Kolek planning to go pro
1. I had the foresight to park in the Front Street district away from the heavily congested XL.2. The rain in Hartford held off.3. Next week baseball season starts.4. It was great to see NYWarrior and JT92 who I have not seen in awhile.5. I had a great conversation with some alumni from Boston and St. Louis over a beer at City Steam. Thanks for coming to town. And had fun at the game with the Alum and his son who I went with.6. Is it a Kentucky and basketball thing as I thought there were surprisingly a ton of Murray State fans.7. This totally sucks horribly losing, but we were at least there and this team should be way better next year as everyone should improve and we have players coming in who should help fill the known defecencies.
I have an idea of some things Wojo could’ve done. First stop collapsing on Ja when they were hitting open shots. Our gameplan wasn’t working. You have to change it up. Second play Markus off the ball more and let Sacar run some point. Third do a better job taking advantage of our size. Play through the post every possession. Fourth play more zone. We did one possession and got a stop. Last I would’ve played Heldt. He couldn’t have done worse. He’s very disciplined on D and stays home. He also would’ve done a better job boxing out. The only thing Wojo couldn’t do was stick the an obvious bad game plan hoping it would magically start working
For all of you saying athleticism will help...SJU was one of the most athletic teams in the country, where did that get them?? Wojo's comments in the JS article really REALLY piss me off even more...talked about having to "examine" why they didn't pkay well the last 7 games of the season...Uhhh you should have had that figured out after the 2nd straight loss...more proof he has no idea what he's doing.
MU needs more playmakers and creators. Today showed it. It seems unbalanced rosters is a Wojo thing. MU current and future rosters need to get more athletic and stronger.Will he recruit and land Chicagoland hs kids? Will he land any of the Milwaukee area studs?
Last year we needed more size. Size was the issue, and more size coming in would lead us to the promised land. This year it's speed. I flushed my memory of two and three years ago, but know we were in "cubbard is bare" territory or "Henry unbalanced us" or some other excuse. After 5 years I think we can just cut to the bone: Every college team is going to have a deficiency. Good coaches adjust to minimize theirs and capitalize on their strengths. I thought WOJO might be getting to this point, but the end of this season demonstrates that was just wishful thinking.
Waking up this morning, I am surprised at how ticked off I still am about our pathetic performance yesterday. We are a laughing stock all throughout the media.“We are...A Joke!”There are gifs of Ja Morant murdering Joey Hauser on that nasty dunk (‘Ja Murders some White Dude’)The only upside is, the typical slant is how amazing Ja Morant looked rather than how inept we looked, but the Maruqtte players are the rodeo clowns.The part that upsets me is, the players gave up on this game and on this coach. And Marquette’s leadership will do nothing about it. When the Packers gave up on McCarthy after the loss to the Cardinals, Mark fired his ass because he knew the players were trying to tell him something. Wojo deserves the same.
0 toughness on this team, no chip, no fight
Wojo is not getting fired this week.But he has 365 days to win an NCAA game, or he's 100% fired.So there's that.
Would Murray State have won the Big East? Legit question and scary.
Go back one month and this board, along with a number of fans who say what you just did were praising the team and the fight it had after comebacks.....our fans have the memory of a 95 year old.
So life goes on and the world will not come to an end and MU basketball will reflect the expectations of the administration.
This has been the single biggest problem since he has gotten here.
+1000. This is entirely correct.We should have a season-by-season wiki page on excuses, so we can keep them all straight.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
My original post said "recruit hs kids", not transfers or walk-ons. Wojo doesn't even seem to dip his toe South of the Cheddar Curtain. It's intentional and I don't know why (and I am not just talking CPS kids).
Down 1 w 5 seconds left. Doable.
What makes you say that it's intentional?
Sorry that is unfair. I should have added the word “must” as in speculation. I see the majority of MU students being from Illinois, but I see no (as in zero) MUBB chatter about Illinois recruits. No mentions in pool that has been strong in the burbs for quite some time, including the kid from Rolling Meadows and the a traditionally strong ESCC and the CCL. I guess the charter doesn’t fly to PWK or DuPage airports? No effort at all in Chicago from the looks and sound of things. I would be happy to be proven wrong.
That team had toughness. This team does not.