I feel like Greene has taken up a lot of minutes that might have gone to JDS. Also, we haven't put anyone away in a way that might give the other freshmen time.
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I feel like Greene has taken up a lot of minutes that might have gone to JDS. Also, we haven't put anyone away in a way that might give the other freshmen time.
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For a team that has been struggling mightily from beyond the arc it's definitely surprising JDS hasn't found his way on the floor for at least a few minutes per game.
I'd really like to see Otis, Greene and Grayer on the court at the same time for extended stretches. With a combo of Reuter/AJ or AJ/Calixte down low. Dave has to stick to a consistent rotational change moving forward. I know it's early in the season but these rotations should have been sorted already.
The only real measure now should be Wins and Loses. Over the past two years our team has had just as bad of a record in the second half of the season as the first, if not worse. Last year we started 9-9 and finished 16-17, two years ago we started 12-5 and finished 20-13. Granted we probably play better teams down the stretch, but at what point are we going to start looking at record when judging DP? This team is full of "his" players and if he can't turn it around, then he should definitely be on the hot seat. A team that is supposed to contend for an A10 title should not be losing to teams like Penn and American at home. Good news is that we have plenty of time to turn it around this season, but if not, there is no reason that DP shouldn't be on the hot seat.
No hot seat, he has 3 years left on his contact I think.
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Not sure what the fascination is with this mythical “hot seat,” but everyone should get behind Dave 100% because he’s not leaving any time soon unless he decides to. Cabrera and Edwards both love him and even if they didn’t, we don’t have the money to buy out more than one year of a contract.
I hate losing as much as anyone, but the chatter about firing the coach every time we hit a rough patch on the court really makes our fan base (such as it is) look like a bunch of entitled douchebags. And other than Kathy McKay, I’m not sure who has put enough cash into the program to be entitled to anything.
I hate losing as much as anyone, but the chatter about firing the coach every time we hit a rough patch on the court really makes our fan base (such as it is) look like a bunch of entitled douchebags. And other than Kathy McKay, I’m not sure who has put enough cash into the program to be entitled to anything.
Hot seat as in maybe don't extend him after this season? Let some of those years tick off the contract.
If Brad is having doubts about whether DP is capable of getting us where we want to go, he absolutely should not add any more years to the back end of the contract.
But he has to weigh that against the message he’ll be sending to potential recruits, thereby making it harder for the staff to sign good prospects.
It’s a vicious cycle.
Hes a freshmen, and the team has depth where they don't need to play everyone at this point. He obviously hasn't proven it in practice to the staff that he is ready. Also considering that the team hasn't performed with existing experienced players, doesn't mean its time to throw a freshman on the floor. They have to figure out how to get the experience working. It would be backwards to start throwing a non ready freshman on the floor at this stage.
I don't doubt he will get some minutes at some point, but there is an obvious reason why he hasn't played 1 minute yet, and only played garbage minutes in the Hopkins game.
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Just wait til Brad leaves for a football school...
G M U
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Paulsen thought last year: "hmm, this team isn't that great, people are going to question me...eh, I'll tell everyone it's a two year process and deal with it next year"
*one season later*
Paulsen: "..f**k"
Also, the "this isn't what I see in practice" schtick, it's a bad excuse. The Bills see a ton of potential in Nate Peterman in practice, that worked out well.
Fingers crossed we get this figured out soon
*one season later*
Paulsen: "..f**k"
Also, the "this isn't what I see in practice" schtick, it's a bad excuse. The Bills see a ton of potential in Nate Peterman in practice, that worked out well.
Fingers crossed we get this figured out soon
Disclaimer: Not trying to sound like a big Dave cheerleader just expressing two cents.
The comments about practice (and I know its practice) is that Dave has always during press conferences pointed to how someone is practicing when a guy does well and the team wins, or if the team sucks and the team loses. When they've had bad losses hes always said the practice we had was bad or whatever, and on the flip side when they've won, hes said the opposite.
That said we're 2 games in and the guy has always done more with less, but I think its time to put up or shut up, because there is too much talent. I'm down after a bad loss as everyone is, but lets not get carried away and act like him talking about practice performance is a new thing.
I mean even Hewitt used to say "well we practiced well", but that was always dumbfounding because the team never really played great in the wins and his judgement was crappy. I trust Dave saying it a little bit more.
G M U
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Disclaimer: Not trying to sound like a big Dave naysayer
Paulsen has done more with less, why does it always seem like Paulsen has to do more with less? Recruit a little better and do more with more.
Why do we still bring up Hewitt? It's over, he was a flop but at least he was a clear cut flop. We didn't have to second guess the firing. Paulsen is tricky, he looks promising, acts the part but the results are just still not there. We may have him for 5 or 6 years until we realize what we have. I get that Hewitts trajectory went south but the man won 49% of his games here while Paulsen is winning at a 47% clip.
TLDR: Hewitt sucked but we knew he sucked
Paulsen has done more with less, why does it always seem like Paulsen has to do more with less? Recruit a little better and do more with more.
Why do we still bring up Hewitt? It's over, he was a flop but at least he was a clear cut flop. We didn't have to second guess the firing. Paulsen is tricky, he looks promising, acts the part but the results are just still not there. We may have him for 5 or 6 years until we realize what we have. I get that Hewitts trajectory went south but the man won 49% of his games here while Paulsen is winning at a 47% clip.
TLDR: Hewitt sucked but we knew he sucked
For the 1,000th time, Hewitt inherited a fringe top-25 team and needed less than 4 seasons to destroy it.
Paulsen inherited a huge flaming pile of feces and has led us back to some kind of respectability in 3 seasons.
See the difference?
Oh, and about the “recruit better” suggestion? That’s a great idea. You should send that to the entire staff as I’m sure it never, ever crossed their minds.
In Dave’s defense, I don’t think he was shirking responsibility by the comment “well we practiced well”.
That comment in and of itself does not mean he’s saying it’s not his fault. To me it sounds like that’s the reality and he failed to find the disconnect between practice and game play.
Someone mentioned during one of the sideline huddles, Mar wasn’t even in the huddle. I didn’t see that but if it’s true then...... wow
G M U
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But at what year in Paulsen's tenure can we then just cut the Hewitt excuse out? Hewitt was feces, a cancer, literally the worst thing to ever happen but when will we remove that crutch from Paulsen? If he led us back to respectability why is the Paulsen thread heating up with debate after a loss to AU?
And yeah, I'll UPS the "recruit better" suggestion over to the staff. What can brown do for you?
The "Hewitt excuse" only comes up in response to people talking about Paulsen's winning percentage over 1st 3 years - which is directly related to what he inherited (lost an entire sophomore class of DI starters, lost entire recruiting class that included two BCS players).
Very few people other than Coach K could have realistically done any better, up to the start of this season.
Larranaga inherited as big a sh&t show asPaulsen, maybe bigger. Prior to Larranaga, Westhead was 38 - 70 in his tenure. Coach L was 9 - 18 his first year and the 2nd year took us to the NCAA tournament. He took us again his 4th year and was 19-11 and finished first in the CAA regular season standings the year we missed the dance. It can be done.
Some here have talked about how much talent we have. Maybe we don't have as much skill as people think. We're certainly missing some dead eyed shooters. 42% overall from the floor, 18% from 3, and 64% from the FT line just isn't going to get it done. I would like to see what Douglas-Stanley can give us. The kid shot 43.7% from the 3 point line in HS.
Some here have talked about how much talent we have. Maybe we don't have as much skill as people think. We're certainly missing some dead eyed shooters. 42% overall from the floor, 18% from 3, and 64% from the FT line just isn't going to get it done. I would like to see what Douglas-Stanley can give us. The kid shot 43.7% from the 3 point line in HS.
Man, we really need to win a game. Let's just run off 29 in a row.
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