Phillips needs to work on his lateral footwork and defensive posture....

Any one with any quickness that he needs to guard goes around him like he isn't even there.....

Don't know how to do it.....But it has to get done for him to become a significant minute player unless we start playing extensive zone....

Yes, I might just still be in denial that cbb is effectively dead. 

AKOTSK novellas are fun quick reads and the show was fantastic. As they always seem to do on GOT, acting absolutely crushes it. The hope for the next couple seasons with existing published material is a writer's room that doesn't start writing fanfic like HOTD started doing.

I guess you need a Pitino/Calipari and $12 million a year from some NIL billionaire for 7 NIL players who are playing for the cash....

Pretty much the state of college Bball.....

Unless you go hybrid and get lucky....

Or bring in 5 semi-pro foreigners that are in their 20's and have already played semi-pro EURO ball....

No....I forgot....College is about the student athlete....LOL!

Quote from: rocky_warrior on February 24, 2026, 10:17:39 PMNo, I wouldn't say that.   

We're making progress then!

The Bulls don't even think about playing defense, do they?

Quote from: DFW HOYA on February 24, 2026, 11:57:53 PMThat's a good point. This is 11 consecutive years of declining returns, visibly declining crowds, and coaches who lose goodwill fast. When three consecutrive coaches with completely different approaches to the game run into the same brick wall, maybe someone needs to start investigating the wall.

Here's the turnout tonight:

Yeah, I don't think that's 4,519 or whatever the official number was.

Really feel for you true GU hoops fans- surely some of the 600 lawyers you put out every year care about ball and can come up with some coin? Although I suppose most of them will be facing the AI unemployment line pretty soon....

I mean, if somehow the BET bracket miracously broke where we only had to play 1 of Nova, SJU and UCONN, we could have one further miracle and 3 emminately winnable games...

Of course even then...

And if Chase and Parham out...

But I'm not despondent about any game from 4 to 11.

Quote from: 1SE on February 24, 2026, 11:50:49 PMIt's such a cautionary tale - and seems like a doom loop - not gonna get resources without wins, not gonna get wins without resources.

That's a good point. This is 11 consecutive years of declining returns, visibly declining crowds, and coaches who lose goodwill fast. When three consecutrive coaches with completely different approaches to the game run into the same brick wall, maybe someone needs to start investigating the wall.

Here's the turnout tonight:

Quote from: DFW HOYA on February 24, 2026, 08:11:36 PMIt's not Ed. It's the program.

It's such a cautionary tale - and seems like a doom loop - not gonna get resources without wins, not gonna get wins without resources.

Hopefully Shaka and the whales take note and do whatever it takes this off-season. In this era a team can fall to semipermanent irrelevance pretty fast.