Last night he was. But that's what Pitt does to opponents. They make their mediocre players look great.
F it. Let them play out the rest of the year and get this over with. I'm not wasting more time on them.
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Last night he was. But that's what Pitt does to opponents. They make their mediocre players look great.
F it. Let them play out the rest of the year and get this over with. I'm not wasting more time on them.
Correct. We have three guys whose minds are made up, regarding whether or not they'll be shooting on a particular possession, before they even embark upon their journey to the rim. I do believe Capel encourages it, so I don't know if it's selfish, stupid, or both. But driving into traffic like they do is very X and McGowens-esque, and it's basically a turnover that just doesn't show up as such on the stats sheet.
We were kind of fighting for our tournament lives down the stretch in Stallings 1, also... it's just that we ended up losing enough games that you couldn't really point to any one in particular as being the biggest disappointment. That may also end up being the case this season.
Come to think of it, that penultimate Dixon team also lost four in a row down the stretch when it probably could have gotten in the tournament by winning just two of those games. Then they carried that over to the NIT, in what was the poorest effort I have probably ever seen a team give.
Capels going nowhere , so everyone needs to get over it .
This collection of talent has a few major flaws that good coaches have exposed.
I don’t see any lack of effort in rebounding or defense, I just see guys who just aren’t good enough .
I’m not sure there are any easy solutions for this years team , if the current trend continues at some point JC needs to see what his younger bench players can do and get them some game experience .
In the current NIL world of college athletics unless they can bag a couple of whales I’m not sure anything above mediocrity can be expected.
This collection of talent has a few major flaws that good coaches have exposed.
I don’t see any lack of effort in rebounding or defense, I just see guys who just aren’t good enough .
I’m not sure there are any easy solutions for this years team , if the current trend continues at some point JC needs to see what his younger bench players can do and get them some game experience .
In the current NIL world of college athletics unless they can bag a couple of whales I’m not sure anything above mediocrity can be expected.
That's what I was thinking. We couldn't get an easy shot in the 1st Half. But they are 215th in defensive efficiency.
No. After beating UVa on January 4, we were probably in some "Next 4 Outs" but then we lost 9 in a row directly after so we were done quick.
So we were fighting for our tournament lives, then.
And what do you think this team is going to be after Saturday? Done quick.
Well, it's February 4 and we are in First 4 Out/Next 4 Out so we are still on the bubble. That's a month longer than Stallings Year 1.
Okay, then Dixon's next to last season has it beat, because that team was probably pretty close to last 4 in, or thereabouts, with 3 regular season games left. This team won't get that close.
Yeah, but is that partially because of playing a slow pace? In other words, scoring spurts could skew that because of fewer possessions. They looked pretty stout. They score and give up around 65 a game,
Right. I remember a weeknight game in late Feb/early March at home vs NC State. I felt we needed to win it to stay in contention for a bid. But Lennard Freeman, one of 84 players who Dixon lost to NC State, went off on us. That was a pretty crushing loss because it's at home, we needed the W and we couldn't beat a pedestrian NC St team.
No. Its efficiency. It's per possession. They are up to 205 in defensive efficiency after last night. One of the worst defensive teams in the ACC and we had 7 points in the 1st 15 minutes. Also, the worst rebounding team in the ACC.
Bingo. I remember watching the interview w/ Sam Clancy, I think it was before the Clemson loss and something about Capel's body language gave me pause. Something wasn't right. And then last night postgame - it was suicide watch look from him. For such a complete and utter meltdown like this team has experienced, there has to be some high drama behind the scenes.
We all know how good coaches handle this. They remove the problem and move on, knowing there is no individual who can really make a difference (outside of players above Pitt's pay grade). It is quite literally a team game. Plus he has years on a contract to work things out. The chumps (like Williard/Stallings) wait until the AD steps in. And the next time he steps in its removal for cause.
kinda random but maybe what this Pitt BB team deserves:
I said it when it happened that Dunn fouled out of the OSU game prior to his injury, his reaction looked bad as he smirked and laughed it off while it was at a critical point and game in the balance(excusable foul but his reaction just looked odd)
I don't know if he alone is poison or just one portion of it but this team is no team and Capel frankly is half of the reason for that
last year Capel had Blake in addition to a very hard working Bub along with role players,
this year he has no mature leader and the combination of the pretend leader that Lowe is and his roommate with inconsistent and low effort Corhen(maybe Capel f'd up bringing in) is Pitt's downfall
all that along with Dunn who appears to be the other big dose of bad chemistry
twins are nice kids and could be great role players if used properly with GDG at the 5 instead of Corhen and Jorge a legit spot shooter, Amsal was nothing and frankly had no chance mixed in with the above
Pitt has no other legit good ball handler than Lowe so while Zack and Ish/Cummings could work at the #3 and #2, that isn't a lineup we've seen much of
Capel and his assistants own this and at this point Capel needs to be gone......he won't be fired for at least 2 years but he's done
I said it when it happened that Dunn fouled out of the OSU game prior to his injury, his reaction looked bad as he smirked and laughed it off while it was at a critical point and game in the balance(excusable foul but his reaction just looked odd)
I don't know if he alone is poison or just one portion of it but this team is no team and Capel frankly is half of the reason for that
last year Capel had Blake in addition to a very hard working Bub along with role players,
this year he has no mature leader and the combination of the pretend leader that Lowe is and his roommate with inconsistent and low effort Corhen(maybe Capel f'd up bringing in) is Pitt's downfall
all that along with Dunn who appears to be the other big dose of bad chemistry
twins are nice kids and could be great role players if used properly with GDG at the 5 instead of Corhen and Jorge a legit spot shooter, Amsal was nothing and frankly had no chance mixed in with the above
Pitt has no other legit good ball handler than Lowe so while Zack and Ish/Cummings could work at the #3 and #2, that isn't a lineup we've seen much of
Capel and his assistants own this and at this point Capel needs to be gone......he won't be fired for at least 2 years but he's done
That OSU game was really fools gold. If they make even a reasonable amount of the FTs down the stretch or Austin clanks that shot, this season's expectations never even exist and we probably realize what this team is even sooner. We saw the defensive and rebounding lapses, and propensity for me-ball offense, when blowing the big lead to Wisconsin.
This year, other than Duke and possibly 'Ville, the ACC is very weak. You can't compare this year's results with what happened in Stallings Year 1.
Some may say we're still on the bubble, but those of us who are at the games and are watching this team play, know that we're not on the bubble at all. And that's not a good thing.
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