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McDermott: 2-8 presser transcript
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Let people have their opinions....if not change your name to McD-Apologist
I'll say that if McDermott doesn't last at Iowa State, I suspect he'll be very successful wherever he ends up and I don't think it will matter if it is a high major or a mid major. His problems so far at Iowa State can be mostly summed up as luck and circumstance.
I am still 100% in his corner at Iowa State and think he'll get it worked out. I was very happy to see the players come out and play really hard for the entire game on Saturday. We obviously, had our lapses, but I don't think it was effort related, which is great to see. If there is any justice in the basketball world, we will get an upset win or two.
Like RichRod said one day, "It's not like I got here and started taking stupid pills and forgot how to coach."
Maybe this isn't the right fit for him, but he knows basketball.
Look I am just as frustrated as most fans and I have been supporting Mac the entire time. I always wonder how much of the mess you can blame on Mac. He's not entirely "immune" to criticism but it's been a trend lately not just at ISU of players leaving. Seems like some kids these days don't have a sense of loyalty to the schools they commit to or the same desire and passion of what it is to be a Cyclone or whatever team they are as their coaches, teammates, and fans do.
Another example is a coach can coach a kid till he is blue in the face and if that kid still is not executing it on the court other than pulling him from the floor what else can you do? DG is the 1 example of this. He's a 3 year starter and he still makes freshman mistakes. He gave up 4 easy points to start the 2nd half when he didn't take care of the ball at mid court and let KSU steal the ball for 2 easy dunks. We are so thin on the bench right now at some point some of these players need to step up and play smarter. I'm sure it's being coached to them every single day to value the basketball on every possession but the coaches aren't on the floor with the ball making stupid passes or carelessly dribbling the ball where the defender can steal it.
Another example is a coach can coach a kid till he is blue in the face and if that kid still is not executing it on the court other than pulling him from the floor what else can you do? DG is the 1 example of this. He's a 3 year starter and he still makes freshman mistakes. He gave up 4 easy points to start the 2nd half when he didn't take care of the ball at mid court and let KSU steal the ball for 2 easy dunks. We are so thin on the bench right now at some point some of these players need to step up and play smarter. I'm sure it's being coached to them every single day to value the basketball on every possession but the coaches aren't on the floor with the ball making stupid passes or carelessly dribbling the ball where the defender can steal it.
PM me your questions and if they make the cut, I'll let you know. Bring the heat though...none of that weak crap.
From hind side, I know he wishes he would have cleaned house the first year and started from year 2. That's the only second guessing I know of.
True but we've had games that we played right there with top teams and all it takes us is a few minutes of losing our focus and that's all a good team needs to win a game. The first 5 minutes of the 2nd half have been our kryptonite it seems like. We've taken halftime leads or kept it close going into the locker room at against some good teams this season only to watch the other team come out with a 12-2 run or something in a matter of minutes and put the game out of reach. Just baffling how it keeps happening and even Mac has tried to stop it with some quick time outs only to watch us come out of the timeout and cough the ball up right away again.
I can appreciate this argument. The thing is though, as long as the coach is making a 6 figure salary, he is going to be responsible for the final record.
Barry Collier had success at Butler before failing at Nebraska. Kansas State has experience with successful mid-level coaches like Asbury that couldn't win. Steve Alford parlayed a Sweet Sixteen appearance at SWMS into a high profile job at Iowa. Todd Licklighter took over for Collier at Butler, continued the success and has not gotten anything accomplished at Iowa.
Big-time college basketball is littered with coaches that could not make the transition from mid-major to BCS. Just because GMac won elsewhere is no guarantee of anything.
How so? He had to fill the roster right?
Again, Mac has been snake bit...not sure he can right the ship but the guy can coach. He makes some very good points about what the outcome would have been at UNI had Jakobson or Coleman left prematurely. Perseption is everything in College basketball and the perseption is that Mac won't get it turned around in time. Who knows...I've been saying for weeks now that unless Pollard wants the MBB program taken to it's knee's he (Pollard) HAS to get out and tell the fans where he stands. If it's with Mac then we all need to know that so we can just live with it and if not...well, we need to know that Pollard won't just let us hang for years on end because I think that is the great fear around here.
LOL at you. I know that you are trying to defend Mac here, but you realize that what you wrote is a huge indictment of his coaching prowess.
You are saying that we have played teams close, but then they make adjustment, and Mac doesn't. And he turns opportunities for big wins into losses.
I think what you wanted to write was that Mac has been close, and leave it at that. You aren't helping his argument with what you wrote.
Very interesting.
I disagree with this assertion "You are almost starting with the death penalty, essentially to begin with".
This comment is spot on "The pieces that we brought in to try and get this thing fixed, we haven’t been able to keep together." but I would hope he has looked to see why this is the case...a look at himself and his staff.
This comment flies right in the face of many of you that post on this site..."We were not sure on Farnold Degand, Tasheed Carr and Shawn Taggart. We had no idea that those guys were going to leave. There was one more that left and went out east, Mike Evanovich. There were a lot of guys who left, who we had no idea were going to leave." And here I thought they all had decided to leave before GM even took the job...in fact WM had encouraged them to go...I guess that was not the case.
Interesting read. GM is clearly a straight shooter and clearly has been doing a good bit of self evaluation. The read is kind of painful...I'm curious if it was that way in person or not.
It's really too bad that a quality guy like this has not been able to get some positive results at ISU.
I disagree with this assertion "You are almost starting with the death penalty, essentially to begin with".
This comment is spot on "The pieces that we brought in to try and get this thing fixed, we haven’t been able to keep together." but I would hope he has looked to see why this is the case...a look at himself and his staff.
This comment flies right in the face of many of you that post on this site..."We were not sure on Farnold Degand, Tasheed Carr and Shawn Taggart. We had no idea that those guys were going to leave. There was one more that left and went out east, Mike Evanovich. There were a lot of guys who left, who we had no idea were going to leave." And here I thought they all had decided to leave before GM even took the job...in fact WM had encouraged them to go...I guess that was not the case.
Interesting read. GM is clearly a straight shooter and clearly has been doing a good bit of self evaluation. The read is kind of painful...I'm curious if it was that way in person or not.
It's really too bad that a quality guy like this has not been able to get some positive results at ISU.
How many coaches in the history of D1 basketball have done this other than a scandal? I'd guess zero.
Dynamite 1st post there buddy... I do think the coaching staff makes adjustments, they just don't get executed by the players well sometimes. I realize there is blame on both sides but to say the players can't be held accountable for not executing is rediculous too. If you look at the top teams in the conference and even in the country they all have great guard play which is something we never seem to get consistently. I am sick of the DG appologists here too, he is a big reason why this team plays the way it does. It all starts with the PG and he comes up short in a lot of areas that we really can't afford to come up short in. I'd love to see what Colvin could do running the point for at least 30 minutes a game. We have little to lose with expirimenting with that at this point I think.
