Whats wron with mens BB

[MANAFOLD]

personally I think it's because of the way we play offensively. We do pretty good on defense unless it's Kentucky, but cannot hold late game leads or shoot over 28% from the floor it seems. Anyone watching should notice our offense unless they score on fast break, weave the ball around the top of the circle , nobody open then we fire a 3 point shot that nobody on this team can make. After four or five possessions, we find ourselves ten or more down. As the game wears on we fall farther behind. With the talent we have we need to get the ball inside under the goal better, don't take shots over ten feet out, pull up and take jumpers or drive to the basket and at least draw a foul. Give and go and back door cuts should be the staple of this offense, not three point attempts from na na land.

 

[Garnet chicken]

My observation is that it is just a poor shooting team with lack of team speed. It needs a total infusion of new talent.

 

[gamecockengineer2011]

The issue is honestly talent. Frank has the guys playing super hard but it comes down to natural talent. When he got here Frank had to load up on bodies so he took a bunch of guys that didnt have many legit d1 offers. Those guys are the nucleus of this team right now. Since that first real class after his first year here, hes been getting highly recruited guys but not in huge numbers. He got Thornwell, Stroman, Ringer, and now Dozier and Silva. He cant build our program like Calipari can with Kentucky. We dont have the history to draw multiple top 50 players every class so Frank is trying to build our teams like Florida's Donnovan did or our Dawn Staley did with the girls. Talented guys who arent 1 and done every year who play together as a team. Its a long process but you can see the progress from year to year. Hopefully we start seeing it in the W/L column next season.

 

[vacock#]

We have a lot of basketball games compared to football games. I could be completely wrong but, even with the few numbers of football games, some of our players gave up in games. I haven't seen that from our MBB team.

 

[tidalcock]

talent, shooting, bigs

 

[sanfordcock]

The list would be much shorter asking the question "What's right with the mens BB?".

 

[ReadR00ster]

Mainly, our front court sucks in general, and our guards I think are below average shooters that lack speed to get open looks and defend.

 

[FORKCOCK]

Talent
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[1vagamecock]

Lack of any Div1 talent and from time to time coaching.

 

[Cocky4SC]

Several people continue to argue against the points I made in the "Doubting Frank Martin" thread...

This isn't on him. Like many have said this is simply a lack of D1 talent. The shots are there to be made. (Heck, we took over 100 shots in the two Kentucky games. I think we made 28 of them???) I don't know if this is simply a psychological block or what.

Scoring is infectious. I compare this to golf. If you have a day where you are making putt after putt, you feel like you can drain a putt into a thimble. This goes with basketball also. We have a few guys on the team that don't mind taking a shot (Hello Brian Steele) but can't ever get the lid off the basket. The games we played against Clemson and Ok.State are prime examples... how many did it feel we missed those nights? Everything was going in.

The defensive effort is there. They play hard for forty minutes. However, our bench is not very strong. The guys are gassed with seven/eight minutes left in a game. That is when the blowouts usually start. (Vandy, Kentucky @ home, Arkansas).

I say keep building on what we have going, and see where it takes us.

 

[Clevercock3]

Its going to take time to get the kind of players we need to make the MBB team work. Frank has a couple but they have to have more.

People are just going to have to be patient with the MBB and Frank as this thing was a total train wreck and will take time.

It looks like he is putting forth the effort and energy to get it headed in the right direction......