BG at MU

[gmartin]

You mention 6th graders and 3rd graders but the question is, "Is our coaching staff smarter than a 5th grader "

[factman]

LOL........at least there were only 945 people dumb enough the witness it!

[zete]

We have become one of the worst DI basketball programs in the country. Piss poor.

[CrazyFan]

You mention 6th graders and 3rd graders but the question is, "Is our coaching staff smarter than a 5th grader "

The question really is which of the two, the 6th graders or the 3rd graders, will Louis Orr be coaching in his next head coaching gig. My guess, seeing how well he's coached at BG the past 7 years and his quality of coaching, is the 3rd graders. At least he'll get snack time at half time out of it. But he might have some difficulty getting them ready for 4th grade basketball. Oh, its all in Gods hands. He doesn't need to develop them. If God wants them to develop, they will.

[FalconRollAlong]

But he may keep the oranges in reserve for next years snack time and redshirt the apples. He wouldn't want to ruin a good development year... mold development that is

[Redwingtom]

Shooting percentages can CERTAINLY be the fault of the coach. He recruits the guys, he creates the plays, he calls a lot of the plays, and he needs to put the players in their best position to be successful.

[guest44]

Look at the two possessions out of Orr timeouts in final minute. Two 25 foot 3-point shots. That's on the coach. Especially if it happens pretty much every game in crunch time.

[OSUFALCON]

I wish we could start the game with zero timeouts! Coach Orr is the worst at drawing up any type of play!

[falconfan1]

Henderson was badly needed in this Miami game. He was injured in practice, tried to, did go, had some success then tweaked it then it got worse and he could not go late in second half. Not a coach decision.

Obviously, he would have been on the floor in the final few minutes situation at Miami if available. Not only are we struggling like crazy to get anything on offense, but we are also unlucky. We are just a spot away from Shaun Joplin getting 10 minutes a game. And he hasn't played ball in five years.

Or maybe closer to that than I think!

Go Falcons!

[hammb]

Woah woah woah! That's a pile of HORSESHIT!

We are NOT unlucky. We have a handful of injuries, yes, but it's NOT unlucky that we have 2 scholarships unclaimed because we didn't recruit anyone. It's NOT unlucky that Joplin hasn't played competitive ball in 5 years when he's been on our bench for the past 2 months and could have been worked into the rotation (and I know he has enough athleticism, if not the skill to be worthwhile). It's not unlucky that we are trying to Redshirt a big man while we watch our current big guys get gassed. It's not unlucky that we only have 1 player on the roster capable of even TRYING to play PG (and it's a BIG stretch to say that he's worth having a that spot).

I call total BULLSHIT to this moaning about being unlucky. Our coaching staff made a conscious decision to go into this season with next to no depth on the roster. Then they decided to further deplete that depth by tagging one of our incoming Freshman as a redshirt. So now we've had some injuries...Orr being gone for the season would hurt any team. Denney playing almost nothing would hurt anybody as well. Sealey has NEVER seen consistent playing time so I don't feel that's a major loss, and now we are losing Henderson for some time which hurts as well, but MOST teams can overcome having 4 players battle injuries.

[jakehovs23]

Curious if Orr had more success at BG if you all would still rag on the man for his faith...

[guest44]

It depends. Would he still reference his faith when asked about accomplishments the same way he uses it as a crutch to not answer tough questions now?

[HoopsFan]

At Saint Matress and Recline, we don*t push our faith on anybody. If Louie was a better coach, we might overlook his witnessing and proclamation of faith. We overlooked, sort of, DD1 and his swearing at players. We overlooked Curt Miller's lifestyle.

But we didn't overlook Gregg Brandon's pathetic attendance statement or Dee Knoblauch's loss of the team when they didn't coach so well.

It's all relative.

HoopsFan

[bg1984]

I've always believed in the statement "God helps those who help themselves." It's not a question of a coach who expresses his faith, rather it's a question of a coach who fails to make changes and acknowledge shortcomings by hiding behind the concept that all of this is in God's hands and thetefore he has no personal culpabity. That is what rubs me the wrong way and I suspect many others.

[falconfan1]

Gee whiz relax hammb. Relax. We will lose several more games most likely and then the season will end and our new AD will evaluate what he has seen and the recent history. We will begin again. You mistake my post for excuse making for losing the game or games.

We lose generally for many reasons you name and I name below.

I was just pointing out two things: Henderson who is our best three point shooter was not in the game because he was hurt; it was not a coach's decision as some posters seem to think. This was this one game issue. Second, we are indeed unlucky in this six game stretch or so because we tend to have some late things go the other way on us. Some shots have gone in for some. Some shots have not gone in for us. Just an observation. And having seen the endings of those games, I would say we were a tad unfortunate in game closing situations.

In addition to being the second best team on the court with the exception of the game we won in that stretch.

I don't mean we are good, well coached, prepared, have enough good players signed, develop ones we sign, a good foul shooting team, call time outs in the right spot, execute a play etc. We don't do most of those things most of the time. We aren't a good team. We have, at this point, six healthy scholarship players. So we are in trouble. And have been in trouble. Totally serious trouble.

There will be a next season and this AD couldn't have changed this one for many reasons until the season closes.

Just pointing out a couple things for this Miami game re Henderson and the short stretch of close ones.

Go Falcons!