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Post by Bornthrilla on Feb 28, 2023 13:31:49 GMT -5
Horton still has some basic mechanic issues with his jumpshot that prevents him from being a consistent scorer. If he got a new shooting coach this offseason and committed himself to rebuilding his form, he could have a potential pro career.
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Post by A&T-roy on Feb 28, 2023 13:44:08 GMT -5
For me:
I'm a bit surprised at how well our ladies have done. Especially considering the 39 TO performance against ECU.
I really don't know what to say about our men. One game they look very good and the next they look like poo-poo. That said, I think Coach Shumpert did a pretty good job considering the hand he was dealt...new D1 HC, new & more competitive conference, wasn't in the position until August, Powell still working to get his game back after being out for 3 years and the loss of 2 bigs that might have made a pretty good difference.
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Post by saabman on Feb 28, 2023 15:16:30 GMT -5
Horton still has some basic mechanic issues with his jumpshot that prevents him from being a consistent scorer. If he got a new shooting coach this offseason and committed himself to rebuilding his form, he could have a potential pro career. Nothing wrong with Hortons mechanic ,come on now 😆 . What I see with him is , he allows certain players to take him out of his rhythm, focus an flow . Those certain players are on his own team 😆 Horton should just be himself.
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Post by aggieblackie2 on Feb 28, 2023 15:26:03 GMT -5
Horton is the best player on the team. Wish he would work on his dribbling skills a little more.
Ain't he a Senior?
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Post by oleschoolaggie on Feb 28, 2023 15:34:16 GMT -5
Horton still has some basic mechanic issues with his jumpshot that prevents him from being a consistent scorer. If he got a new shooting coach this offseason and committed himself to rebuilding his form, he could have a potential pro career. what's wrong with his mechanics? i have far more issues with powell's mechanics than horton's. but personally, i don't place a heavy emphasis on "mechanics" once a kid reaches college unless its completely "jacked up". to me, "repetitions" and "conditioning" are more important than "mechanics". i mean, look at jazmine harris' outside shooting mechanics? her "outside shooting" mechanics are a bit "jacked up", but her outside shot often "goes in" more than not. yeah, i'd like to see her get that elbow in and more of a shoving motion relative to her form. but at this level, i wouldn't ask her to change anything cuz that's what she's comfortable with and to change it may make it worse rather than better...
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Post by pj on Feb 28, 2023 17:30:47 GMT -5
To me Coach did a good job- for a first year Team. As opposed to Hampton and Monmouth. I think that we have 3 or 4 guys leaving. Bettis, Elliot and Dukes to a lesser degree, are young in their academic careers ( I think ). Whoever is the Coach, that will bring in a few players who want to ball mid-major, in the front court then that’s worth a possible two more wins, wouldn’t we say? With Johnson and Powell - with a summer to work- supporting them. Kam just needs to tweak his floater to have it become deadly, and really run the Team with improved shot selection. Bettis, Dukes and Elliott leaving ? I doubt that either of them is going anywhere. I didn’t mean to imply that. I was referring to the Seniors like Horton. And tried to show that the backcourt ( Dukes ect) are still young in the system.
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Post by pj on Feb 28, 2023 17:39:21 GMT -5
Horton is the best player on the team. Wish he would work on his dribbling skills a little more. Ain't he a Senior? Yes. ( Now idk about Eligibility and Grad School)
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Post by pj on Feb 28, 2023 17:49:57 GMT -5
For some reason, the entertainment value at games this season wasn't as high as in recent years. Maybe it was the DJ/game operations crew, maybe it was the student section - but something just seemed to be missing. . Corbett…idk what is the turnoff. The Top 25 Team came in to a crowd, but man do we need to recruit Bronny James for a crowd?
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Post by planoaggie on Feb 28, 2023 18:39:29 GMT -5
Since the discussion has turned to a review mostly on the MBB performance on the court pre-tournament, I will start by stating the obvious which is that the team exceeded preseason expectations by 4 spots finishing 7th. This is a plus. My prediction was that the team would finish with a conference record between 0.500 and 0.75. The team finished with a 0.444 conference record. For that they get a minus from me because I had already factored in the coaching change and players injuries before my prediction. I am sorry but they underperformed the 2nd half of the conference schedule.
In my opinion, there is only one reason why this team did not meet my expectations (injuries and coach change already known). Coach Shumpert is to blame. Don't get me wrong. He did a good job under the circumstances, but with the talent we have on this year's team he did not bring out their best. He mismanaged the starting lineup and appropriate substitutions quite a few times in my opinion. As a leader, he failed all season to properly address the poor shot selections by players, insert an offense or call plays that involved all to take advantage of situational basketball, and poor rebounding. Also, in too many games the team seemed unprepared or not mentally in the game in the first half to come back in the 2nd half to perform better. This falls on the coach.
Without fixing the coach problem first, I can't give an honest evaluation on how well these players would perform under a coach that demands more discipline/structure, better leadership, and better knowledge of offensive schemes. I do believe Coach Shumpert did a good job on switching defenses that got us back in quite a few games when our offense failed.
What I can say about the players is that they need to continue improving on their skills and development. The free-throw shooting, passing (too many TOs), boxing out, and finishing at the rim with and without contact all need work. I would give us a plus on getting impact "tranfer players" that helped us this season and hopefully in future seasons. I would give us a plus on "returning players" impact on this season (most players stats increased) with a small knock on not giving the better young returning players more playing time.
Overall the pluses outweigh the minuses so good job. In my opinion, with a good coach we will always be competitive in the CAA and be a top tier finisher in the standings. With a good coach and improved recruiting of more talented players (high school and transfer portal) we could contend for championships.
Let's see how we do in the CAA MBB Tournament, hiring of a good coach, building of a good supporting staff, and player recruitment going forward.
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Post by planoaggie on Feb 28, 2023 19:58:15 GMT -5
For some reason, the entertainment value at games this season wasn't as high as in recent years. Maybe it was the DJ/game operations crew, maybe it was the student section - but something just seemed to be missing. . Corbett…idk what is the turnoff. The Top 25 Team came in to a crowd, but man do we need to recruit Bronny James for a crowd? I am reposting an image on basketball attendance by 919aggie. You can see that for many years we have not been selling out Corbett to capacity. So are we truly concerned about selling of tickets or the energy coming from those in attendance? To me one is a Branding/Marketing to students and public issue while the latter is an in arena entertainment event issue. This problem has existed across multiple conference changes. I do see that attendance has increased over the last few years excluding the Covid year. WINNING DOES HELP. bluedeathvalley.proboards.com/attachment/download/1104One other note, we are not doing as good of a job selling out Truist Stadium. So again is this a Branding/Marketing issue to students and the public? I only looked at this year's attendance and not across conference changes. By the way, is there any HBCU that has better attendance than us where we can see what they are doing right to fill the seats?
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Post by saabman on Feb 28, 2023 21:28:05 GMT -5
Corbett…idk what is the turnoff. The Top 25 Team came in to a crowd, but man do we need to recruit Bronny James for a crowd? I am reposting an image on basketball attendance by 919aggie. You can see that for many years we have not been selling out Corbett to capacity. So are we truly concerned about selling of tickets or the energy coming from those in attendance? To me one is a Branding/Marketing to students and public issue while the latter is an in arena entertainment event issue. This problem has existed across multiple conference changes. I do see that attendance has increased over the last few years excluding the Covid year. WINNING DOES HELP. bluedeathvalley.proboards.com/attachment/download/1104One other note, we are not doing as good of a job selling out Truist Stadium. So again is this a Branding/Marketing issue to students and the public? I only looked at this year's attendance and not across conference changes. By the way, is there any HBCU that has better attendance than us where we can see what they are doing right to fill the seats? Southern is ranked #1, A&T #2 . Over all the SWAC leads in HBCU conference attendance.
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Post by planoaggie on Feb 28, 2023 22:47:39 GMT -5
I am reposting an image on basketball attendance by 919aggie. You can see that for many years we have not been selling out Corbett to capacity. So are we truly concerned about selling of tickets or the energy coming from those in attendance? To me one is a Branding/Marketing to students and public issue while the latter is an in arena entertainment event issue. This problem has existed across multiple conference changes. I do see that attendance has increased over the last few years excluding the Covid year. WINNING DOES HELP. bluedeathvalley.proboards.com/attachment/download/1104One other note, we are not doing as good of a job selling out Truist Stadium. So again is this a Branding/Marketing issue to students and the public? I only looked at this year's attendance and not across conference changes. By the way, is there any HBCU that has better attendance than us where we can see what they are doing right to fill the seats? Southern is ranked #1, A&T #2 . Over all the SWAC leads in HBCU conference attendance. This valuable but limited information provided by you with some additional research by myself has convinced me that we do not have an attendance problem or it is small compared to other HBCUs. Corbett has a capacity of 5,000 and we get on average 2,300 to 2,500 people per basketball season. Southern Clark Activity Center has a capacity of 8,000 and they have an average of 3,300 to 4,400 people per basketball season. From a percentage perspective we are similar, but from a number of tickets sold perspective we could afford to increase our average attendance by 1,000. How is Southern getting more fans to buy tickets (not sure if this actual seats filled) than us although they are smaller in student campus size? Is it because the people in their city like to attend sporting events more? Are their BB teams consistently winning more? Our ticket or entertainment department may need to reach out to their counterparts at Southern.
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Post by saabman on Feb 28, 2023 23:21:49 GMT -5
Southern is ranked #1, A&T #2 . Over all the SWAC leads in HBCU conference attendance. This valuable but limited information provided by you with some additional research by myself has convinced me that we do not have an attendance problem or it is small compared to other HBCUs. Corbett has a capacity of 5,000 and we get on average 2,300 to 2,500 people per basketball season. Southern Clark Activity Center has a capacity of 8,000 and they have an average of 3,300 to 4,400 people per basketball season. From a percentage perspective we are similar, but from a number of tickets sold perspective we could afford to increase our average attendance by 1,000. How is Southern getting more fans to buy tickets (not sure if this actual seats filled) than us although they are smaller in student campus size? Is it because the people in their city like to attend sporting events more? Are their BB teams consistently winning more? Our ticket or entertainment department may need to reach out to their counterparts at Southern. No it's because both the student body and community are engaged. Over all attendance numbers has never been a problem in the SWAC especially with there revenue spots . With Football being the Top of the ticket. A&T doesn't really have a attendance issue (depending on. Who you talk to) in Basketball. Now Football is a entirely different conversation. I lived in SWAC Country for a number of Years . It's just a different mentality by there fan base that sets them apart from other D1 HBCU's. The best why I can describe it is . They don't have a Wine and Cheese mentality, they have a I don't give a Damn frame of approach 😂 There fans and students want to be seen at the game.
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Post by planoaggie on Mar 1, 2023 10:37:17 GMT -5
This valuable but limited information provided by you with some additional research by myself has convinced me that we do not have an attendance problem or it is small compared to other HBCUs. Corbett has a capacity of 5,000 and we get on average 2,300 to 2,500 people per basketball season. Southern Clark Activity Center has a capacity of 8,000 and they have an average of 3,300 to 4,400 people per basketball season. From a percentage perspective we are similar, but from a number of tickets sold perspective we could afford to increase our average attendance by 1,000. How is Southern getting more fans to buy tickets (not sure if this actual seats filled) than us although they are smaller in student campus size? Is it because the people in their city like to attend sporting events more? Are their BB teams consistently winning more? Our ticket or entertainment department may need to reach out to their counterparts at Southern. No it's because both the student body and community are engaged. Over all attendance numbers has never been a problem in the SWAC especially with there revenue spots . With Football being the Top of the ticket. A&T doesn't really have a attendance issue (depending on. Who you talk to) in Basketball. Now Football is a entirely different conversation. I lived in SWAC Country for a number of Years . It's just a different mentality by there fan base that sets them apart from other D1 HBCU's. The best why I can describe it is . They don't have a Wine and Cheese mentality, they have a I don't give a Damn frame of approach 😂 There fans and students want to be seen at the game. By the way, although most of us enjoy much more watching Aggie sport teams in person and socializing with each other at the games the bottom line is that ticket sales are a very small percentage of the school overall revenue. This is no different from other universities. That is why colleges focus more on TV or media contracts. In my opinion, we may not see any "significant changes" by A&T in getting fans in the seats at basketball or football games but potentially improvements in the entertainment and activities surrounding these events where all can feel the Aggies energy or spirit in the stadium and arena.
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Post by A&T-roy on Mar 1, 2023 10:53:46 GMT -5
No it's because both the student body and community are engaged. Over all attendance numbers has never been a problem in the SWAC especially with there revenue spots . With Football being the Top of the ticket. A&T doesn't really have a attendance issue (depending on. Who you talk to) in Basketball. Now Football is a entirely different conversation. I lived in SWAC Country for a number of Years . It's just a different mentality by there fan base that sets them apart from other D1 HBCU's. The best why I can describe it is . They don't have a Wine and Cheese mentality, they have a I don't give a Damn frame of approach 😂 There fans and students want to be seen at the game. By the way, although most of us enjoy much more watching Aggie sport teams in person and socializing with each other at the games the bottom line is that ticket sales is a very small percentage of the school overall revenue. This is no different from other universities. That is why colleges focus more on TV or media contracts. In my opinion, we may not see any "significant changes" by A&T in getting fans in the seats at basketball or football games but potentially improvements in the entertainment and activities surrounding these events where all can feel the Aggies energy or spirit in the stadium and arena. I don't know that Southern has as much of a way for their fans to watch their basketball games, like we do with FloHoops. I believe our option to watch our games, as opposed to attending in person, has some level of impact on our in-person attendance. One good thing, about Flo, is that more people get to see our teams perform.
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