Game thread - A10 Pillow fight vs. Loyola - Wed 3/11 2pm USA
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Again, you are giving the coach a free pass. You should have said "our coach is not good". We just lost a 2nd time to a now 9-23 Loyola team who has a NET of 289. We had a 15 point lead, so we were good enough to do that, but we have a coach who has no clue how to protect a lead.
I checked the score and saw it was close, so I turned it on at 69-67, and the 1st play I saw was an easy iso layup for Loyola where he beat Tanner and we had no one near the rim to help. In other words, the same terrible defense we have played down the stretch all year. Then, down 4, we ran an awful offensive set, again, like we have seen all year. It is the same clueless stuff from our clueless coach. We can debate how good or bad we are ( I agree we are not good), but it is inexcusable to lose to this Loyola team once, and we did it twice, along with 10 other Q3/Q4 losses this year. We had more talent than all of those teams and should maybe lose once to them, yet we dropped 12 of these games this year.
Also, if you really want to make this all about talent ( even though as I just said we lost 12 Q3/Q4 games where we had more talent), the coach is 100% responsible for the roster. And for coaching the guys on the roster. For finding the right fits. For starting the right guys, subbing appropriately, giving them their best chance to succeed on offense and defense. Making it harder for teams to coach against our guys. I feel really bad for our guys. I really do. Our coach let them down. This was possibly the worst coaching job in all of D1 this year. Every time I watched us, we had issues that were coaching related.
sman
All A-10 player
crazy ... and yet nobody following is surprised.
Agree. Very painful to watch them.
MrTbone
All A-10 player
well yeah, but I'm just saying that how does your smallest guy end up as your leading rebounder? I mean sure, if he got 7 because of a bunch of lucky bounces, so be it. But the fact that Walz didn't corral more than 4 rebounds says so much about how we play/defend/focus. Just brutal.
SpiderRick
Bench player
With 10 minutes to go, is there anyone on this board who didn't think we were going to lose?
Thank God this season is over. Now my blood pressure can return to normal before I stroke out.
Thank God this season is over. Now my blood pressure can return to normal before I stroke out.
?????? What a stupid, disgusting comment. And, we won 8 D1 games last year so save any comparisons to last year.
That’s what would be expected when your job is to guard the rim. You’ve got to luv Moon’s creative use of players.
MrTbone
All A-10 player
It's super tone-deaf. I know at some point the coaches have to spin things a bit, but for the love of everything holy, let's stop putting lipstick on the pig. So frustrating.
spider_hoss
Bench player
So that's all it was? Just a few tweaks? Wow, they really do live in a bubble over there.
sman
All A-10 player
lol, just some minor tweaks replacing the minutes of Walz, Lopez, Johnston, Beagle and Roumoglou.
and whoever transfers out.
We have seen the playbook before. There is no need to have a stroke over this.
MrTbone
All A-10 player
Reporter: "Mark Schmidt announced his retirement. Talk about your relationship with him and what it looks like for long-tenured coaches leaving the game."
CM: "It's so different now. It's radically different. It's a new era, for better or worse."
These are not things that I think I have much confidence in CM solving.
CM: "It's so different now. It's radically different. It's a new era, for better or worse."
These are not things that I think I have much confidence in CM solving.
Urmite
Starter
We are way past lipstick and are scheduled for plastic surgery…
