Hubert coached a gd game…can’t win them all.
Ryan/Ingrim shots won’t always fall…offnight happens.
But there is NO reason why MR Bacot should not have had a career night. No excuse!! That grown-man monster dunk by JWhashington is what Bacot should’ve been doing but of course he prefers 8ft hook shots, timid-layups, bunch of weak weak shidd. Glad Hubert benched his arsh.
But there is NO reason why MR Bacot should not have had a career night. No excuse!!
No reason, no excuse? Isn't it more true that there is no reason you know of, rather than simply dismiss this as no excuse? What if there were a reason or excuse that you did NOT know about? I believe you are assuming you know all you need to know, I believe you have concluded that all of the sudden Bacot no longer really cares, has just decided that he does not need to work all that hard, he is mailing it in?
Don't trust me on this, ask AJ, he is at every one of our games, he talks to all out players and coaches every week during the season. You tell AJ that this kid is phoning it in and I gurantee you AJ will tell you real quick that there is not another kid on this team that wants this team to win any more than Bacot, that the kid will literally do what ever is in his power to help this team win. The kid wants his jersey in the rafters and he wants a Natty ring. This is a kid that separated his hip in a game as a freshman with us and didn't miss a single game. This is a kid that has ended the last 2 seasons with us on crutches and missed how many games? Yet you are going to question his work ethic?
You and everyone else is right, what we are watching from Bacot is not the Bacot we all know. There is something physically wrong and he is not talking about it. I suspect there may be some ligament damage in that ankle, he seems to be running ok but I suspect trying to fight thru all the weight that comes from multiple defenders is limiting him, he isn't going up strong on either end of the court. Sure, he may be in a different role on offense but that would not effect his defensive rebounding.
Look, let's say the reason Bacot's offense is down is just because he has moved to another role, he is going to set screens for our drivers and they are not going to make it a focus that Bacot touches the ball every trip. But we now have last night, GT lost their best big man a couple minutes in to this game, that alone should have opened the door wide for either Bacot or Ingram to feast on a second stringer, didn't happen. Other than RJ no one else was jump shooting well and Cadeau picks up 5 quick second half fouls making RJ our PG for the rest of the game and we all know that means we are a half court team for the rest of that game. So the newer game plan that has Bacot taking a step back and let our guards feature is crippled by the loss of Cadeau. The rest of those GT big men all found foul trouble so Bacot could go against GT 2nd and 3rd string bigs that are in foul trouble? Rather than a feast Bacot barely got a snack, we all saw that. So why didn't we revert back to Bacot touches every time down, if new plan is not working why not go back to something else you are used to playing, right? ONLY Reason I can think of that didn't happen is that Bacot for what ever reason can't physically without a LOT of pain. Same Bacot that was successfully guarding guards off switches earlier this season now struggles in the high pick switches and the only reason people can come up with is he doesn't care? This is Bacot's 5th season with us, until recently have you EVER saw Bacot as a lazy player, judging by comments on this board for that whole time I can tell you that Bacot as a lazy player has never been a question until now? It should not be a go to explanation now and you have years of reasons why.