Providence, Sat. Mar. 4, Noon, FS2/970AM
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Was Mullin frustrated to the point of throwing doubts about his ability to communicate with his players?
“You going to pick and choose when you play? Kidding me. Come and compete, no matter what. If we play this game on West 4th Street, go play, and play with passion and play with fun,” he said. “Maybe I’m oblivious to it, but I would hope not. I am out of touch, I’m not a phone guy, not an email guy, so I’m pretty out of touch. That might be the case.
“If it is,” Mullin added, “I won’t be sitting here much longer.”
Clearly this is a very flawed team. Marcus Lovett has been MIA as the point guard for three games in a row. Today Marcus had 1 assist and played smaller than his 5'10 stature. His defense is making Mussini look like a good defender, which he is not. Something is up and it doesn't look good.
The entire front court sucked today. While Bashir Ahmed scored points and was aggressive, his outside shot was absent today. From Owens to Yakwe we showed no hustle and little desire to play any interior defense. I think a nymphomaniac in a swap club puts up better resistance than we do inside. It may be that Owens and Williams are not 100% but Yakwe and Alibegovic have been matadors desguised as college basketball players all season.
Matt Abelsuperrecruiter better have some big man for next season on his list because without one year three of Mullin's tenure may be another .500 or so so season and even the ever vacationing Steve Lavin did better than that.
In the end it comes down to recruiting the right players at every position and St. John's seems to specialize at always having a big hole in its starting lineups. This year, no talent at center and no power at the 4 position.
Given what we witnessed against Providence today, I expect Georgetown to pound it inside next week and St. John's exiting the Big East tourney in its home town as usual, early.
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“You going to pick and choose when you play? Kidding me. Come and compete, no matter what. If we play this game on West 4th Street, go play, and play with passion and play with fun,” he said. “Maybe I’m oblivious to it, but I would hope not. I am out of touch, I’m not a phone guy, not an email guy, so I’m pretty out of touch. That might be the case.
“If it is,” Mullin added, “I won’t be sitting here much longer.”
Clearly this is a very flawed team. Marcus Lovett has been MIA as the point guard for three games in a row. Today Marcus had 1 assist and played smaller than his 5'10 stature. His defense is making Mussini look like a good defender, which he is not. Something is up and it doesn't look good.
The entire front court sucked today. While Bashir Ahmed scored points and was aggressive, his outside shot was absent today. From Owens to Yakwe we showed no hustle and little desire to play any interior defense. I think a nymphomaniac in a swap club puts up better resistance than we do inside. It may be that Owens and Williams are not 100% but Yakwe and Alibegovic have been matadors desguised as college basketball players all season.
Matt Abelsuperrecruiter better have some big man for next season on his list because without one year three of Mullin's tenure may be another .500 or so so season and even the ever vacationing Steve Lavin did better than that.
In the end it comes down to recruiting the right players at every position and St. John's seems to specialize at always having a big hole in its starting lineups. This year, no talent at center and no power at the 4 position.
Given what we witnessed against Providence today, I expect Georgetown to pound it inside next week and St. John's exiting the Big East tourney in its home town as usual, early.
[/quote]Was Mullin frustrated to the point of throwing doubts about his ability to communicate with his players?
“You going to pick and choose when you play? Kidding me. Come and compete, no matter what. If we play this game on West 4th Street, go play, and play with passion and play with fun,” he said. “Maybe I’m oblivious to it, but I would hope not. I am out of touch, I’m not a phone guy, not an email guy, so I’m pretty out of touch. That might be the case.
“If it is,” Mullin added, “I won’t be sitting here much longer.”
Clearly this is a very flawed team. Marcus Lovett has been MIA as the point guard for three games in a row. Today Marcus had 1 assist and played smaller than his 5'10 stature. His defense is making Mussini look like a good defender, which he is not. Something is up and it doesn't look good.
The entire front court sucked today. While Bashir Ahmed scored points and was aggressive, his outside shot was absent today. From Owens to Yakwe we showed no hustle and little desire to play any interior defense. I think a nymphomaniac in a swap club puts up better resistance than we do inside. It may be that Owens and Williams are not 100% but Yakwe and Alibegovic have been matadors desguised as college basketball players all season.
Matt Abelsuperrecruiter better have some big man for next season on his list because without one year three of Mullin's tenure may be another .500 or so so season and even the ever vacationing Steve Lavin did better than that.
In the end it comes down to recruiting the right players at every position and St. John's seems to specialize at always having a big hole in its starting lineups. This year, no talent at center and no power at the 4 position.
Given what we witnessed against Providence today, I expect Georgetown to pound it inside next week and St. John's exiting the Big East tourney in its home town as usual, early.
Our front court sucks every game
Moon Mullen
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Was Mullin frustrated to the point of throwing doubts about his ability to communicate with his players?
“You going to pick and choose when you play? Kidding me. Come and compete, no matter what. If we play this game on West 4th Street, go play, and play with passion and play with fun,” he said. “Maybe I’m oblivious to it, but I would hope not. I am out of touch, I’m not a phone guy, not an email guy, so I’m pretty out of touch. That might be the case.
“If it is,” Mullin added, “I won’t be sitting here much longer.”
Clearly this is a very flawed team. Marcus Lovett has been MIA as the point guard for three games in a row. Today Marcus had 1 assist and played smaller than his 5'10 stature. His defense is making Mussini look like a good defender, which he is not. Something is up and it doesn't look good.
The entire front court sucked today. While Bashir Ahmed scored points and was aggressive, his outside shot was absent today. From Owens to Yakwe we showed no hustle and little desire to play any interior defense. I think a nymphomaniac in a swap club puts up better resistance than we do inside. It may be that Owens and Williams are not 100% but Yakwe and Alibegovic have been matadors desguised as college basketball players all season.
Matt Abelsuperrecruiter better have some big man for next season on his list because without one year three of Mullin's tenure may be another .500 or so so season and even the ever vacationing Steve Lavin did better than that.
In the end it comes down to recruiting the right players at every position and St. John's seems to specialize at always having a big hole in its starting lineups. This year, no talent at center and no power at the 4 position.
Given what we witnessed against Providence today, I expect Georgetown to pound it inside next week and St. John's exiting the Big East tourney in its home town as usual, early.
Our front court sucks every game[/quote]
Where are you spending your time these days Class of 72?
I'm not making excuses and to the extent you think I am that's a tell: it has everything to do with your biases and nothing to do with mine. What I'm doing to the extent that I'm doing anything is explaining: I write about what I thought I saw and why I think I might have seen it. Which is to say that I don't have a dog in any fight and if I have a dog it's not a dog and if it is a dog it's not fighting. I saw nothing this year that was not entirely predictable considering the circumstances, both the highs and the lows. To the extent that you expected anything different, that's a failure of either your intellect or your imagination.
JackofVirginia
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Yep, Cooley adjusted. Utilized his height.
It was all about the defense. They gave our perimeter guys no room. Good strategy and execution - helped immensely by our total lack of anyone capable of receiving the ball in the paint.
Think we'll improve next year based on maturity and growth - but filling this need is critical. Yakwe (and the rest of the front line) doesn't have the size nor skills to play this role. Needs to be given another role better suited to his skills. Unfair expectations of him at moment. Can't have him getting starter minutes next year.
If Zack Brown's cash register adventure had happened sooner, do folks believe that Sima with his small array of low post offense would have stayed and possibly affected both our depth and our ability to force teams to guard the low post, freeing up our guards. Would we have won more games?
I'm sorry that Sima left since he gave us size, and seemed to show promise as someone who could have developed over 4 years. I don't personally think it was the Brown commit that motivated him to leave, but not basing that on anything more than a feeling.
The team won 7 BE games without him. It opened up time for Owens and Williams. I don't think we would have won less if the November team was our January and February team.
This season was a rebuild year with our coaching staff looking to produce post season results in future seasons.
I'm looking forward to an improved front line next season with one or hopefully two new players added to the mix.
[/quote]Was Mullin frustrated to the point of throwing doubts about his ability to communicate with his players?
“You going to pick and choose when you play? Kidding me. Come and compete, no matter what. If we play this game on West 4th Street, go play, and play with passion and play with fun,” he said. “Maybe I’m oblivious to it, but I would hope not. I am out of touch, I’m not a phone guy, not an email guy, so I’m pretty out of touch. That might be the case.
“If it is,” Mullin added, “I won’t be sitting here much longer.”
Clearly this is a very flawed team. Marcus Lovett has been MIA as the point guard for three games in a row. Today Marcus had 1 assist and played smaller than his 5'10 stature. His defense is making Mussini look like a good defender, which he is not. Something is up and it doesn't look good.
The entire front court sucked today. While Bashir Ahmed scored points and was aggressive, his outside shot was absent today. From Owens to Yakwe we showed no hustle and little desire to play any interior defense. I think a nymphomaniac in a swap club puts up better resistance than we do inside. It may be that Owens and Williams are not 100% but Yakwe and Alibegovic have been matadors desguised as college basketball players all season.
Matt Abelsuperrecruiter better have some big man for next season on his list because without one year three of Mullin's tenure may be another .500 or so so season and even the ever vacationing Steve Lavin did better than that.
In the end it comes down to recruiting the right players at every position and St. John's seems to specialize at always having a big hole in its starting lineups. This year, no talent at center and no power at the 4 position.
Given what we witnessed against Providence today, I expect Georgetown to pound it inside next week and St. John's exiting the Big East tourney in its home town as usual, early.
No, I think Mullin is simply frustrated by the inability of this team to consistently play hard with commitment and energy. A coach is going to judge performance not necessarily on record but on the realization of potential and I think there this team leaves a lot on the table. I think Chris would agree.