Did anyone see or here about this?
- Thread starter gary2
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I'm not going to make too much of this, but this is not a good look. Don't respond to hecklers, don't baby this group by yelling at the meanies in the crowd, and don't worry about other teams' business.
Are you kidding me?! Have you seen how coddled these freshman have been. These aren't freshman mistakes we are seeing. This is called "too much tolerance" and "too stubborn" to pull these babies off the court. These kids are getting $200,000 worth of education plus all the great amenities (chartered flights, good restaurants etc.) and they seem very unappreciative. If I have to watch JWF walk (I repeat, "walk") off the court every time he's taken out after repeat (I repeat, "repeat") bad performances, it will be a long, embarassing rest of the season. Plus the negative things I've heard he has said about the Pitt program and the less than respectable behavior he has been known to display off the court, has been despicable. Carr is almost as bad. I think he never feels he fouls. Move your feet young man and stop reaching! Stevenson is got to be the worst. Just because he's "big" doesn't mean he's tough. He pouts and crys more than any of them. Stewart, needs to learn to take contact without being so floppy. There are a lot of freshman who come in better prepared. It's almost as if these freshman knew that their insufficiencies would not be tolerated anywhere else, so they came to us. Their behavior is embarrassing!
These kids also pick and choose who they want to pass the ball too. They miss Stewart wide open time after time after time. I agree that he is a one dimensional player, but to drive and pull the defense and not kick it, is very selfish play. What it boils down to is that Stallings has no control over the behavior of these spoiled brats. They were exposed last night and will continue to get exposed by other freshman who don't behave this way and other jucos who are willing to show the value of maturity on the court instead of privilege. Stop defending them and let them take their punches. You've got four years with these guys and need to teach some tough lessons early off. We could care less about making excuses that "we are a young team". Bench them when they behave this way. Let's try to have a respectable season. Discipline this pouty behavior! You're giving them too much and all this will do is create bad habits instead of a strong team.
Stallings is the common denominator between last year’s selfish team with a bad attitude and this year’s younger, less talented version.
