The Coach is failing

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Judge_Smails

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I read some of these posts blaming Pearl for not leaving anyone, blaming the players, etc. UT has plenty of talent. Mcbee, Tatum, Maymon, Golden...these are all guys who should not have any problem beating Austin Peay at home or C of C anywhere.

Why in the world would Gonzo keep shooting 3's when you have Naymon in the middle? They should have fed him everytime before kicking it out. Every single time. The 3 is always going to be available, why keep trying against a team that clearly doesnt have the horses to play in the middle? Are they set on running an out of control offense? If thats the case just play 5 point guards and shoot 3's all night. Dumb offense, dumb strategy = terrible coaching.

Coming from a neutral party----the problem isnt on the court, your problem is the coach. Reminds me of UK with Gillispie. They had Meeks, Patterson, Bradley and Crawford and still couldnt win a game.
 
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Judge_Smails said:
I read some of these posts blaming Pearl for not leaving anyone, blaming the players, etc. UT has plenty of talent. Mcbee, Tatum, Naymon, Golden...these are all guys who should not have any problem beating Austin Peay at home or C of C anywhere.

Why in the world would Gonzo keep shooting 3's when you have Naymon in the middle? They should have fed him everytime before kicking it out. Every single time. The 3 is always going to be available, why keep trying against a team that clearly doesnt have the horses to play in the middle? Are they set on running an out of control offense? If thats the case just play 5 point guards and shoot 3's all night. Dumb offense, dumb strategy = terrible coaching.

Coming from a neutral party----the problem isnt on the court, your problem is the coach. Reminds me of UK with Gillispie. They had Meeks, Patterson, Bradley and Crawford and still couldnt win a game.
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If you are going to come and criticize the team (which is fine), you can at least know the players' name.

By the way, I laughed when you said talent, and the first name you brought up is McBee.
 
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zjcvols said:
If you are going to come and criticize the team (which is fine), you can at least know the players' name.

By the way, I laughed when you said talent, and the first name you brought up is McBee.
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Exactly. OP clearly knows very little about this team. Sure the team is not doing well but I do not think the coach is failing.
 
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Judge_Smails said:
I read some of these posts blaming Pearl for not leaving anyone, blaming the players, etc. UT has plenty of talent. Mcbee, Tatum, Maymon, Golden...these are all guys who should not have any problem beating Austin Peay at home or C of C anywhere.

Why in the world would Gonzo keep shooting 3's when you have Naymon in the middle? They should have fed him everytime before kicking it out. Every single time. The 3 is always going to be available, why keep trying against a team that clearly doesnt have the horses to play in the middle? Are they set on running an out of control offense? If thats the case just play 5 point guards and shoot 3's all night. Dumb offense, dumb strategy = terrible coaching.

Coming from a neutral party----the problem isnt on the court, your problem is the coach. Reminds me of UK with Gillispie. They had Meeks, Patterson, Bradley and Crawford and still couldnt win a game.
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You give yourself away. A neutral party wouldn't repeatedly misspell the man's name.
 
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Judge_Smails said:
I read some of these posts blaming Pearl for not leaving anyone, blaming the players, etc. UT has plenty of talent. Mcbee, Tatum, Maymon, Golden...these are all guys who should not have any problem beating Austin Peay at home or C of C anywhere.

Why in the world would Gonzo keep shooting 3's when you have Naymon in the middle? They should have fed him everytime before kicking it out. Every single time. The 3 is always going to be available, why keep trying against a team that clearly doesnt have the horses to play in the middle? Are they set on running an out of control offense? If thats the case just play 5 point guards and shoot 3's all night. Dumb offense, dumb strategy = terrible coaching.

Coming from a neutral party----the problem isnt on the court, your problem is the coach. Reminds me of UK with Gillispie. They had Meeks, Patterson, Bradley and Crawford and still couldnt win a game.
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College of Charleston would annihilate Austin Peay. McBee as an example of talent is also a joke.
 
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So I guess Bruce Pearl was more of a joke since he lost to Charleston with more talent 91-78. So if Martin is as fail or less fail than Bruce then we should be ok.
 
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10NCVol88 said:
So I guess Bruce Pearl was more of a joke since he lost to Charleston with more talent 91-78. So if Martin is as fail or less fail than Bruce then we should be ok.
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idiot, you contradicted yourself in 4 words.
 
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mgv said:
idiot, you contradicted yourself in 4 words.
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Clearly you misunderstood that I meant if Martin's whole body of work not just one game is as good or better than Pearl's I would be happy. I will assume you missed that point, and I will withhold myself from hurling insults at you until later.
 
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OrangeBalls said:
I don't think Pearl would've ever lost to a 1-9 Peay team at home though.
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Nah. He just lost to a Charlotte team on the road that went 1-12 to finish the season. His team was also blown out by College of Charleston at home. The Oakland loss was also at home. Comparing miseries should really start after the Pitt win. Everything kind of unraveled from then on. That includes now. This is also a much less talented team than last year's.
 
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10NCVol88 said:
So you negate the fact that we lost to Charleston last year at home by a greater margin with more talent?
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No, and I'm not negating the fact that they also beat Villanova, Pitt and swept Vandy. This team will not beat any team worth a damn this year. That is part Pearl's fault and Martin's fault to a degree.

Losing to a 1-9 Peay team sounded the alarm. I hope Martin can keep this team from imploding and they show improvement. They have regressed since the Maui tourney. They have looked lost in the last two games they have played against teams that were beatable.
 
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Bruce is gone forever, folks. It was really fun and, ultimately, a disaster. He's gone. It's over. I'm glad. Move on.....
 
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Calculon said:
Nah. He just lost to a Charlotte team on the road that went 1-12 to finish the season. His team was also blown out by College of Charleston at home. The Oakland loss was also at home. Comparing miseries should really start after the Pitt win. Everything kind of unraveled from then on. That includes now. This is also a much less talented team than last year's.
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That team also beat Pitt, Villanova and swept Vandy. I'd say that little thing with the NCAA had something to do with the team's losses last year. Anyone that says otherwise needs their head examined. We didn't seem to lose to teams like that until year 6 when the NCAA was snooping around. We also never lost to a 1-9 Peay team at home. That's Wade Houstonesque.

Pearl is to blame for the roster and some of what is going on now. However, he isn't coaching on the sideline this year when we've looked lost against a zone and couldn't defend if our lives depended on it.
 
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10NCVol88 said:
I dont believe that statement to be true. We shall revisit it at the end of the season.
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Who do you see them beating at this point? They had a great chance at beating Memphis, and should've really, before Golden went brain dead and thought he could take the game over.

We have regressed since the Maui tourney.
 
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OrangeBalls said:
That team also beat Pitt, Villanova and swept Vandy. I'd say that little thing with the NCAA had something to do with the team's losses last year. Anyone that says otherwise needs their head examined. We didn't seem to lose to teams like that until year 6 when the NCAA was snooping around. We also never lost to a 1-9 Peay team at home. That's Wade Houstonesque.

Pearl is to blame for the roster and some of what is going on now. However, he isn't coaching on the sideline this year when we've looked lost against a zone and couldn't defend if our lives depended on it.
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Pretty easy to ignore a loss against a bad team when Pearl had taken UT to 6 straight tournaments, gave us one of the best wins I have seen at UT against Kansas, and taken a team to the elite 8. People focused on their own agenda don't recognize anything but what will support their own argument. It is harder to overlook a bad loss with a coach that hasn't done anything yet.
 
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OrangeBalls said:
That team also beat Pitt, Villanova and swept Vandy. I'd say that little thing with the NCAA had something to do with the team's losses last year. Anyone that says otherwise needs their head examined. We didn't seem to lose to teams like that until year 6 when the NCAA was snooping around. We also never lost to a 1-9 Peay team at home. That's Wade Houstonesque.

Pearl is to blame for the roster and some of what is going on now. However, he isn't coaching on the sideline this year when we've looked lost against a zone and couldn't defend if our lives depended on it.
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You can't have it both ways. This team has a terrible roster compared to last year and there is no one to blame but Pearl, his staff, and their NCAA trouble. This program is still in the wake of what happened last year. I see the same uninspired play from less talented players. You can't really polish a turd unless you ate some gold. It is way too early to hang this on Martin.
 
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