re: 2022-23 Basketball MegaThread

For sure, Devo Walsh Smith Council useless today.

Exactly what we feared Nick throws off chemistry and about as bad as possible.

He didn’t throw anything off.

He wasn’t that good but the rest of the team was horrendous.

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Davis and Council were mostly atrocious today. Not sure I’ve seen a worse single game than that from Devo. Maybe have to go back to when Fortson turned terrible?

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This is a Mike Anderson bad loss here.

As the head coach, I think you have to blame Muss. The players were not ready and it's his job to make sure they are.

Devo and the team were bad when NSJ was sitting.

He did refuse to pass it to him in the corner on multiple possession.

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He did refuse to pass it to him in the corner on multiple possession.

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He does that shite with pinion too.

There’s going to be some growing pains with smith but I thought he provided a spark and clearly has an extra gear that we’ve been missing. It’ll take a few game to adjust to the level of competition. I do think he needs to shelf the one handed floater from 15 feet for now.

State exposed this team.

The big problem here and it was speculated before NSJ came back, is that it seems to take Muss a month in SEC play to figure out his lineups and get the chemistry right and the the team takes off.

With nick being inserted into the lineup that basically starts the process over again, and we are back to Early-mid January Muss teams instead of mid Feb Muss teams.

It is also clearly evident THAT Devo has a major confidence/mental problem when Nick is active on the team with him. It's why he's such a streaky player. It's all clearly based on whatever is going on in his head at the moment.

Before tonight, he was Hercules.now he seems to be back to old Johnny high school Devo again, and it's clearly all mental.

Walsh to a lesser extent does the same thing. When Both he and Devo know their roles and get confident in those roles.this team looks Final 4 good. When they are timid and stupid and play without confidence, they look like NIT time.

Give Jans credit, Muss tried the new go to system with Graham and he doubled low resulting in several steals and that was about it for a lineup that was hot.