Illinois 68, Alabama A&M 47 Postgame
I thought you were overreacting, but yeah, that doesn’t sound good. Hopefully they figure it out, if not it’s going to be an up and down year.
MustangWally
- Mayfield
Of course they're the best team in the county. Who's going to beat them? Parkland? He needs to set his sights higher.
I’d rather our staff and players not be softer than charmin … They can’t take it ? The portal would love to have them
Brad has done this everywhere he’s been. The Mark Smith type of kids can’t take it and wash out everywhere they go … The Trent Frazier type of kids have success and become legends … You take Brads coaching, watch what happens. But they’ve got to buy in
Mick Cronin (UCLA) yelled a lot today and never seems to smile, but maybe not as much as BU. Cronin is a very good coach.
Tom Izzo, who’s been to 7 Final Fours since 2000, is not exactly Mr. Mellow.
Like I said, Mayer is a different kinda cat
Looks like coach visited with MM after the press conference
. Not a good look for MM, but hopefully just the frustration of the game, fitting into a new culture, stress of recovering from injuries, etc. Also hopeful that this adversity during an "easy" noncon game serves to harden the team's resolve and as a lesson to treat every opponent and every possession with maximum intensity and effort.I have two thoughts I want to share which hopefully will come across as neutral amongst all the strong opinions in this thread.
First is that it's extremely hard for anyone outside of the program to actually assess the team relationships and dynamics. The team is so close by the time and effort they spend together, and we only see a sliver of it. I give 0 credence to body language analysis or attempts to speculate on the team's reactions, supposed inferences, hidden subtext, etc...
Second, every single good basketball team is going to need to navigate uncertainty and challenges. The real teams can do it. Teams that can't will fall to the wayside. There's no template and it's not pretty. My point is, strife is necessary and we should acknowledge and accept that some ugliness will come with it.
First is that it's extremely hard for anyone outside of the program to actually assess the team relationships and dynamics. The team is so close by the time and effort they spend together, and we only see a sliver of it. I give 0 credence to body language analysis or attempts to speculate on the team's reactions, supposed inferences, hidden subtext, etc...
Second, every single good basketball team is going to need to navigate uncertainty and challenges. The real teams can do it. Teams that can't will fall to the wayside. There's no template and it's not pretty. My point is, strife is necessary and we should acknowledge and accept that some ugliness will come with it.
He’s second on the team in 3-point shooting and is clearly our best shooter on off the dribble and contested 3s.
He’s also third on the team in assists.
What were your expectations for the freshman..?
I definitely had a problem when it seemed to break Kipper.
Like you’d rather BU be gone because Kipper couldn’t handle tough love? He was only good when being coddled?
Here’s my uniformed take based on what both Mayer and BU said in the post game.
Sounds like Mayer isn’t used to “hard”practices leading up to a game based on his 4 years at Baylor. Not what he is used to and likely voiced that to BU. Sounded like he prefers to have it a bit easier leading up to the game to rest his body/issues a bit.
Difference in how those two were looking at that and obviously, what the coach says is gonna have to be the way.
End of the day , don’t think it’s that big of a deal. Adjustment period for the transfer.
Sounds like Mayer isn’t used to “hard”practices leading up to a game based on his 4 years at Baylor. Not what he is used to and likely voiced that to BU. Sounded like he prefers to have it a bit easier leading up to the game to rest his body/issues a bit.
Difference in how those two were looking at that and obviously, what the coach says is gonna have to be the way.
End of the day , don’t think it’s that big of a deal. Adjustment period for the transfer.
Just glad we won
I can feel his eyeroll while he typed this lol
Agreed, he has openly stated that Scott Drew was pretty chill while Brad can be (sorta jokingly) mean at times.
Sorry, Kipper broke Kipper.
I understand what great leadership is, followed some very good leaders into battle in Iraq. There's no need to be bombastic in public to prove a point. I'm not making 5 mil a year to coach basketball, so obviously I don't know anything.
Another poor performance. Play like this on Thursday and get your butts kicked.
You cannot compare WAR with basketball. Come on man. I'm out.
JFC, I would've thought we lost by 20+ with some of the hot takes today.
We have the better part of three and a half months of season left.
Get a grip.
Well I did. There is a leader taking a squad into an arena to defeat another squad.
Sports are battle, there are flags and allegiances, sports are battle.
First of all, thank you for your service. My father was a tunnel rat in Vietnam. He gets a chuckle out of Brad’s rants as it is nothing compared to what his military leadership put him through then. He too is grateful for the leaders he had during that time in his life.
And nobody dies.
Out again. Good night all.