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Post by planoaggie on Mar 4, 2023 22:40:21 GMT -5
Wow! In such an important game to win your 1st CAA game where you are the higher seed, you lose by 15 pts. We ended the season losing 7 out of 9 games. Not good. I believe the players competed hard and Coach Shumpert his best under difficult circumstances, but we do need a new MBB head coach. Good luck hunting!!! This hunt began back in the fall, so the hunt should be about over.
I would expect a coach to be named within 10 days of the national championship game being wrapped up. Hopefully, he's an integral cog of a staff that is making a deep run at the title. Are you talking a run for the NCAA, NIT, or both? You know that would be a good Las Vegas betting question. What day A&T will announce the hiring of a coach and who had the closest prediction?
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Post by saabman on Mar 4, 2023 22:53:37 GMT -5
We stunk from head to toe, what did we expect. I hope our AD saw how a team without good coach fails to perform. To be honest, I really believed we were going to beat them by double digits because of all the above mentioned points and to make this a revenge game for losing by 10 points in February. As the announcer said " A&T needs to get back to playing the way they played in the first half team ball to get back in the game, it's to much one on one play now " . That statement says it all . Respect to Dukes and Bettis for there play .
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 4, 2023 22:56:03 GMT -5
Second half of video is the A&T interview
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Post by planoaggie on Mar 4, 2023 23:41:05 GMT -5
To be honest, I really believed we were going to beat them by double digits because of all the above mentioned points and to make this a revenge game for losing by 10 points in February. As the announcer said " A&T needs to get back to playing the way they played in the first half team ball to get back in the game, it's to much one on one play now " . That statement says it all . Respect to Dukes and Bettis for there play . Wow, we started off 14-0.
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Post by aggierattler on Mar 4, 2023 23:54:37 GMT -5
This hunt began back in the fall, so the hunt should be about over.
I would expect a coach to be named within 10 days of the national championship game being wrapped up. Hopefully, he's an integral cog of a staff that is making a deep run at the title. Are you talking a run for the NCAA, NIT, or both? You know that would be a good Las Vegas betting question. What day A&T will announce the hiring of a coach and who had the closest prediction? My guess is that he'll either be a sharp, aggressive young assistant (not the top assistant) from a Power 5 program or he'll be an older top assistant at a mid-major program...one who is sharp, but knows that his age now probably won't allow him to get that Power Five head coaching job.
Whomever it is, I think that Martin and Hilton have already identified him/them.
With tonight's loss, everything should be in full motion now.
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Post by saabman on Mar 5, 2023 0:24:29 GMT -5
As the announcer said " A&T needs to get back to playing the way they played in the first half team ball to get back in the game, it's to much one on one play now " . That statement says it all . Respect to Dukes and Bettis for there play . Wow, we started off 14-0. But that team play got us back into the game and the lead at a point. As my father RIP 🙏 " It's not who are where you start its where you end " staying the course will win more games against equally talented players and teams then they will lose..i.e THE Women's team is a good example. They don't panic and go to rec/selfish ball . They stay focused and stay on course and walk you down . The men don't seem to understand that philosophy 😆
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Post by Bornthrilla on Mar 5, 2023 0:40:10 GMT -5
The post mortem of this season will be that Shumpert just showed a complete inability to positively affect the action on the court when things were going south. He just could not make any adjustments.
The reason why the team shot so poorly in the second half is because he could not design easy looks for them and could not instill enough discipline to make the players share the ball better and have better shot selection.
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Post by Agg E. Pride on Mar 5, 2023 1:13:39 GMT -5
The calls for a "complete overhaul" resonate throughout Blue Death Valley, and with certain players participation in Senior Day festivities, I won't be upset if they "go on somewhere" if they haven't exhausted eligibility, with Horton being a notable exception.
With Will Felton, the Dallas Shag, Dukes & Jaylen Jackson coming back & MAYBE Harry, the new guy & staff will need to lock Bettis & Elliott in for the long haul & keep them out of the portal. With that stated, I wouldn't be annoyed if Machine Gun Kelly Dillinger "went on somewhere" as well.
The new guy & staff have their work cut out for them, & we may take some lumps & bumps for a season or 2 while they rebuild. It may take some time, but we'll be good in men's basketball again someday.
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 5, 2023 11:54:56 GMT -5
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Post by A&T-roy on Mar 5, 2023 13:52:03 GMT -5
The calls for a "complete overhaul" resonate throughout Blue Death Valley, and with certain players participation in Senior Day festivities, I won't be upset if they "go on somewhere" if they haven't exhausted eligibility, with Horton being a notable exception. With Will Felton, the Dallas Shag, Dukes & Jaylen Jackson coming back & MAYBE Harry, the new guy & staff will need to lock Bettis & Elliott in for the long haul & keep them out of the portal. With that stated, I wouldn't be annoyed if Machine Gun Kelly Dillinger "went on somewhere" as well. The new guy & staff have their work cut out for them, & we may take some lumps & bumps for a season or 2 while they rebuild. It may take some time, but we'll be good in men's basketball again someday. I'm not impressed with Duke being a CAA type player. I like what I see from Elliott better...to go along with Woods & Bettis.
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Post by Maxell on Mar 5, 2023 13:58:10 GMT -5
I'm just glad it's all over.
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 5, 2023 14:44:30 GMT -5
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Post by aggie2039 on Mar 5, 2023 14:44:53 GMT -5
Shout out to their media team though!!!
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Post by aggierattler on Mar 5, 2023 14:47:45 GMT -5
Shout out to their media team though!!! Yeah, they do a good job and are on top of it (when things are going well for them, at least).
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Post by Agg E. Pride on Mar 5, 2023 15:11:41 GMT -5
I'm still tripping that at one point in the game, we were up 14-0, and allowed them to recover because some folks decided to go rogue and play for themselves. But, we went into the half clinging to a 3-point lead and then fell apart in the second half due to the same rogue play of the same rogue players.
What tripped me out even more is that this rogue play was met with apathy, and NO reprisal from the coaching staff. NO benching of players, NO energy nor fight, just the conclusion that "we're losing, we're gonna lose, so let's just let it happen."
What tripped me out EVEN more is that, upon reflection of stats, we GOT ZERO points and 2 REBOUNDS from our "bigs," got another night of poor shot selection with poor results from our guards, while the Portobello kid busted us for 30/16.
We BETTER get a DARN GOOD HC & assistants and bring in SOME PLAYERS!!! I've said it for 4 seasons now..PLEASE...BRING IN:
1) Some guards who understand how to distribute the basketball and run an offense 2) Those same guards NEED TO BE ABLE TO SHOOT 3) 2 or 3 BIGS! Connect with our Ag and Engineering schools and get their recruiters to find us some guys from Nigeria, Sudan, Congo, Germany, Bosnia, Serbia, SOMEWHERE! We could use some Slobodan Milesovic's and Bango N'Diaye's 'round here!
It's gonna get better!
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