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outshooting B. Artis and AP - who each shot in 20s % from 3 that season, was not hard to do. Tyne is inefficient, always has been - never gets to the line, not good from 2. Tanner I have no recollection of doing much of anything that year. Hunt had to carry the load OOC on that team but was never meant to be a #1 lead scorer IMO. He was perfectly situated on previous year's team I thought, playing off King and Quinn, with Bigs and Dji also there as options.

I think UR could have been mid pack A10 this year and those 4 extra A10 losses were mostly coaching. Best game of the year Tyne didn't play and Thomas was asked to step up and did. Played with pace and the ball was zipping around the court.

Rest of the season he just didn't milk well enough, I guess.
 
brooklyn brownstone said:
I think UR could have been mid pack A10 this year and those 4 extra A10 losses were mostly coaching. Best game of the year Tyne didn't play and Thomas was asked to step up and did. Played with pace and the ball was zipping around the court.
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So, true. Our best win of the year was the 1 game where Tyne was injured. Perhaps coaching staff should have taken note on that and made some adjustments (ha, ha, ha). Not that Tyne doesn't have skill but he is a terrible fit for our system. Tyne may work better on a team that plays are very frenetic pace all game, because that is his game.

Mooney likes to talk about how we need to push pace more but really he means more transition buckets. Our base offense is set up to be a more deliberate half court type of offense, Tyne is not going to excel in that environment.
 
97spiderfan said:
So, true. Our best win of the year was the 1 game where Tyne was injured. Perhaps coaching staff should have taken note on that and made some adjustments (ha, ha, ha). Not that Tyne doesn't have skill but he is a terrible fit for our system. Tyne may work better on a team that plays are very frenetic pace all game, because that is his game.
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Bingo. That Belmont game. False hope. And that style seemed to be the blueprint Mooney was trying in our weak OOC. And it worked, with Tyne out, against our strongest OOC opponent. And Johnston was talking about proving the haters wrong after the game. And we had hope. And then Mooney. And then Mooney. Fail safed back to his same BS. But we have Hardt and PQ, who are NOT hoops guys evaluating and calling the shots. Mooney.
 
*23* said:
And Johnston was talking about proving the haters wrong after the game.
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Lol. One of the more hilarious statements of the year was that Johnston postgame comment about the haters. First all of, our program is made so deliberately small by our coach and admin, we don't really have haters. I'd imagine the only "real haters" he could have been referring to where folks on this message board. To which I say, scoreboard buddy.
 
Yep 97, hearing his statement, the only thing I could think was he was reading the board. Or maybe before that game JOC used up his allotment of 1 to 2 hard questions for the year, and moon higlighted to the team.
 
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Well, we are supposedly increasing our NIL budget 100% so maybe we can get ahead of the curve here?
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if we increase by 100% from $1.8M, we're at $3.6M
if top of the A10 increases 35% from $5M, they're at $6.75M.

we might gain no ground.
 
sman said:
if we increase by 100% from $1.8M, we're at $3.6M
if top of the A10 increases 35% from $5M, they're at $6.75M.

we might gain no ground.
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Right, maybe we gain ground on the other A10 bottom dwellers - so we can finish mid pack. Yippeee.
 
I heard Seth Greenberg on ESPN Radio a couple days ago. He said a big Tech donor who he knew well from his days there had given a ton of money to buy some players recently, but one or several of them transferred out the next year. The guy stopped giving to the NIL and is investing his money elsewhere (non-sports-related) because he wanted to feel that it was going to some lasting effort. I think we'll see a lot more of that happening at most schools sooner rather than later, at least from folks who are giving massive sums to NIL programs.
 
Looking forward to when the portal officially opens. Total chaos will remain and apparently the expected payment amounts are still rising. Where the money is coming from remains a mystery as I would think there would be less private donations for the reasons cited by @Eight Legger above. I suppose in UR’s case money is coming from the University itself. Why anyone would invest in the Spider Men’s program as currently configured is another brain bender.

But at least the players are happy….
 
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