MBB: WSU vs Pacific
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Turnovers. Same old same old.
Leach was right. Allowing it to happen.
Not gonna win games getting outrebounded, turning it over on a 20 pace and shooting 40% from the line.
Leach was right. Allowing it to happen.
Not gonna win games getting outrebounded, turning it over on a 20 pace and shooting 40% from the line.
I don't which is worse, the sloppy play or the ESPN broadcast. The on screen scoreboard is nearly worthless and I have no idea where they found these announcers.
Four times now in WCC play I have watched us make the worst teams look good, by that measure, we are bad.
Ok bench all the players, starters that guilty of lots of turnovers.
Here what happened if do that:
2,3,4 starters get benched.
WSU only has 4,5,6 players who can play because only have 8 players because of injuries.
So WSU plays 4,5,6 BENCH players as the starters, and gets blown out 125 to 50.
But hey, at least you make a point, stop the turnovers.
Oh wait on that 125 to 50 loss, the back ups starting have 30 turnovers in game.
Guess it didn't work after all.
The coach probably harps, drills, practices, etc, on, about, how not to turn the ball over.
There is only so much the coach can do.
If the players are going to turn the ball over a lot, they are going to do so, and the coach can't stop it unless he benches them, and if he does so, he loses big time, even worse.
Also what's causing the turnovers is like Coug1990 and me have said AD NAUSEUM, but somehow either you all don't read, have bad reading comprehension, don't understand, don't get it, doesn't enter your brains, etc, that it's TIRED LEGS, LOTS OF KEY INJURIES, AND THAT SINCE RILEY HAD TO REPLACE 12 PLAYERS WITH 12 BRAND NEW PLAYERS, ALL COMBINED TOGETHER, THAT WSU WAS GOING TO BEAT TEAMS THEY SHOULD NOT BEAT, ABD HAVE HICCUPS, BURPS, FARTS, LOSSES AGAINST TEAMS THEY SHOULD NOT LOSE TO.
Despite all that WSU IS STILL ABOUT 15-7, and JUST BARELY BY SKIN OF THEIR TEETH JUST BARELY LOST to Pacific.
Furthermore every team, especially Pacific, etc, is giving WSU, their ULTIMATE, EXTREME BEST SHOT, AND HAVING THEIR BEST GAME IN DECADES AGAINST WSU.
Some of that is on turnovers, defense, etc, but some of that has ALSO BEEN ON SOME OF THE TEAMS HAVING THEIR BEST GAME IN DECADES AGAINST WSU.
And they have their worst games against everyone else.
WHY? BECAUSE WSU IS NOW THE HUNTED, INSTEAD OF THE HUNTER, WSU still has a GOOD record, so teams want to play their best game against WSU, the same way they do against Gonzaga.
It's hard enough for WSU with Key injuries. And they get everyone's best game on top of that.
Despite all that, WSU is still about 15,16-7.
WSU will probably goto NIT.
And when everybody is healthy except Cedric Coward(out for season), WSU probably goto NIT Final 2, win whole NIT.
That's still great coaching.
Then Coward probably gets a medical redshirt, comes back next season, and next season WSU probably wins the WCC championship, goes 26-5, is a 5th, 6th, 7th seed in NCAA tourny, goes to 2nd round, Sweet 16, Elite 8, etc, ASSUMING HALF THE TEAM DOES NOT GET INJURED AGAIN.
You want to judge Riley, then fine, Judge Riley when he does not have 4,5 key injuries to starters, key back ups, in a season.
And I know it's not just you, and thats it's lots of others.
And you, others can say EXCUSES EXCUSES all you want.
But it's not excuses, it's LEGIT, LOGICAL, FACTUAL, CAUSE, EFFECT REASON.
It would be lame excuses IF IF Riley was in his 7th season, and there was 1 injury to a less important, unimportant deep bench back up, and if opponents were shooting terribly bad, had lots of turnovers, no rebounds, etc, and WSU still lost a lot to those type of games, and then either coach an or WSU fans cried and said that it was the 1 injury to the deep bench player, back up, that was the reason for the loss to bad team.
In that situation, that would be a lame AZZ excuse.
But that's NOT the situation this season, and the REASONS ARE LEGIT, FACTUAL, LOGICAL, AND MOSTLY TO ALMOST ALL BEYOND COACHES CONTROL.
Be happy that WSU is 15,16-7,8, and that WSU probably finish with 18,19,20 wins, goto NIT, etc, and that Riley has done a good job coaching.
And ya all stop your nonstop whining, complaining, bitching, etc.
It's getting old.
