Nice half team.

2twooed wrote:

Fordham is one of the few teams all year that have figured out that if you double off the high screen and deny Potter any lanes we have no offense. If we have so many offense sets why don't we use them. Our post defense has been terrible all year and we never help or change up defenses. Our talent level is pretty weak but a coach has to try to mix things up and see if something else works. I've been all in for Christian but what I've seen the last 1/4 of the year is not encouraging. What a horrible half.

Very well put!
 

A big fat fucking first half F.  What the hell are they so afraid of that they are playing like this?

Last year's team would've smoked these guys
 

Gwmayhem, you're right again!

Free...does this look like a well coached team to you?  I can probably list 10 things that I don't like about Christian so far, but yes, I will continue to give him the benefit of the doubt.   

If Fordham made some of their earlier wide open 3s, it would be a lot worse.
Also don't understand our plays as noted above. We seem to have 3 plays: 1)a very basic pick and roll that players learn in elementary school, usually complemented with a dropped pass or stripped ball 2) Jock up a 3 with no one under the boards (very important to not have someone not in a position to rebound and 3) Armel overdribbling the ball for 25 seconds and either making a nice, but dangerous pass for a 3 point attempt or driving and often taking a crazy circus shot that 25 percent he makes, 30 percent he is bailed out with a foul (not as beneficial as one would think, especially late in the game) and 45 percent doesn't work out.
Don't know what happened to the other plays. Although we are developing a fourth: Shawn dribbling the ball until he is stripped, passes to another team or commits an offensive foul, sometimes unwarranted. Not necessarily all Shawn's fault as he has no help.

One measure of a good coach is an ability to make half time adjustments and get back in the game.  Lets see what happens.  

The dude sure knows basketball. Let's blame Lonergan. Isn't this the same "dude" who claimed Jorgensen wasn't an A-10 level recruit? 
Losing to Fordham 3 times in 1 year has to rate as an all time low in the history of our program. How far we have fallen since winning the NIT 4 short years ago!
This is what happens when you hire a guy who was only .500 after 7 years in the NEC and MAAC, 2 of the lower ranked conferences in the Country.
I'm really looking forward to the next couple years while JC tries to grow into the job. That worked really well for our last coach who was also in over his head.

Yeah even Skip Bayless would be embarrassed to blame this situation on Lonergan. The big thing that we’ve had issues with since ML was fired is we do not have any playmakers who we can rely on. Even St Joe’s has Ryan Daly who you can give the ball to if need be.   JC needs to find a new Junior Robinson and he needs to find one fast.

In addition, over the last 4 years we’ve somehow acquired the slippery-est hands in the A-10. I’ve never seen teams so consistently bad at passing, receiving, and collecting loose balls. It’s little stuff like that that seems to cost us any momentum.