Can We Please Start Playing Bigger?

[SaintLouBrave22]

I agree with what some others have said...

Prosser - Egolf - Brown across the front line


Some combination of Maniscalco - Warren - DSE - Dunson starting in the backcourt


THAT right there gives us a much better chance to win and go deep somewhere...

I'd rather go to the bench further in the backcourt and sit someone a little more there than go with this ridiculous guard heavy thing again...

As has been stated, guard heavy has gotten us nowhere in conference and postseason...


Go back to what got you to the NCAA's!


Oh, and here's a thought...with the team we will have and the amount of players, regardless, we know Les can't figure out how to get 10 guys quality PT, so why not play more 2-3 zone?!


The zone will make this team much better AND with 3 quality rebounders in the frontcourt, we shouldn't have a problem getting to balls.

 

[AZ BU Fan]

If we would be better off going big then Coach Les would do so.

This thread sucks.

If this is the case AE BF, the only thing that sucks then is JL & staff's apparent inability to recruit players that can win in the MVC.

He has wasted schollys with Singh, Thompson, MK and Prosser...

I've said it in another post, but looking at the BU team you come to the conclusion the BU team is is weaker than its individual parts (SM, SW, TB, and maybe WE, would start everywhere else in the Valley, but with all of them, BU is only 8-8...

 

[jeffsu]

do you two ever think coach les makes a mistaske? if so what is it? thanks for keeping an open mind.

I do, actually. But that's not the point. I was simply getting at the fact that some people paint Les out to be someone who's dragging the program down intentionally. He's got his philosophies, and whether we agree or not, he's going with them and trying to win.

Just as there can be Les-bashers, complaining about how they think he's ineffective, there is the flip side of the coin as well. Being aware of BOTH is what keeping an open mind is, if you ask me.

 

[dogsrus]

This thread sucks.

SO does the season so far.....

 

[braveatheart]

Shocking statistical analysis. Big guys are harder to score on than small guys.

Anybody who has ever tried to shoot over a big guy already knew this. A guy two or three inches taller than you is very tough to shoot over. Just because of angles and trajectory and such.

We have to keep in mind that just any old big boy won't do. You need better than average big boys or you still won't win. There in lies the problem.

People say college basketball is a guards game. It is only a guards game if you don't have enough quality big boys. Then you have to play a guards game.

The question really boils down to whether we are better off with a mediocre big or a very good guard. I and many others would like to see what the mediocre big can do. Coach Les thinks the guard is the answer. Of course JL sees what happens in practice and we don't.

I would still love to see how three bigs at once works out in a game. Maybe our bigs are better than mediocre and Pomeroy is onto something.

 

[+44]

do you two ever think coach les makes a mistaske? if so what is it? thanks for keeping an open mind.

Maybe not so much a mistake as has recruiting troubles*. I am sure coach Les would love to have another Patrick O'bryant as much as any of us, but landing a solid 7 footer that goes under the radar of bigger schools is certainly easier said than done. As for the Anthony Thompson deal, It will be a little sad to see him go, like David Collins, he is an athletic kid with a ton of potential that simply needs to step up and actually give 100%, it wouldn't surprise me if he didn't come back next year though

*edit: in this case... i do certainly believe that coach Les is capable of making a mistake