The way the second half was fully expected from anyone watching this team over the three years this nucleus has been on campus. They display enough talent to show you they should be better but they have very low basketball IQ coupled with very questionable effort.
It is absolutely unacceptable what Sanders is bringing to the table at this point. If you don't want to be out there then drop out of school but quit the charade that you're at BC to develop into a basketball player and we all know you're not there to actually educate yourself. There are plenty of part-time positions open at the Cumberland Farms in Central Falls. Here is the obligatory but he has great natural talent line but just look at him when he plays. He still cannot dribble the ball. He still is out of shape. He still has no idea how to create his own offense. He still cannot make free throws. He still loses interest and his frustration shows in a refusal to put forth any effort. In short, he appears from this distance to be a cancer on this team. I'll take Elmore and his effort any day of the week. If you want one play to sum up this pathetic season just look at Sanders' lack of hustle early in the second half when he was right next to his man on a run out and he just trotted to the other end while the fuckbag Dukie sprinted ahead for a dunk. Chicklets should have horse-collared him off the floor immediately after that effort.
Also, how about finding a rotation and sticking with it Chicklets. For better or for worse it is time to let some unit develop some cohesiveness.
I cannot fathom a poorer shooting team in Division One.
Has anyone seen any of the juniors develop in the smallest ? Each of these juniors had major flaws in a specific part of their game and none of them have either shown the interest or the effort to develop. This falls, in some part, on Coach Handsome. That said, Raji still cannot make a shot regardless of distance from the basket. Sanders' woes are listed above. Paris is pretending to be a leader in the style of his play but the distorted image that we see is a player logging forty minutes without having the slightest positive influence on the game. There is certainly no leadership there. Southern is incredibly out of shape. He has remained that way since his entry into school. He is the only 6'10" black man ever born on to this planet that cannot dunk a basketball. It is unacceptable that no variable of his game has improved at all.
Does anyone on this team actually have opposable thumbs ? I have never seen anyone since Shit Hooks Robert Parish with worse hands than this collective bunch. Embarrassing how they could not grab the ball in the second half.
I think we've put to bed the thought that this team would be improved without Rice.
We don't actually need a player with the ability to score off the bounce. It is also unacceptable that Coach Handsome could not see that this team is made up completely of complimentary players. There isn't one player on this team that can create his own offense. That being the case, you recruit a point guard heavily that can drive and dish or you change the fucking style of play. Open up to full court basketball. This team is a head case. They need easy offense to keep them in the game remotely and anyone that watched the South Carolina game can see that any momentum they can build is typically done when they're out and running.
At this point, the season is surely lost. To develop an idea of what is fully needed here they have to play to whatever strengths this core demonstrates. There is talent on this team but there is no ability to create their own shot and an open attitude of resignation when they cannot find their offense. There is a much longer trend of disinterest in defense but Coach Handsome's teams have always been suspect defensively.
The season has ended before it began but the real ass-whip of this team is that they are unwatchable.
I don't think you can measure the positives that Handsome has brought this program but I think he owes the six or seven people providing the foundation of a fan-base some details of the plan here. We seem to have some belief that we landed a real whale when we signed Heslip but all that i've seen in his youtube video was a player making free throws against competition roughly at a level akin to the Tri Valley league as opposed to a league that can transalate into collegiate success. Outside of that you have a base of malcontents playing in a system that none of them accept and a coach that looks like he's serving a prison term.
For anyone that actually likes the basketball program we are not yet there because of prior success but we are going to run right through
levels into the years of Doug Able, David Hinton, and wasting of special talents like Dana Barros... This sucks.