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OrediggerPoke wrote: Wed Dec 28, 2022 10:28 pm DuSell and Max have to be asking a lot of questions.
At this level, if a better player is playing less than another player, 98% of the time it's because the better player isn't doing things right off the court (practice, class, weights, etc). Do things right and you get rewarded with more play time.

It's the reason Justin James was only getting like 25 minutes a game his senior year issues of getting like 38-40 min/game.
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WestWYOPoke wrote: Wed Dec 28, 2022 11:04 pm
OrediggerPoke wrote: Wed Dec 28, 2022 10:28 pm DuSell and Max have to be asking a lot of questions.
At this level, if a better player is playing less than another player, 98% of the time it's because the better player isn't doing things right off the court (practice, class, weights, etc). Do things right and you get rewarded with more play time.

It's the reason Justin James was only getting like 25 minutes a game his senior year issues of getting like 38-40 min/game.
If that’s the case - let’s just play Barnhart and some of the other end of the bench guys. They seem to be good off the court guys and can’t do much worse.

I’ve heard nothing about DuSell doing things wrong. He just gets no minutes it appears. But regardless, Linder isn’t paid to produce Boy Scouts.
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LanderPoke wrote: Wed Dec 28, 2022 10:34 pm
OrediggerPoke wrote: Wed Dec 28, 2022 10:28 pm DuSell and Max have to be asking a lot of questions.
Yup. Why doesn’t Linder sub max for Thompson straight up. I’m beginning to really question linder
It raises a question- was last season simply lightning in a bottle?

I'm also beginning to wonder if the team hasn't already given up on themselves and the staff...
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Didn't realize a guard(Anderson) shoots free throws (now) at less than 34%, ummm whaaat??? Next 2 games might even get uglier and that's at 7220...no thanks for me...Graham isn't coming back to disrupt this chemistry even further....so sad I dreamed about the potential prospects of our deep Pokes squad this year and "wanted" to believe it would be true...like always....wait til next year(maybe)
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same as every game. terrible first half. battle tales off second half just to lose
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laxwyo wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 5:00 am same as every game. terrible first half. battle tales off second half just to lose
It was so easy for Fresno st. in the 1st half. They let up, then we come back. Then they wake up in time to win
the game A pretty standard scenario.

Out of Wenzel, Oden, and Dusell, we needed one of them to break out and become a real go to scorer. Frankly, none of them can shoot the 3
and none of them are very good at creating their own shots or going to the basket. That leaves us with Maldaonado, whose game has been figured out by everyone. He's no threat from the outside and when he's forced to pass off his penetration move, it's often a disaster.

Last year, with Jeffries and Ike, we had dependable scoring and the others could fill in every so often. Reynolds has stepped up, but every one else is just a role player who needs an Ike double team to free them up. We are not a hard team to guard and we are not going to create opportunities off of our less than great defense. It's going to be a season to forget.
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A couple things. When we had to get a crucial rebound we couldn’t. Gave up two o boards that lost us the game. Pathetic!

And why did Linder think it was a good idea to have Anderson, our worst FT shooter , bring the ball up down three with 20 seconds left? All they had to do was foul him and game over
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bladerunnr wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 6:11 am
laxwyo wrote: Thu Dec 29, 2022 5:00 am same as every game. terrible first half. battle tales off second half just to lose
It was so easy for Fresno st. in the 1st half. They let up, then we come back. Then they wake up in time to win
the game A pretty standard scenario.

Out of Wenzel, Oden, and Dusell, we needed one of them to break out and become a real go to scorer. Frankly, none of them can shoot the 3
and none of them are very good at creating their own shots or going to the basket. That leaves us with Maldaonado, whose game has been figured out by everyone. He's no threat from the outside and when he's forced to pass off his penetration move, it's often a disaster.

Last year, with Jeffries and Ike, we had dependable scoring and the others could fill in every so often. Reynolds has stepped up, but every one else is just a role player who needs an Ike double team to free them up. We are not a hard team to guard and we are not going to create opportunities off of our less than great defense. It's going to be a season to forget.
Excellent summary
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