Why can't Pearl find someone to put ball in basket?

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madbamahater

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Every year his guards are great bust. Lofton and Watson were Peterson guys. Pearl has to do something with Harris, McRae, and Golden next two years or.........I'm just saying. I know what Pearl has done for our program and much respect, but he inability to get guards blows my mind. He desperately needs two - three shooters.
 
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They won 20 games because of defense primarily. I know your not about to argue that we have great or even good shooting. Maze might as well have been a Harlem Globe Trotter tonight.
 
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people are saying golden has been rediculous as of late with scoring. like avg 30 ppg or something along those lines.
 
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alwaysorange81 said:
They did pretty well in those 20 wins.
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I'm not sure there are any awards or post season recognitions for achieving 20 wins.

But I digress, that horse has been ridden into the ground.

Its painfully obvious that Pearl has failed in the guard department, especially the PG. The next few years should be a good barometer as to whether he can actually develop guards or not.
 
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To hardwood fanatic...I agree. At least we aren't being grilled for some honest critism, not yet.
 
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Hardwood_fanatic said:
I'm not sure there are any awards or post season recognitions for achieving 20 wins.

But I digress, that horse has been ridden into the ground.

Its painfully obvious that Pearl has failed in the guard department, especially the PG. The next few years should be a good barometer as to whether he can actually develop guards or not.
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Go ahead and define fail for me, is it failure to have better guard and team play then 85 percent of your league? just wondering.
 
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I guess we have been spoiled with the likes of Watson, Lofton, Jawuan Smith over the last few years. I remember when UT would win 5,6,7,8 games a year. It still seemed we had "pure" shooters. Minus the Jerry Green era
 
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alwaysorange81 said:
Go ahead and define fail for me, is it failure to have better guard and team play then 85 percent of your league? just wondering.
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Lets flip it. You define success for me.

Do you consider outperforming 85% of a league, which is at best the 4th or 5th best conference year in year out,(top heavy with 2 or 3 teams) success?

If your MIT, maybe.
 
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Well I guess I'll try to speak for him when 85% of the SEC is absolutely garbage this year. Usually scoring 50 something 60 something points a game wins maybe 13-15 games. Defense has been their only thing keeping them around.
 
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look at Pearl's past teams. Same great defense coupled with scoring, he's racked up a lot of wins with that. Bottom line is that he has nobody consistantly doing anything right when the ball is in their hands. PERIOD.
 
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Hardwood_fanatic said:
Lets flip it. You define success for me.

Do you consider outperforming 85% of a league, which is at best the 4th or 5th best conference year in year out,(top heavy with 2 or 3 teams) success?

If your MIT, maybe.
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Bruce Pearl can't make SEC teams better. Success is success in your league, and in the NCAA tourney relative to your recent team history. Pearl has been plenty successful at UT.
 
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Not saying that guard play doesn't need to produce more points. But assigning failure to Pearl and issuing ultimatums is extremely premature and inaccurate IMHO.
 
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So you are saying that with the big three he has coming in and with hopefully a guard or two, in two years if we are seeing this, it's okay? No, surely not. Now I hope the kids coming in will be the answer. Just remember that Scotty, Renaldo, Maze were supposed to be that. Pearl swung and missed. AAU and youtube stars are apparently what he doesn't need.
 
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madbamahater said:
So you are saying that with the big three he has coming in and with hopefully a guard or two, in two years if we are seeing this, it's okay? No, surely not. Now I hope the kids coming in will be the answer. Just remember that Scotty, Renaldo, Maze were supposed to be that. Pearl swung and missed. AAU and youtube stars are apparently what he doesn't need.
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And that would be the definition of RELATIVE success.
 
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alwaysorange81 said:
And that would be the definition of RELATIVE success.
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You do realize that even at UT "relative" league success only gets you so far, when being paid a salary that demands more? There is a little tournament they hold at the end of the season, with 64 teams.

If within 3 years Pearl still hasn't developed elite guards that can get you out of the SEC and deep in that tournament, the "oh we won the SEC and were ranked #1 for 24 hours" argument will not be enough to warrant a long term stay.

Thats all I"M saying.
 
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Hardwood_fanatic said:
You do realize that even at UT "relative" league success only gets you so far, when being paid a salary that demands more? There is a little tournament they hold at the end of the season, with 64 teams.

If within 3 years Pearl still hasn't developed elite guards that can get you out of the SEC and deep in that tournament, the "oh we won the SEC and were ranked #1 for 24 hours" argument will not be enough to warrant a long term stay.

Thats all I"M saying.
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Hey now, we were ranked for a full week. Don't take anything away from the homers.
 
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Hardwood_fanatic said:
You do realize that even at UT "relative" league success only gets you so far, when being paid a salary that demands more? There is a little tournament they hold at the end of the season, with 64 teams.

If within 3 years Pearl still hasn't developed elite guards that can get you out of the SEC and deep in that tournament, the "oh we won the SEC and were ranked #1 for 24 hours" argument will not be enough to warrant a long term stay.

Thats all I"M saying.
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Dude that's exactly what I'm saying, exactly the point I was trying to make in the "relative to recent history" portion of my comments. But ultimatums from fans are worth about as much as the gas flying out of my butt. Obviously losing when you should be winning won't be tolerated by the people signing the checks.
 
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alwaysorange81 said:
Dude that's exactly what I'm saying, exactly the point I was trying to make in the "relative to recent history" portion of my comments. But ultimatums from fans are worth about as much as the gas flying out of my butt. Obviously losing when you should be winning won't be tolerated by the people signing the checks.
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I hear ya Willis. Full circle. :eek:k:
 
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