Giving up 98 points to this Villanova team is absolutely insane. We are a glorified AAU showcase team right now. Lavin has consistently shown his inability to make in-game adjustments like the high pick and roll with Arcidiacano tonight and the dribble penetration with Doolin from SF. So sick of always hearing excuses for this team and that starts with Lavin always feeling the need to mention how young we are in media appearances.
Not too shabby for a marginal freshman chucker, eh?
Running Greene at PG, questionable substitutions/rotations, poor rebounding and complete lack of Xs & Os.
No such thing as morale victories when you need a Herculean effort from D'Angelo to even hang with a middle of the pack Nova team.
The team is poorly coached. It's plain as day.
Now that doesn't mean Lavin is a bad head coach. However, it's quite clear that he's not teaching these players how to play as a team. They severely lack fundamentals and situational awareness.
And guys need to really lay off the refs as if that's why we lost the game.
Knew this was coming back to bite me. I've watched a lot of Nova this year. He has had 3 good games so far including tonight. Tonight he was unconscious but we made NO adjustments whatsoever to the same freaking play he was scoring on over and over. He has shown poor decision making, lacks quickness and the inability to beat his man off the dribble. A lot of Nova fans were down on him coming into tonight.
It was tough for them to throw additional help toward defending the PG (not even trying to spell his name) when Yarou and Pinkston were killing us inside the end of the 1st half and the first 10 or 12 minutes of the 2nd. We had no answer. We're too small, too young, too thin.
Too small and too thin = coaches decision.
Some random thoughts after I beat the wife:
Pointer should have been redshirted not Gift! We have a doughnut in the middle now because Lavin is a freakin genius!
Total collapse in 5 minutes of O/T because our offense stalled with the ball in Greene's hands. That was a coaches decision.
Coaches (yes collectively) are not doing these kids justice.
Jakarr crapped his pants tonight but Garrett cannot fill his role, Obekpa's role and his own all at the same time.
Did I miss former starter Christian Jones in the game when Karr was crapping and we were being manhandled inside? Starting Jones early in the season is not paying any dividends if now he cannot get in for 2 minutes to punch Jay Pinkston in the face. This is Big East ball after all and the game is not for pussies.
Nice defensive adjustment by Lavin to defend against the pimple faced white kid Archie something. Our record of allowing a guard to score record points is one thing that is consistent in our X, Y, Z defense.
Is it just me or is coach Keady taking fewer notes for Lavin and just sketching profiles of his new beloved?
We are young, inexperienced and are missing our x and o coach but the good news is that our freshmen will someday be sophomores ........wait....we used that excuse last year!
In all seriousness.....I felt bad for Jakarr tonight and hope it will be his worst Big East game all season. I am back on the D'Lo bandwagon ..... He and Amir were the only players who earned their ships tonight. Lavin and coaches (including HOF Coach Keady) need to manage our timeouts better and design "simple plays" out of a T/O. Recruiting is priority ONE because if Harrison jumps, we may become the lowest scoring team in the soon-to-be-deceased Big East next year.
I still think TGAPL sacrificed this season by sitting our only physical player.......teams will go inside all year and our pissy perimeter defense will allow pimple-faced white boys record games all year until we get our own pimple-faced white boy ...... But that will be next year.
Charles Boyer made a couple guest appearances as usual but pardon my French Coach Lavin.....x@#% !!!
