Wrong. As is per usual.
But that might have been eaddys problem, too: thinking that rather than putting in work.
Tahj is a good player and yes, also benefits greatly from playing with Mobley. Looks like he filled out a little bit more as well. He is going to be 25 in July so could have gotten some of that old man strength. He did appear more comfortable down the stretch last year when Wertz was out a few games.
Let’s be honest, any of our players would look better playing with the mobleys. Except the ones that wouldn’t be playing lol
He didn’t fit Sendek’s mold… that was the only issue. Kind of like how Herb took a promising Freshman oversized guard (Yosip) and forced him into his ill-fitting mold and basically destroyed the best attributes that Yosip had.
Herb just simply doesn’t know how to tailor his plan to what his players are best at… so it’s no surprise when your best players bolt.
Just go away until theres a different coach. You will never be anything but a hater until that happens. And you make a fool of yourself every time.
Still need the laugh react option.
Does the bay area have any Aau coaches with two kids in high school that are future McDonald’s all Americans and want their dad to be their assistant coach?
That seems like a good team building strategy.
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Like everybody else here I gave Sendek the benefit of the doubt when he first arrived at SCU. Now 5 years in he’s accomplished nothing and potentially driven more talent away than he’s been able to bring in.
Time’s up. Why anyone would expect year 6 to be anything worth mentioning is just ignoring the facts.
Yeah, right. You aren’t fooling anyone. You’ve been a hater for years now. Certainly didn’t just happen.
I’d like to know what you think Sendek’s “mold” is considering he’s had just about every sort of player you can have throughout his long career. There probably isn’t an active coach in college basketball that has employed more strategies and styles in his career to get the most out of varied personnel, because he has never been at a school that was a recruiting magnet under any modern coach.
Now I’m sure you’d completely change your story and say that he should have recruited better, or some such.
Yosip (I assume you mean career-long forward Josip Vrankic?) as a guard? Um…yeah, that was never true. Like I said, just foolishness in the service of your haterade.
Every mid major is having players transfer. If they haven’t, they will unless they just don’t have any good players. But pretty much all of them already have. Even Portland had the one guard a couple years ago.
I don’t enjoy it, but you can hardly say they shouldn’t be allowed to do it when the coaches can move whenever they want. I’m sure Sendek would prefer it wasn’t that way either, because most of his career has been developing players over 4 years (there were a few JUCOs and transfers especially at Arizona State, but most of the teams were centered around high school age freshman recruits). But it is that way, for everyone. It’s nothing special unless practically the whole team goes in like happened at Wichita. That was for a reason and it was found the coach was abusing players.
But yeah, this is the way of the future. I guess you would prefer the KK days when the coach just wasted the talent while they were on campus.
NOW we are talking!!!
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Meanwhile, back to the tournament. Don’t have a warm and fuzzy feeling about the Zags next game. USC is in a zone, maybe a “destiny” type team. Timme will have his hands full, but GU has more guys that are good rebounders. This is no time for the Zags to have an off night shooting. Pac 12 has been on quite an unexpected roll.
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Agree, I was thinking (not hoping) the zags would roll. All of a sudden usc would give me shivers if I were a zags fan. Michigan seems to be the Michigan of late January, not of early March. And Baylor is still alive.
Could be 3 great games down the stretch…
Yes, back to the tourney…
Agree BootJack, USC could be an interesting and challenging matchup…current line is GU -9…seems heavy, don’t think I’d touch that one.
Many here have noted GU’s relative lack of size and depth in the post. GU switched up their starting lineup midseason, going smaller, inserting guard Nembhard for power forward Anton Watson, effectively making the Kispert the defacto ‘4’ though he certainly isn’t a post player by any definition. Assuming GU sticks with the recent starting lineup, it’s Timme and Kispert matching up with the Mobley bros, a clear size advantage for USC. Kispert will have his hands full trying to guard either of them and either Mobley could put Timme in some foul trouble jeopardy which would be a serious problem for GU. USC also has grad transfer 6-9 forward Chevez Goodwin coming off the bench to spell the Mobleys, he’s also long, physical and active on the boards.
Will be interesting to see if GU reverts to more of the lineups they were playing early season with more PT for Watson at the 4 which would allow for much better defensive matchups for GU.
And related note, early season GU was playing Oumar Ballo as their backup center, he was/is raw but provides the size and especially girth (7’ - 260 lbs) to match up better with Isaiah Mobley in particular. Ballo was injured midseason and missed a month or so; he has since returned but combined with the smaller starting lineup and Watson coming off the bench as the sub for Timme has more or less eliminated Ballo from the playing rotation. Will be interesting to see if that changes tomorrow and Ballo gets a little PT…Few may be forced to do so if Timme gets in foul trouble.
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We are down to 8 teams so obviously they are all very good and playing high quality hoops at the moment. USC has looked great in the tourney, but I think Gonzaga blows them out tomorrow night… just way too much fire power. If I was in Vegas I’d be all over Zags -9.
Bettererer…what he said. I’ll keep my fingers crossed, hang out the garlic, and lay in an extra bottle of very tasty Santa Ynez Valley Pinot. All in for the WCC.
I would bet on Baylor to win it simply bc they have an easier semifinal (assuming they win tonight, which sure looks likely).
If Livers was available, I would back Michigan to do it anyway. Even without him they may still be the best team, but maybe not by enough to survive an off night. Though their off night probably came against LSU and they survived that.
Few seems to prefer that free year freshman over Ballo.
I would be surprised if Gonzaga stays with that lineup. They could get away with it against Creighton bc they’re small and soft. Too bad Ohio played horrible against them. Think they could have given Gonzaga a closer game. Oh well.
USC was always the only team in this entire region that had a realistic chance to beat Gonzaga once Virginia went out (and I don’t think they would have had a great chance). I think if Iowa had made it through they would have given them trouble and then Gonzaga lines them up. Fortunately that didn’t happen.
Sendek is too old school. Has his system and was only lucky in the past when by chance he had players that fit “The System”. There has to be some up and coming assistant that would jump at the chance to coach at SC for $2 mil
And what system would that be?
The only things in college basketball I’ve ever heard referred to as “The System” is the nonsense that Grinnell and a few other D3 teams run, and Paul Westhead’s LMU.
Just rewind the last 5 years… Sendek has played the exact same way no matter who was on the floor.
The fact that he thinks there is a “right way” to play basketball just shows how far the game has zoomed by him.
Tinkle at OR St. made more adjustments in the second half last night than Sendek makes in a full season.
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