I just don't get it....feel for the team, they must feel like they have gone through the looking glass and can't find their way back out. Hang on you will do it. We believe in you. Coach has to come to terms with her personnel and play to their strengths, what they are, not what she thinks they are. Good luck at NAU, play together and for each other.
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Their posts outplayed our posts. Our guards out-rebounded our posts. But, in all fairness to our posts, they were not given a whole lot of minutes on the floor as the coaching staff once again decided to give extended minutes to KV and the guards. We got the snot kicked out of us on the offensive boards (and defensive boards, for that matter!). Things improved as soon as we switched into a zone defense, but Murrell's obvious dislike of this strategy came back to bite us in the derierre when she abandoned it during the crucial last minute of the game. With the Vikings clinging to a one point lead and 18 seconds remaining on the clock, WSU's Freshman point guard Johnson, drove the lane and was fouled. Those foul shots proved to be the game winners. It would be easy to blame our missed shots at the very end of the game for the loss but we should never have been in such a tight situation in the first place if our coaching staff would just utilize a defense that matches it's personnel. Play to it's strength.
Coach Murrell has got to decide if defense is a priority or not. PSU's frontcourt is not the team's strength, right now. Playing man-to-man defense just exposes our weakness and forces us to score a bunch of points to overcome our defensive liabilities. We were able to do this, at home, against ISU. But shooting >50% doesn't happen very often. Until Samms comes back, we need to play ZONE ZONE ZONE!!!
Coach Murrell has got to decide if defense is a priority or not. PSU's frontcourt is not the team's strength, right now. Playing man-to-man defense just exposes our weakness and forces us to score a bunch of points to overcome our defensive liabilities. We were able to do this, at home, against ISU. But shooting >50% doesn't happen very often. Until Samms comes back, we need to play ZONE ZONE ZONE!!!
HELLO HELLO HELLO,
if anyone is out there please inform the coach, who's background as a communications major probably and potentially proven by the last 2 years' games at NAU, that she doesn't have a clue about playing at elevation.
I remember last year's pre-game radio show that Murrell said "we are going to out-work and out-run these guys"....um I don't think so. That is probably the dumbest remark she could have made about the contest. You can't bring a team from sea-level to 7000 ft. and expect to keep up running with a team who trains there everyday. Ever heard of Olympic training at elevation in Colorado? There is a reason for that. NAU has built an excellent team of "runners" and now they are training at elevation....
Come on, that's basic Bio 101 - it just ain't feasible and it has nothing to do with "heart" (figuratively), "conditioning", "laziness" or any other descriptor she might use to explain the failure to "compete". It has everything to do with the actual heart and lungs.
If you want to survive this game sub often and everyone and SLOW SLOW SLOW the game down to 1/2 court offense and ZONE defense; just to add to the reasons
Good luck Viks
if anyone is out there please inform the coach, who's background as a communications major probably and potentially proven by the last 2 years' games at NAU, that she doesn't have a clue about playing at elevation.
I remember last year's pre-game radio show that Murrell said "we are going to out-work and out-run these guys"....um I don't think so. That is probably the dumbest remark she could have made about the contest. You can't bring a team from sea-level to 7000 ft. and expect to keep up running with a team who trains there everyday. Ever heard of Olympic training at elevation in Colorado? There is a reason for that. NAU has built an excellent team of "runners" and now they are training at elevation....
Come on, that's basic Bio 101 - it just ain't feasible and it has nothing to do with "heart" (figuratively), "conditioning", "laziness" or any other descriptor she might use to explain the failure to "compete". It has everything to do with the actual heart and lungs.
If you want to survive this game sub often and everyone and SLOW SLOW SLOW the game down to 1/2 court offense and ZONE defense; just to add to the reasons
Good luck Viks
