A Collective Failure

[Mu8891]

Viper - yes ... less and less
" optimists of dumbassery " around to defend Shaka.  Unfortunately my guess would be that Kimo and Broeker are two of them ...

[illiniwarriors]

Marquette University has been ranked as high as #20 on what they spend on their Men's basketball program in recent years. We have the resources to be competitive.
The problem is we have a coach who chooses not to take advantage of the new rules in college basketball.
If we keep the coach and he doesn't adapt to the new landscape of college basketball we are Doomed to fail.
No one will watch this crap on tv or pay $$ to attend games.
Contributions to the Blue & Gold fund will dry up.
Shaka needs to address the issues not only to the administration but the fans.
The scarry part is the coaching staff sees the talent level of the players every day in practice and yet they
believe these players can succeed in the Big East.

[geps]

I was being facetious with Shaka's annoying ass cliches and platitudes.

Yes in all seriousness you're 1000% right. You know it's bad when FS1 has graphics ready for our awful layup percentages and we manage to hit that average.

Anyone know what national average is for layup %? I have no idea.

[Shooter McGavin]

Shaka and the coaches were enamored with the development of the original secondary NBA and high major players on their roster and thought they could do the same with similarly "ranked" high school players that were not in anyway similar in talent. 

Many scoopers, including myself, had said that since the end of last year the roster didn't look good enough , with the caveat the we HOPED Shaka and many on the board were right in their assessments that this new wave of players were good enough.  But it was pretty obvious we didn't have any alphas mentally or elite basketball skills on the roster (elite passers, elite shooters, elite rebounders, elite basketball instincts of any sort). 

Huge lesson for everyone that stats don't lie and really, the eye test doesn't lie.  To be a consistent top 25 team in the future we all should feel REALLY confident that 3-4 players are ELITE at something on our team.  Not HOPE they will be. 

I'll start.  On next years team Nigel is an elite ball handler. 

Thats it.  Thats the entirety of the list so far for next year.  So Shaka and the coaches have some work to do.