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re: OK Kennedy blowers...what's your excuse NOW?
Posted on 1/28/13 at 9:02 am to CGSC Lobotomy
Posted on 1/28/13 at 9:02 am to CGSC Lobotomy
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If the offensive scheme doesn't fit the talent on the roster, that's on the coaches.
He has changed his offensive scheme, it still isn't working. You also have to understand that just like not all players can play in all schemes, not all coaches can coach all schemes. At some point a coach HAS to coach his style and the PLAYERS have to adjust, it has to. The coach can make tweeks but he has to coach his style or else he will never be able to implement his style.
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"we need more talent before we can get better"
HE IS RIGHT. But that isn't a sweeping statement across the board, we need a PF ... right now we do not have one. Young played great on Saturday but he isn't a long term solution. Right now, if Reese and Caruso aren't having a "freshman" day then we are playing 4 on 5 at best. You will not ever win playing 4 on 5 even if the other 4 are better than the other team. In any given game I am confident in saying that we have the worst player on the court no matter who is playing PF, Ray, Young, or Jahns ... they are a liability. Jahns doesn't have the talent. Young has more talent than Jahns but not enough and he isn't athletic and he hasn't quote caught up to the speed of the game and Ray can have all the talent in the world but no coaching staff has ever been able to get his potential out of him. He was inconsistent under Turgeon and he is inconsistent under Kennedy. He just doesn't have the basketball IQ or the toughness needed to play. He is constantly out of position more so than anyone else, he is constantly getting pushed off the block, he is constantly trying to make a fade away jumper instead of going into the chest of the defender and drawing a foul.
There is a REASON we have 3 post players coming in next year. Space, Miller and Trocha will hopefully go a long way towards giving us some much needed talent and depth in the post. Think about it ... if Kourtney gets into foul trouble or needs a breather ... who do we have in the post that would actually trust touching the ball or defending anyone?
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Posted on 1/28/13 at 9:07 am to BigAggie06
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HE IS RIGHT.
"We're not where we need to be yet, but we're improving" sounds a whole lot different then "we need more talent before we can get better".
The first one says that we are struggling, but I'm confident we can improve.
The second one says that our players suck and there's nothing I can do to make them better.
Posted on 1/28/13 at 9:27 am to CGSC Lobotomy
But that is the problem ... at one position we can not improve. There is not a single serviceable option at PF right now. We also need to improve our talent level for depth. We have one semi-reliable G coming off the bench (I love Green but he isn't showing any signs of getting better) and no reliable post players.
Most of the players are showing signs of improvement through coaching. Ray isn't and Green ... Green always plays with energy and determination and at least gives you defense. But Harris has made huge steps in improvement this year. ET has expanded his game but is a streaky shooter. Reese and Caruso are Fish and are up and down but they are getting better. Young had his best game but I am not convinced that his ceiling is high enough to be a factor (I see Young as a Marlon Pompey player ... grab some rebounds and use your fouls)
Most of the players are showing signs of improvement through coaching. Ray isn't and Green ... Green always plays with energy and determination and at least gives you defense. But Harris has made huge steps in improvement this year. ET has expanded his game but is a streaky shooter. Reese and Caruso are Fish and are up and down but they are getting better. Young had his best game but I am not convinced that his ceiling is high enough to be a factor (I see Young as a Marlon Pompey player ... grab some rebounds and use your fouls)
Posted on 1/28/13 at 9:35 am to BigAggie06
That's great and all, but when you have a team that is mentally and emotionally fragile, you don't bad mouth them to the media. That basically says that, when the going gets tough, you'll quit on them.
What Kennedy has done in his press conferences is combining almost the worst qualities of Dennis Franchione and Mark Turgeon.
To his credit, he hasn't blamed the fans.
What Kennedy has done in his press conferences is combining almost the worst qualities of Dennis Franchione and Mark Turgeon.
To his credit, he hasn't blamed the fans.
Posted on 1/28/13 at 9:50 am to CGSC Lobotomy
You are stretching ... calling the players "mentally and emotionally fragile" ... where is the proof of this? Who has shown themselves to be fragile? Young because of some crap posted on Twitter after a bad game?
mentally and emotionally fragile teams do not come out and play like we played on Saturday which can be described as a lot of things but without emotion and flat are not among them.
Yeah yeah yeah ... i know he "ran off" all those players right? Lets actually look at the players he "ran off".
Branch - transferred because he wasn't immediately handed the starting job, he wouldn't have been given the starting job by Turgeon either.
Middleton - plagued by injuries and had a shot at a pay check ... you think he should have stayed one more year, risked another injury and potentially missed out on getting paid to sit on his arse?
Naji - Turge guy who saw more PT last year but still wasn't a starter, the players he knew best (Dash, DL, Khris) were all gone so took the chance to leave.
Alexander/Davis - Were not going to get significant minutes, transferred.
Nothing indicates that anything the coach is doing is running players off or effecting their emotional state. The only mental issues our players have revolves around experience and potentially lingering doubts about injuries.
I am sure that coach is talking to the players and they understand that the fact is we are short on players and we need an infusion of talent.
Sumlin said when he came in that we needed to raise the talent level across the board ... were you yelling for his head because of that? No because he is right, we played with almost no backups in our front 7 defensively, need an infusion of talent in the secondary, and at WR. But because Sumlin said it then won it is ok, it only effects the teams mental health when we lose right?
mentally and emotionally fragile teams do not come out and play like we played on Saturday which can be described as a lot of things but without emotion and flat are not among them.
Yeah yeah yeah ... i know he "ran off" all those players right? Lets actually look at the players he "ran off".
Branch - transferred because he wasn't immediately handed the starting job, he wouldn't have been given the starting job by Turgeon either.
Middleton - plagued by injuries and had a shot at a pay check ... you think he should have stayed one more year, risked another injury and potentially missed out on getting paid to sit on his arse?
Naji - Turge guy who saw more PT last year but still wasn't a starter, the players he knew best (Dash, DL, Khris) were all gone so took the chance to leave.
Alexander/Davis - Were not going to get significant minutes, transferred.
Nothing indicates that anything the coach is doing is running players off or effecting their emotional state. The only mental issues our players have revolves around experience and potentially lingering doubts about injuries.
I am sure that coach is talking to the players and they understand that the fact is we are short on players and we need an infusion of talent.
Sumlin said when he came in that we needed to raise the talent level across the board ... were you yelling for his head because of that? No because he is right, we played with almost no backups in our front 7 defensively, need an infusion of talent in the secondary, and at WR. But because Sumlin said it then won it is ok, it only effects the teams mental health when we lose right?
Posted on 1/28/13 at 9:54 am to BigAggie06
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mentally and emotionally fragile teams do not come out and play like we played on Saturday
You mean turning a 4-point halftime deficit into a 17-point second half deficit by looking completely lost on defense and offense?
What about calling a timeout to stop OUR OWN 8-0 run?
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Sumlin said when he came in that we needed to raise the talent level across the board
Did he say that MIDSEASON? My God, you're dense.
This post was edited on 1/28/13 at 9:56 am
Posted on 1/28/13 at 10:12 am to CGSC Lobotomy
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You mean turning a 4-point halftime deficit into a 17-point second half deficit by looking completely lost on defense and offense
Yup you are right that is completely because Kennedy called them talent less pieces of shite.
See I actually watched the game and saw the team playing defense in that span forcing UGA to use most of their shot clock on all but 2 of the shots, UGA was just hitting everything for 3 minutes.
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What about calling a timeout to stop OUR OWN 8-0 run?
It was a 7-0 run and that time out REALLY hurt us ... oh wait it didn't the run ended as a 12-2 run after the TO they got a put back then we scored 5 more points.
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Did he say that MIDSEASON?
What the hell does it matter when he said it. My point is that Kennedy is RIGHT and your righteous indignation that he dare say he needs to bring in more talent is just an excuse to bitch some more because it has had absolutely no bearing on how the team has played.
Posted on 1/28/13 at 12:26 pm to BigAggie06
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