The Official Fire Dave Paulsen Thread

gmujim92

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Is that porter moser's loyola team that last year started 9-1 & beat #5 Florida on their home court? Yea, he was probably on hot seat and cooled it with a veteran team all the way to final four.

They return almost everyone. High expectations. Let's see how they handle pressure. For sure better than us.

Well they’ve already lost at home to Furman, for whatever that means.
 

Quentin Daniels

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I understand we are all sew desperite four Sister Gene to be answer; we were willing too overlook red flags. Making excuses for a None only does a diservice too the program.

Why can't fans critisise?

Something like that?
 
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I guess we have regressed to banking on the conf tourney title and the auto bid???? Who's gonna be our sister jean?
 

patriotchild

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I would not be as frustrated/disappointed with the team this year had Paulsen himself not made comments about judging the team on two years. My frustration level increased when DP talked about Rueter being a possible top 5 A10 player, sorry don't see that at all. In many respects Paulsen created the expectations for this season himself. If the team doesn't live up to the hype then he needs to own it and explain to the fan base, in honest terms, why the team has not met expectations. In my opinion DP has never been totally honest or transparent with the fan base.

If he had come out in preseason saying there was still a lot of work to do and that the team was not ready yet I would have tempered my expectations, if suitable rationale was given.

I’m going to say yes and no to this. Initially I think Paulsen was hyping the team a lot, particularly earthly in the summer pre-Spain trip. We also exceeded expectations last year and that’s clouding expectations for this year.

Should he own all of they hyping he did do, yeah. Reuter is good, but he’s not all American and there’s a reason why he transferred from UVA. That’s probably the most annoying part of the hype that stirred this summer.

However, if you listens to his comments closer to the start of the season he tried to tamp down expectations. He almost choked when the women’s coach put him on the spot about winning the league during mason madness. He quickly walked back that comment. So, I started to read between the lines with that and the poor play in Spain and the closed scrimmages.

Let’s hope he figures out team chemistry and rotations soon. No more hype.
 
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