Scholarship table
The once great Tyler Polley went 1-7 from deep against St. John's, with most of those being unguarded.
Noticed that, too. And I also noticed that Adam Kunkel is 1-for-15 from 3 since he hit that circus shot to beat us. Jimmy Nichols, who made a few against us including one from behind the backboard while falling out of bounds, is a career 28% 3-point shooter.Then again, Zegarowski went 0-for-7 against us, helping us pull off the upset. He was significantly outplayed by none other than Greg Elliott.Gotta love sports!One reason many of us love sports is because unpredictable stuff happens all the time. It's why I don't ever watch reality TV -- the only real reality TV is live sports.
In addition to Kunkel's struggles, Xavier as a team has the worst 3P% in conference play at 29.6%. That's despite a 13-24 performance against MU.
Right, weird stuff happens which is why you evaluate the body of work. And Wojos, after 6.5 sessons, is still meh.I'm glad we won, but having a 2 game winning "streak" against middling BE teams that has us on the outside of the bubble looking in isnt exactly what I thought I'd b getting excited about in the middle of year 7.If we get to 4 or 5 in a row, then we can start to talk of cabbages and kings.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Sigh. Not every post is about Wojo.I find no fault with anyone who looks at Wojo's overall body of work and says "meh." I'm in that camp myself. I also find no fault with anyone who looks at Wojo's overall body of work and says "He's not the guy, I want him fired." I may be there myself depending on how the rest of the season plays out.I do find fault with, or maybe "am amused by" is the better terminology, those who put a ton of emphasis on single game performances.
Right, we agree, that was my point.It's far better that we beat SJU than we lost to SJU, but it didn't move my needle much on how the season is going.
Agreed on how it's gone, but the win did move the needle a bit for how it will go. At St. John's was the "Bottom 4" game that I thought we had the greatest chance of losing. Preseason, I had them pegged as a loss. Now that we've won, I more confident that we can go 7-1 or even 8-0 against the Bottom 4 which will be necessary to make the tourney.
He's called me that a couple of times, which leads me to believe he has no idea what the word means.
Also if you can build a lead without a player, shouldn’t you be able to keep that lead without that player?
Huh?
Huh?It’s been pointed out (correctly) by several Scoopers that teams at full strength blow leads all the time. It’s the nature of the game, especially since the shot clock and thr three point line were established. And if a team is playing without its best player it stands to reason that blowing a lead would happen with even greater frequency.
YOU want Brian Wardle?! lol!
Better coach than the current mediocrity
You wouldn’t want him know who he is if he graduated from any other school.
I think the point is that leads get blown all the time. It happened under Buzz, it happened under Crean, it happens. Not so much under Deane because MU never got big leads playing that slow.
Maybe Ben Howland would have been the right choice for MU, after all.In Mississippi State’s lopsided home loss to archrival Mississippi, Howland’s team failed to handle the Ole Miss 2-3 zone. As a bonus, “They really just came out and played harder than us,” MSU guard DJ Stewart said.
So you called Crean "The Used Car Salesman", Buzz "The Lonesome Cowboy", and Wojo "The Golden PowerPoint Boy" and you wanted them all fired. Fine, but your choice to set us straight is "Pied Piper" Wardle?
MSU was probably just more tired than Ole Miss.