At a minimum they should shake up the starting 5 (enter Sharp and Aligbe?) but obviously there are bigger changes needed to keep this season from being a full-on disaster.
Past time for Nagy to start living up to his reputation and push a few right buttons, both strategically and psychologically.
As painful as it is to say so because I really thought everything would fit together better, this team looks exactly like what it is -- one that lost 90% of its roster to the transfer portal and had to be thrown together willy-nilly out of desperation. I don't think it was a matter of recruiting warm bodies because most of the portal transfers SIU brought in were solid contributors to their former teams and we were happy when they signed. This roster is not without talent, but the pieces just don't fit together and glaring weaknesses were not addressed, making for a dysfunctional morass up to this point. I still hold out hope for improvement, but if that doesn't happen, we're probably looking at another offseason "rinse-repeat" cycle.
Some of the newcomers put up decent numbers elsewhere but mostly didn’t do a lot of winning. Some of these guys look like they’ve done a lot of losing. Just bad basketball at both ends.
I wouldn’t say these aren’t good players. The problem is there are too many that are the same and no outside shooters so you have guys trying to make up for that and be something they’re not. Hopefully that changes next year
Steffe not filling the desperately needed role of a 3-point sniper is a problem. Dibba is way too loose with the ball and lackadaisical. Mayo has been weirdly dysfunctional. Massey seems like he’s regressing with each game. Hensley doesn’t get going until they’re down double digits. Sharp is now being asked to do too much after the Elliott injury. And despite all of this, Sykes can barely get off the bench, which is revealing.
Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
Sharp wasn't bad at all - better option than Mayo IMO. He should start along with Aligbe when the ankle is healed up.
S. Indiana comes in Saturday - they just beat InSU by 10, lost in OT to Depaul and Bucknell.
Would sure hate to lose to a team we beat by 30 last year. Let's hope Dibba and company kick themselves in the ass and play much harder.
Let's also hope Nagy kicks some butt! They need it.
Steffe not filling the desperately needed role of a 3-point sniper is a problem. Dibba is way too loose with the ball and lackadaisical. Mayo has been weirdly dysfunctional. Massey seems like he’s regressing with each game. Hensley doesn’t get going until they’re down double digits. Sharp is now being asked to do too much after the Elliott injury. And despite all of this, Sykes can barely get off the bench, which is revealing.
Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
I thought Steffe was this great shooter. 26%. Agree about Dibba and Mayo. This was Hensley's best game - had a double double.
Bradley as a team is shooting 40%+. Outstanding.
For sure when you can't shoot worth a shit, it's tough to beat anyone.
Let's also hope Nagy kicks some butt! They need it.
Agree 100%. But what worries me is that if the losses continue, the players will begin tuning him out, which means he already will have lost the locker room -- with 20-something games remaining.
“We didn’t get the scouting information across properly?” - nagy
Huh? How?
Bow Em
As painful as it is to say so because I really thought everything would fit together better, this team looks exactly like what it is -- one that lost 90% of its roster to the transfer portal and had to be thrown together willy-nilly out of desperation. I don't think it was a matter of recruiting warm bodies because most of the portal transfers SIU brought in were solid contributors to their former teams and we were happy when they signed. This roster is not without talent, but the pieces just don't fit together and glaring weaknesses were not addressed, making for a dysfunctional morass up to this point. I still hold out hope for improvement, but if that doesn't happen, we're probably looking at another offseason "rinse-repeat" cycle.
Some of the newcomers put up decent numbers elsewhere but mostly didn’t do a lot of winning. Some of these guys look like they’ve done a lot of losing. Just bad basketball at both ends.
That's a real concern. Seems like when we get behind, some of these guys just accept it and go with the flow instead of finding that panic gear and playing with crazy energy/intensity!
Steffe not filling the desperately needed role of a 3-point sniper is a problem. Dibba is way too loose with the ball and lackadaisical. Mayo has been weirdly dysfunctional. Massey seems like he’s regressing with each game. Hensley doesn’t get going until they’re down double digits. Sharp is now being asked to do too much after the Elliott injury. And despite all of this, Sykes can barely get off the bench, which is revealing.
Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
I thought Steffe was this great shooter. 26%. Agree about Dibba and Mayo. This was Hensley's best game - had a double double.
Bradley as a team is shooting 40%+. Outstanding.
For sure when you can't shoot worth a shit, it's tough to beat anyone.
Wake me up when Hensley plays well when the game is still in reach. By no means is the 3-6 start all or mostly on him but I’m a little tired of some of the praise for some empty calorie stats he’s put up in these losses.
Steffe not filling the desperately needed role of a 3-point sniper is a problem. Dibba is way too loose with the ball and lackadaisical. Mayo has been weirdly dysfunctional. Massey seems like he’s regressing with each game. Hensley doesn’t get going until they’re down double digits. Sharp is now being asked to do too much after the Elliott injury. And despite all of this, Sykes can barely get off the bench, which is revealing.
Other than that, how was the play, Mrs. Lincoln?
I thought Steffe was this great shooter. 26%. Agree about Dibba and Mayo. This was Hensley's best game - had a double double.
Bradley as a team is shooting 40%+. Outstanding.
For sure when you can't shoot worth a shit, it's tough to beat anyone.
Wake me up when Hensley plays well when the game is still in reach. By no means is the 3-6 start all or mostly on him but I’m a little tired of some of the praise for some empty calorie stats he’s put up in these losses.
I can't believe Hensley was once a 4 star recruit that played at Cincy. It's like nobody has coached him for 4 years.
I have been to every single game humanly possible in Carbondale since 2013 and I’ve always been hooked even during the Hinson days. But that streak is coming to an end on Saturday. This just isn’t fun anymore. I’ve always been very optimistic about Saluki basketball but I just can’t enjoy what I’m watching right now. I haven’t seen a slaughtering like that on our own court since Wichita State murdered us when I was a student. At the very least, that Wichita team was one of the best teams in the country. Bradley, however, is not.
All of these weaknesses i pointed out after a win against NDSU and I wasn't taken seriously if you watch this team in person there is just no intensity from the start of games this can't happen at this level of competition and it sounds by the post game presser we already have a communication problem which is a real problem this early in the season and having a player go down for the season is no excuse for the team being this out of sorts what happened to next man up that is the motto everywhere else when someone gets hurt this team seems fragile to me hopefully they get it figured out soon
With a minimum of 23 games left to go, this team has to win at least 10 more games to avoid a 20-loss season. Right now, I don't see another ten wins on the slate with the effort and talent we've seen so far.
The Dawgs were picked to finish 7th in the Valley in preseason polls, and I think we would take that in a heartbeat right now, because this is not looking like a team that'll finish even that high.
Still a long, LONG way to go... but there's gotta be some glimmer of hope soon.
