skrabukes

30 minutes ago, MaineBull said:

His minutes can can be given to anyone.  What he is giving us is nothing but, terrible attitude, awful defense, no rebounding, no leadership, terrible shot selection and he limits ball movement as it stops when it gets to him always.  Anyone who knows anything aboit basketball knows hiw much he has let this team down. 

 

His stats for season

 

38% fg

22%3pt fg

3 to per game

He wasn't like that last year. What's changed?

59 minutes ago, MaineBull said:

Things I would like to see these final games:

1.  Get Boldin back on court and encourage him to use his athleticism to attack the rim and get to the free throw line.

2.  Limit minutes of Adams as he is the biggest anchor taking this team down.  Lazy on defense, terrible effort to rebound, too many turnovers and awful shot selection and even worse shooting percentage.  Limiting his minutes will certainly mean he will transfer out.  That is what is best for this program.  

3.  Get Sabol the ability to create some shots for either himself or his teammates.  To be affective he needs to be able to get some shots off the dribble.  He needs to have more shots each game.  Too many shots are being taken by adams and Smith.

4.  No more three pointers for Chatman.  His percentage is awful and he is so good and the mid range, that needs to be his game.  Back ur defender down and play to the strength of ur game and please take care of the ball.

This has been one if the hardest seasons to watch in my 28 years following the program.  I have remained engaged and continue to support the team despite how hard that is to do at this point.  I want to see improvement.  To me it starts with effort especially on the defensive end of the floor.  I also want to see more fire from coaches.  If these kids aren't doing what we want, sit them.  Playing time is earned.  Hold them accountable for their actions on the floor.  I have seen way to much lackadaisical effort from this team.

Limit Adams' minutes and give them to who? They only suit up 8 guys.  He'd be great to get rid of. Along with Sy and Jo being gone, we'll have quite the quality roster returning. We have 1 win this year, we must be looking for that goose-egg! 

47 minutes ago, MuchMany said:

Making my triumphant return to a live game tonight! Expecting a 5-10 point win to be honest.

Hopefully more triumphant than the last debacle of a game that you attended!

1 hour ago, Bullsboys said:

I also think the games were entertaining, Up and Down Fast paced, High level Athletes - They were fun to watch!

You mean you're not entertained by this year's 2 win team?

2 minutes ago, squire17 said:

This game gives me hope that the Bulls can turn things around.

We Lost against a cellar dwellar. At least they appeared to move the ball at times. Could've won if they made late FTs. But I still wish I shared your optimism.

Good for him. He was a great guy and AD while he was here.

7-4. I'll take it

Slow start, lots of game to go. Need to win the ones we're supposed to win.

9 minutes ago, UBinMD said:

It's hard for me to feel bad for any of the staff members, to me they are all in this together and got promoted for some unknown reason within weeks of arrival. Reminds me of young guys at work that want to be promoted every few months, even though they don't know anything more than they did before the promotion. Calvin Cage I may have some empathy for.

Well, 1 member wasn't promoted.

6 minutes ago, UBinMD said:

I was honestly thinking .500 in league, maybe slightly under, I was not prepared for this level of bad, I must admit.

I figured less that .500, but this isn't regression, this is the bottom (maybe beneath the bottom) and completely starting from scratch. Honestly, starting from scratch would be better, as this coach has now shown that he can lose big game in and game out. This roster was flawed from the start, but it's not a 1 win roster. A better managed team would have several (still not tons) more wins. I feel bad for 1 of the staff members for sure. I'd wager he didn't anticipate this when he came here. It's going to be a tough final month to stomach at the AA.

I mean, seriously, could he be worse than the last guy? We won so huge when he left on his own. We got paid for dumping an anchor. I think he will be a solid football coach. He may not be flashy and bring in a ton of style, but will teach the game and coach the players he has. I can certainly live with that.

2 minutes ago, TheCommish said:

Niu is as bad as we’re. The AD is worse. 

Well, at least watching the game at their place is watchable now that they have a new floor. Could you imagine watching those 2 teams play on that ridiculously unwatchable floor combined with the quality of play? I've never turned a UB game off, but that might have gotten me there.

15 minutes ago, TheCommish said:

I still think we beat NIU 2x, someone else 4-14 record.

What evidence have you seen in the last month that backs up that theory? 

Best 10 minutes of the season,  super 2nd half. Great win. Matched up well with Ohio. It helps having a coach who is intense, tough, and knows what to do. 

49 minutes ago, skrabukes said:

The 00 team led UNC. This team was down to Robert's Wesleyan until like 4 minutes left in the game. Sy is way better than anyone on the 00 team (as much as I loved Lou Campbell). Adams and Foster is a wash, same with Jo and Alexeev. Vasiliev versus Sabol is a tough comparison, pretty tight probably, because a shooter is a nice thing to have in Sabol. The 00 team had 14 players. We currently suit up 10 (and likely down to 9 pending the ankle injury from tonight). Now let's match up coaches. A high school/ecc coach versus GH3. Well that's a blowout. Game over.

My statement gives the blowout win to the 00 team.

7 minutes ago, TheCommish said:

This is the worse Buffalo team ever or at least I’ve seen since early 90s. I think the ‘92 or ‘00 team would beat this team. I don’t think we have anyone that could start for another mac team.

The 00 team led UNC. This team was down to Robert's Wesleyan until like 4 minutes left in the game. Sy is way better than anyone on the 00 team (as much as I loved Lou Campbell). Adams and Foster is a wash, same with Jo and Alexeev. Vasiliev versus Sabol is a tough comparison, pretty tight probably, because a shooter is a nice thing to have in Sabol. The 00 team had 14 players. We currently suit up 10 (and likely down to 9 pending the ankle injury from tonight). Now let's match up coaches. A high school/ecc coach versus GH3. Well that's a blowout. Game over.

14 minutes ago, MuchMany said:

This is crazy bad, but we haven't been "recently" ranked. We finished 192 last year and 142 the year before that. While this is a new, bad low, we've been on this path for a few years now.

Well, we were more recently ranked than we have been a bottom 5% team in the ncaa. Now we are the latter.

This is like watching Delaware park basketball.  It's seriously unbelievable that this is a recently ranked d1 team. These Ohio guys are having a lot of fun out their at our expense.  We used to do that. Ohio opens up 2nd half with the weak side alley too. Oh how I miss having a coach that would run that play...every game. 

Why did they have to show that? Probably the worst feeling I've ever had leaving an arena, outside of being at the Malarchuk game.

32 minutes ago, Chet said:

Rich….What do you think about this coaching staff? 

We have 1 win. What is there to think?

Unwatchable, sadly I will watch til the end, but it'll be miserable. 

29 minutes ago, MuchMany said:

Last year's roster was twice as talented as this year's. Not even close. 

Well, double 1 win, that equals 2. Last years team had more than 2 wins at this point. As bad as everyone made the last regime out to be (and they had their shortcomings), they were miles ahead of this crew. Sadly,  we are saddled with what we've got, and right now that gives us a bottom 5% team in the country for the first time in 25 years. This upcoming schedule doesn't help either, @OH, home vs Kent...ugliness coming.

24 minutes ago, DocCas86 said:

Looking at the seasons for the UB transfers from last year:

The only players that would have made a meaningful impact on team this year would have been Jack, Jones and Ceaser.   You can't fault Jack and Jones for leaving as they ended up at much better situation.  Ceaser is putting up good numbers, but the grass isn't much greener at ODU.  I wouldn't be surprised if he transfers again this year.  Poor Blocker chose one of the few teams having more difficulty than UB.

Yet somehow that roster was at least .500. Now look at this current group, with the addition of Sy who is the best player of the bunch by far, and sitting on 1 win. 

4 minutes ago, UBinMD said:

In looking at the current roster, it looks like only Sy Chatman exhausts his eligibly this season. Not sure if that's a good thing or bad thing with Adams and Smith potentially returning along with the rest of our roster (Assume Kanye stays with the team). We would have 3 spots left if nobody defects.

I wouldn't bet on seeing any of them after this season.  It will be interesting moving forward. 

3 hours ago, eyjee said:

Can't imagine this is also coming with the discourse that letting GH3 go was a bad move? 😅

Maybe he'll pull a Mo and go back there.