Game thoughts Wichita State
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This looks like it will be the 5th consecutive year where we are an NIT quality team at best. (Don’t kid yourself thinking we were going to win the conference tournament last year)
Haith’s team certainly did better than expected last season but he was still likely to miss the NCAA’s again. That’s just not acceptable. We have one skin-of-our-teeth play in game under him in 6 years. Honestly, it feels like rooting for Doug’s teams again. You get all excited every year because there is talent there... but you realize that the coaching is holding them back.
Haith’s team certainly did better than expected last season but he was still likely to miss the NCAA’s again. That’s just not acceptable. We have one skin-of-our-teeth play in game under him in 6 years. Honestly, it feels like rooting for Doug’s teams again. You get all excited every year because there is talent there... but you realize that the coaching is holding them back.
There's always the First Annual ITS Golf Tournament down in Florida. Although make sure that Original guy isn't on my team or he might find himself in a pond full of gators.
My biggest concern so far this season is our inability to make free throws. Haith teams are good at getting to the line. You need to make those.
But I don't golf. Too hard.
I am trying to learn to play guitar. Two years of lessons and only now feeling a tiny bit of progress.
Your fingers will hurt at the beginning, but if you stick through it until you get callouses, it will eat your life (in a good way) . Are you wanting to play classical, jazz, or country /blues / rock?
I am wanting to play "a song."
Like I said, two years of lessons and practice, and still aspiring to "a song." Well beyond the callous threshold.
Needless to say it is unnatural for me and first instrument at 53 cannot help.
I can teach you over 100 punk rock songs today. Bam! Goal achieved.
I say we go have a punk rock golf tournament on ORU’s campus. We make holes where the windows used to be.
Are you learning to read any notation? Sheet music, tablature, or chord charts? The easiest way to learn is probably guitar tabs or chord charts. Once you learn a bunch of the basic major and minor chord shapes you figure out that you can slide them up and down the neck to play most any song. You can probably strum along with 90% of songs with 5-6 shapes. (The bar F major, bar B flat minor, bar B flat major, the F major with a thumb on the low E string -Hendrix style, and the C major shape) if you learn all of those in first position you should be able to slide them up and down the neck and play along with most songs. You’ll also realize that you can play any single chord in about 4 different positions.
Someday you’ll be playing Neon by John Mayer and you’ll realize how far you’ve come.
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Look at a lot of Johnny Cash songs , a lot of them are basic chords, they are fun to play
I’m very disappointed seeing a rookie coach with 7-8 new players blister us at home. We looked horribly undisciplined with poor fundamentals. I suspect we will improve as we usually do, but always too late for NCAA Tournament bids.
Tablature and chord charts. I have been able to play basic chords for over a year, including bar chords. My problem is the left handed dexterity to move from one shape to another with sufficient speed to play anything. The other problem is concentration and focus which I lack greatly. I am better than a year ago, but still not good enough to play much of anything through. Yet I persevere!
You’ll get there. I’m about 15 years in. To be fair I started when I was younger than you, but there are certainly days where things just feel like they click and there are days where you feel like you just can’t get something no matter how hard you try. I think I started out playing things like Born to Be Wild, Zombie (by the cranberries), Sunday Bloody Sunday, etc... my problem these days is working on improv. I’m better at replicating other people than I am coming up with my own stuff.
Soloing using different scales and such is where it gets tough.
Perfect break down and likely the order of importance. If we don't dig the hole the first half it's probably a close win.
Make our free throws and we squeak it out.
Adjust fast and better and we probably go overtime or just squeeze by.
I am really disappointed with our in game adjustments from Haith this season. Although he did finally call a set play for an easy basket with the alley oop to Jackson and brought out the 2/3 court trap. We had similar situation versus South Carolina and he did zero of that, I assume we were limited by the missed practice to do some things since the team is still new and its early in the year.
But that has to change, the change in assistants seems to have allowed Haith to revert back to some of his old bad habits and cost us some out of time outs consistency and set plays.
Like everyone else I’m disappointed in the way we started this season and with last night’s loss but there is too much doom and gloom here. Even with how poorly we played overall we still would have won if we had hit our free throws. Lots of factors going into last nights game. The announcers said during the covid protocol they could only have one player in the gym at a time and the shoot around before the game was the first time the entire team had been together in 11 days. Fouls were a big issue also. I was wondering late in the game why we had Ugboh in so long not realizing that Idowu had 4 fouls.
I think Idowu is a real bright spot. He’s much better on offense than I was lead to expect and could end up being as good as Igbanu by his senior year. We’ll be ok. We need to go beat Memphis now.
I think Idowu is a real bright spot. He’s much better on offense than I was lead to expect and could end up being as good as Igbanu by his senior year. We’ll be ok. We need to go beat Memphis now.
"We'll be ok" is not good enough anymore Nevada even though I agree.
The "one player in the gym at a time" should have been shooting free throws.
I've played over 50 years. Being able to make chord changes on time is the first obstacle to overcome. Don't worry about bar chords until you get that down. Start slow, like hitting a chord on the one beat and hitting another when the one comes back again. Give up the first chord however quickly it takes to strike the second on time. As you get comfortable, let that first one ring out a little longer. Then start speeding it up. Once you get a good feel for hitting that second chord on time your confidence will grow. This is the key. You have to believe you can do it before you can do it.