Texas Tech (-4.5) against WVU tonight....

[xWVU2010x]

So you're taking a bunch of guys that struggle at all facets of the game and you speed them up? The game is already moving too fast for them. That much is obvious to me.
They need to slow down and play under control. At least give themselves a shot to win most games buly limiting the amount of possessions the opposition gets.
It just seems to me that Huggs only wants to play one style no matter what personnel he has.
Gameplan in a box.
It's just not going to work, but Huggs is going to run what he brung I guess.
Check this out, if THIS Wva team tries to play up tempo with KU, they'll lose by 40. Play a grind it out style and you'll be within 10 points with at least a shot to pull the upset.

I don’t see how we don’t lose by 40 either way. If we try to limit possessions we don’t break 40 points most games and our opposition running their offense in a traditional half court will torch us in basically every conference game. We lucked out today that TT’s best players were sent to the bench for most of the 2nd half with foul trouble.

I’ll put it this way, we’re both wasting too much time trying figure out something for this team. This may be the worst collection of guards WVU has ever had, maybe the underclassmen get better next year but when your “experienced” starting SG is 0-4 and 4 fouls, a position that basically every team worth a shit gets big offensive production from, then your season is finished regardless of game plan.

 

[doogie503]

Never go with the home underdog unless the team coming into the road venue is elite (Bama or Clemson football, Duke, UNC, UK, or KU bball). I don’t care how tempting it is, the non blue bloods are not mentally tough enough to handle the target on their back consistently.

I know all this, but we're soooo bad though.

We probably have the worst guards of any major conf team in cbb.

We'll be lucky to win 4 games in conf play.

 

[doogie503]

So you're taking a bunch of guys that struggle at all facets of the game and you speed them up? The game is already moving too fast for them. That much is obvious to me.
They need to slow down and play under control. At least give themselves a shot to win most games buly limiting the amount of possessions the opposition gets.
It just seems to me that Huggs only wants to play one style no matter what personnel he has.
Gameplan in a box.
It's just not going to work, but Huggs is going to run what he brung I guess.
Check this out, if THIS Wva team tries to play up tempo with KU, they'll lose by 40. Play a grind it out style and you'll be within 10 points with at least a shot to pull the upset.

We didnt even really press.

Some token pressure, but nothing like years past.

Sat back in a zone more than anything.

 

[TechFan88]

GG WVU. I think we can all agree those refs should be let go.

Both teams really miss the PGs they lost to graduation.

 

[sgrooms]

Never go with the home underdog unless the team coming into the road venue is elite (Bama or Clemson football, Duke, UNC, UK, or KU bball). I don’t care how tempting it is, the non blue bloods are not mentally tough enough to handle the target on their back consistently.

I don't follow your logic here. Did you mean to say Always?

 

[xWVU2010x]

I don't follow your logic here. Did you mean to say Always?

Yes, my bad grammar error

 

[GE Nole]

Don't tell Borden I said this, but college officials need more training. We see too much of this awful officiating.
I loved the way the UK/UL game was called. It was as physical as the WVa/TT game, but nobody was in foul trouble.
This was just an awful job of officiating.

The NCAA needs to quit being greedy, cheap bastards and make officiating a full-time, year around job. Provide off season training. Provide benefits. Make it a real profession so guys don't have to fly all over the country and ref back to back games. And for goodness sakes, create a consistent product.