Doc Sadler

[swarthmoreCY]

Well you've convinced me. Iowa State sucks. They are lucky they won 9 games, let alone 18 at this point. There's no chance we make the NCAA tournament and we could easily lose out.

I think my point is that every team has weaknesses. Ours is defense. And if it was that bad, we wouldn't have won 18 games or 6 games so far in the conference. Our defense has been worse the past few games. That's not good, but hopefully they can fix it.

Nice fallacious argument. Our defense is our weakness, which is the point. If our defense were good, we would not be 6-5 and in 6th place. Given weaknesses are what limit success, there is no reason to sugarcoat it or defend it. It is what should be concentrated on.

 

[TruClone]

Color me unimpressed at this point in the season. Perimeter defense has been pretty poor during conference play.

LOL revives a thread praising an assistant coach for his positive effect on our defense after our worst defensive game of the season. Using, obviously, a sample size of one.

HA

Sadler has helped. Our defense has improved. I'd be happy to point out the improved challenges, rotations, and walled post positioning for you. Scoring D is slightly up, but I didn't have time to look at possession adjusted which I am sure is down (as our scoring is up, and our Opp shooting percentage is down). Use larger sample sizes if you want to make a point on a team characteristic.

In the game tonight, once we got in a hole, we were in scramble, double defense. This by nature, if the other team is able to pass out of it/swing the ball, creates open shooters. To WVU credit they were able to do just that and continued to knock in those shots.

We lost. It's ok, it happens. It was a Monday game on ESPNU at 6pm. It won't have critical ramifications. We win on Saturday and we remain top 15.

LOL not using a sample size of 1. Per my comment the perimeter defense has been pretty poor during conference play, which would be a sample size of 11.

 

[Linusvanp3lt]

Didnt say i disagreed with the whole thing because I don't. I'm just saying giving up 74 points a game is horrible regardless of whether you average 1 or 100 PPG.

This is not an intelligent comment. Pts per possession is what matters. Therefore 74 can be good, bad, or inbetween (which is where we are).

 

[Linusvanp3lt]

LOL not using a sample size of 1. Per my comment the perimeter defense has been pretty poor during conference play, which would be a sample size of 11.

Well you lied in your comment. You made this post because of the game last night. And you made it with no insight or statistics. Good day!

 

[scyclonekid]

Thought he was a defensive minded coach well..............................