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I don't always agree with everything Howie writes, but those of you that have been around here this season know where I stand on this topic.

There's only one way he could have made this column stronger: By pointing out that Tony Bennett obviously must also have forgotten how to coach, since his team that started 14-6 and 5-2 in the ACC has now lost nine straight.

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I find it amazing how coaches get a pass their 1st and even 2nd yr of coaching

while players are blamed for lack of performance on the floor. Throw KT and Moore under the bus for not performing, but not Bone, what? Well the defense is always, 1st yr coach needs to get his players, instill his techniques, etc. I don’t get it. Coach Price, prime example. He goes 8-4 in his 1st season at UTEP for a team that had won 5-6 games the previous 3 years combined. Why did he have success?
If this was the NBA, and a coach had 3 players in the top 30 of the league and finished last the coach is getting tossed under the bus or at least being scrutinized.
Again, I am not hating on Bone, but after reviewing the performance of all teams and viewing the talent we had, he wasn’t successful year nor even avg. Again, I find it truly amazing for a lot of people to attack KT because he is shooting 30% from the floor and had a low offensive efficiency rating yet everytime Bone was asked about it, he said he wanted KT to shoot more!!!! Obviously the system this yr was horrendous. We lacked scorers to execute and yet we continued to be KT focused instead of re-working the offense so it wasn’t. I would have loved for KT to basically say, hey I am not shooting at all today. “People think I suck, I must suck, and therefore, I won’t be shooting.” Bone made KT inexpendable and when KT couldn’t do it, he failed to properly adjust.
I am rooting for Bone, but c’mon. The play on the floor was bad a large portion of the time. It starts at the top. Please come defend Bone while throwing Moore and KT under the bus in the process. Moore and KT are talented. Bone failed to maximize them, but KT and Moore are at fault for failing to put forth the effort to be maximized.
Simply put, this year the team (players and coaches) performed about 40% (50% being avg) and they had the ability to be avg or slightly above avg (60%). Thus, the season was not a success, but in no way I am saying anyone should be fired or cut over it and any fan calling for that is foolish.
My analysis no different than a 1st year staff member. Sure they get the excuses of being new, transitioning, learning curve with co-workers, etc., but at the end of the year, you have to evaluate did they end up performing at the level they are capable of or not.
But again, my pt is that you read articles by Howie, etc, that defend Bone, yet don’t ask the question whether the coach was able to get out of the players their full potential. I don’t think Bone did this overall and a good amount of blame goes to him, and not just his players.
Hey, if your in a horse race with a mule, you can expect last place results and once that occurs you say hey you performed at the level expected. I just don’t think we performed at a level that we should have looking at the talent we have, the level of the competition, etc. Final Season Grade: C-

by ptowncoug3012 on Mar 10, 2010 1:48 PM PST reply actions  

How?

You’re hating has no basis.

How did he not maximize Moore and Klay? By not tailoring his offense towards their skill set? Because that’s what he did. It’s not his fault their shots weren’t falling and that they hit a wall. In one sentence you say we have all this talent and in the next you say we lacked scorers for the system. Which one is it?

Would I want Klay to keep shooting? Hell yes I would, too. He’s a shooter and he’s not going to get out of the slump by not shooting. The shots will eventually fall and he needed to keep shooting (and not 20 a game, though). The offense wasn’t focused on just Klay or anyone else. It was a dynamic motion offense. Klay has been off, but guess who hasn’t….Casto. And where did our scoring come from lately? Inside where Casto is. If you really want Klay to take 0 shots, then I don’t know what to tell you. That in itself would kill us as teams wouldn’t even have to respect his ability to drive and shoot, then what? We’ve got nothing

by Brian Floyd on Mar 10, 2010 2:04 PM PST up reply actions  

"Dynamic motion offense"?

Is that really what you saw this year? I saw an offense that ran Klay off screens and when that was taken away sent Moore one on one to the rack. By the 2nd half of the season Pac-10 teams had taken both of those away and we were far from “dynamic” and barely an offense.

by LongballWSUFB on Mar 10, 2010 2:34 PM PST up reply actions  

Yes, ideally that's what he wants to run and is his system

And it’s quite a change from the previous offense.

So by utilizing talent on offense you’re talking about utilizing our three talented players that we did have. Teams took two of them away like you said. Do you really think that Capers/Nik/Abe can carry the offense?

by Brian Floyd on Mar 10, 2010 2:38 PM PST up reply actions  

The most important stat for this team

is that they are the 331st youngest team in the nation. That leaves a grand total of TWO teams that are younger than us. Also, in terms of returning experience, there was exactly ONE player on the team who ever saw the court for a full game last year, that being Klay. Nik, Capers and DC had all been role players, but none had averaged even a half a game before this year.

Getting the “Full Potential” out of freshman and sophomores is nearly an impossible task. These players will not peak until they are juniors and seniors, and that should be recognized and accepted. However, if you look at players potential while freshman and sophomores, I think Bone did an incredible job at achieving that potential until the gas ran out, which it certainly did.

by Fightfightfight on Mar 11, 2010 11:26 AM PST up reply actions  

There are a lot of reasons why nobody should ever read Stalwick...

But his claim that people were having trouble forking over their money to watch 50-52 contests during the Bennet era is a good example. Really Mr. Stalwick, please introduce me to these folks, cause Im sure there aren’t many of them. Of course, the Cougs probably won that 50-52 game. Oh and don’t even bother with the inconveinant truth that 4 of our last 5 games we scored 51, 51, 52 and 55 points. Dynamic indeed. Nobody is calling for Bone’s head here, but the season he just had merits nothing but criticism.

As far as our offense, i think its totally fair to say that an offense predicated on two young players creating their own shots is just setting those guys up for failure. Of course they are our primary scoring threats, but a truly dynamic offense would create opportunities for them, within a larger offensive scheme, and yes, it would also get a lot more out of the role players.

Whether this is exactly the weakest Pac-10 ever or not is beside the point, when comparing to the ACC. But I will say this… in almost 30 years of attending Pac-10 games I can tell you, I have never seen a season where we literally had a chance to win every game because of the quality of the competition. And in any seasons that were close to this level of mediocrity… we never finished last.

by LongballWSUFB on Mar 10, 2010 2:55 PM PST reply actions  

Ah, yes ... here we go with the "last" thing again for the 80th time in the last two days

We finished with more wins than any last place finisher in Pac-10 history. We were two games out of 5th. This was hardly a train wreck, and to characterize it as such — which I don’t think you’re doing, but plenty of people here have — is silly.

Criticism is warranted. No doubt. But not nearly as much as is generally being levied.

by Jeff Nusser on Mar 10, 2010 4:38 PM PST up reply actions  

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