[NU Sports] telling Carmody postgame quote

[Beamsley, Jeff]

My theory is that this team had a lot of momentum at the start of the year because they saw the possibility that they might be the group that gets NU to the NCAA tourney.
 
Shurna's nagging injury put that goal in jeopardy.  The failure of the rest of the team to step up has since put that goal out of reach.
 
So they are bummed and the grind of the BT schedule is really wearing them down.  We saw that last year with Juice and I think that we are seeing it again this year.  He not only has to play a lot of minutes, but he also has to try to make up for the points they are missing from Shurna.  
 
We already knew that this team was going to have problems in the post.
 
Our way to win was always going to be our outside shooting and our willingness to hustle for everything else.  The absence of a reliable 20 point shooter has pretty much doomed this team to the "hot hand" syndrome and we just don't have enough other players capable of sustaining that hot hand through a whole game.
 
It is tempting to look for someone to blame and i agree that responsibility starts with Carmody.  Sometimes, though, it is just the way things go.  Just like our football program, our basketball program isn't at the point where it can recover from the loss of the star player.  The good news is that we are at least at the point where we are able to recruit and groom star players with sufficient talent that we can build BT-competitive teams.  The bad news that we don't have the depth of talent yet to have a supporting cast that can take up the slack when the star player isn't able to perform.
 
Jeff


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From: nwu-sports-bounces at tssi.com on behalf of Tom Maycock
Sent: Thu 1/27/2011 10:26 AM
To: nwu-sports at tssi.com
Subject: Re: [NU Sports] telling Carmody postgame quote



I thought the effort was much better last night, but we really were physically
outmatched at a couple of positions (which was not the case against WI in my
opinion).

Although we certainly got outplayed at center last night, it was really Mbakwe
that killed the Cats on the boards. We could get by with a Luka-style center
(which suits Carmody's offense) if we could plug in a power forward with
Mbakwe's combination of quickness, strength, hops, and all-out effort. The good
news is he's been doing it to everyone else too, but it was really a problem for
the Cats in particular. Unlike on Sunday, it looked like we had guys boxing him
out last night, but he repeatedly went up and over them to bring down rebounds.

We still could have won the game with better outside shooting, especially from
Thompson. But those shooting numbers aren't likely to be much better if we just
keep moving it around the perimeter and then launching contested three-pointers
(the "ring-around-the-rosy" approach in Carmody's words). Shon commented
repeatedly on the lack of movement last night. There's no Mbakwe hiding on NU's
bench, so if there's any chance at having a good season, they'll need to find
their groove again on offense.

Mostly I was reminded again of how much we miss Coble.

Tom
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