Stetson thoughts

[Dr. Blackheart]

"Huh huh huh...f#ck Marquette..."

Poetry in lotion...I mean motion.

[ChicosBailBonds]

MU has officially become St. Louis

Gents, SLU's trajectory is nothing but down.  I realize some of you are joking, but then I wonder if you are.  SLU is in deep trouble, getting worse by the year, likely firing their coach after this year.  No recruits of any type of repute.

MU's record getting better, good class coming in, extremely young.

Let's get a little dose of reality.  Playing the long game here, which I realize most Americans can't handle more than like 4 minutes of.

[forgetful]

My big thought of this game and several this year.  We actually are over emphasizing getting the ball into the post, which leads to poor ball movement.  Often when there is a guy wide open a pass or two away on the perimeter, the ball stops for 2-3 seconds in each players hands as they look to see if the big can get position. 

That lets the defense rotate back over and makes D easy.  We need the ball moving fast and the bigs expecting an entry two passes away.

[NotAnAlum]

This team ran a beautiful high low pass from Luke to Henry for the first play of the game resulting in a foul that should have been a basket and one; AND THEN THEY NEVER RAN THAT PLAY AGAIN the next 39 minutes.   I just don't get it.  I would love to know what this team does in practice.  Do they just screw around.  We got out to a big lead because they couldn't hit anything and we couldn't miss.  But once shots got harder to come by it was JJJ driving and everyone else just watching.
Again I don't know what Wojo is trying to achieve.  What is "Wojo ball".  It doesn't appear to me that they are playing any more as a team than they were when the season started in November.
Very scared heading into the meat of the BE season.  When will we play enough consistent minutes together to win another game??

[ChitownSpaceForRent]

Maybe Haanif should come off the bench just for a scoring spark. Have Traci, Duane and JJJ start with Fisch and Hank. And if Traci picks up two early fouls, well it's not the end of the world.

[Johnny B]

Undeserved win. disappointed fans. Dissapointed everyone. What happened to Marquette basketball? :/

[bilsu]

And yet, he still had a double double (12/11). I can live with that for a bad game.

Iowa was his worst game ever.

The eleven rebounds included 4 missed tip ins. Three of which were on the same possession. Henry tipped the ball three times and than Haanif got the rebound and was fouled.

[ChicosBailBonds]

Undeserved win. disappointed fans. Dissapointed everyone. What happened to Marquette basketball? :/

How is a win undeserved in this case?  Did the other team score more points for us, but the refs removed those points?   Did we play 7 on 5?   What does this even mean?

[ChicosBailBonds]

This team ran a beautiful high low pass from Luke to Henry for the first play of the game resulting in a foul that should have been a basket and one; AND THEN THEY NEVER RAN THAT PLAY AGAIN the next 39 minutes.   I just don't get it.  I would love to know what this team does in practice.  Do they just screw around.  We got out to a big lead because they couldn't hit anything and we couldn't miss.  But once shots got harder to come by it was JJJ driving and everyone else just watching.
Again I don't know what Wojo is trying to achieve.  What is "Wojo ball".  It doesn't appear to me that they are playing any more as a team than they were when the season started in November.
Very scared heading into the meat of the BE season.  When will we play enough consistent minutes together to win another game??

Plenty of video on the MU website that show their practices if you wish to watch.

[bilsu]

The way the team is playing right now, there is a reasonable chance that tonights game was the last win of the season.

[MU82]

JJ's best game offensively.  Has he finally found consistency?

"Consistency" suggests it's something a person does over and over again.

If you have to ask if a guy has found consistency ... he hasn't! (At least not yet.)

Otherwise, I agree JJJ played well ... and with pretty much everything else you mentioned.

I'm not sure Henry and Luke have combined to play worse. I'll just chalk it up as a bad game. It will be a distant memory after we beat Butler. Go Marquette!

[WarriorPride68]

The way the team is playing right now, there is a reasonable chance that tonights game was the last win of the season.

Leaving the game tonight

[GoldenZebra]

Yikes. Lets hope the Butler game is 10x better. Otherwise people are going to continue to be disappointed.

[keefe]

Poetry in lotion...I mean motion.

I haven't seen any improvement in his deficient "fund raising" skills...

That was such a smoke screen...

[NickelDimer]

I realize it's still somewhat early, but I'm so unimpressed with what Wojo's done with this team

[RushmoreAcademy]

I think I had gotten used it looking like we wanted it more than the other team.  I could turn on any game, and even if we were outgunned, I was confident that we were going to give 'em hell.   It's tough when that goes away. Suddenly we aren't getting to loose balls, not playing aggressively.... that's the toughest part as a fan to adjust to.  I don't think it's Wojo's fault.  The guy seems to want to run out and get every loose ball for himself.  But then sometimes it looks like the players are expecting that to actually happen so they don't bother.
All that said, I think the future will be brighter for this squad. I think that transition of coaches just takes a little longer than we ever want it to.

[mu_hilltopper]

Contrast to the Badgers .. first sentence of their article yesterday ..

"Game by game they're growing, maturing and getting tougher to defeat.

Wisconsin interim head coach Greg Gard can sense it. His players feel it. They believe."

[Frenns Liquor Depot]

Contrast to the Badgers .. first sentence of their article yesterday ..

"Game by game they're growing, maturing and getting tougher to defeat.

Wisconsin interim head coach Greg Gard can sense it. His players feel it. They believe."

Despite the urge of some to not judge/get angry because everyone is young and trying really hard.  This was the only thing I wanted to see this year.  My frustration is not the record as much as I feel like I have watched the same game on a loop since christmas break.

Also, youth has re-emerged as an official excuse - now back in the quotes in the post-game interviews.  Luke, Duane, Sandy need to step up and start playing like they are or are about to (sandy) be upper classman. 

To be fair the progression of JJJ has been amazing - getting better every game -- and doing what i hoped the group above would do.

[jesmu84]

Despite the urge of some to not judge/get angry because everyone is young and trying really hard.  This was the only thing I wanted to see this year.  My frustration is not the record as much as I feel like I have watched the same game on a loop since christmas break.

Also, youth has re-emerged as an official excuse - now back in the quotes in the post-game interviews.  Luke, Duane, Sandy need to step up and start playing like they are or are about to (sandy) be upper classman. 

To be fair the progression of JJJ has been amazing - getting better every game -- and doing what i hoped the group above would do.

Agreed about all of this.

Luke seems to be the same player he was when he started last season.

Duane appears to be hitting some sort of wall after progression last year and early this year.

Sandy started much better this year than last, then fell apart/regressed the last 8 games.

JJJ had a rough start to the year but is improving each half over the last 8.

[The Lens]

MU has officially become St. Louis

But at least we practice Free Throws, hey?

[MUfan12]

Duane appears to be hitting some sort of wall after progression last year and early this year.

Have we been watching the same guy since the Xavier game?

[vogue65]

This team ran a beautiful high low pass from Luke to Henry for the first play of the game resulting in a foul that should have been a basket and one; AND THEN THEY NEVER RAN THAT PLAY AGAIN the next 39 minutes.   I just don't get it.  I would love to know what this team does in practice.  Do they just screw around.  We got out to a big lead because they couldn't hit anything and we couldn't miss.  But once shots got harder to come by it was JJJ driving and everyone else just watching.
Again I don't know what Wojo is trying to achieve.  What is "Wojo ball".  It doesn't appear to me that they are playing any more as a team than they were when the season started in November.
Very scared heading into the meat of the BE season.  When will we play enough consistent minutes together to win another game??

I think Wojo yells at them.  When someone leaves a well oiled machine like Duke, it must be very frustrsting.

[Newsdreams]

1. Entiendo que es difícil mantener la intensidad con un punto de 22 minuto 10, pero en serio?
2. ¿Cuántas faltas ofensivas hicieron Henry y Lucas se combinan para esta noche?
3. ¿Cuál era peor, pase de Henry Lucas (?) O un pase de JJ a la segunda fila?
Etc...

Very well done! 

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Basketball is a game of runs. We had a big one in the first half. They had a not as big one in the second half. We finished the game strong and ipso facto we win by double digits.

That second half stunk real bad. But it shouldn't negate what we saw in the first half. The only reason we're down is because we had a big lead at half shrink by 12 in the second half. If we had beaten them by seven each half instead of by 26 in the first and -12 in the second we would be fine.

Those turnovers were brutal though. To have more turnovers in a game than Stetson is really bad. Seems like freshmen pgs aren't always the immediate answer

[WarriorPride68]

To be fair the progression of JJJ has been amazing - getting better every game -- and doing what i hoped the group above would do.

JJJ has been getting better and better.

Also fair to say that thru 21 games his two 20 point games have been against Grambling & Stetson at home & is averaging 5.8 ppg in Big East play. JJJ will be critical to lift MU over Butler this weekend