USF at Wichita State Game Thread 2-12-22

[forevershockerfan]

It almost seemed like the USF coach was begging for a T that he never received. He gets quite animated and His team fought hard tonight. Nice win for the Shox. Now 3 grueling games in a row.

[Shocker Mama]

It almost seemed like the USF coach was begging for a T that he never received. He gets quite animated and His team fought hard tonight. Nice win for the Shox. Now 3 grueling games in a row.

We were saying the same thing about their coach. He also seems to think that his box extends about twenty feet onto the court.

[ShockingButTrue]

Jenkins had 10 minutes. Grant had 3. Jenkins definitely has more upside than Grant IMO. But he is still a bit wild and gets out of control.

He can reign in some of those obvious tendencies if he commits himself to doing numerous dribbling drills this summer. And then do it again. If he does, he might end up being a significant contributor by his junior year. That is, unless he feels like he's not getting enough playing time here and decides to transfer, which actually might further retard his development.

I actually got a little nervous when he came into the game so early. Everything kinda' changed after that, didn't it? Bad coaching decison?

RCIV really, really, bailed em out tonight. Again.

[wichshock65]

Don't get the feeling Taylor is being quite the cheerleader some accuse him of being.

https://twitter.com/tayloreldridge/status/1492700042439897091?t=ByMXQv1x9OMODxNOiGoldQ&s=19

[ShockerFever]

I knew WSU at -14 was a freaking joke.

[ShockerFever]

Where is the pumper crowd at jamming out about this W?

Make no mistake, USF was horrible. This should’ve been a 20 point win, even for us. But this team was just paper cutting themselves the last 2 minutes of the game. It was hard to watch.

I still can’t find myself to cheer for WSU losses, even though it may be the best bet for the program. In 2 weeks, we’ll be 13-12 and 4-9. Not a great look.

Its really hard to watch where this program is at and the lack of enthusiasm in it after watching the last 10 years. Truly is sad.

[shox7]

Trivia question; has Tyson scored one time at the end of a first half this year? I am sure he hasn’t scored at the end of the first half in a league game this year. I can’t believe we keep running a play for him at the end of every first half. Let me know if anyone knows the answer, because I don’t know the answer. Again IB step up and run a play for anyone else other than Tyson at the end of the first half, please!

[Shockm]

http://theamerican.org/standings.aspx?standings=83

if we would have lost, it would have been a bad loss to a bad team. However, USF probably played one of their better games, maybe some because of us. After all, We do play out of control often, and are not well coached.

We should have defeated Tulane twice (lost twice by one point). If we would have, we’d be in 4th place.

USF did defeat Temple who is 6-5 in conference play, and currently in 5th.

[ShockerFever]

Trivia question; has Tyson scored one time at the end of a first half this year? I am sure he hasn’t scored at the end of the first half in a league game this year. I can’t believe we keep running a play for him at the end of every first half. Let me know if anyone knows the answer, because I don’t know the answer. Again IB step up and run a play for anyone else other than Tyson at the end of the first half, please!

Ride or die.

[pinstripers]

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/boxscore/_/gameId/401377759

Monzy only got 6 minutes?? Tyson played 37 going 2-12, 2-9??

[60Shock]

Hopefully, Dennis getting his Shot back will help the rest of our shooters as well. But even then, our chances of winning against C, or M, or H, are very slim.

But who knows, Stranger things have happened in sports. And if our players go into any, or all of these remaining games thinking they can win, who in the HELL are we to tell them they can't.

[wichshock65]

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...meId/401377759

Monzy only got 6 minutes?? Tyson played 37 going 2-12, 2-9??

Typically Monzy Tweets out after games but was crickets last night. In fact, the last time he did was 4 days ago to say "God will open doors no one can shut".

[asiseeit]

Hopefully, Dennis getting his Shot back will help the rest of our shooters as well. But even then, our chances of winning against C, or M, or H, are very slim.

But who knows, Stranger things have happened in sports. And if our players go into any, or all of these remaining games thinking they can win, who in the HELL are we to tell them they can't.

It's why we PLAY the games

[Stickboy46]

Hopefully, Dennis getting his Shot back will help the rest of our shooters as well. But even then, our chances of winning against C, or M, or H, are very slim.

But who knows, Stranger things have happened in sports. And if our players go into any, or all of these remaining games thinking they can win, who in the HELL are we to tell them they can't.

Cincy lost to Tulsa last night, so definitely a chance in that one. The others are going to take our best game of the year

[Atxshoxfan]

However, our basketball program is certainly diverse.

Black is the like having the joker card. Can be played as white, black, red, yellow or brown. So we are good on this front.

Couple game notes.
Why does a coach make wholesale changes when things are rolling?

Why does a coach see value in one player of JP's calibercaliber
MU finally got some assists. Good to know that the coaches are working on that.

TE, while not having a great game, he did contribute to the win by doing mostly the things he can and more importantly didn't do the things he can't, for the most part. He played to Ricky's hot hand several times. I'll take this Tyson for the rest of the year.

That half time iso for TE was failure 83 of 84 tries. Time to find something new in those situations.

The lull in the second half was a replay of shox no motion, 2 man passoffs at the top of the key. Nobody has to play defense to stop that ...eeer play (I guess they call it).

Over all bad game ( D grade) but glad to see a little more balance and a lack of selfishness. Our rebounding has been flushed down the toilet.

JP no rebounds, no assists, I don't know how many turnovers.

Need to go to about 9 man rotation at most.
TE, MU, CP, DD, RC, KP, MJ, scatter in QG and CJ. Everyone else should wait for mop up duty, if we ever see that situation again.