For the first time all year , I thought Pike didn’t even try to win this game. Decent start and no reason to sub for the sake of subbing. Dylan Grant playing well , Lathan playing well , Jeremiah playing well , Dylan better than ACE but capable of going off. The minute he subbed for no reason except wanting to play his bench. Then he puts JMike in before Acuff when Jeremiah was doing fine . He benched Grant who seemed to come out with energy and ready to play . Lathan also came to play. . When Dylan and Ace in the game together , no 2 man game or pick and roll and pick and pop , no effort to have them dictate the pace of the game. Then the defense. To allow the number of 3’s as that was the only way the game would get away from us ,and to give them up with little effort to get us on their men as if it was intentional to let them hit 3’s was insane. Almost impossible for a team to be 10-15 from three if a lick of defense is being played. Starting the offense so far from the hoop with little cutting was the easiest way to defend us and he allows it all game.
Despite the ridiculous performances of Dylan and ACE , almost impossible to play the way they have the last 2 games , Pike did nothing to try to win this game but just attempted to play everyone which is hard to believe 26 games in. No one played their hair was on fire and looked like they were going thru the motions for the last 25 minutes of Gametime. Taking cues from the coach. Big Pike fan but this was the most disappointing game plan of the year and the players played like it. Never did I think this was possible . Ever.
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