My God what a horrible debut, down 19 late at home against UC Riverside. Place is as quiet as a tomb.
Fred Hoiberg
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Was going to mention that Nebraska literally had a whole new team this year, and from what I saw tonight the talent level looked very thin. Hoiberg has his work cut out for him.
Solid win for Randy Bennett beating Wisky. The guy is underrated. That will help their resume.
Cmon man it’s day one of basketball season and we’re excited, cut us some slack.
There’s always been some basketball talk on a national level on this forum.
Was thinking during the game that one of these teams is really going to need this win at the end of the year. Bennett seems to be one of those guys that is very content where he’s at with no plans to ever leave.
I will favor Hoiberg on that one, always thought Oats was a little overrated.
Forgot that game was on but you are right. I was actually thinking of that watching NCSU/GT. NCSU is going to bubble like they are every single year in perpetuity and this loss to GT is going to keep them out I think. Also, I have said before Kevin Keatts is 100% the same dude as Mark Gottfried. Excellent recruiter, big personality, horrendous coach. To be fair, they didn't have Markel Johnson.
Woof. I'll take that bet.
Neither of those teams looked very good down the stretch tonight, I know Pastner is a lousy coach and not so sure about Keatts anymore.
Was switching back and forth between that game and St Mary’s/Wisconsin, where those teams seemed better prepared at the end and actually ran some sets other than just clearing out and having guys create their own shots.
As a postscript to the UC Riverside/Nebraska game, Riverside is coached by former Jamie Dixon assistant David Patrick, a native Australian who is trying to rebuild that program by recruiting a ton of players from there and New Zealand.
I thought he did a pretty decent job last year by their standards and they look to be better this year after tonight’s performance.
I thought he did a pretty decent job last year by their standards and they look to be better this year after tonight’s performance.
Oh yes, Ben Simmons's "godfather." How convenient he happened to be on the LSU staff when Simmons picked LSU and while they had 2 Top 5 classes. Simmons leaves and he leaves for TCU. As the guy said on that wire, TCU's whole staff is dirty. I just wished Jamie had these types of assistants while at Pitt. His only foray into this world with Skerry/Birch was a disaster.
Very nice to see Oats lose, but yes, he's recruiting well and he'll have them up and running in a couple season unfortunately.
Curious as to why Stevenson didn’t play in the game. Is he hurt, not good enough, have to sit out the year for transfer?
Four years from now they'll both make the final 16 of the NIT, and SMF will declare that he got another prediction right.
In other former Panther news, Marcus Carr went for 17, 7 and 8 in his debut at Minnesota.
Come on, you failed to mention the most impressive former Panther performance last night. 4 steals by defensive specialist Parker Stewart!!!
X has said that if Carr would have stayed he would have not come to Pitt. I am happy with X over Carr. Stewart's ceiling is JWF. He was a nice bench player on a good ACC team at best.
He really is the same person. That's an apt comparison.
No school makes me angrier in conference than them probably. If you think we have an inflated view of our athletics, NC State fans are insane. I was down there for the first ACC game in 2014. There fans were so confident it was going to be a blood bath and Pitt was favored in the game. We went down 17-4 or something like that and then won by 12. If Louisville didn't exist, I'd hate NC State the most of all ACC teams.
Not sure if I am answering you or the third-person you, but I agree that Carr would have been a very solid ACC player, if not a real difference maker. Glad we have X though.
He shot the ball 13 times, more than anyone else. His shooting percentages were almost identical to when he was at Pitt. He just shot more times.
Same here, apparently they collapsed late in the 2nd half and couldn’t get it done in OT.
Not a good beginning for “The Mayor”.
They could be '17-18 Pitt bad this year. As I mentioned in a thread last week, poor Shamiel Stevenson. He will be going through it all again.
Probably sooner. We lost to Nichols State. Need someone on this staff that can recruit because they can’t develop obviously.
I will take that bet. I would be surprised if both make the Sweet 16 in 3 years.
Well there’s a lot of luck involved. And I’m not a big of a Hoiberg guy as SMF I think he had kind of a lucky run. But Oats will make many deep runs at Bama and soon. He’s a terrific coach
I mean, the very mild situation they were involved in had nothing to do with recruiting. Maybe. They are recruiting basically 4 stars at this point but not setting world on fire. He quickly fired that coach who was caught up in that.
Most teams not wearing Blue sans michigan state and louisville and uva are usually running on alot of luck.
