Uic UWGB

[goveybaseball]

Uic laying 8 only? Is Johnson back?
Got to win these types of games 4-23 yikes.

[goveybaseball]

Why can’t Uic ever get off to a good start?
We are not a good home team!

[UICJohn]

Just got home from work. Seems Griffin is having a hell of a night again.

What’s he been doing differently these past few games?

If he can be consistent like this he can have a scary senior year!

[goveybaseball]

From what I see he finally playing inside more.
I said he should do that 2 months ago.

[goveybaseball]

Uic wins fee like losses to me anyone else feel that way.

[Big D]

Feb 24, 2022 21:34:46 GMT -6 goveybaseball said:

Uic wins fee like losses to me anyone else feel that way.

Yeah. I mean I’m happy we won…we did enough to win and I guess that’s all that counts in the end…but this was a 4-win, winless-on-the-road team and they just took us down to the wire. You can win without playing winning basketball. It’s just more of the same…inexcusable turnovers, the inability to secure rebounds (Diggins should probably not be closest to the basket on FTs), poor interior defense to give up easy shot after easy shot while we routinely take lower percentage shots (we were lucky to make a few down the stretch)…and the FT shooting was simply abysmal during crunch time. UIC never makes it easy. Never. Unless we’re the ones losing…then we put up little resistance at the end. It’s gotten to the point where the announcers even joke about it…”it’s never easy when at times it should be”.

So basically…we’ve gone through a whole two seasons of this…so what is it? Recruiting poor players? Lack of coaching/developing? I mean we continue to make the same mistakes over and over and over again. The passing and otherwise lack of awareness by this team is just astounding. Too often we’re trying to make a highlight pass. Most of the time it results in a TO. Stop the unnecessary risk-taking. Why have we not cracked down on this? How many more times am I going to see Damaria trying to run full court only to have the ball poked away from behind by someone he’s not aware of? These are things that make 10-14 point leads impossible when they should be standard against the likes of GB.

Whether it’s players, coaching, or lack of development…this all falls on coach. Need to recruit better, smarter players that aren’t going to be so sloppy. Maybe it’s just an inherent part of high-tempo offense…well then it’s never going to get better, is it? So this is what we have for 3 more years? Then spend another two million for someone else to just rinse and repeat. It’s getting old.

[goveybaseball]

Big D I couldn’t agree more. I am not seeing
anything resembling a structured offense or defense
that Yak promised. They are the same team they were under McClain but smaller. The MVC is going to eat them alive if this doesn’t get better.