(11-14-2014 12:31 PM)HoopDreams Wrote: We've now come to this point as a program:
Wichita State is considered a Goliath in comparison
SMH
Butler went to 2 National Championships in a row a few years ago. Where are they now? Teams like this don't last decades. They have a good 2-3 year runs then disappear for a while.
In regards to our game, Wichita State is preseason #11. We're unranked coming off a 2-4 record out of 6 preseason contests, losing to DII CBU @ home. As the back court improves so will our team. The front court is fine. Josh let Kedren play way to many minutes. He always does that with certain players. Just like last season when 2 of our 4 guards combined to go 2-22 in a loss. He just kept subbing them in for each other instead of putting someone else at the 3 and leaving our 2 productive guards on the court. I have played ALOT of basketball. Sometimes I'd go off for 25 points other games i'd be 1-8 with 4 points. It's just how it is.
Sometimes you gotta pull the plug early on players. Not everyone is gonna play great every night. He doesn't understand this apparently. He is one of the worst team/player management coaches I have ever seen.
Some coaches lose because they don't have the talent. Some coaches lose because they are bad at X's and O's. Josh knows his X's and O's, Memphis has tons of talent.
Joshes biggest problems are he plays players out of position, he doesn't know when to pull a player out, and he puts way to much faith in the same players every single game. If Kedren is 0-12, with 8 turnovers and is bringing the team down the obvious thing to do is take him out of the game. Josh has a hard time understanding this it seems.
He's a great recruiter, he knows his X's and O's, he runs a good clean program. He just has issues with leading and managing.
Another example. Adrien Payne was 6'10 270 and he was guarded by 6'4 180 lbs DJ for the most of our game against them. Every team we played took advantage of that. In C-USA we were able to absorb it, against real teams we weren't able too. He has had team management problems the whole time he has been here. Last season he mismanaged the team. Cincy, UConn, Florida and others all beat us because we played small or because our star guards made critical defensive AND offensive mistakes numerous times, but yet they stayed in the game.
If you have 2 guards that are both 1-11, how much worse could it get trying to change things up? As a coach, you need to play all of your cards. Why have a bench if you're not going to use it?
I could go on and on about this. His pride get's in the way sometimes and the more people that tell him this, the worse he gets.
He doesn't need to be fired for an exhibition loss, but what he needs to do is learn from it. Develop a true system and get better. We are in battles with inferior teams several times during each season. Unless we have a few players go off during some games every game is literally a battle. Winning is hard against equal competition. Winning should not be hard when you're Memphis playing Arkansas Little Rock...
This is his season to shine though.The preseason was rough, can he and the team make a comeback and prove everyone wrong. This is what we're all hoping for, both sunshine pumpers and miserables. No one wants their team to suck.
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I expect all the posters who are calling for CJP to be fired to come back
