GYERO ARCHIVE

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Cal needs the elite bigs, it's how he wants to play...his best teams have always had them sans that awesome Memphis squad with a generational point guard.

Ironically, developing toughness and back-to-the basket games in guys like Towns, Davis and even Cousins (who wanted to shoot J's a lot more than Cal would let him) has maybe hurt him in recruiting. While it was the correct thing to do for those players and their games, it wasn't necessarily what they wanted to do. All these young big guys think they are Kevin Durant now, they don't want to be parked on the block.
The NBA doesn't use bigs this way anymore, either. Traditional post-ups are damn near dead. I've suspected this has hurt him on the recruiting trail for a while now - I sure as hell would use it against him.
 

MudererofCrows

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An offensive minded coach like Mark Few could take the combo of Maxey, Hagans, Quickley, Sestina and Richards, space the floor and murk people.

Instead we have the fat wop who thinks it’s still 1992, plays two posts, and screams “Drive” at the guards to flail around into a wall in a clogged up lane.

He’s not going to change and until he starts landing elite caliber, ready to go bigs or changes his hatred for the three and spacing the floor we’re doomed to be trapped in this vicious cycle.
 

MaxPowerrr

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I’d be worried if I did business with a bank that just threw millions of dollars for a naming rights deal that no one will actually notice.
 

catsfanbgky

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The best thing that could have happened last night was for Cal to get ejected, Barbee take over, play zone the last 10 minutes. Thank about that for a minute. Tony Effin Barbee would have coached the last 10 better than Cal. With our core guys in foul trouble and SC being a really bad shooting team, zone would have been the way to go. It could not have turned out any worse than playing Juzang, Brooks, Whitney in a man to man situation. But Cal being so stubborn, he will not change it up. No, No, No, I can't let people see I am wrong, that sometimes you have to adjust. Man to man is they ONLY way to play. It damn sure would have prevented all of the drives to the basket for And 1's.
 

TCPUKChamps

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wcc31

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From Rafters- this is a joke:

Was curious so looked it up. There were 7 games involving top 25 teams last night. 2 of those in the sec. Here is the total number of fouls called per game...

UK-USC- 54
Aub-Bama- 54
Seton Hall-Butler- 40
Wichita St-Temple- 37
ISU-Baylor- 33
Creighton-Georgetown- 31
UVA-FSU- 22

I'd imagine it isn't just last night. And that tech for hanging on the rim was utter ridiculousness. But what is hard to understand is that these refs aren't conference specific. Is the sec directing these guys to blow the whistle every damn minute?
 

Burly

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An offensive minded coach like Mark Few could take the combo of Maxey, Hagans, Quickley, Sestina and Richards, space the floor and murk people.

Instead we have the fat wop who thinks it’s still 1992, plays two posts, and screams “Drive” at the guards to flail around into a wall in a clogged up lane.

He’s not going to change and until he starts landing elite caliber, ready to go bigs or changes his hatred for the three and spacing the floor we’re doomed to be trapped in this vicious cycle.
Spot on - dude could have set in a two three zone up 12 and they couldn’t live af the line and foul out our best players
The pass to Richards in the post is a horrible % play especially if they double
Dude is walking or losing ball
Spread the damn court and drive and dish
 
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He was trying to mock a police officer (said officer could've just chilled out on enforcing the cigar ordeal) and ultimately made an *** (pun intended) of himself. I dont think it was criminal as much as it was just a dumb thing to do... similarly as handing out wads of cash- maybe the rule itself is antiquated and a bit dumb, but if you know its an issue- why start handing out wads of cash at the 30 yard line in front of every news outlet in the country?
 
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Beltran stepped down from the Mets now too, likely clearing the way for a journeyman manager with a sub .500 career record to swoop in for the job and have them on a path for another decade of mediocrity.
 

MaxPowerrr

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He was trying to mock a police officer (said officer could've just chilled out on enforcing the cigar ordeal) and ultimately made an *** (pun intended) of himself. I dont think it was criminal as much as it was just a dumb thing to do... similarly as handing out wads of cash- maybe the rule itself is antiquated and a bit dumb, but if you know its an issue- why start handing out wads of cash at the 30 yard line in front of every news outlet in the country?
OK, boomer
 

PuffyNips

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Nov 13, 2001
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Quickly played the most minutes on the team yesterday and is 3rd on the season behind Hagans and Maxey, who are tied for 1st.

Can we just stop touching around and start the 3 of them together now, please? I mean, I know yesterday we started out 8-0, but that has not been the norm.

Richards has been good to great. No problem with him or his effort. Needs to stay on the floor.

Who should be our 5th starter? Sestina gets my vote, but man he gives up a lot of rebound dunks.

Between EJ, Brooks, the Dragon and Juzang... I just don't know if the light is ever going to go on this season. Painful to watch.

I would settle for any one of them to play average defense, hustle, not step out of bounds when they catch the ball and not shoot a contested jumper every other time they do manage to catch it in bounds. Bonus points for making an occasional shot within 4 feet.

Hagans has been driving me nuts with his inability to finish at the rim and his careless TOs, but the offense completely stalls when he is not in. We go as he goes. He has to clean it up.

Offense wasn't the problem yesterday, though. How do you give up that many points to that group of talentless ********?

Bottom line: We need less swag and more testicular fortitude.
 

TheShowKiller

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Dec 30, 2002
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Team Juzang. He probably shouldn't have been in there last night given the sitiation & his production and time off, but I liked what I saw. He got after it, and showed his first pull up move of the year.

Dude at least has basketball skills, and he's not going to shoot 15% forever.
Of all our options at the 3 besides just playing our 3 guard lineup 40 minutes, I I think he has the most upside this year. If we get him in the flow of the game, eventually, that shot is going to start falling.

Of course, that means losing the superior defense and rebounding of the Dragon.
 
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anthonys735

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I don't think it was the team that got lazy. I think the coach was experimenting with certain players trying to get the spark and got busted. He triggered the off switch. USC was dead in the water and he let them back in. Way more important to keep our killers out there with foot on the pedal than trying to get a dude like Whitney, at this point in the season, to turn it on. He had 8 weeks to turn it on, most of them with 1 game every 7 days.

Just go through normal sub patterns, for christ sakes. Willy, we understand what that Quickley gets minutes but our best lineup is playing like 20ish minutes together and even getting a look until at least 10 minutes into the game. That's lunacy.
 
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