What is wrong with men's hoops: players or coaches

[rainbear14]

:thumb: :thumb: :clap: LA , you nailed it!

 

[sacstateman]

Is there any friction between Rorie and Wright? Why were they benched earlier this year? When Rorie went off on TD earlier this year during a game, that seemed to be when you guys started struggling...

 

[Potomac Griz]

Is there any friction between Rorie and Wright? Why were they benched earlier this year? When Rorie went off on TD earlier this year during a game, that seemed to be when you guys started struggling...

I doubt it, there was an article not too long ago about them being great friends. Here is that article.

In which game did Rorie go off on TD? Was it the @Sac game? Was it during the game or after? If it was that game, that's a game where it seemed that Wright was in the dog house for something (only played 7 minutes, all in the 2nd half) and the next game for the Griz (home against EWU) both Wright and Rorie were benched for the full game.

 

[maroonandsilver]

What is wrong with men's hoops this year? Too many conference losses. Recent loss to Cats. Can't seem to hold leads. Are these player or coach problems? The large amount of lineup changes, and re-changes, and minute various seem like a problem to me too. I can see how players get discouraged when the changes occur, and they probably don't know where they stand. See below quotes from the recent Skyline Sports article. These look like significant issues to me, but I am not close enough to the situation to know.

"... can they overcome the adversity that invariably arises during the course of a season.

“Unfortunately for this team the adversity keeps piling on and it doesn’t go away.”

"... team that has searched for consistency all season."

“I think that’s the biggest issue for us this year is we’ve been distracted,” DeCuire said. “We’ve been distracted for months in a lot of different ways — more ways than I’ve ever experience. I believe that’s why we’re not winning right now.”

"The Griz have tried to do so with players adjusting to new roles. Some of those have been accepted and some have not. Some of that has caused some internal strife that has eroded some of the chemistry the Griz were counting on to push them through a year DeCuire knew would a difficult one. In January, senior Walter Wright and Rorie were suspended. Then last week true freshman Sayeed Pridgett sat for a game."

"UM junior power forward Fabijan Krslovic said. “We have to make sure everyone stays up and stays positive. I think you could tell once they had that run, some guys got flat. It just kind of impacted everyone. It’s pretty contagious when something like that happens. It’s got to be guys making sure when they see that, just jump on it and keep everyone up, keep everyone positive, keep everyone together and try rallying around each other. Every game you’re gonna play in, both teams are going to go on runs big or small, but you just have to fight through that adversity and fight against that momentum.”

The answer is NOTHING! (See lasts night's win at Weber).

 

[sacstateman]

Is there any friction between Rorie and Wright? Why were they benched earlier this year? When Rorie went off on TD earlier this year during a game, that seemed to be when you guys started struggling...

I doubt it, there was an article not too long ago about them being great friends. Here is that article.

In which game did Rorie go off on TD? Was it the @Sac game? Was it during the game or after? If it was that game, that's a game where it seemed that Wright was in the dog house for something (only played 7 minutes, all in the 2nd half) and the next game for the Griz (home against EWU) both Wright and Rorie were benched for the full game.

Thanks Potomac...it was during the Sac St game and that may make some sense...Rorie may have been upset that Wright wasn't getting minutes and TD probably let him know who was running the show...I don't know for sure obviously but this could have been the cause for the benching of both...