Perhaps not. Would Baylor find our weaknesses and expose them. This game wasnt about Princeton winning by 8. It was about Princeton finding our weaknesses, making them obvious and exposing them.
What a spin zone lol
I hated this game but a team like Princeton you can definitely learn from. That is the only potential positive.
Would you rather us be 5-0 playing cupcakes having a set rotation that isnt correct and then find out in December things need to change.
I’d rather not have a Q3 loss which is counted as a Q4 loss in March. Poor scheduling. Half the board understands this. Scheduling is just as important as talent and coaching. Ball dropped
Sweet 16 LAST YEAR. That doesn’t matter this year. And they lost 3 starters.
I understand what you are saying but it’s different this time. The post halftime group your referring to is going to struggle to put the ball through the net more than any team we’ve had in a long time. And we haven’t been great on offense.
As a 5 star, I thought he would be able to create his own shot vs. Princeton. That was not the case. His defense was bad but that was the same for a lot of the team and kind of expected for a freshman. Still, did not expect Palmquist, a player we coaxed out, to play over him.
5 star doesn’t mean anything to me. I just see what’s out there. Oskar was way better than Gavin tonight. Gavin has a lot to learn and he’s young. It’s gonna take time.
This game was a shocker to me.
There needs to be a standard. Can't not bench a guy just because he is 5 star. The entire roster knows that there isn't a player that can play without playing hard. If the face of the program Derek Simpson goes under a screen he gets benched in the 2nd half.
Things Baylor wont do. Probably not targeting Gavin knowing he won't get through an off the ball screen. They aren't putting a 3 point shooting 5 out to make sure Cliff is away from the basket. They aren't finding the weakest defender and isolating and have their bigger player bully towards the basket..
Pike needs to be find his rotations, you dont do that against Princeton, you do it vs Boston U and the like
I bring baylor up because if you are going to have a loss and Pike likely knew this was a loss you might as well get beat by a top program. Game served no purpose because you cannot bring young players in and expect them to thrive vs Princeton who is extremely well coached. Add the fact that a few of the older players believe they are better than they are and are better than Princeton and that is a bad combo
Those teams don't expose weaknesses. You end up finding out too late. We almost didn't make the tournament Year 2 because we were so busy trying to find out if Jaden Jones or Hyatt were options. it took way too late for him to pull the plug.
You can highlight all the ways PU exposed us YET our coach didn’t make any chances in scheme only in personnel.
Exactly. We’re not going to see another team like Princeton for the rest of the season. There’s really very little you can take away from playing this team moving forward. Just baffling.
we were discombobulated because there was no leadership and no belief we could win and no real purpose. A constant changing lineup with no defined roles. A bunch of experienced players playing like dogdo for the majority of their time
I mean that rotation got exposed against Depaul, and Lafayette, and UMass, and almost lost to Lehigh, and got beat by 35 at Illinois. If we had gotten beaten by Princeton in game 1 that year instead of *barely* squeaking by #302 Lehigh at home, would something have somehow been different?
