Loyalty could be the death of a successful season imo.
Let the Games Begin- Utah State
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The whole team played poor help defense. Way too many drives thru lane because we left our feet or did not slide our
feet. We had little answer for their big lineup and we got a good dose of our own medicine with the back door cuts.
feet. We had little answer for their big lineup and we got a good dose of our own medicine with the back door cuts.
Our coaches will figure it out. I have confidence in this team (corrected spelling).
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They’ve had a long time to figure it out. There is literally only one new player active on the bench this year, everyone else is a known quantity.
Figure this out? He’s got virtually the whole team back. How many games does it take? OCC is the ticket to at large bids and we just laid a big egg
Year 17, if you’ve been paying attention, this is exactly who we are.
And Odom makes significantly less than MoonDoggie. https://usustatesman.com/breaking-down-ryan-odoms-contract-as-next-usu-head-coach/
And Odom makes significantly less than MoonDoggie. https://usustatesman.com/breaking-down-ryan-odoms-contract-as-next-usu-head-coach/
I’m sorry, but Sherod just can’t start on this team. He’s not shooting the ball well. He’s slow as all get out. He’s an absolute liability on defense. I understand that he’s a grad student and has paid his dues, but he’s clearly not ready for this yet.
You’re obviously new here. Mooney plays old guys over young guys.
My observations:
1. Grant seemed largely unstoppable
2. FT shooting has regressed quite a bit
3. We shoot too many fadeaway jumpers, and miss most of them
4. Our defense is fairly easily picked apart (inside and outside) because we leave men open regularly
5. Nick isn’t ready
1. Grant seemed largely unstoppable
2. FT shooting has regressed quite a bit
3. We shoot too many fadeaway jumpers, and miss most of them
4. Our defense is fairly easily picked apart (inside and outside) because we leave men open regularly
5. Nick isn’t ready
We shot the lights out in the 1st half with 9-3’s.But we only led by 6 at halftime.Trouble.Odum knew we wouldn’t have a similar 2nd half.USU outscored us in the paint 38-22 with some very easy buckets close in.USU shot 17-22 2’s in the 2nd half.Which means they had easy access to the hoop.Gilyard didn’t penetrate on our offensive inside for his usual easy dishes nor did any of our other guards.Trouble.Their guards scored inside with regularity.We missed Blake Francis tonite, big time.We shot 33% from 2’s and 3’s in the 2nd half.Experience is not a substitute for game prep and execution.Ask Russ on the football side who has a ton of experience along with another bunch of mediocrity.
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Things are so bad that we broke Rivals for an hour.
They scouted Cayo very well. He only had 3 points. He averaged 12 points per game last year. We could have used another 5 from Burton. We are going to need Bailey, Wilson and Crabtree to step up. I would have doubled Bean with a combination of Burton, Bailey and Wilson. Mooney used his 2nd half timeouts to stem their runs. It left us short at the end. Beans 30 hurt us.
Looks like Odell Beckham Jr's dad showed up on the message board tonight. Criticizing coaching and liking posts that criticize our players? I didn't see that coming when I just read all the other predictable posts. That's pretty disappointing, and never a good look.
Believe it or not, we don’t praise mediocrity. Mooney does, and so does the Athletic Department. But we don’t have to pretend we didn’t just see someone take a crap in an ice cone and sell it to us as ice cream.
If I’m looking to have everything being rosy and
Happy after a ***** I’ll go watch a U5 soccer game where the score doesn’t matter and everyone is there having fun
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Don’t think we have to take personal shots at individual posters. You’ve championed this in the past and I would promote you to continue championing it.
The person you’re referring to is a valued member of this board, and a welcomed insight into the team.
Yes, I agree and that is why I am so disappointed with what I saw. Liking a very negative post about Nick? And more than once? Liking it? Commenting negatively about Goose? Liking a post and even posting that Wilson isn't good offensively and Tyler is bad defensively? Liking a post that gets on Nate's FT shooting? Liking a post that says our coach should be fired? That just doesn't happen on message boards. Well, I guess now it does, but good luck finding a few other examples on other boards where this happened. That is a great way to destroy team chemistry. Ask the Browns. Not that anyone cares, but man did I ever lose a lot respect for someone tonight.
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Odom could have & should have been our coach.
REGATTA. have an AD that really thought that’s what we had here. Need a Regatta update from Jabba. I mean we were just in Annapolis. The mother load of Regatta’s!
we’ve looked exactly like all of last year.
Starting w the jmu scrimmage that should have been a 5 alarm fire warning.
instead of the socks UR offered me for $, I think they should offer a pillow.
Starting w the jmu scrimmage that should have been a 5 alarm fire warning.
instead of the socks UR offered me for $, I think they should offer a pillow.
He does if he is in the game at the end of a close game (like he was last night).
Stop deflecting. We get worked by USU and you post about another poster? You are even having a hard time defending this clown show at this point, which says a lot.
Nothing he said is false or overly harsh. I appreciate his perspective as we all share a passion for this team and want them to do well, but we read this board for insight and information.
Stop being part of cancel culture.
Really missing some players on offense that
Yes,was assuming PQ put in a call to have server farm unplugged 😀😃
Yes, I would file this under: "the truth hurts".
I would imagine it is very painful to watch Mooney's ineptitude from up close and have to live with it. I feel like a bad fan sometimes because I start to get giddy when the other team is exposing us and Mooney is on the sideline whining but doing nothing to impact the game.
You think with the most experienced team in NCAA history they would have covered that chapter already.
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I didn't see anything attacking Nick personally. The only thing I saw was criticizing Mooney for playing him because he's clearly not ready to play at a high level. Criticism where it belongs, on the coach.
You're using drama with professional football players as an example for us to toe the line on this message board and sing Kumbaya? We're a small message board of a team in a non-power 6 conference. We're not influencers by any means.
Lead us? I’d expect that to come from jake or grant, not Isaiah. I think I get your point, maybe just don’t think you need five leaders on the floor there.
Reasoned discussion is best.
It seemed that they scouted our team very well and their coach made outstanding in game adjustments. They forced our top 3 players- Gilyard, Burton and Golden to beat us. They scouted the tendencies of our other players and made in game adjustments.
It seemed that they scouted our team very well and their coach made outstanding in game adjustments. They forced our top 3 players- Gilyard, Burton and Golden to beat us. They scouted the tendencies of our other players and made in game adjustments.
8legs1dream
Team Manager
So is the intimation that they won because they scouted us better than we did them? So their coaching and preparation were better than ours was?
8legs1dream
Team Manager
they have a new coach so there was too little game film for us to scout!! *sips koolaid*
