The fall from opening weekend to today has been nothing short of epic. Today we are the worst team, in the worst major conference, in the country.
We can't shoot and can't defend. We miss layups. We miss dunks. We miss open jumpers. There's not much of anything we do well anymore. While today's game was not televised, its hard to imagine we keep getting beaten this badly while giving full effort. Has the team completely quit on the season? You'd have to think so at this point.
Is there still time to correct things? Not really anymore. I'll give it until the halfway mark(which will be reached after our home stand next weekend) before I give them a proper obituary, but this season is dead as can be.
Our shooting has been nothing short of a miracle these last few weeks. Amazing that you can go so long without being able to throw it in the ocean, but nobody can hit an open shot anymore.
Garrett Sim was shooting 48% from 3 heading into Pac-10 play. Since New Year's Day, he's 2-18 from 3.
Teondre Williams is 8-26 since the Washington road trip and has not made a 3. Made worse is the fact that it includes quite a few missed dunks and layups.
I have no idea why Longmire has taken upon himself to so aggressively shoot the ball. That's never been his game. He was 0-9 against Cal. 2-15 for the weekend.
EJ Sinlger hasn't hit a 3 since Washington State.
Armstead was 2-4 from 3 against Arizona. In the other 4 games on this losing steak, he's 0-8.
Porter is 10-32 from 3 during this stretch.
We can barely crack 30% shooting, as a team, and since we allow opponents to shoot 48%, 51%, 49% and 52% over the last 4 games, it's pretty clear what the result is going to be night in and night out. The epic failure we saw this weekend.
Going out on the road certainly wasn't the cure for the dreadful homestand we just went through. 2-0 to 2-5, with the first 2 on the road might be a feat that hasn't been accomplished before.
Thursday was the first Duck game I remember turning off and not caring about what the final score ended up being. What a painful game. Jeremy Jacob seems to be our best player at this point, yet he barley gets any minutes. Is Jamil Wilson just not really that good? Why do we see freshman all over the country playing big minutes and our HS All-American recruits never seem to be able to do anything until they are juniors or later.
ReplyDeleteI have stood by Kent, even last year I felt like the team was still fighting and playing hard. I can't say that anymore. This team plays flat, unwatchable basketball. I am having a hard time summoning the desire to go to the games this weekend. I am thinking TAS is lucky he doesn't have that concern anymore.
Kent has done a good job over time, but this season is a departure from the norm. But the same can be said about others in our league. This is just a down year for our conference which is just not very good this year, so we may be the worst team in a very weak league. At least our football team is much better although the Pac 10 is also rather weak. Next year I am very hopeful for another Rose Bowl appearance, but with Masoli's troubles I wonder if he'll even be on the team.
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I thought Kent should have been fired last year, but I said I would support whoever the coach was, Kent or not. My main thing is that letting him coach this last year as a kind of "last chance" is just a mistake for building any kind of momentum, or excitement, going into the new arena.
ReplyDeleteIf you think he's going to have to go soon (which, by all indications, Kilkenny DID think last year), then you should have let him go last year and let a new coach have a year to build some excitement here, before we make the switch to the new arena.
For all the good he did for Football, baseball, track & field and even women's basketball, Kilkenny handled men's basketball very poorly while he was here.
In many ways this season is more disappointing than last year.
KENT SUCKS!!!!!!!!!!!
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