Is Shaka doubling down or just protecting his guys?

[KingKolek]

I find myself growing increasingly frustrated after each postgame as Shaka rolls out the same cliches, the same excuses for why his team continuously fails to execute. And I ask myself each time, "Is he so daft that he doesn't understand this is absolutely not working?"

I have a great deal of respect for Shaka. I think he is a great, intelligent man. He's the type of person I want leading my program. But he's made so many decisions in the last year that shake me to my core. Can someone like this really not see what's happening right in front of him? Can he really think a frontcourt of Clark and Hamilton can win in the Big East? Can he think this roster construction makes any sense at all?

A key aspect to his approach is "relationships." He has loyalty to his guys. He respects those who put in the effort here at Marquette. So I wonder, does he see the writing on the wall, but understand it isn't nice to rip the players clearly not cut out for the roles he's thrust them into? Could his words and actions eventually contradict each other, as he does what must be done next offseason?

[The Sultan]

Don't read too much into post game comments.

[KingKolek]

Don't read too much into post game comments.

I think it's fair when they back up his actions. Not taking Hamilton out of the starting lineup shows a complacency to me.

[mileskishnish72]

A key aspect to his approach is "relationships." He has loyalty to his guys. He respects those who put in the effort here at Marquette. So I wonder, does he see the writing on the wall, but understand it isn't nice to rip the players clearly not cut out for the roles he's thrust them into? Could his words and actions eventually contradict each other, as he does what must be done next offseason?

He's going to have some work to do after this year.

[GoldenWarrior11]

He wouldn't, nor should he, throw our players under the bus.  He is going to remain positive because the roster isn't changing until the Spring.  He made one lineup change already today. 

I wouldn't be shocked if another isn't made in the coming games.

[The Sultan]

I think it's fair when they back up his actions. Not taking Hamilton out of the starting lineup shows a complacency to me.

I guarantee you it's not due to "complacency."

[#UnleashNigel]

I mean do you really want him to come out and point out the massive amounts of missing talent from trhe upper classmen?

[CountryRoads]

Sure hope it's the latter. We'll find out in March/April I guess.

[Spencer Pratt]

Link to presser?

[GoldenEagles03]

Link to presser?

They have posted the last couple pressers from losses.

[CountryRoads]

Link to presser?

https://youtu.be/IRXNZ5wZhh8

Here you go. Marquette won't post them for some reason.

[Billy Hoyle]

Has to protect the brand

[willie warrior]

I mean do you really want him to come out and point out the massive amounts of missing talent from trhe upper classmen?

He won't, because they are his boys.

[wadesworld]

Shakes you to the core?

No coach is going to cone out and say their roster sucks in the middle of a season.

[rocky_warrior]

No coach is going to cone out and say their roster sucks in the middle of a season.

Well, unless that coach is Rick Pitino.

[panda]

Shakes you to the core?

No coach is going to cone out and say their roster sucks in the middle of a season.

How could you forget this classic huggy bear rant??
https://www.nbcsports.com/college-basketball/news/bob-huggins-tees-off-on-teams-effort-apologizes-to-west-virginia-fans

[wadesworld]

Fair, fair. Very few coaches will come out and say that in the middle of the season.

[rocky_warrior]

Fair, fair. Very few coaches will come out and say that in the middle of the season.

An aside...this is still the best story about a coach in the modern era

Quinn Slazinski has an incredible story about his time at Iona with Rick Pitino.

Slazinski was asked about Pitino following West Virginia beating UCF Tuesday. Slazinski played for Pitino at Iona before the coach left for St. John's and he left for WVU. Little did people know he would share a story for the ages.

"I didn't box out and this was in practice. And he looks at me...I don't know if I can say this. Out of love, he said he will chop me up in seven pieces and send me back to Detroit, or Houston or wherever the bleep I'm from," Slazinski told the media Tuesday.

"Out of love."

[onepost]

https://x.com/cbeasmoresports/status/1997329707142914254?s=46&t=XcHvMHlRF0oCgzQY_T0_eg

For those asking how you want Shaka to act in these pressers, it would be nice if he showed a shred of this accountability.

[The Sultan]

https://x.com/cbeasmoresports/status/1997329707142914254?s=46&t=XcHvMHlRF0oCgzQY_T0_eg

For those asking how you want Shaka to act in these pressers, it would be nice if he showed a shred of this accountability.

OMG, seriously just focus on the stuff that's important. Not the post game presser.

[MarquetteMike1977]

I think it's fair when they back up his actions. Not taking Hamilton out of the starting lineup shows a complacency to me.

Agree. I love Caiden as a person he is awesome. But Caiden played about half the game today.
0 blocks 0 steals a turnover 1-5 from the field. Missed passes he did not make. The ball stops when it gets to him. Countless rebounds in his area he did not get and loose balls in his area he did not get.

[onepost]

OMG, seriously just focus on the stuff that's important. Not the post game presser.

We've spent all afternoon focusing on stuff that's important. Look at the title of the thread you're in: presser comments are literally what we're talking about.

Back to hammering the point home that Shaka has no grasp on roster construction I go.

[The Sultan]

Agree. I love Caiden as a person he is awesome. But Caiden played about half the game today.
0 blocks 0 steals a turnover 1-5 from the field. Missed passes he did not make. The ball stops when it gets to him. Countless rebounds in his area he did not get and loose balls in his area he did not get.

Ffs. It's Caedin.

[The Sultan]

We've spent all afternoon focusing on stuff that's important. Look at the title of the thread you're in: presser comments are literally what we're talking about.

It's a dumb and irrelevant topic.

[Johnny B]

Ffs. It's Caedin.

How pedantic can you be Sultan... of Swat.......