Florida game

[Kevin Reilly]

Don't know what's wrong with Scruggs? He seems listless, not interested and detached. No energy , fire , passion almost every game in the first half. Don't play him if he doesn't care. Kunkel, Odom and Nunge played well. Freemantle played well on offense and Poorly on defense. Jones had a rough first half on both ends . Eight turnovers is way too much. I was hoping for a lot more effort with a new coach.

[muskieman]

Just got injured so let us see how bad it is. Maybe it wasn't the coach

[Kevin Reilly]

Florida had a poor game but Xavier looked pretty good moving the ball and playing good defense. Besides the 18 turnovers We played well. Tough break for Scruggs .... hope he is OK.

[Anti-Homer]

Just got injured so let us see how bad it is. Maybe it wasn't the coach

Let Steele go Mman. Four years with a lot of variables (different players) and several constants with him, including:

- No tourney in four years after making it 16 of the previous 18 years before he came on campus.
-AAU style offense and lack of accountability.
-Little development and a lot of regression with players.
-More boos heard in Cintas than the previous two decades combined.
-February swoon became a hallmark of X's program, including losing must win games as highly, prohibitive favorites in the BE tourney.
Conference performance relative to the previous forty years was abysmal. The text box is limited to 400k characters, so I'll stop there. I do wish him the best of luck, after taking over a train humming at 100 mph, and guiding it off the tracks into a 100 foot ravine.

Anyhoo, the atmosphere was a lot better in Cintas, and even though the lower bowl had a fair amount of gaps. Attendance was still 3x greater that Tuesday's game. Three point shooting wasn't very good, but Freemantle and Hunter only took one between them (spoiler alert, it did not go through the hoop). Free had a nice, economical game, and did a decent job defensively. X was helped out by horrible shot selection by Fla.

Shocker: Nunge and Odom played the best games yet again. Free played well, and Colby played decently, but he needs to get it out of his mind that he ain't an alpha. If he was at Forham....he still wouldn't be. However, he is a very good complimentary player, and Miller is a systems coach. I can see this team playing a lot like the 08 E8 team, where five guys averaged double figures.

X won because they played good D, rebounded very well, and didn't take a double digit number of bad shots. They also shot well from the line, but even if the percentage was the same as Tuesday's game, they would have still won by double digits. They even had 18 T.O.s and won it going away.

I was perplexed as hell why Edwards only played three good minutes again. and went into Loch Ness Monster mode, and that neither Stanley nor Miles saw action again. Hopefully, Miller will utilize them, especially Stanley, b/c both can contribute. Stanley hs very creative around the hoop, as evidenced by the three games where he saw more than 12 minutes.

Overall better player/ball movement and discipline was evident today. X is going to MSG, after beating Vandy by seven points later on this week.

[skyhops]

MM, still defending Steele wow. Even Byron said that Steele is a nice guy but is not tough and the players take on the demeanor of their coach and said it was time. Steele not being a basketball player probably didn’t help nor to him being a players coach until he throws them under the bus.

[muskieman]

two of the lamest poster. I wasn't supporting TS I was being sarcastic but you would not understand that.

BTW where were you two when X was missing layups, abnormally you are all over the coach.

I think Jonas did a good job of rotation today and kept Jack fresh. Thought Edwards and Zach had productive minutes. 20% from the three still needs to improve. Maybe we see Scotty Pippen at Cintas tues/wed

[skyhops]

How are we supposed to k ow when you are being sarcastic?

[muskieman]

How are we supposed to k ow when you are being sarcastic?

Your problem, not mine. Instead of thinking the worst maybe step back and take a second look.

TS is history to the Xavier program and we move on with one of the best choices. There has been talk that the staff will be back unless Jonas leaves There are some big names trying and bag him.

Heck, they should have gone after Sean when Chris left because I know Sean would have come back then because he realized that X was in the BE and Zona was not the place for him. All you had to do is listen to how Sean spoke about X after about 3 or 4 years at Zona. We also have to thank Amy who lobbied for years and really never wanted Sean to leave X in the first place.

[skyhops]

I know when you are cranky, which is most of the time.

[muskieman]

I know when you are cranky, which is most of the time.

strike two, sparring with you is an easy thing as I have an advantage.