(1) Big East Game on Friday Night 12/06/19

[Know Nothing]

Providence can't score the basketball and doesn't play defense. What could go wrong?

I think there is a good chance that Providence loses their next 3 games against Stony Brook, Florida, and Texas to enter league play at 5-8. The best the league can hope for is that they don't pull off any upsets in conference or play spoiler.

[jfan]

I haven't seen all of Providence's games, but Diallo doesn't look like he is in sync yet so far this year. I'm sure he will get things going by conference time.

[BEhomer]

whole team lacks fundamentals. passing around the perimeter is an adventure at this point. that's on cooley.

[billyjack]

We have a ton of flaws.
The top flaw is at point guard.

Getting Pipkins was a good move at the time. We didn't need a superstar-- just needed someone in his 5th year to competently run the offense. Do no harm, don't make mistakes, and avoid unforced errors. Get Reeves open looks, allow Duke to play off-ball. Anything extra he provided would be a bonus.

But wow, i can understand now how UMass went 15-18, 13-20, and 11-21 the last 3 years. Just a lot of head-scratching plays, wrak defense, poor decision making.

White, a senior, is our second PG, and plays well in short spurts. Kind of a Vinny Johnson type, who can come in a drill a couple of threes, then sit for a while. But he's now forced to play extended minutes, cuz Pipkins has struggled.

Our third PG is Duke. At this point i think i'd rather have him run things.

MAL (Ashton Langford) was a local top-40 recruit, who was expected to run the point as a soph, junior (this year), and senior. He really really struggled last year. He was horrible. Couldn't shoot nor play defense, etc. Pipkins is playing now like MAL did last year.

Anyhoo, Pipkins was a one-year stopgap until Jared Bynum of St Joe's becomes eligible next year for his sophomore year (so 3 years of Bynum).

So again, this was the plan:
2016: Dunn, Cartwright soph.
2017: Cartwright junior.
2018: Cartwright senior, Ashton Langford frosh.
2019: Ashton Langford soph.
2020: Ashton Langford junior.
2021: Ashton Langford senior, Bynum soph.
2022: Bynum junior.
2023: Bynum senior...

Anyway, that's enough for now. I'm going to continue binge watching "Catastrophe" with my wife.

[Django]

Providence reminds me of DePaul without Charlie

[kayako]

This is depressing. Is this the worst Big East team going back 7 years?

[scoscox]

We have a ton of flaws.
The top flaw is at point guard.

Getting Pipkins was a good move at the time. We didn't need a superstar-- just needed someone in his 5th year to competently run the offense. Do no harm, don't make mistakes, and avoid unforced errors. Get Reeves open looks, allow Duke to play off-ball. Anything extra he provided would be a bonus.

But wow, i can understand now how UMass went 15-18, 13-20, and 11-21 the last 3 years. Just a lot of head-scratching plays, wrak defense, poor decision making.

White, a senior, is our second PG, and plays well in short spurts. Kind of a Vinny Johnson type, who can come in a drill a couple of threes, then sit for a while. But he's now forced to play extended minutes, cuz Pipkins has struggled.

Our third PG is Duke. At this point i think i'd rather have him run things.

MAL (Ashton Langford) was a local top-40 recruit, who was expected to run the point as a soph, junior (this year), and senior. He really really struggled last year. He was horrible. Couldn't shoot nor play defense, etc. Pipkins is playing now like MAL did last year.

Anyhoo, Pipkins was a one-year stopgap until Jared Bynum of St Joe's becomes eligible next year for his sophomore year (so 3 years of Bynum).

So again, this was the plan:
2016: Dunn, Cartwright soph.
2017: Cartwright junior.
2018: Cartwright senior, Ashton Langford frosh.
2019: Ashton Langford soph.
2020: Ashton Langford junior.
2021: Ashton Langford senior, Bynum soph.
2022: Bynum junior.
2023: Bynum senior...

Anyway, that's enough for now. I'm going to continue binge watching "Catastrophe" with my wife.

even to the extent that point guard play is a problem, you should not be this bad

[billyjack]

We have a ton of flaws.
The top flaw is at point guard.

Getting Pipkins was a good move at the time. We didn't need a superstar-- just needed someone in his 5th year to competently run the offense. Do no harm, don't make mistakes, and avoid unforced errors. Get Reeves open looks, allow Duke to play off-ball. Anything extra he provided would be a bonus.

But wow, i can understand now how UMass went 15-18, 13-20, and 11-21 the last 3 years. Just a lot of head-scratching plays, wrak defense, poor decision making.

White, a senior, is our second PG, and plays well in short spurts. Kind of a Vinny Johnson type, who can come in a drill a couple of threes, then sit for a while. But he's now forced to play extended minutes, cuz Pipkins has struggled.

Our third PG is Duke. At this point i think i'd rather have him run things.

MAL (Ashton Langford) was a local top-40 recruit, who was expected to run the point as a soph, junior (this year), and senior. He really really struggled last year. He was horrible. Couldn't shoot nor play defense, etc. Pipkins is playing now like MAL did last year.

Anyhoo, Pipkins was a one-year stopgap until Jared Bynum of St Joe's becomes eligible next year for his sophomore year (so 3 years of Bynum).

So again, this was the plan:
2016: Dunn, Cartwright soph.
2017: Cartwright junior.
2018: Cartwright senior, Ashton Langford frosh.
2019: Ashton Langford soph.
2020: Ashton Langford junior.
2021: Ashton Langford senior, Bynum soph.
2022: Bynum junior.
2023: Bynum senior...

Anyway, that's enough for now. I'm going to continue binge watching "Catastrophe" with my wife.

even to the extent that point guard play is a problem, you should not be this bad

I realize that, completely. What i wrote above is just Part One in a 5 part series. As frustrating as it is for you guys, imagine being a Friar fan right now.

[scoscox]

I realize that, completely. What i wrote above is just Part One in a 5 part series. As frustrating as it is for you guys, imagine being a Friar fan right now.

You're right, I just meant that I'm not sure it's fair to put this on the players. Sure, players always deserve some blame, but this is clearly a coaching problem. point guard problems are one thing. we have point guard problems. you guys have way more than point guard problems. i mean, i'm sure i'm preaching to the choir here, but cooley is the problem

[Husky_U]

Well, you got hockey.