Beyers with the minutes some have been clamouring for and he goes 1-7. Goran I guess is getting minutes due to their big, but what's the point if he's so bad at defense. Might as well had Braun guarding their Center. We seem to only be able to get 2 guys playing any semblance of offense per night, if you want to call it that.
Dan was really getting an earful from the (small) student section tonight. Probably added to his frustration. One positive is this is the second post game presser that Dan has said we need to hit the transfer portal. Little late on that one Dan. Ugh.
Unfortunately I can't keep myself from tuning into the next one...
Oh, I guess it would be considered "heartless" and "piling" on if one was to point out, both generally and personally to Danny, that the big center for Charlotte was a TRUE FRESHMAN, I believe, from Egypt!
Someone needs to explain to Danny the difference between "young players" and "young players with TALENT". That concept, obviously, is way, way over his head. I don't give a darn how many years that Goran, Byers, George, Dillon, Collins, Sarenac, etc., etc., have been in our program, how old they are, etc. The fact is that their talent level is such that additional years in the program is not going to result in any significant uptick in the overall caliber of their play! We've seen already too much of that among the several non-contributors that we have who've been at MU for 3 years. Just not gonna happen!
When Greg White was MU's head coach he recruited as many guys from the 304 as Danny as. The difference: when guys didn't "pan out" with the HERD, White had the judgment and intestinal fortitude to "encourage" them to take their talents "elsewhere". Remember guys like Fernando Ibanez, from Whelling, I believe, Oak Hill's Rommel "Stuff Lynch, Tink Brown from Beckley? All recruited by Greg White to MU. All from West Virginia and all ended up playing elsewhere, primarily in the West Virginia Conference!
Unlike White, old, stubborn D'Antoni, can't pull the trigger, jettison some of his many recruiting misses, and send some of them elsewhere, probably to D2 schools where they've belonged all along. His stubbornness and ego just won't let Danny do what needs done, and the Marshall's basketball program suffers and is worse overall for it!