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The stench of Romar
FreeChavez
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If you've followed the program for a while, so about 5 of you, you'd remember that one of the hallmark issues with Romars "legacy" was his inability to win on the road. Romar built his living off of winning in HecEd, but regularly struggled to put a meaningful team on the floor after stepping outside Seattle proper. The encouraging thing to me is seeing a team with confidence, poise and fucking ONIONS going up against the #2 team in the nation. Yes, I understand it won't change the world, but the stench is already starting to float off the program.
We don't see shitty out of bounds fuck ups(defense or offense)
We actually care about half court offense and controlling the ball
We don't endlessly jack up 3's
We actually try to play defense for more than 10 seconds on the shot clock and don't allow our Center to switch 40' from the basket
We use time outs
All this without a heralded recruiting class and I would argue not a great roster top to bottom. College basketball is still about finding a team balance to great players. Not rolling out recruiting classes and expecting them to be led by the leader of men(minus the rapes, drug dealers, etc).
This team will still face adversity and growing pains, but loved seeing all the grit from the team this early in the hop tenure. The guys are buying in rather than showing up to party. The further we get from romar, the more people will realize minus the coke, the latter 5-7 years of romar was equitable to the sark era. No discipline or team, just party and hang out.
We don't see shitty out of bounds fuck ups(defense or offense)
We actually care about half court offense and controlling the ball
We don't endlessly jack up 3's
We actually try to play defense for more than 10 seconds on the shot clock and don't allow our Center to switch 40' from the basket
We use time outs
All this without a heralded recruiting class and I would argue not a great roster top to bottom. College basketball is still about finding a team balance to great players. Not rolling out recruiting classes and expecting them to be led by the leader of men(minus the rapes, drug dealers, etc).
This team will still face adversity and growing pains, but loved seeing all the grit from the team this early in the hop tenure. The guys are buying in rather than showing up to party. The further we get from romar, the more people will realize minus the coke, the latter 5-7 years of romar was equitable to the sark era. No discipline or team, just party and hang out.
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CBB is all about coaching.
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That Kansas game was the first time I've ever seen UW play solid, fundamental, team basketball.
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The halfcourt offense was way better. It's not like they were running complex plays either. Just simple things like good spacing and cutting did wonders. It's not a defense of Romar at all, but a lot of these guys are not taught the fundamentals, or just ignore them because they can score 24 points without even trying in high school/gAyAU due to being 6-5 and way more athletic than the try hard 5-11 guy on the other team. That didn't seem to change a lot when they got to college.
I got into it a little with a Doog over Romar's lack of success on the road during the 2010-2011 season. Like a typical Doog, he said the team was really successful and look at what we had done over the past seven years! He also defended him after we lost to Bumblefuck States a bunch of times by 20 at home, after we missed the NCAA T with two NBA players in 2012 etc. and told me not to be a fan anymore...cool story... -
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Nice to see them following a plan on both ends of the court.
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Watching LoRo staring comatose at the court tonight during the Arizona-Alabama game brought a tear of joy to my eye.
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I miss seeing the juxtaposition during time outs with the opposing coach calling his guys in, getting out the white board, and drawing up plays vs. Romar and the UW players just loitering around near the benchBayDawg said:Watching LoRo staring comatose at the court tonight during the Arizona-Alabama game brought a tear of joy to my eye.
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Im not sure LoRo had a white board.
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That was usually Coach jackson who was brought in to fix the x's and o's. Or maybe that was the ghost of bone who was holding onto the white boardBayDawg said:Im not sure LoRo had a white board.
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https://youtu.be/5nTLleylcWM
