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Here is the thing. Ners, for whatever reason, was so emotionally invested in JaJuan, Deonte, and Dawson, that how they were handled by Buzz and then Wojo completely infused his opinion of Buzz's last year and then Wojo. His mind was made up about Wojo in December of 2014 when two of the three left. It still galls him and it still infuses his perception of every decision Wojo makes. Nobody here is going to change his mind. No argument exists. With time, if Wojo proves successful, maybe ners will evolve, but he will always believe that Wojo messed up with three players that Ners was fond of. And any thing that is less successful will only reinforce that perception. Can't be changed. Accept, work around.
Ffs, he will have won between 105-110 games in years 2-6. Averaging 21-22 wins a year over a 5 year stretch is considered successful most places.
82, Tower - Brew hit the nail on the head with his post about Cain being a bench player, and thus why his leash is shorter/needs to play really well to get minutes.Ultimately, I don't believe Bailey is better than Cain - which is where my frustration comes in. I suspect if the roles were reversed and Cain had the long leash, and Brendan the short leash - Cain's numbers would be much better than Brendan trying to prove himself in 2-4 minutes of run. Think Wojo has gotten it wrong multiples times at MU as it relates to who his best players are/starters should be.Bailey came in and was started his first 3 games at MU last year - perhaps he "earned" that based on how he played in practice. However, Cain had a pretty good freshman season. Cain has just gotten back to the form he had as a freshman. Not uncommon in Wojo's tenure for players to regress/lose confidence - Duane Wilson, Cohen, Cheatham, Morrow, to name a few.I've complimented Wojo multiple times this year. Hated how he coached Years 1 & 2 particularly - and yes that colored my perception moving forward. However, he's improved some. The team is exceeding my expectations this season - for the first time in his 6 years as head coach.Guess I shouldn't have expected the guy to be a quick study, as he's been the classic grinder. Let's hope he proves out the parable of the turtle vs the hare. Will be interesting to see what Wojo is able to achieve going forward without Markus - which was ultimately the "joke" of the Wojo's Playbook "banner."
Cherry picking. What about last season's meltdown. What about his inability to deal with Hausergate. Those are just 2 recent examples that you conveniently forget. Could go on, such as inability to win a dance game, inability to do well in BEast tourney, etc., FFS. But to you and your slobbering Wojo bias it matters not. Your idea of success is your opinionIf you look at Wojos overall performance for 6 years objectively it has been average. And he has the best resources in the league. Not a stellar success, hence according to you he needs at least another 6 years to better evaluate. After all he is still a work in progress and has us trending upward as evidenced by his record in the league this year all with the best resources.
Wojo is not a solid coach, sorry. His teams have no identity on either end of the court, or with intangibles. Wednesday’s loss they looked so bad on offense because there was no off the ball movement. It was just jack up a three or someone, mostly Markus, try to take his man one on one. Then the final 10-12 minutes they played off each other, moved and cut without the ball, and got themselves back in the game. Meanwhile, Nova was playing team offense all game. But the question becomes, how is it after 6 years they don’t have a discernible offensive system in place to fall back on and prevent that from happening so you don’t fall into a trap of playing individual basketball? I’m not writing off Wojo, but I just don’t see him being anything more than ordinary at best and results of previous 5 years back up my opinion.
So he gets credit for his team falling behind but not for them coming back and making it a one-possession game with the ball in the final 15 seconds?We could win a national title this year and we'll still hear "Wojo got lucky Markus got hot," "It's not that impressive because we didn't beat a higher seed until the Final Four," or "but how will he win in the future without this senior class?"The idea that we have no offensive identity when we have the 17th ranked offense in the country & 2nd in the conference is beyond ridiculous. Especially when the last 4 years have been ranked 8/12/32/17. The rest of the Big East coaches must be really effing stupid if they can't stop us with "no discernable offensive system."Give me a damn break. Do you know how many other coaches have had top-32 offenses each of the past 4 years? Just 6: John Calipari, Bill Self, Mike Krzyzweski, Jay Wright, Chris Mack, & Randy Bennett. Either Wojo is a really good offensive coach or there are about 345 really really terrible offensive coaches out there.
Wojo is not a solid coach, sorry. His teams have no identity on either end of the court, or with intangibles. Wednesday’s loss they looked so bad on offense because there was no off the ball movement. It was just jack up a three or someone, mostly Markus, try to take his man one on one. Then the final 10-12 minutes they played off each other, moved and cut without the ball, and got themselves back in the game. Meanwhile, Nova was playing team offense all game. But the question becomes, how is it after 6 years they don’t have a discernible offensive system in place to fall back on and prevent that from happening so you don’t fall into a trap of playing individual basketball? I’m not writing off Wojo, but I just don’t see him being anything more than ordinary at best and results of previous 5 years, especially late season performances, back up my opinion.
Marquette's offense is the 17th best offense in the country this year, was 32nd last year, was 12th the year before, and was 8th the year before. Using Marquette's offense to prove Wojo stinks is...odd.
If I wasn’t giving Wojo credit, I wouldn’t have even mentioned the run. I described our offense against Villanova for what it was. We were easy to guard for way too much of the game, and it was unacceptably poor. Sorry that ruffles you feathers. If our offense has been so great under Wojo, and offensive rankings tell the whole story, how do you explain zero NCAA wins, two appearances only, and an epic meltdown last March where Nova backed into the regular season championship. At least rankings will help you feel better that everything is just dandy.
If it would have been less than awful most of Wednesday’s game, we probably win it. We still had a chance the last minute in spite of all the problems. And again begs the question, how does that happen? It was way more than just an off night shooting as previously stated. What’s going to happen to our wonderful offensive rankings when we don’t have the most prolific scorer in school history anymore? A guy that score 20 without breaking a sweat.
The offense got us plenty of open looks which we didn’t hit. Watch the game again. The coaching staff cannot make shots for players.
Cain has just gotten back to the form he had as a freshman. Not uncommon in Wojo's tenure for players to regress/lose confidence - Duane Wilson, Cohen, Cheatham, Morrow, to name a few.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.