Basketball Loses Again

Maybe – The team is young, we need to ride this out.

he’s certainly bringing in more talent than we’ve had here in a long time, but he’s been spectacularly boneheaded at times this year with his insistence on running the offense through dwayne collins. it just ground the offense to a halt on soo many occasions & he never just gave the reigns fully to durand for some reason. but positives: the team went from getting utterly blown out on the road to being competitive in every game. they certainly did not quit on him or on each other. he started giving big minutes to julian gamble who has turned out to be like jimmy graham but with some basketball skills, which is something that the team was definitely missing. & again, the team is really talented, and he’s been able to get players like julian & garrius adams from deep in acc country that duke/unc/wake/clemson etc didn’t want, and he’s been able to develop those guys to the point where they look like really good players. tonight we had by far the best player on the floor (durand) and probably the second best big man (julian). just the in game coaching at times baffles me, but he was really betrayed this year by his supposed best player. i think this is a team that could make a run at the sweet 16 in two years if durand scott sticks around for his junior year (and right now his jump shot isn’t nearly good enough for the nba).

It’s the same crap every year. This team has the same problems every year. They shoots too many 3’s, can’t break a press, inconsistent D, no fluidity on offense, can’t win on the road, etc etc.

McClinton covered up a lot of flaws for a couple of years but Haith is being exposed. Everyone says that they are young but thats not entirely true. 3 freaking starters are seniors. A team led by a senior Dwayne Collins and a senior James Dews, then you add Grant and Scott, should be much better than this. This should definitely be a tournament team, especially in an ACC conference that is horrible this year.

Frank Haith is a pretty good recruiter but a very, very average coach. Has Dwayne Collins improved? Minimally. He’s pretty much the same player that he was 4 yrs ago. How many times does he get a limited amount of touches, while we jack up 3’s? I’ve seen enough. Get him out of here.

I miss you Leonard Hamilton. =(

with Jodeci. and before McClutch we had Guillermo Diaz. We never attack in the paint enough. At least drive to the basket and draw a foul. Somethng, anything – LOL. I don’t know what his contract status is but…….or maybe he needs better assistants? I don’t know but it is ugly

“It’s the same crap every year. This team has the same problems every year. They shoots too many 3’s, can’t break a press, inconsistent D, no fluidity on offense, can’t win on the road, etc etc.”

i don’t agree with the criticism re: dwayne. there’s only so many things a coaching staff can do before the senior should go “okay, i’m 22, i’m gonna step it up”. it’s always the same shit with him. and dews played well, but he should be your second best player in the best case scenario. he played about as well as possible this year i thought.

we’ll see next year — if they do the same shit & try and run the offense through the post when the post players are reggie johnson & julian gamble (good players i think, but guys who get points off rebounds & driving & dishing) & not through durand, malcom & garrius (and dequan jones ::crosses chest::) then i might give up on frank.

our boys did not quit and fought through. Although if this was a real Roy Williams team we would have been blown out. Imagine playing the way we play this year against Hansbrough, Green and Ellington? And no McClutch? Oh wait, nooooooo I am getting a visual……..

Great drawn up play by Frank Haith after 2 timeouts. Can anyone tell me what that play was?

And yes that’s Leonard Hamilton comfortably in the NCAA Tournament at 22-8 and with 10 conference wins. Yeah, he’s EXACTLY like Perry Clark. It’s an insult to even mention Hamilton’s name in the same sentence as that bum. And he’s heads and shoulders a better coach than Frank Haith ever will be.