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Post by Bornthrilla on Feb 5, 2008 9:05:31 GMT -5
Another thing I don't understand is why he allows his big men to push the ball up the court and try to initiate fast breaks. We only have a couple of true ball handlers on the team as it is. We don't need power forwards grabbing loose balls and trying to lead the break.
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Post by DECKS on Feb 5, 2008 9:05:52 GMT -5
On a good note Bibbs goes out and totally destroys a very good Hampton team.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Feb 5, 2008 9:09:20 GMT -5
Bibbs should coach the men and women. Let her just show up at 4 Pm and coach all night.
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Post by bluehaze on Feb 5, 2008 9:12:55 GMT -5
Gator one of the biggest problem is this team returned most of it's players but is performing worse against good teams than they did last season. What about the road win against Del. State? Norfolk is also clearly a top tier team in the conference. We lost a close road decision to them as well.
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Post by DECKS on Feb 5, 2008 9:21:54 GMT -5
DSU is overachieving. They lost four starters from last years team but I will give credit for that win because it's tough to win on the road. Still we should be performing better. Half the battle is to cut down the turnovers!!
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Post by aggiejazz on Feb 5, 2008 10:05:46 GMT -5
"Coachin' ain't easy"
"can't get a dollar out of 15 cents"
You ACC fans have noticed that with the best talent and best coaching in Duke and Chapel Hill basketball teams they still have bad nights.
A&T sports programs don't have the best of anything but they have some good people as well as some not so good and they all work hard with what little they have in resources.
I am not saying you can't criticize the coaches but it is the manner in which you do it. Eaves' team looked awful 2/3 of the time last night but frauds don't finished third in the regular season and make it to the conference tourmnament semi-finals.
Appreciate how far the programs have come before you chase what little you do have and end up sitting around for a few years waiting on seeing one win.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Feb 5, 2008 10:42:40 GMT -5
Eaves has been playing with the house's money since he got here. Everyone knew the program was at rock bottom when he arrived so no one cared much when he only averaged about 2 wins for the the first couple of years. The Dawg Pound said F it, we'll just party amongst ourselves and wait for someone to foul out. However, I have been criticial of his coachign skills since the beginning. I saw back then when he could not diagram plays to get Booker open shots late in the game. That showed me that he was lacking in X and Os. Booker would be killing opposing teams in the first half and then always fade away down the stretch. We lost a lot of games in those first couple of years simply because of the way Eaves coached in crunch time.
I also realized that his teams have never been able to shoot free throws or handle the ball well. His whole philosphy has been to race down the court and take the first open shot before the defense gets a chance to settle in. That's why he allows everyone and anyone on his roster to start the fast break.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Feb 5, 2008 11:05:08 GMT -5
Attendance: 5374
The Dawg Pound deserves better.
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Post by aahhbigboy on Feb 5, 2008 11:06:05 GMT -5
Listen, I know I may rub some of you the wrong way and I really don't mean to. But the fact of the matter is that many of you are willing to put up with a mediocre product. You want to have "Aggie Pride" in something mediocre. I recognize that Eaves pulled us out of a hole that Curtis "Georgio Armani" Hunter put us in. All I'm saying is that he obviously isn't going to be the guy to get us to the next level unless, as another post said, it is over time and he changes his ways. It isn't that hard in the MEAC. Bozeman (Morgan St) came to Corbett with like 6-7 players last year and got crushed. IN 1 YEAR, he came back and gave us the worst beating at home that we've had in 5. It can be done with basketball competence.
Is it O.K. to just want more or should I be happy that we can beat the trash of the league? I guess I should thank Fobbs for that mentality. lol
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Post by DOOMS on Feb 5, 2008 11:17:01 GMT -5
It's ok to want more but at the same time we have to be realistic. Are we going to get more? I think Eaves will improve and could retire from A&T as one of our greatest coaches, and that's saying quite a bit. I also realize that Coach Corbett either quit because he was tired of our @sses or was forced out, and we haven't seen success like he brought us since. It's not like this cat has never been exposed to better coaching. He has sacrificed a good deal to coach (or "coach", depending on how you look at it) our basketball teams from the very worst in the nation. Unlike somebody else who will remain nameless in this post, he did not take a good deal more than he was worth and make less, he did the exact opposite.
Eaves' philosophy absolutely sucks in my non-basketball playing opinion. We should be walking the ball and slowing the game down. If it worked for Princeton and worked for Corbett it should work for us. But Eaves has won just how many more games than I have? Ok, so I'll shut up. But another coach who shall remain nameless in this post and I have the exact same number of wins, and he's been at it for two years. There's the problem. We're so starved for a winner due to losses everywhere we are extolling the virtues of women's basketball and cheerleading (it had to be typed).
Bottom line: Wheels used to coach basketball, and he was d@mn good at it too. I'm sure he'll give Eaves all the support he can to ensure that in a few years' time threads like this will be pulled up for laughter.
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Post by aahhbigboy on Feb 5, 2008 11:25:25 GMT -5
Good points. I am by no means calling for his head. I just want to see HIM change some things. We are 317th out of 328 teams in turnovers with an "experienced" team. That is like a child screaming for his mom's attention. He doesn't have the right players to execute the system he wants to run.
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Post by Bornthrilla on Feb 5, 2008 11:42:17 GMT -5
Yeah. In the immortal words of Bill Hayes, someone needs to jab his hind parts with a hot poker. Dude needs to look himself in the mirror and admit that he is not getting the job done. I guess the reason I am so dissapointed is becase I realize that we are stuck with him.
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Post by DOOMS on Feb 5, 2008 11:57:20 GMT -5
We are 317th out of 328 teams in turnovers with an "experienced" team. That is like a child screaming for his mom's attention. He doesn't have the right players to execute the system he wants to run. That's what bothers me. We seem to have all these "system" coaches instead of people that can adapt to the resources they have. But then, who in this conference ain't a "system" coach?
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Post by The Professor on Feb 5, 2008 12:16:54 GMT -5
Listen, I know I may rub some of you the wrong way and I really don't mean to. But the fact of the matter is that many of you are willing to put up with a mediocre product. You want to have "Aggie Pride" in something mediocre. I recognize that Eaves pulled us out of a hole that Curtis "Georgio Armani" Hunter put us in. All I'm saying is that he obviously isn't going to be the guy to get us to the next level unless, as another post said, it is over time and he changes his ways. It isn't that hard in the MEAC. Bozeman (Morgan St) came to Corbett with like 6-7 players last year and got crushed. IN 1 YEAR, he came back and gave us the worst beating at home that we've had in 5. It can be done with basketball competence. Is it O.K. to just want more or should I be happy that we can beat the trash of the league? I guess I should thank Fobbs for that mentality. lol Why can't he get us to the next level? When was the last time we had recuits committed this early? I do have problems with so of his in game coaching decisions but overall he is doing wonders for the program. Bozeman is a proven winner from a major d1 school who got caught up with the NCAA. Eaves can coach I just don't think he knows exactly what he wants Aggie Basketball to be just yet.
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Post by aggiepaul on Feb 5, 2008 17:47:08 GMT -5
it's so sad that we have people on here who never coached or played d1 basketball how many of you could go out there and do a better job than eaves remember coach corbett was winning every year and he got the axed now coach eaves is winning and now we have a problem with his coaching we are far better than were 4 yrs. ago hampton and morgan have better talent than us we have to deal with it and try 2 finish in the top 4 of the meac
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