2012 many of us would ask just what is Ferry's offense but I think your point is well taken. That is the reason I could not believe the win total predictions and expectations. Last year 45% of the teams scoring came from Mason & Colter. That isn't happening anytime soon with this rotation of guards. Other than Blackman, Smith and MLewis, where is scoring going to come from?  Your best inside threat sits on the bench(JRob), your next best inside threat (IMike) takes 49% of his shots from 3, your best 3 point shooter arguably (Steel) is in limbo and even though I think Sanders is a warrior on the boards he isn't a scorer. This team is also even exceeding last years team for turning the ball over and isn't rebounding as well. Finally a fact that CLK touched on the overall basketball IQ,low obviously, and I'll add selfishness is a huge problem.

The Dome wrote:

2012 many of us would ask just what is Ferry's offense but I think your point is well taken. That is the reason I could not believe the win total predictions and expectations. Last year 45% of the teams scoring came from Mason & Colter. That isn't happening anytime soon with this rotation of guards. Other than Blackman, Smith and MLewis, where is scoring going to come from? Your best inside threat sits on the bench(JRob), your next best inside threat (IMike) takes 49% of his shots from 3, your best 3 point shooter arguably (Steel) is in limbo and even though I think Sanders is a warrior on the boards he isn't a scorer. This team is also even exceeding last years team for turning the ball over and isn't rebounding as well. Finally a fact that CLK touched on the overall basketball IQ,low obviously, and I'll add selfishness is a huge problem.

Dome I agree 100%. Outside of the pathetic "weave to nowhere" there pretty much are no set plays.  Everything is is freelance very few passes into the the post.  There is way too much dribbling and very little actual ball movement.  A decent high school coach would have this team at worst 8-2 right now. Ferry is completely incompetent. This was never in greater contrast than watching UMBC first year coach running multiple defenses and slicing the Dukes defense with precision set plays. I am sick of hearing Ferry's perennial excuses for his failures.  Ferry has to go!  I really do not care if players leave because he is fired.  I am convinced if Ferry were to stay to keep those players he would stunt their development and  he would still field a losing team.  

 

Just because a bad team like RMU only scored 64 pts on us and a Pitt team without its most important player scored only 55, I still believe this defense is not much better.  They still fail to recognize the opponent's top scorers, RMU had two players that beat us; Still and the little guard.  The winning basket was a good example of what seems to happen to this defense at some point in every game.  It breaks down and allows the opponent to drive the ball from the wing or top of the key all the way to the basket and score.  Two glaring issues are that our guards are bigger than last year, but apparently not very quick, because in every game I've seen they cannot stay between their man and the basket.  The second issue is a lack of recognition by the rest of the team to step in and stop the penetration before the player gets to the basket.  Still took those long and fairly slow paths to the hoop, but nobody cut him off, of doubled him to stop the ball penetration.  The little guard Karon ____ just beat them to the lane all night and on most occasions nobody stepped in the block his shot or stop penetration.  The thing that is even more confusing is that the weak side players often do drop into the lane so far that they allow easy kick out passes for open 3's; so if they are sagging into the lane from the weak side, why aren't they stopping the penetration before its too late?  It just doesn't add up.