentality. We have Pitino. I think Dingle was a complete bust, Ledlum is just ok (misses tons of bunnies, on slow side, questionable hands), Joel is in his own head & disappears in biggest games, etc. Luis is very athletic but often out of control & raw plus his injury issues. We just cannot defend at a high enough level. Way too slow laterally. We are used to having some top guards but this yr we only have 1 BE level guard in DJ. Our guards cannot get in paint regularly. This is who we are & it will take small miracle to make NCAAT. We have fundamental issues as a team. Portal return went about as bad as it could have & we whiffed. I trust Pitino will know exactly who to get this portal season. If he can’t do it, then…well…
Mike has George Costanza “hand model” standards Bama
From what I’ve seen loses ball a lot especially in paint or easily gets it poked away.
I don’t care who was the coach of Mullin’s first team, nobody was taking them to the tournament. Mullin’s final team clearly underachieved. The teams before that did not have enough talent for which Mullin was partly to blame. Perhaps if LoVett didn’t quit his final year that team would have been more competitive.
You're definitely right. I should have explained more completely. Certainly it's fair to discuss player rotations, in game decisions, personnel decisions -, etc. It's what fans do. I was responding more to the over the top assessments on here and off this site that are starting to say Pitino is washed up, a dinosaur, and unable to adapt to today's game. The first set of critiques are valid, the others, not IMO.
I think if Rick didn't have his musings after the UCONN game, the board would have a different feel to it
I don't think he has bad hands, what he doesn't have is a good handle. He has Posh disease, trying to dribble through 3 or 4 defenders.
Yes my apologies should’ve said handle.
Completely agree, way premature for those kind of conclusions.
My point being (I a m t y p i n g s l o w l y) we lost to a top 10 team. We wore down in the end and never had an answer to last season's Player of the Year. Also, if we had a positive contribution from Soriano, the outcome might have been different.
As I remember, Coach made that case before the season started.
Our guards play matador D. Quick guards go right around us.
Yup! So many blow bys I’ve lost count…I watch other games & defenders are cutting off each lane. With us it just seems like opponents get tonssssss of easy layups. One thing I’ve noticed is we miss tons & tons of bunnies. I remember watching Posh while he was here & thinking to myself “easy 2” anytime he got in paint. Assuming he wasn’t blocked, you knew he was finishing. And the shots were rarely in & out or off rim or going around rim 3x. He was always clean in paint. This yr we are very poor finishing. We get the positioning we want & still miss. Also many less and-1’s vs past because of lack of finishing & that’s if we can even get in the paint to begin with! We seem to have to work so hard for easy pts.
That’s not bad hands that’s bad ball handling there is a difference.
