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RoadDawg55
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http://hardcorehusky.com/forums/#/discussion/19821/nigel-goss/p1
I saw NWG scored 36 in his last game and had to bring it to this board.
I saw NWG scored 36 in his last game and had to bring it to this board.
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Also this is the best GU team since at least the 2006 Morrison/Ravio/Batista squad that choked vs UCLA. They are probably going to run the table and enter the tournament at 33-0 and the #1 overall seed. Then they'll lose in the round of 32.
When the entire team quits on your coach, you fire him. Now we're seeing it happen again. Whether Romar stays or goes, half of his current team will leave after the season.
In all reality, the guy has done well so far and done many of the things we all talked about in that thread. He needs to take his year off and shoot better(his stats are up for FG, 3Pt and FT%). Tip of the cap to him going to a program that may actually help players develop. Nothing about NWG is unreal NBA guy, but he does appear to be fitting into GU quite well.
One of my main complaints was his inability to shoot consistently and GU would need that for him to play. He has held up that end of the bargain, which again is a credit to him. Kudo's to him getting out of the dumpster fire in seattle, going to a winning(and developing staff). I hope the guy does well and continues to take some shots at romar along the way.
And far fewer white guys.
Yet, he's only made the tournament (the top 70 fucking teams in the country) 6 times in 15 years. Essentially once every 2.5 years. With 14 total NBA players. And what might be the fact that most captures his ineptness as a coach: he has never made the NCAA tournament without a future NBA All-star capable of putting up 50 points on a given night in the league. He is a joke.
"At Gonzaga we scout the other team. We watch film."
I don't understand how each player on UW doesn't have a page or two breakdown on every rotation player of the opponent. I'm curious if they self scout and keep track of how players shoot from different areas of the floor. It sounds crazy but I doubt it.
Roll the ball Romar was seen as a racist comment by Few years ago, but it was dead on.
Bleenor used to say we didn't have time to implement inbounds plays if we wanted to practice defense. Of all his stupid comments this is at the top. I'm pretty sure Louisville (a somewhat similar style to UW, just actually well coached) has inbounds plays. It takes 5 min of practice time. You drill then during scrimmages.
I attended a practice a few years back and they were running through UCLA's high post offense and how they would attack it on defense.
Likewise, they walked through their offensive game plan against UCLA and their bigs (Josh Smith was there, and maybe Reeves Nelson too, I'm not gonna look it up).
A few days later, they beat UCLA in LA. I was at the game (right after our BIG Holiday Bowl win over classy Nebraska) and could see the strategy at work.
Not sure what has happened since then, but I have a hard time believing that Romar just stopped prepping for opponents. That seems pretty basic.
All that said, fire his ass already and hire Gregg Marshall.
I support coach Romar.
Call it loss of fire, complacency, etc but his teams have been even beyond "rollball" for a while. They used to have fire and tenacious defense and actually had a decent motion offense. It was mainly they couldn't get set plays if their motion was shut down. The last few years has been horrible basketball IQ, terrible decisions, no leadership and worst of all completely utter lack of defense.