IMO, The Biggest Problem With This Year's Team

[Zaratoughda]

Is Dixon's refusal to play Sheldon Jeter at SF.

The way it SHOULD be, is Jeter spells both Young at PF and Artis at SF, with Maia, Nelson-Ododa and Luther handling the C slot. There would thus be a 3 man rotation handling PF and SF.

You could still go small down the stretch if you want with Young at C and both Jeter and Artis on the floor with him all at the same time, and this would open up even more minutes for Jeter.

As far as Slim, who is currently the player spelling Artis, you would play him at SG spelling Jones and Smith. Until Jones had his big night against Wake, the SG slot has been pretty much a disaster for us this year, and playing Slim there would have at least made things more competitive.

You should also be playing Smith some at PG. Robinson has problems hitting the 3 ball at times and Wilson is erratic... so playing Smith at PG might just take some of the double teaming off of Mike Young.

With things the way they are, Jeter is not getting enough minutes and Young is forced to play C too much and things are pretty ragged inside.

Jeter was starting at SF last year so there is no reason he would not be able to play the position.

So, why hasn't Dixon done this.... well, because of his insane addiction with 'going small'.

Because of this, as well as other self-indulgences, he may well get canned at the end of this year (unless the team gets a second wind which I am not expecting). If it wasn't for the guaranteed contract, he would get canned for sure (barring the unexpected resurgence).

Every coach has a bad year or two but.... five bad years in a row???

 

[thebadby2]

Is Dixon's refusal to play Sheldon Jeter at SF.

The way it SHOULD be, is Jeter spells both Young at PF and Artis at SF, with Maia, Nelson-Ododa and Luther handling the C slot. There would thus be a 3 man rotation handling PF and SF.

You could still go small down the stretch if you want with Young at C and both Jeter and Artis on the floor with him all at the same time, and this would open up even more minutes for Jeter.

As far as Slim, who is currently the player spelling Artis, you would play him at SG spelling Jones and Smith. Until Jones had his big night against Wake, the SG slot has been pretty much a disaster for us this year, and playing Slim there would have at least made things more competitive.

You should also be playing Smith some at PG. Robinson has problems hitting the 3 ball at times and Wilson is erratic... so playing Smith at PG might just take some of the double teaming off of Mike Young.

With things the way they are, Jeter is not getting enough minutes and Young is forced to play C too much and things are pretty ragged inside.

Jeter was starting at SF last year so there is no reason he would not be able to play the position.

So, why hasn't Dixon done this.... well, because of his insane addiction with 'going small'.

Because of this, as well as other self-indulgences, he may well get canned at the end of this year (unless the team gets a second wind which I am not expecting). If it wasn't for the guaranteed contract, he would get canned for sure (barring the unexpected resurgence).

Every coach has a bad year or two but.... five bad years in a row???

That's not the biggest problem with this year's team.

 

[freddietee511]

Is Dixon's refusal to play Sheldon Jeter at SF.

The way it SHOULD be, is Jeter spells both Young at PF and Artis at SF, with Maia, Nelson-Ododa and Luther handling the C slot. There would thus be a 3 man rotation handling PF and SF.

You could still go small down the stretch if you want with Young at C and both Jeter and Artis on the floor with him all at the same time, and this would open up even more minutes for Jeter.

As far as Slim, who is currently the player spelling Artis, you would play him at SG spelling Jones and Smith. Until Jones had his big night against Wake, the SG slot has been pretty much a disaster for us this year, and playing Slim there would have at least made things more competitive.

You should also be playing Smith some at PG. Robinson has problems hitting the 3 ball at times and Wilson is erratic... so playing Smith at PG might just take some of the double teaming off of Mike Young.

With things the way they are, Jeter is not getting enough minutes and Young is forced to play C too much and things are pretty ragged inside.

Jeter was starting at SF last year so there is no reason he would not be able to play the position.

So, why hasn't Dixon done this.... well, because of his insane addiction with 'going small'.

Because of this, as well as other self-indulgences, he may well get canned at the end of this year (unless the team gets a second wind which I am not expecting). If it wasn't for the guaranteed contract, he would get canned for sure (barring the unexpected resurgence).

Every coach has a bad year or two but.... five bad years in a row???

Lol 5 bad years in a row....get a clue please. And FWIW I am hearing Sheldon has a very big attitude problem and is uncoachable.

 

[iMissTheOldDays]

Sheldon Jeter is one of the biggest problems on this team , he is one of the divas on this team who's all about me me me , he plays zero defense , in fact he is the worst defender on the team by far which is saying a lot because we have some pretty horrible defenders. Sterling Smith at point guard ??? Cmon guy ...

 

[JS School]

Sterling Smith at point guard ??? Cmon guy ...

And people complain that Robinson can't create. What in the world would Smith do?

 

[pittizit]

Fire em all

 

[Hero of the Oppressed]

Dixon picked the players. He makes 3 million per year to pick the players and then coach them to win games as a team.

Those that say we couldn't do better with another coach are flat out wrong.

Not going to happen because of his contract but I would have faith in Barnes to get a better coach in here.

 

[MoTownPanther]

Jeter is far from perfect, his defense needs to improve significantly for Pitt to be successful.......but "attitude problem", "diva", "uncoachable" has to be a joke.

Dixon has praised this kid publicly for two years regarding his practice habits, unselfishness, and desire to compete and win. He's all over the offensive glass doing the dirty work and is usually the first guy up and down the court. Not to mention the amount of work he puts in during the off-season. He clearly provides a spark and much needed energy for this team at times.

 

[Joe the Panther Fan]

I can just imagine how many points a good three would torch Jeter for, and I can also imagine Zara coming on here after it happens talking about how stupid it was to play a guy who is an awful defender in space at a position where he has to defend in space all game long.

Oh, no, wait, I can't imagine that second part. Because he would never even notice.

 

[Black_Man_Panther]

Is Dixon's refusal to play Sheldon Jeter at SF.

You should also be playing Smith some at PG. Robinson has problems hitting the 3 ball at times and Wilson is erratic... so playing Smith at PG might just take some of the double teaming off of Mike Young.

I know your reaching w/ your thoughts and that is OK. But were you watching last night when Wilson was PG and Smith was SG. Smith was running around the baseline getting the usual lame shadow off-ball screens from the likes of Young/Artis I regress... nonetheless the guy couldn't even get separation for Wilson to pass him the ball. Wilson ended doing a Sean Miller-like dribble-fest which led to some brick thrown up by Artis as the shot clock ran down.

Smith is awful.

 

[DT_PITT]

So, why hasn't Dixon done this.... well, because of his insane addiction with 'going small'.

Because of this, as well as other self-indulgences, he may well get canned at the end of this year (unless the team gets a second wind which I am not expecting). If it wasn't for the guaranteed contract, he would get canned for sure (barring the unexpected resurgence).

Every coach has a bad year or two but.... five bad years in a row???

1. Dixon does not have any "addiction" with going small.
2. Dixon will not "get canned" at the end of this year, and would not "get canned" even without the guaranteed contact.
3. A season with a 12-6 record in the Big East and a season with an 11-7 record in the ACC while getting to the round of 32 are not "bad years" by any reasonable standard.

 

[NTOP]

Is Dixon's refusal to play Sheldon Jeter at SF.

The way it SHOULD be, is Jeter spells both Young at PF and Artis at SF, with Maia, Nelson-Ododa and Luther handling the C slot. There would thus be a 3 man rotation handling PF and SF.

You could still go small down the stretch if you want with Young at C and both Jeter and Artis on the floor with him all at the same time, and this would open up even more minutes for Jeter.

As far as Slim, who is currently the player spelling Artis, you would play him at SG spelling Jones and Smith. Until Jones had his big night against Wake, the SG slot has been pretty much a disaster for us this year, and playing Slim there would have at least made things more competitive.

You should also be playing Smith some at PG. Robinson has problems hitting the 3 ball at times and Wilson is erratic... so playing Smith at PG might just take some of the double teaming off of Mike Young.

With things the way they are, Jeter is not getting enough minutes and Young is forced to play C too much and things are pretty ragged inside.

Jeter was starting at SF last year so there is no reason he would not be able to play the position.

So, why hasn't Dixon done this.... well, because of his insane addiction with 'going small'.

Because of this, as well as other self-indulgences, he may well get canned at the end of this year (unless the team gets a second wind which I am not expecting). If it wasn't for the guaranteed contract, he would get canned for sure (barring the unexpected resurgence).

Every coach has a bad year or two but.... five bad years in a row???

It is NOT 5 years in a row. Stop theB.S.

 

[NTOP]

Dixon picked the players. He makes 3 million per year to pick the players and then coach them to win games as a team.

Those that say we couldn't do better with another coach are flat out wrong.

Not going to happen because of his contract but I would have faith in Barnes to get a better coach in here.

What has Barnes done to have faith in him? He's a new guy to big-time hoops.

 

[KiwiJeff]

1. Dixon does not have any "addiction" with going small.
2. Dixon will not "get canned" at the end of this year, and would not "get canned" even without the guaranteed contact.
3. A season with a 12-6 record in the Big East and a season with an 11-7 record in the ACC while getting to the round of 32 are not "bad years" by any reasonable standard.

His ideas always seem to trend the same direction as our teams performance. The worse we get, the loonier he gets.