Kolek planning to go pro
rockyWould an Arby's coupon reference make you happy?ATL MU WarriorWhy leave? Maybe a million dollar a year raise and the advancement in his chosen career.
Amazing what the spin meisters and Wojo excuse makers come up with. The fact that Butler was ubstoppable near the end further pins the loss directly on Wojo. What defensive adjustments did Wojo make? All the players are his. Markus flubbing and missing shots are Wojos responsibility. "He has the ultimate green light" Wojo is a terrible bench coach. He needs more assistants to help him.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Sir Bernstein,Is that meat gravy on your shirt?There's a reason Wojo was welded to the Duke bench for almost two decades. Unfortunately, Marquette is learning why that was.The fundamental difference between a KO, Crean or Buzz and Wojo is that the former three are sublimely intelligent. Wojo sits decidedly lower on the Stanford-Binet scale. The shell shocked look on his face towards the end of games is telling.
82Guys are not assistants for 15 years and become HC. You always not this is not the '70's anymore, same holds true to your comparisons. Coaches are younger and younger. He was welded to the bench for a reason.
Goose:That's ridiculous. With all due respect.
I specifically said that Wojo not knowing what the score was and ordering a dumb play be made by one of his players was NOT (ultimately anyway) the reason we lost. His deer in the headlights inability to notice/adjust to the fact that Butler was doing the same thing successfully time after time after time down the stretch and his acquiescence to Markus playing hero ball was. But not effectively adjusting in game and having a free reign star system have been hallmarks of the Wojo era from day one. And it hasn’t stopped his supporters from comparing him to Jay Wright, K and other coaching legends. But when a guy doesn’t even know what the score is at crunch time that is, to me at least, incompetence at a whole other level. And when it’s added to lack of adjustments, star system, inability to control the locker room, etc., etc., it pushed me over the ledge. I hope he can recruit well enough to overcome his sideline inadequacies, but if I’m up against him on the trail my message would be simple - “Do you want to entrust your NBA dream to a guy who doesn’t even know the score”?
MarcusI never questioned Wojo's resume. That has never been mentioned by me. FYI--Most of the guys you noted remember the Al era, any young guys? How long was KO, Crean or Buzz an assistant and what age did they get hired for first HC job?
The defense doesn't bother me much. Baldwin was settling for long 2s, the most inefficient shot in basketball. Most times a player will regress to the mean and start missing, Baldwin didn't. What bothered me more was Markus deciding that the last two minutes was a 1 on 1 match with Baldwin. He's done it before and the coaches need to anticipate his tendencies and coach him out of it.
my argument would be is that shot is Kamar's shot. He did regress to the mean by making all of those. He ended up 10 for 25. Change the defense. Either get the ball out of his hands, or doible off the screen, or zone. Like I said before, I hope it is a teaching moment. Same with markus. We dont k ow what wojo said to him after or in film session. Hopefully we see improvement by both.
Down 1 w 5 seconds left. Doable.
I doubt Wojo will. I think Kamar was taking the shots Wojos wanted him to. He just kept making them, and Markus wasn't answering with a 3.Just like some coaches are okay with letting Markus try to beat them from deep. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't.There were a million ways Butler coulda, shoulda lost that game. They found the one way to win. Endgame.
Morons?
And the A-10 Gatling gun went “BBBRRRRRRRRRRT”Or did it go “Bert” ?Talked to an F16 pilot the other day, and when I told him how the A10 is the most awesome plane in the history of our military, he said “yeah but it’s soooo slow it has a bird strike problem...in the tail.” I’m like “whatever. For close-support operations and sheer value to ground troops, it blows your fancy Mach-whatever away.”To use an analogy, I would say Wojo is A10 (a meat and potatoes Coach) to others’ F16 drizzle. The dude is a smart guy who made a mistake. Let it be.
Goose:You and I agree on a lot of stuff and we have a good relationship. You're wrong on this one but it appears you're just a little too stubborn and dug-in to admit it. That's cool. It happens to all of us sometimes.As I said earlier, there are many, many, MANY reasons to criticize Wojo, and I have used some of them myself. Criticizing him for using his time as an assistant coach, learning under the winningest coach in history and waiting for what he felt was his "right" opportunity ... that's just silly. It smacks of looking for something - anything! - to nitpick about.