Wichita State vs. Temple Game Thread 2-7-21

[Dan]

Temple is terrible, we are just slightly less terrible. The eye test.

[SHOXAAC]

Good lord.

Don’t give me that much credit. Thanks anyway.

[Antoinescar]

If we are a tournament team , we need to put these bottom feeders away. Punch them in the mouth like our coach punched his players

[ShockingButTrue]

If we are a tournament team , we need to put these bottom feeders away. Punch them in the mouth like our coach punched his players

This ain't jeff; this is Bob!

[wichshock65]

Not sure if I should ban him or let the kids play with their food?

Come on, dad. Let us play!

[1972Shocker]

I’m not sure it matters who plays in the post. We are terrible. Each of our 3 posts just have different terrible characteristics.

Josaphat is an airport specimen if there ever was one but that is about where it begins and ends with him. He is a major, major project. He may or may not ever be a productive player for the Shocks.

Neither Mo or Poor Bear are overly athletic or long and both are more the size you would want in a power forward. And these days teams want their power forwards to be stretch 4's. Considering their physcial limitations they actually do okay. Clearly not great but I don't think I would call them terrible. Both certainly have holes in their games but that's the case with just about the entire roster this year. I think we are much better in the post with Mo and Poor Bear than we are with Josaphat and Jaden.

Still somehow this team figures out a way to get it done most games. Not sure exactly how they are managing that. I hope it continues but at this point I can't say I have a high degree of confidence the winning ugly will continue but it might.

A long way to go yet with 8 games reamining on the schedule and 3 postponed games to try to make up with ECU, USF and Cincy. Our only easy win of our 7 wins was the 19 point win over Tulsa at home. We won the other 6 games by and average of 5.2 points with 2 of those going to overtime. Not a huge margin of error the Shocks are working with. With a team that is pretty young and with a lot of newcomers the Shocks should be improving as the season progresses. Not sure we are seeing a lot of that so far. It kind of comes and goes.

I have no idea what to expect from the remaining games, however many are actually played. If all 11 are played the remaining games are:

@ UCF
@ SMU
Memphis
@ ECU
Houston
SMU
@Tulane
@Temple

Make Up Games:
ECU
USF
@ Cincy

[Antoinescar]

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I’m not sure it matters who plays a n the post. We are terrible. Each of our 3 posts just have different terrible characteristics.

Josaphat is an airport specimen if there ever was one but that is about where it begins and ends with him. He is a major, major project. He may or may not ever be a productive player for the Shocks.

Neither Mo or Poor Bear are overly athletic or long and both are more the size you would want in a power forward. And these days teams want their power forwards to be stretch 4's. Considering their physcial limitations they actually do okay. Clearly not great but I don't think I would call them terrible. Both certainly have holes in their games but that's the case with just about the entire roster this year. Still somehow these guys figure out a way to get it done most games. Not sure exactly how they are managing that. I hope it continues but at this point I can't say I have a high degree of confidence the winning ugly will continue.

A long way to go yet with 8 games reamining on the schedule and 3 postponed games to try to make up with ECU, USF and Cincy. Our only easy win of our 7 wins was the 19 point win over Tulsa at home. We won the other 6 games by and average of 5.2 points with 2 of those going to overtime. Not a huge margin of error the Shocks are working with. With a team that is pretty young and with a lot of newcomers the Shocks should be improving as the season progresses. Not sure we are seeing a lot of that so far. It kind of comes and goes.

I have no idea what to expect from the remaining games, however many are actually played. If all 11 are played the remaining games are:

@ UCF
@ SMU
Memphis
@ ECU
Houston
SMU
@Tulane
@Temple

Make Up Games:
ECU
USF
@ Cincy

[/QUOTE]

Need to beat Houston and both SMU games . Only resume building wins left on that schedule.

[W51shocker]

I do not post much extreme shocker fan. This team seems ready to be mentally tough defensively but needs coaching to get there. we will not win with our 0ffense.
GO SHOCKS LOVE YOU ALWAYS!!!

[shocktown]

Learned a couple of things today...I will be more careful in what I wish for ie JB getting more playing time. He looked horrible today. As pointed out his screens are "poetry in motion". MU does need to kick the ball out once or twice just to keep the other Shockers feeding him the ball. If every pass to him winds up like dropping the ball into the pit of Calcutta they may not be so eager to throw it in to him. When Mo flashes out to double the ball someone is not rotating and covering the backside cutter. At least today we didn't fooul the shooter EVERY time. Didn't wear the lucky sweat shirt today so the Houston loss apparently wan't my fault after all. Go Chiefs and Go Shocks.

Tell me more about the Pit of Calcutta so I can understand the difference!

[wichshock65]

Did we drop to #82 in kenpom after this win? Could have sworn we were 70 something yesterday.

[N Crestway]

Hope you cherished all that cute grab-assin' while you could. It's about to end...

Yes, Bill Self 2.0 will probably be in the building next fall and it will have to be without the grab-assin fun.

[im4wsu]

Put one guy not named Udeze guarding the basket and four players beyond the 3 point line. Anything else is stupid.

Why guard under the basket?

[TheShocktocles]

Why have ANYONE guarding the paint? Explain that please.

I certainly have to agree with you on this. That strategy made no sense to me. Who cares if they score a 2 point bucket. We were up by 3. Saw another dumb play just like at USF. Why do we guard a player going to the cup for a layup with less than 30 seconds in the game we are leading by 4. They always make a layup and we get a foul. Just real dumb. I forget who made a similar dumb play at USF. I think it was TE. Leading by 4 and we foul a 3 point shooter. Some of these guys just need to pull their heads out. Basketball IQ is underrated.

[SHOXAAC]

Why guard under the basket?

I get nervous even if we let them score an easy 2 with time left on the clock. I get it though.

[WeWillShockU]

Just got back to Topeka from the game. A little freezing rain in the flint hills. Glad to get home. We made some 3s and shot free throws well. Protected the home court. Need to get a couple road wins this week. Glad to see DD and Trey shoot the ball well. Temple has some talent. They are going to be pretty good next year I believe. Glad the band is back. A little more bit of normal.