LMU

[elcoyote]

Nov 17, 2024 10:07:58 GMT -6 yote18 said:

Nov 16, 2024 20:18:05 GMT -6 fanatic said:

This coach makes over 250000 and this is the best she can do. 84 pts after 3. Great defense. Might win 2 games this yrs Embarrassing

You were just blaming Kayla for setting the program back 20 year and now your mad that the new coach is struggling early on. Pick a lane and stay in it. Nebraska is a top 25 team and we are struggling against much worse, no one realistically believed we’d keep it close. We’ll get back to the top someday but as you said the last regime set us back substantially and it’s going to take a while to rebuild.

Don't feed the troll. Guy just likes to bash and has never said anything even remotely positive about anything. 

[sweet16teamsuperfan]

What are your predictions for Summit League conference play wining percentage for this team?

I am predicting 35% are wins but hoping for better than 50%! SDSU is playing phenomenal against ranked teams! Right now, we are ranked 9th out of 9 however Denver has not won yet either and Omaha has only won one!

[Men's League Waterboy]

SDSU's pretty obviously a different animal than anything else in the conference. I don't see much of a reason this team shouldn't be able to play with, and beat, anybody else on the right night ... but they could also probably lose to just about anybody else in the conference too. Somewhere between 8-8 and 10-6 in conference would be my guess.

Also, those throwbacks on Saturday were nice. 

[captaincoyote]

I haven’t felt this unsure about a USD team in a long time. A conference record similar to last year is probably a safe guess depending on injuries vs player development. If Eighmey’s coaching begins to click and we can scheme around our glaring disadvantage in the low post, we might do okay. Alternatively, it could get ugly. I just don’t know right now.

[yote18]

I agree with captain, I don’t even know how to predict or measure this team at the moment as it’s been a long time since we’ve witnessed anything like it. I would say our ceiling is 10-6 (swept by SDSU & ORU, Split with NDSU and UST) if we can start gelling and the coaches can get the team to believe and buy in. My early assessment though would put us at 6-10. I don’t see us finishing above 6th unless we start getting some D1 wins to build some confidence.

[fightsd]

Nov 18, 2024 11:38:10 GMT -6 yote18 said:

I agree with captain, I don’t even know how to predict or measure this team at the moment as it’s been a long time since we’ve witnessed anything like it. I would say our ceiling is 10-6 (swept by SDSU & ORU, Split with NDSU and UST) if we can start gelling and the coaches can get the team to believe and buy in. My early assessment though would put us at 6-10. I don’t see us finishing above 6th unless we start getting some D1 wins to build some confidence.

I'm pretty underwhelmed with the first half against Bellevue. We just aren't very talented, unfortunately.

[Men's League Waterboy]

The fact that you've only gone eight deep and your five starters are all above 20 minutes after 30 minutes against Bellevue isn't ideal.

[Men's League Waterboy]

You needed your top three scorers on the season to score 58 of your 74 points against an NAIA school and nobody outside of those three made more than one field goal?

That's rough.

[yote18]

Nov 18, 2024 12:58:03 GMT -6 Men's League Waterboy said:

You needed your top three scorers on the season to score 58 of your 74 points against an NAIA school and nobody outside of those three made more than one field goal?

That's rough.

It’s going to be a long season. A win is a win, but a win against a D1 squad would be better. Looking at the remaining non-con I see 2 for sure wins against the non D1-s, 1 must win against NC Central and a toss up or two. The rest I don’t foresee us winning right now. I predict we go 5-9 into conference play.

[soofooyote]

The key here is to develop our young players and get buy in to Coach E's system. Hopefully we are a much better basketball team by the end of the season. This is a rebuilding process, rebuilding the roster, rebuilding the style of play, and rebuilding the brand. I'll give Coach E some leash on this as she wasn't left with much in the cupboard. My only expectation is that we get better and compete with our like competition by end of year. I think we need to have the expectation that this is a 3 year plan at this point looking at the roster.

[Men's League Waterboy]

Nov 18, 2024 14:56:24 GMT -6 soofooyote said:

The key here is to develop our young players and get buy in to Coach E's system. Hopefully we are a much better basketball team by the end of the season. This is a rebuilding process, rebuilding the roster, rebuilding the style of play, and rebuilding the brand. I'll give Coach E some leash on this as she wasn't left with much in the cupboard. My only expectation is that we get better and compete with our like competition by end of year. I think we need to have the expectation that this is a 3 year plan at this point looking at the roster.

Exactly why the fact that you couldn't get any young kids some development and confidence against an NAIA opponent for down the road is so concerning. The fact that you had to ride Larkins and Duffney that hard is crazy to me. 

[soofooyote]

Nov 18, 2024 15:24:26 GMT -6 Men's League Waterboy said:

Nov 18, 2024 14:56:24 GMT -6 soofooyote said:

The key here is to develop our young players and get buy in to Coach E's system. Hopefully we are a much better basketball team by the end of the season. This is a rebuilding process, rebuilding the roster, rebuilding the style of play, and rebuilding the brand. I'll give Coach E some leash on this as she wasn't left with much in the cupboard. My only expectation is that we get better and compete with our like competition by end of year. I think we need to have the expectation that this is a 3 year plan at this point looking at the roster.

Exactly why the fact that you couldn't get any young kids some development and confidence against an NAIA opponent for down the road is so concerning. The fact that you had to ride Larkins and Duffney that hard is crazy to me. 

It's extremely concerning.  At some point you have to decide how important winning these games are now versus maybe competing later in the year from a development standpoint not to mention setting yourself up for the future.  Obviously you're going to play Larkins and Dufney but where do we go from there?

[Men's League Waterboy]

That's what I'm getting at. You already know what Larkins and Duffney are giving you. They're established factors in the equation who really shouldn't have to play AT ALL against NAIA Bellevue to get a win or get themselves going for later games against more serious opponents. I literally can't believe that game wasn't used to get Klosterbuer, Wilke, RLG and Kieffer extended run and shots to see what they've got in what should be a no-lose situation.

[yotenation]

Nov 18, 2024 16:35:35 GMT -6 Men's League Waterboy said:

That's what I'm getting at. You already know what Larkins and Duffney are giving you. They're established factors in the equation who really shouldn't have to play AT ALL against NAIA Bellevue to get a win or get themselves going for later games against more serious opponents. I literally can't believe that game wasn't used to get Klosterbuer, Wilke, RLG and Kieffer extended run and shots to see what they've got in what should be a no-lose situation.

Heading into the 4th quarter up 20+ I kind of expected to see a lot of those 4 and Mason. Not sure I understand the thinking here. Maybe the coaching staff has limited faith in anyone outside of Larkins, Duffney, and Hempe. Maybe there's another reason that I'm not seeing.

[Men's League Waterboy]

No maybe about it. They couldn't have come out and stated that they have limited faith in everyone any louder than they did.