Oso planning to go pro
In the coach's defense, deciding to press seemed to up the energy level in #5. But I don't understand why Sy is getting minutes over Elliott at this point. And why Garcia is only a screener/decoy.
There seemed to be a real lack of urgency from the start. Like they expected DePaul to roll over. Wojo said he told them to play like their lives depended on it, but they ran out of steam after taking back the lead. If only they'd shown that urgency from the start.
At this point, I'm at a loss regarding the turnovers. It's no longer a bug but a feature for this team.
So here is a question that national stats may or may not provide any insight on...We know Wojo's defensive philosophy is risk averse and doesn't attempt to force steals for the most part. So in practice, the team is going against a defense that doesn't attempt to turn the ball over much...then in real games e face much more aggressive defensive schemes. Is this one source of the horrible turnover problems? Is there a correlation between not turning over opponents and turning it over yourselves that is independent of team quality? Because of course you'd expect bad teams to have bad turnover differentials as well.
May well be, but this team really has a lot of unforced TOs or puts the ball in precarious spots that make steals easy.
Free BeeJay2021
No energy.Allowed Depaul's aggressive play to make them play passive.KOBY the only senior showing leadership.Garcia taken out of the game.More Greg, less Symir.Wojo chooses to have 10 and play 8. Limits options when you have a team playing without energy. Half expected the 5 player substitution.As pathetic a game as I have seen from MU in the Wojo era.
Finally got to watch the replay. Wow....that was awful. Your points are well taken Tower. I have no clue what we were thinking in our offensive sets.
Glad you saw the game. As you now witnessed, DePaul actually played lousy as well, so we had to play an especially poor game to lose.
how could you subject yourself to that hell
I couldn't agree more. The first 25+ mins were absolutely brutal.
My son, who is a basketball fan but not a Marquette fan, stood up at halftime and said "I don't know why you watch this sh*t" and left the room.He has a point.
He certainly does FBM. The lack of discipline on this team and basic fundamentals is eye-opening. And they're in many areas on both ends of the floor. Now it's possible I and others have overestimated our talent but I do believe we are still capable of beating any team in our league as we did Creighton. However, our margin for error is infinitesimal because we kick the ball away like 6th graders. Worse, with the exception of McEwen, I did not see great tenacity and effort on the floor. There is a lack of leadership and toughness combined with a lot of confusion and hesitation. This is a formula for death in college hoops and it's extremely upsetting. Hopefully we come out with our hair on fire Wednesday because among very bad performances, that was utter garbage at a biblical level.
We can go over each deficiency until we’re blue in the face but the most troublesome part to me is the amount of time the team and coaching staff had to develop and execute scouting reports and game plans against the three worst teams in conference. 9 days for Georgetown 3 days for SJU6 days for DePaul Save SJU which is a normal turnaround in normal times, having at least a week to come up with and execute a game plan against Gtown and DePaul is more than adequate and we saw two of the most abject performances of the Wojo era in those two games..