Cougar basketball
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bad recruiting from the old staff and the new staff and bad coaching from the new staff and you get down by 30 to a terrible team. That defense is as bad as anything Paul Graham trotted out.
Wow. Just like last year, I had to quit watching mid way into the 2nd half. This team will be lucky to win any PAC-12 game. The pain continues.
As bad as that game was, I still need to offer a few positive thoughts.
We played much better in the second half. And not just at the end, against the reserves. If we had been able to hit the broad side of a barn from the field and some free throws, we would have closed it up. Still lost, given the hole we dug for ourselves, but we would have closed it up in the second half.
Some of the newbies played better than the starters, at least during portions of the game. And they looked pretty athletic.
If Railey had anything like some touch, he would be dangerous. I'm not sure how he and the other guys can pull down consecutive offensive rebounds and miss the 3 footers.
We haven't quite figured out that give & go, pass & cut thing on a consistent basis yet. But it worked when we actually did it.
You can really tell that the kids are young and accustomed to playing rat ball by the total lack of understanding of footwork, particularly on the defensive side. The good news is that this can be learned. The bad news is that it can't be learned fast enough to save defense for this season.
I think that we will see progress this year. But I'm not going to hold my breath for wins.
We played much better in the second half. And not just at the end, against the reserves. If we had been able to hit the broad side of a barn from the field and some free throws, we would have closed it up. Still lost, given the hole we dug for ourselves, but we would have closed it up in the second half.
Some of the newbies played better than the starters, at least during portions of the game. And they looked pretty athletic.
If Railey had anything like some touch, he would be dangerous. I'm not sure how he and the other guys can pull down consecutive offensive rebounds and miss the 3 footers.
We haven't quite figured out that give & go, pass & cut thing on a consistent basis yet. But it worked when we actually did it.
You can really tell that the kids are young and accustomed to playing rat ball by the total lack of understanding of footwork, particularly on the defensive side. The good news is that this can be learned. The bad news is that it can't be learned fast enough to save defense for this season.
I think that we will see progress this year. But I'm not going to hold my breath for wins.
Just some really, really bad basketball. Painful to watch....I didn't see much at all that would be considered encouraging. Railey is a lost cause, IMO. Not really a good rebounder for his size and perhaps the worst shooting touch I've seen in some time. Can't believe how sloppy the ballhandling is for the whole team. TCU is no powerhouse and shouldn't be beating us by nearly 30 points.
Wow, it's so frustrating to see how far down the toilet Ken Bone drove this program. If Ernie can pull it back to respectability, he will earn his dollars.
Glad Cougar
Wow, it's so frustrating to see how far down the toilet Ken Bone drove this program. If Ernie can pull it back to respectability, he will earn his dollars.
Glad Cougar
If memory serves correctly, its something along the lines of:
Don't play D and run down on O and hoist up a 3 as fast as possible.
Rinse and repeat and pray to Jesus the shots are falling.
The last time the Palouse saw a sharp shooter worth his salt was 20 years ago in Ike Fontaine. It doesn't appear that Kent has done anything to remedy that.
game 2 of the Kent era and we already have bitching about bad coaching and recruiting, classic. this rivals sponge and his halftime tirade
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