Team meals of footlongs in the bathroom at the new practice facility with Angie could spark this team to bigger and better things? Is that what you really think GC? :biglaugh:
If McDermott is such a great X's and O's coach....
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Team meals of footlongs in the bathroom at the new practice facility with Angie could spark this team to bigger and better things? Is that what you really think GC? :biglaugh:
Maybe you can help me with this whole message board thing. I don't get it really. People post topics and then people ignore the topic and just go on rants or attack anyone they disagree with? Is that it? I also didn't know that any member of the board can demand for others to leave or to declare them not worthy of being fans. Interesting. So if I demand you leave the board you will? Wow... Message boards are awesome!!
So is Mono the reason our guys are not blocking out? Is it the reason that our guys stand around on offense not moving to a spot to move the ball. Listen to the announcers! Even they make the same points that everyone is making. GMAC is a good guy personally, but at what point are people allowed to question why these skills are not being demonstrated by our players? Who is to blame when these fundamentals are not executed? What is he making such a huge salary for if we are not allowed to criticize? Sure their is overkill on both ends of the spectrum in defense of GMAC and criticism. But there is no way that anyone with basketball knowledge can say this all comes down to lack of depth and mono. Watch the end of the game and shots taken my Mizzou resulted in two other Mizzou players boxing our guys out for the rebound while our guys stood there looking around. There are way too many little things to point out and would go over a lot of the apologist's heads anyway as they are plugging their ears and trying not to look at the negative posts without exploding.
Then this must be done. C Willy can blog about it live from the restroom. You have never been wrong in the past GC and I trust your judgement. If you put the Mangino pic back up on your sig line I will blast out an email to Pollard to make sure this is done. Do not mistake this post as being sarcastic. I am dead serious.
If it works there will be beer, golf, a catered lunch in the men's room, and strippers involved. :yes:
Here is a possibility.. Try to follow me here. Do you think that possibly the called plays were not executed by our guards? I know it may be hard to grasp, but unfortunately our guards(none of them) have been able to do much of anything when there is applied pressure. Usually the simplest answer is the right one, no matter what happens people on here will complain. It's pretty sad..
You are right. We did not have a Plan A. Not even a Plan B. DG saunters down court not pressing the issue. We do not clear out one side. We set no picks. We waste valuable seconds.
I thought the coach was suppose to manage the last three minutes of the game for the players. They looked like it was the start of the second half and they had all day to finish.
As far as Xs and Os go, do we ever redraw up the play in the huddle or do we just say run Play #162. Looking more like the latter with every game. Hands off, not hands on.
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While I agree with some of what you said.... Keep in mind that we are 1 small step away from the nuclear winter that the Iowa Basketball program is in right now. We are really at a crossroads in my opinion. We either......
A. Change course and move in a different direction
B. Keep things as they are and cling to the hope that GMAC can perform an absolute miracle before the nuclear winter is upon us.
If you choose option B maybe GMAC can hire David Copperfield as an assistant coach. He could provide the miracle we need. For God's sake the man made the Statue of Liberty disappear.
We continue to prove that we do not play very well the second half when it counts.
Isn't it the coaches job to make sure that he has players on the court that can execute the plays he wants to run? Isn't it the coaches job to make sure that he recruits players into the program that can be on the court at crunch time to execute the plays he wants to run?
I realize that McD isn't out there taking the bad shots and throwing away the bad passes, but ultimately he is responsible for bringing in the players that are doing those things.
Don't get me wrong, I definitely agree there is a problem. BUT, the world isn't always black and white. I can guarantee you our coach isn't getting all of the players he wants. It's not that easy.. I am frustrated with what is going on, I just do not think firing the coach, paying buyouts for him and his assistants and starting completely over is the answer. Unfortunately the MBB program is in a bind, they need support now more than ever. Things don't always go the way we would like, actually most times they do not. I am not close enough to the program to say, either way, if we are going in the right direction. But, I received my degree from there and I will continue to donate. Why? Hope for a better day tomorrow, I'm not going to completely give up and start throwing everyone under the bus. Life doesn't work that way. I was lucky enough to be a student for some great years. The '99/'00 and '00/'01 years were special. I will be a cyclonefanatic for the rest of my life due to that. I will never forget those memories and I would love to have that kind of success as much as anyone. Unfortunately, IMO, you have to take the good with the bad. It's still Cyclone basketball.
The easy solution here then is for Pollard to have one of the players fake a concussion, then have him go into some small dark closet in the practice facility and him take a video on his phone talking about how McD put him in here after his injury. Bingo bango bongo, JP, you just got cause!
