Minnesota synopsis a' la Pitino

by Schmucky on Dec 23, 2008 12:43 PM EST Comment 7 comments

Ok fans, it’s very disappointing but do not get discouraged.

Ok fans, it’s very disappointing but do not get discouraged. That game was not the real Louisville. I put our team in a difficult situation. Little time to prepare, little time to rest. We arrived at 5:00 a.m. eastern standard time. No bus for 45 minutes. We finally got to bed between 6:30 and 7:00am. Bus ride to practice was 1 hour due to Friday traffic. Minnesota was better and deserved the victory. They had nine days of preparation and out played us at both ends.

Recently Tom Crean texted me about our team last year, pointing out that we were the best quick passing team in the country. He was on the money. That is precisely our weakness this year. Too much dribbling, that is our number one problem. We will cure it by UAB. We need ball movement which leads to player movement. Defensively we played our poorest game. Give Minnesota the credit for creating good shots in their offense. We fouled too much and did not move our feet. We must develop Goode and Jennings at a quicker pace. Both players are struggling picking up the fundamentals. It will get done.

We have been down this road before. This time it will be more difficult. But I have confidence in our veterans and team. We have three crucial games coming up before the start of the Big East conference. All three are significantly better than any team we have faced. With a strong dose of humility added to our basketball team, our improvement will happen at a rapid pace. I am looking forward to this unlimited time to work on improving our team. There will be no time restraints and a lot of hours logged by our team in the next two weeks.

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Well....

After Kragporth, words ring hollow. But hey, let’s wait and see.

Go Cards!

by Red Rage on Dec 24, 2008 12:32 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

so basically

he’s admitting that he purposely scheduled a game that he knew they had no chance of winning? this raises a series of questions in my mind:

- is he a moron?
- does he realize that the reason we’ll never get a seed better than 3 or 4 come march is because he (the coach) pulls stunts like this?
- why do we pay him to purposely lose games and humiliate us on national TV?

don’t buy the spin – fire sPInTINO

by davidson07 on Dec 24, 2008 9:52 AM EST reply actions 0 recs

you

suck

by Web on Dec 24, 2008 11:30 AM EST up reply actions 0 recs

now, davidson, c'mon

a more rational approach at this point is spelled out in my post on this:

http://hellinthehall.wordpress.com/

by frankpos on Dec 24, 2008 12:48 PM EST up reply actions 0 recs

Nice perspective, Frank

…well thought out, deliberate, constructive. As the cliche goes, you “stayed within yourself.” I especially liked the graph and noticed that when the Governor of Alaska removed a strategic piece of clothing even the Dems showed upward arrows on her likeability factor.

Yeah, well…the team is going to be good…better, at least, and I too am concerned not only about “Cement Shoes” and his eventual foul out, but more importantly, perhaps, that we have put so much on an unproven kid whose previous competition may not be up to what he sees now or will see (THABEET…..goodness). And our marginal inside presence will vaporize when both Samardo and Earl foul out. It’s almost as if Rick was saying, “Oh well, we lose David and Caracter, but we’ve got this kid who is a center and will make our problems go away.” I don’t know how Samuels will end up. I think he’ll be good, never a shooter, but an inside meatman with rebounding presence. In any case somebody who will need HELP.

I never liked Syracuse, maybe because there are too many alums around where I live. Boheim, (who my father once said “looked like a Protestant minister” (Dad, is there any other kind?), though not a great bench coach, can recruit circles around Rick. Same for Calhoun at UCONN. They both seem to reload in stride and are never faced with too many down years in a row.

We somehow thought of ourselves as the Chosen One’s this year, but if we don’t have a nice run (Great Eight would be a success), I don’t look for it to happen next year sans Earl and TWill.

by Roz on Dec 24, 2008 3:43 PM EST reply actions 0 recs