Lauren I hope so.  This team is playing like a shadow of the team that came out and beat WVU.  Jerry & Kadeem have to step up.  Time for Kadeem to take off those wooden shoes he brought from back home and play like a D1 player. Jerry Jones needs to get out of his funk and start playing with the passion we have seen from him before.  Johnson needs to fix the wiring in his microwave and start showing some leadership.  One of our bigs need to grow some hands to catch the ball, and go strong to the hoop to score or draw fouls, and quit getting pushed around on defense.  The team needs to cut down the stupid turnovers, however, they need to stop worrying about being perfect.  Screw the margin of error BS go out and play the best you can and have fun.  To our coaches get in the freaking game.  Show some passion, slap the players on their a$$ when they make a good play, yell take your sports coat off, coach the darn team and build them up instead of tearing them down.  How would you like hear people in public calling your daughters ugly?   Our guys need to look inward, get pissed, and start showing some signs of life.  Go Dukes!

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It is on TW cable or you could try the video link below to watch it on your computer.

http://apps.ohlulz.com/ncaa/?lulz=rtmp://cp98724.live.edgefcs.net:1935/live&id=duqu_m-baskbl@31467
 

realtime rpi projects a 71-70 W.  At least we can hope.

Any win would be a surprise.

So sad. No reason to comment here. Nothing to say.

The Dukes up by 10 and Xavier goes on a 25-5 run. I am not going to say what I think but instead ask a question.  If you are the coach of the Dukes how long do you wait during the run to call a time out?  Ferry waited until the media time out when the run was 15-3.  Hey what do I know I am not a big time coach pulling down $600,000/yr.

duq81 wrote:

CLK wrote:

The Dukes up by 10 and Xavier goes on a 25-5 run. I am not going to say what I think but instead ask a question.  If you are the coach of the Dukes how long do you wait during the run to call a time out?  Ferry waited until the media time out when the run was 15-3.  Hey what do I know I am not a big time coach pulling down $600,000/yr.

Well, considering that the run was 10-2 after the time out, I don't know how much of a difference it would have made.

 
OK, fair enough, but what did he do differently after the time out?  Did he call any set plays?  If he did they were well disguised to me. Did he try Abele on their big guy who was having his way?  Look to me it is the coaches job to help figure out ways stop the runs.

CLK wrote:

The Dukes up by 10 and Xavier goes on a 25-5 run. I am not going to say what I think but instead ask a question.  If you are the coach of the Dukes how long do you wait during the run to call a time out?  Ferry waited until the media time out when the run was 15-3.  Hey what do I know I am not a big time coach pulling down $600,000/yr.

If you're going to critisize coaching last night, I don't think timeout usage is your best platform. Personally, I thought Ferry used his TO's more wisely than Chris Mack did.  What I found questionable was how Ferry didn't go to his bench before the 8 minutes mark in spite of players like Marhold and Q looking visibly fatigue starting about the 10 minute mark. When I get to the ten point lead, I begin to get cycling my 2nd half starters to the bench without taking all of them out at once. Then you go full strength from the 5 minute mark on. Maybe you don't falter from the 12-6 minute mark when you're first playing tired players and then taking out half the lineup that was playing well at once. Maybe you have more energy to make a real push in the final minutes of the game. 

I'd say this was probably the first game of Ferry's tenure where the coaching really factored into the outcome on the negative side. I feel better about Ferry on the bench than I do Ron and contrary to your previous post to duq81, there is a lot more structure and sets/set plays to the Ferry offense. You should go back and breakdown film over a few games and you'll notice some repeated sets and plays. We've seen a lot of double high screen, pick and rolls and a few others that I can't recall the name Ferry gives them. A big problem is that Abele is the only guy who sets a decent screen. Ferry has shown an understanding of how to break down a 2-3 zone. Inboudning plays exist though they're not used as often as I'd like. While I'm not thrilled with Ferry's TO management, I think it's better than Ron's. I can't recall many games where Ron called two TO's in the first half when they were needed and a number where he didn't call any. I don't think losing the "use it or lose it" TO is that big of a deal but Ferry has used every single one. I see a lot more punch counter punch with the current staff. If a opposing coach makes an adjustment, we adjust back. I like how Ferry uses his assistants.

Still Ferry is a pretty system based coach just like Ron was. He relies on players executing the way he teaches them to more than he does controling the game. Problem is he doesn't have his players in place. I suspect he'll look a lot more clever when he gets the type of players he needs with experience to execute his gameplan.

CLK wrote:

poor passing, excessive dribbling, no disicipline, and  a lot of hoisted treys.

If we were playing the $10,000 Pyramid, my guess would be "things freshman guards do."

What I did not see on Saturday was a team that had quit on their coach. I saw a team that played hard but was simply outmanned once again. Ferry said that he was starting from scratch, didn't he. Maybe he knew exactly what he was talking about. Recruiting, recruiting, recruiting!!