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MBBALL GRIZ - ewoo Game Thread

We could use another big man with some bulk. Taylor is a great athlete but he’s too light and gets pushed around inside.
 
I blame the portal for this. Some or most of the players that were recruited off the portal came from teams where they barely played, and they came here for playing time, winning be damned.

And Money should not have spend more than 5 seconds pleading for someone to setup a screen while being double teamed with the ball and no teammate even around. That was just bad.
 
When you look back over the ten-year DeCuire regime, it is chapter and verse of great guards, among the best ever to play at Montana.

But it is also chapter and verse of bust after bust when it comes to quality big men. Again next year, we have four high-quality guards coming in but no big men. It's the achilles heel of the DeCuire regime.

It's a weakness that can be disguised in the Big Sky conference, but not in the pre-season against the Power Four programs, and deifnitely not at the Big Dance. There can be no hope for a win there without a quality big.
 
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BelierPeaux said:
I hear you, but is there anyone on this team that you really count on to make FTs? Certainly not Kepley.
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Without looking it up I think the FT shooting leads the conference. There will always be those strange nights when they don’t fall. Money shoots in the high 80’s. Our problems exist in other areas.
 
Sport said:
Average at best is probably the right word. Save the profanity for another time. Did not see the game but from the comments it wasn’t pretty.

It’s easy to blame the coaches, after all the buck stops there. I will always support Travis. Why? Because he prepares these young men who wear the maroon and silver for life after basketball. Outside of Money these players will never step foot on an NBA floor. All of Travis’s players had walked away from Montana with a degree. I would venture to say very few basketball coaches in America can say that.

So what’s wrong with this years team? Well, in my humble opinion, it’s the same thing that drove Bobby Hauck out of coaching, Name Image Likeness. Hauck expanded on it so no need to revisit that scenario suffice to say collegiate sports is no longer amateur sports but play for pay.

But back to this years team. How many transfers did we bring in, 7, 8, 9? I concede last years team with 9 transfers and the championship was an anomaly. I truly believe that. The chemistry was there, this year not so much. It’s a crap shoot at best. I feel for Travis and Chris and Jay and the rest of the staff. In football you can hide your mistakes in the 90+ players, in basketball you’d better be right more often than wrong
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