It's time to just move Dominique inside on offense and let him pick up the trash on offensive boards and score some slop. Him on the wing is an absolute disasteer. He hasn't developed a reliable jumpshot to force the defense to play him close which in turn means he cannot use his athleticism to drive the ball. Use his jumping ability inside where he might be able to actually score.
Frank, you've spent 18 months breaking down Jacob Pullen, it's time to start building him up again. I think the yelling has gone far enough and the smart ass remarks and "applause" when he makes a mistake are, honestly, a little childish.
As long as players like Kent, Colon, Brown, Merriweather are either starting or getting serious minuntes in serious times of the game, we are not going to be a contender. These are players with back of the lineup skill that we have at the front of the lineup and you are kidding yourself if you think otherwise.
Until this team figures out that games are 40 minutes and points scored in the first half do count to the final total, we are on track to a 3-5 win season in the conference. To misquote Dan Hawkins "This is Big 12 Basketball"
Although mentioned in another post, Scott Drew's yelling "BOX OUT" while our guys are shooting FTs is BUSH LEAGUE and not fitting of a middle school coach. That crap may fly with daddy and the other folks in the Horizon League or wherever the hell Valpo is residing these days, but this is Big Boy Ball, act like it.
I'm tiring of our band. They are not, as the song says, hot. They pick the worst time to play the worst music. At one point in the first half, we actually had some crowd noise during a timeout and they played some crappy slow song. I was just waiting for them to roll out some Dan Fogelberg to fire us up. Also, the Wabash sounds terrible as they seem more interested in the choreography than the actual playing of the music.
Finally, I don't like the way Willie bounces on his toes when trying to get the crowd up. He looks like one of the girl cheerleaders when he does it. If all you are going to be as a mascot is a dude with a head on, you had better be as manly as possible. (This is the crap I have time to pay attention to when the team plays like crap).
EMAW
