Missing Stevie

[tower912]

It wasn't a foul.  Nigel bounced the ball off the sideline.

[Elonsmusk]

It wasn't a foul.  Nigel bounced the ball off the sideline.

Didn't realize that..assumed they called a foul based on how tight they were with the whistle. 

Like you, I'm not in overreact mode due to one bad game where we were neutered defensively, while playing a team who was on fire from 3, one of which was a half court shot.  Perfect storm today. 

[MU82]

Didn't realize that..assumed they called a foul based on how tight they were with the whistle. 

Like you, I'm not in overreact mode due to one bad game where we were neutered defensively, while playing a team who was on fire from 3, one of which was a half court shot.  Perfect storm today. 

I actually appreciate that you aren't overreacting; neither am I.

But the officiating had absolutely nothing to do with us losing this game. And you know basketball well enough to realize that.

[StillWarriors]

I'm not worried at all about Shaka and his teams going forward. I am worried about this year's team.

The good news is the offense looks okay, even with a bunch of missed bunnies and open threes.

But this program needs to defend.

I thought the offense looked pretty bad. Very little team offense and way too much reliance on individual dribble drives. Drawing fouls is great, but almost all of it came on one person dribbling and trying to create for difficult drives. Fortunately, we did draw a lot of fouls but not sure we will always get the calls and there was very little offense that seemed to come from some kind of design. Most of our possessions I could not figure out what our offensive objective was. A far cry from the beautiful read and react offense we saw at times over the past few years.

Hopefully Sean will slow down and get under some sense of control. He was a high wire act every time he touched the ball. Parham and Caedin battled on O but the ball seemed to stop with them a lot and they are both under the rim players that had to fight hard for every bucket they got inside. Things came way too difficult on the offensive end.

And then there was the defense...

Tough day. Better days ahead.