MuchMany

They might. Seemed like a dedicated strategy to have quicker guys moving in and out of the middle of the zone causing chaos while one of their best deep shooters camped out high.

Eh, we can be frustrated without making horseshit, baseless assumptions about each other's well thought out, paragraphs-long posts. At least in my opinion, maybe @RapidsFan disagrees.

"Care to answer my question? Did Whitesell, his staff, or his teams show enough energy? To me they absolutely did not, but I have no idea why you think I'd need to couch my real feelings about him. People here will tell you, I was one of his longest defenders, too long in hindsight." I clearly said I don't think he showed enough energy. I have seen coaches old and young show energy. Not sure how I was supposed to answer your begging question.

To be fair, he has shot 38% on the second most attempts on their team.

Cat got your tongue @RapidsFan?

Was just about to say the same thing. Far cry from Huger's Wiggins and Turner teams battling Oats and the boys.

100%. Good to see a wrinkle and rough to see how shallow we are. They're already figuring the zone out with that dump down from the mod post to a dunker. Keeping mixing it up.

No Boldin or Graham. We're playing a funky zone that is working so far.

I guess we saw that differently. JW was certainly exasperated at times, but he, Thorpe, Foley, etc were mostly bumps on a log. His last two teams, once the Oats DNA was gone, were as sleepy and passive as they come. I know we have the minimum NIL infrastructure, I don't think that's enough. Whatever JW did was not enough compared to what we hear from Ohio, etc. And this is the first I've heard of any of our meager NIL backers defecting with JW. I see no scenario where Curtis Jones and Issac Jack don't leave for Iowa State and Dayton, respectively. Those options were there for them if JW stayed or not. Whatever small NIL bag UB has was not going to keep them here. Especially not after a poor year, "winning almost half their games."

Nate is one of the most high-energy coaches in the country. As is Hurley. Where else would the program culture and resulting energy trickle down from if not the HC and the qualities that he values?

Lol, yes if you're one of the greatest basketball minds in the game's history like Pop, you can be quiet and stoic. That's not an applicable reference. Care to answer my question? Did Whitesell, his staff, or his teams show enough energy? To me they absolutely did not, but I have no idea why you think I'd need to couch my real feelings about him. People here will tell you, I was one of his longest defenders, too long in hindsight. Halcovage is a mute on the sideline. He has zero energy.

McNeil reaffirmed his commitment. Lembo visited a bunch of local schools and his visit to Timon happened to be on McNeil's birthday. Lembo seems to get the little things. https://buffalonews.com/sports/college/buffalo-football-pete-lembo-recruiting-james-mcneil-bishop-timon/article_86ce60be-c44f-11ee-bdc8-af5769042074.html

What's it matter the reason for the lack of energy? Did you think he, his staff, or his teams showed enough energy?

Considering the fact that Halcovage was our 4th or 5th preference, I've been wondering if this season isn't more the product of the larger program at UB and the shape that Whitesell left it in. Why else would so many seemingly interested and qualified candidates turn us down? My guess is two things: our non-participation in NIL (which Alnutt, Whitesell, and Mo should have started three years ago) and the condition of the roster moving forward. It may have felt like being set up to fail for guys looking at their own career prospects. Remember: there's a reason so many people wanted JW gone. The rosters were getting worse, the in-game coaching was bad, no energy. Things were bad and it felt like they were going to get worse. Now we're dealing with the leftovers of his mediocre guys and a random collection of last-minute freshmen. Of course it's worse. Without the resources to compete for certain prospects and left with a roster comprised of misfit holdovers and zero incoming recruits, what exactly was the appeal? Basketball isn't like football where you can scheme your way out of things and hide a lack of talent across 100 guys. It's about 12 guys making shots in the end, Jimmys and Joes etc. The cupboard here was essentially bare. And the coaching this year has been horrific too. It's not to excuse that. I'm just trying to understand how we got to this point. I wrote the most scathing preview of this season out of anyone, predicting 6-12 MAC, but even that didn't go far enough.

Nothing new re: UB, but Reaves' 16-0 Greece Athena squad is the #1 AA team in NYS. He posts his game highlights to his Twitter, which Tibbs follows. Not sure if his offer from the summer before Whitesell got fired is still on the table. To my eye, I'm unsure whether he's the quality of player we need to get our of the basement, but he could be an excellent walk-on.

That look... "What do you mean I can't call my third timeout of the first quarter?" "Mo, you're the co-co assistant DC, you don't get any timeouts."

True, but just considering last year's minutes/production to this year's, Sy counts as new. But it's true that GH flunked the first partial recruiting cycle. Graham wasn't supposed to be eligible until next year, but he didn't even look D1 quality before getting hurt. Boldin and Sabol were good finds late in the calendar. But not finding a key PG and C in the portal might cost him his coaching future if he can't pull the nose of this program up out of this plunge.

Crazy. They got the leading JUCO scorer in the nation in Marcus Hill and he's averaging like 25/game in MAC play. But I guess that's like us getting a newcomer like Sy. They got Jason Spurgin, a starting senior center from Utah St. We didn't get anything like that.

McCollum was my choice as well. I never considered Hodgson realistic, but I see the appeal especially in hindsight. Also thought Cohen was ideal. Instead we got the worst of all worlds, no HC experience, no local connections. I've also been wondering about GH's only experience coming from a small Catholic school. I think there's been some culture shock for both him and the players.

Why are their colors brown and orange anyway..? 12.5-point underdogs on the road.

Why build and institute green bus rapid transit when you can build preposterous light rail infrastructure into the inner ring suburbs that don't want it for 10x the cost?

Tough game to sit through.

Yeah, this sounds way, way better than the Mo-xperience already.

2024 on VC https://www.verbalcommits.com/players/gavin-doty And referred to as a senior in the articles I've read. But I see the 2025 references as well. Wonder if he decided to firm up his class as 2024 when he left prep school for his old HS.

Tibbs has an offer out to a City Rock from CNY.