LOL that's the best rebuttal you can come up with?
The Hawks won, so I'm trying not to be hyper-critical of anything, but how does that happen?
I wish I could definitively say we won't have to worry about that "nepo fatigue" bs again after this season, but knowing my luck ............
Completely agree. Its exasperating. No reason Brock and the rest of the freshman shouldn't each have gotten 20 minutes. Krikke, PMac and even Perkins should have had their minutes cut.
You are right and McCaffery's player rotations are usually not understandable. I believe he has zero use for true point guards.
If Caitlin and Connor get married and have a daughter, that little girl will be just like this...
Tang took KSU to the Elite Eight last year and look like he had something going. They started the season 14-4 with losses to #21 USC, #12 Miami, Nebraska and by one at Texas Tech. Starting with the game at Iowa State where Tang accused TJ of spying on his huddle, they went on to finish 5-16. Something was going wrong as Tang picked up a number of technicals in subsequent games and made other unsavory comments about opponents as his success crumbled to dust.Not sure why everyone feels the Big 12 is "the best league in the country" this year based on the non-con, but I guess we will see how it plays out. I wasn't overly impressed with Kansas State. But road games in that insane environment can be difficult
IMO Tony did a good job defending KSU's scoring leader and PG Tyler Perry (and MVP of the NIT last year for North Texas). Held him to a poor shooting night. Perry is physical and a crafty veteran. I think in the little time Brock was on the court, Fran saw the potential for Perry going off and went with TP the rest of the way. Players can learn on the bench too, and based on what little I know of Brock I bet he learned while watching last night. Our 3 other first year players got valuable on court time. The win last night gives the whole team, including Brock, a chance to play one more.
When I watched Kstate this year he was always bad mouthing refs and getting technical. He seemed to be a jerk.
Harding has played well. Fran could have gone to a small lineup. Sandfort had 12 rebounds, Krikke had 11, Freeman had 6 (1 stl and 2 blks) to go along with 10 points. PMac had 8 points and 3 rebounds in almost as many minutes as Freeman. Freeman was more active than PMac. PMac had 1 foul, which indicates the lack of activity and physicality for his size. Sure, Freeman had 4 fouls to PMac's 1. Freeman is active and plays with physicality. However, Fran could have divided PMac's minutes with Harding. At PMac's size, he's not going to pick up many fouls if he's out on the perimeter while the others are crashing the glass.
Freeman gets almost all of his fouls reaching, not being physical. He needs to learn how to wall up without reaching for the ball. He and Dembele (even more) both need to learn how to hedge and defend the pick and roll.
Compared to PMac, Freeman is physical. Teaching the players how to defend with their chest and not do the grab is on Fran. Yes, clean it up.
Just stating an opinion/fact why PMac played a lot. I was surprised Harding didn’t play more too. He was getting a lot of minutes at the end of the year and provided a spark.
JFC Just think if we had lost that game..Probably their best game of the year and all I read is a bunch of bitching. All you guys must be college coaches and winning every game you coach...... JMO
