Back to the passive defense and porus offensive rebounding. I thought we had moved on from that kind of pathetic play. How can you not get up for a rivalary game. You can take a loss with effort, but that second half was just pure embarrasing. We seemed to be in slow motion with no hustle. Look like the whole team had the flu.
Pretty unimpressive showing by the Jacks against the opponent people actually care about. It wasn't as pathetic as two years ago when it looked like an NBA team against junior high kids, but the pathetic level was still pretty high. No life. No energy. No rebounds. Played well the last 10 minutes of the first half, but that's it. I have seen two games (80 minutes) this year (NDSU and Minnesota), and the Jacks have played a total of 20 decent minutes. I'll grant them a pass against the Gophers, but not the Bison. If what I saw of Cordova on defense tonight is typical, he can hang it up. The interior defense was simply horrible. Horrible, horrible, horrible. And on offense, it appears we're content with taking poor shots ("crap" shots, some might say). I guess I expected more. Hope the women play better.
Grumbling along and embracing my role. If I didn't care, I wouldn't care. Go Jacks!
Even Nagy seemed passive tonight and accepting of a lackluster effort. He even went on to say if someone would have told us we would be 5-2 after seven conference games bla bla bla. Should have been 6-1 against a weak Bison team.
I do agree with some of the comments about Cordova . . . he was just lost out there, especially on defense in the 2nd half . . .
I'm not sure I understand, filbert. He was lost, yes. And disinterested. Shouldn't he have a clue about what he's to do on defense halfway through the season? I know that there were occasions I could have scored inside tonight. I'm not picking a fight, I think I just think more of an explanation.
Grumbling along and embracing my role. If I didn't care, I wouldn't care. Go Jacks!
I'm not sure I understand, filbert. He was lost, yes. And disinterested. Shouldn't he have a clue about what he's to do on defense halfway through the season? I know that there were occasions I could have scored inside tonight. I'm not picking a fight, I think I just think more of an explanation.
Well, I guess I'm too polite to start out with "he was just watching, out there."
I understand Fiegen didn't play much if at all because he had whatever the other guys on the team had this week. If Cordova doesn't figure things out quickly, he's going to spend a lot of time watching--from the bench--as Fiegen and Engen take up most of the minutes at the center spot the rest of the year.
But I do feel a bit bad singling out Cordova--nobody wearing blue exactly covered themselves with glory in the second half . . .
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