+++++ Texas A&M vs Boogs (HYGs) Official Game Thread +++++
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Bright side, at least the rest of you don’t have to drive back to Bham in the pouring rain now like I do.
I've never been more glad to feel sick midday and decide not to drive me and my oldest son down.
The bench was a complete abortion tonight outside of some good play from Jaylin. Mac got manhandled, couldn't make anything. Flanigan and Cambridge completely nothing offensively and were huge liabilities on defense. Hell Flanigan barely played but every time he got on the court terrible things happened. He was -15 in only 12 minutes and while that stat can be misleading it felt EVERY DAMN BIT that bad
If there were 3 seconds on the clock when we inbounded it then it's a pretty good look
There were 7 and we threw it to someone who had no idea what to do. And I'm not even sure why we had a 5 in the game at that point anyway. Why not go JVon/Samir/Okoro/Cambridge/Danjel
I hate to say it, but I will not miss watching this team play. At all. We have overachieved all season solely off grit and mental fortitude, because we have not been the better team in several of our Ws.
I like some of the individual pieces, or appreciate them even if they aren't my type of player. Wiley really worked his tail off and while he's a total misfit for the modern game and what we do I respect the heck out of the kid. I'm gonna be a fan of whoever drafts Okoro and follow his career closely. His grit is the only reason this season wasn't a .500 affair where were were hoping for a run to make the NIT. Samir is hugely flawed and limited but without him I'm betting we don't break 50 quite a few times this season. Jaylin has been fun to watch and I'm excited about him.
I don't have much to say about anyone else. There isn't much to be interested in after the guys above and even some of them are misfits for us. Gonna need to land some studs to help Rife out.
Not to keep piling on, but we can’t let Bruce go without critique.
he mismanaged this team from a coaching standpoint. Letting us take so many threes and that abortion of a final play. Yikes.
he mismanaged this team from a coaching standpoint. Letting us take so many threes and that abortion of a final play. Yikes.
Also, why is everyone outside of McCormick, Doughty, and Okoro completely useless with the ball? Fuqqin Purifoy is scared to dribble. Flanagan and Cambridge cannot dribble for shit.
Here are my issues:
(1) not having a second PG
(2) never using timeouts
(3) his teams get mind-fvcked by a basic 2-3 zone
(4) it took 25 games to realize that Jaylin is already better than Danjel
(4b) maybe Stretch is already better than Mac. Which isn’t saying much because Mac is a cold lifeless corpse on the floor.
eh, A&M is literally elite at making you shoot 3's. Like leads the nation or is in the top 5 in 3PTA allowed and it's completely by design. They get a lot of credit there. They just sag off and help everywhere and make driving nearly impossible and the natural thing is to kick out to the shooters.
The final play...a senior caught the ball and freaked out right? Of course I don't think Mac should be in there because if options 1 & 2 break down he has to receive the ball and can't dribble.
I'm both upset at Bruce for not playing Jaylin earlier, playing Turbo and Stretch more so that we might not have to play Mac when he's sucking or run Jamal out there for 5 minutes again and I'm stunned that he's won this many games with a backup caliber PG having to run the offense, an unathletic 2 who can't jump off the floor being his main creator and a starter at 4 that is so scared of contact that he has wide open dunks and turns it into a total humiliation. It's pretty amazing that we're even a tourney team when you look at a few of these guys that are playing big roles.
it's absolutely stunning that Jaylin is already 100x the ballhandler at the 4 than Purifoy is. Danjel does not want anything to do with having to dribble if a defender is within 8 feet of him. I can't fathom how you can be in a college basketball program for this many years and still have handles like a jr high chalkie
Ima still ride with this club and see what happens. The rest of the country is straight trash compared to the 2018-19 boogs as well. Except for Danjel he can go on and leave whenev.
Oh well someone tell the boog board we shot 15-18 from the FT line so that’s good!
Oh well someone tell the boog board we shot 15-18 from the FT line so that’s good!
I left out Jaylin. It’s crazy. Who is coaching these kids? Why do they suck so much ass at fundamentals?
Also Macklemore is ****ing worthless. Wtf is Bruce doing with this Gus Like “senior first” mentality.
national player of the year, probably faves to cut down the nets if he’d returned... I’m gonna go sit in a dark room and cry now
we debacled them from the line percentage wise... how could we possibly lose?
ain't blaming the coaches, especially not on Danjel. All college athletes (almost all at least) work hard...they practice a lot, hit the weights, do extra work. You can't play there if you don't practice a good bit. But if you really want to be elite you have to work your absolute ass off. Bryce Brown gridded like hell. Jared Harper is squeezing every ounce of potential out of himself. Those dudes also LOVED the game. I'm not sure that Danjel does. He's out there name searching on social media looking for any criticism and blocking people. Always worried about something other than his own game and grind. Hasn't worked on any part of his game that I can see. There is nothing from his first year where I can say "oh he added that..nice". Not a damn thing. That's 100% on him.
Then we just got some limited dudes. Ant was never the same after a horrific injury. What made him unique was gone. Samir and J'Von have massive limitations. I'm convinced Samir somehow overcomes many of his with just pure swagger.
you wouldn’t criticize them at all for this teams suck age at dribbling down the court?
Really thinking that poster on the bunker is right, Pat Adams hates Jews.
Most teams 5's don't dribble much and are a liability when they do.
If I'm gonna criticize them it's gonna be for the fact we're having to play Flanny/Cambridge, not that they couldn't turn them into better ball handlers. And I am not putting any of Danjel's issues on the coaches. He came in with guys that almost universally improved their games while here and he did basically the opposite.
I also think ball handling is a thing that you get early and your ceiling is probably set by the time you are 14 or 15. If you are an "A" ball handler for your age at 13/14/15 you can be an A as a college player. If you are a C at that age your ceiling is probably a B- by the time you get to college. Jaylin Williams played some PG and I'm gonna guess that he was an A ball handler most of his life, within his age group. Some items you need to get a head start on and get good at while you are young because you'll never catch up if you don't.
you either have good court vision, spatial awareness, and feel - or you don’t
Samir has it, but just isn’t a good athlete... JVon has it, but is just tiny and doesn’t have great touch... Isaac has it but is a freshman still figuring out how good he is and what he can/can’t do at this level... Jaylin has it but hasn’t played
no one else on this roster has it... anyone who wants to criticize BRUCE for our offensive woes should also credit him for squeezing as much as he has out of this roster... Davion left unexpectedly... Jared left unexpectedly, or at least unexpected in the sense of long term roster construction... Chuma left unexpectedly
18 months ago we’d have expected to have 2 or 3 of those guys on this roster, and we just weren’t able to replace them... not bringing in a point guard and in essence recruiting over JVon is a valid criticism, but also had downsides... I just don’t see how anyone can look at our record this year and think we could’ve done more under the circumstances
Like I don't love that we essentially turned into a half court, ugly style team that wins with OREB's and FT attempts. Its not really true Bruce Pearl basketball but also this team would be atrocious if we tried to play like last years team. There is no Harper to run the break, no Bryce to knock down the transition 3's. There is no Malik. Hell I'm pretty sure we don't have a Horace Spencer for transition either. This team is built around a 5 that isn't a Bruce Pearl 5, along with guards who just aren't great at things Bruce normally is great at. Announcers keep talking about pace but we actually don't want a fast paced game. We aren't good at it anymore because we don't have those players. Our 13 first half turnovers last night prove that point...in every scramble moment we looked lost and that's typically when Pearl teams thrive.
This is a bizzaro wold Pearl team. It's not really how he wants to play at all IMO.
@Fatz Geronimo we absolutely maxed out record wise this year. It’s disappointing to watch us lose but it could’ve been much worse with how DP and AMac have played. I hope I’m wrong but I think our record this year is much better than it will be next year even if we get Cooper and Green.
To top off a shi++y night, I have a weird feeling I saw Gar7 last night. Threw up in my mouth a little.
To top off a shi++y night, I have a weird feeling I saw Gar7 last night. Threw up in my mouth a little.
I have no idea what next year will look like, but if we get Green I think we are a team that starts slow, has some rough nights but becomes REAL dangerous by the time we see Feb roll around. So yeah, it's possible we lose 10-12 games but I hope we're peaking late and growing instead of already having hit our head on our own ceiling 4 times. And I think our style and flair will be back, and we may be frustrating in different ways but we'll be much more fun to watch.
if we sign Green it will be eerily similar to last year compared to the 17/18 squad
the 17/18 squad overachieved record wise, everyone in lesser corners of Boog internet was frustrated with the 18/19 team because they were losing games but the ceiling was always higher and they gradually turned into the monster we all saw coming
this squad has severely overachieved record wise, but next years squad will have a final four ceiling if the dominos BRUCE is trying to line up fall our way
Absolutely not. I saw the guy you were talking about and immediately thought it was GARY as well.
