re: I'm done with White

Makes you wonder.

Even during the late 70’s before UF did anything in football or basketball I was a fan. We know the motto “wait till next year” all too well.

I’m not the basketball expert so I’ll ask the question here.

CMW seems to have the recruiting and defense going in the right direction. Does he need to learn the offensive side? What gives in your opinion?

The first 10 minutes of the LSU game was promising. The dribble-drive was working, but then they backed away from it when LSU went to a zone. You have to break the zone, and that is White's weakness. That's why having 3-point shooters is so important for this team and if they're not falling, we're in trouble. Add a big or 2 and we will be fine moving forward.

But this year, we just have to get hot and stay intense on defense and we can beat anyone.

I love it when people say you can't live and die by the 3 point shot. Why not? If the other team is giving you open 3 pointers you should live and die by them. You have to knock them down.

I like how hard the guys play, but we looked so terrible on offense earlier in the season I would have sworn we never practiced it. I think we just had a big learning curve to get past after our last 2 point guards who were seniors and now going with a true freshman running the show. Nembhard is a different animal altogether from Cheese and Hill.

It is nice when fans of the other team complain that you impose your style of play on them and not the other way around.

I know I am beating a dead horse about this, but Mike Okaru should get 10-15 minutes a game to keep our guards fresh.

I was only able to listen and check for updates during the game. At the half I was wondering WTF? got back into town and a tv with .45 seconds left. A pleasant surprise.

Way to play 2 halves.

3 for 15 from 3. That’ll do it. But we kept our head in it, played tough and preservered. (Coach speak)

Our biggest problem offensively is that we don't generate a lot of easy buckets near the basket, imo. You can do that multiple ways -- have guys who can score in the post, guys who can take their man off the dribble one-on-one, or generate them within your offense. But we haven't really been able to do any of those at all this season or last season for that matter, although Cheese was really good at pushing the ball in transition and getting an open look there. Check our 2P% numbers -- they've been near the worst in the conference the past two seasons, and a lot of that has to do with not having a DRob/Prather type forward who's automatic in close or a Wilbekin who can creatively go get you a floater in the lane.

We've been better the past few games. Today you saw a lot of double high posts where the weak-side high post guy would set a backscreen for a guard and we'd try to get them an open layup. It worked a few times today. It was good to see White draw up some schemes that got us some easy baskets, because that's been our biggest weakness. We'll usually shoot better than we did today; I hope Locke regains his form soon because we'll need it come postseason.

Bumpity, bump, bump.

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Here's the deal.

Go cheer for coach Mac and Muschamp. Since you loved them more than UF. Delusional homers who see mediocrity and accept it and make excuses for poor coaching.

Don't worry. This team isn't making anything. Poor kids. Talent is there. The coach just isn't good enough. Same with Mac, Champ, and Zook.

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This loss makes the LSU game a must-win. Not good.