Dave_Glaser

You gotta like this team.

All the way to the wire . . .

First to 70 wins

Did anybody catch that water bottle malfunction from Youngblood during the timeout? Ha ha!

Coach talks about defending in the halftime interview, then they come out and guard nobody.

Kobe Knox is so close to making plays, but never quite gets there.

Good last 6-7 minutes.

If Youngblood was on, we’d be up 10 already.

So sloppy with the ball so far.

LOTS of bricks so far

Pryor not starting

I don’t agree with Pancho on - well - pretty much anything, but (regardless of practice) my eyes tell me that Marina would be a more productive PG than Ariel at this point. You’ll give up some defense, but she seems fairly strong with the ball and she’ll probably give you 8-10 points a night - maybe more some nights. Jose does what he does and he’s usually right. The man is a legend, but this one feels a bit like loyalty over potential. Just watching the games the way I do, I’d like to see some extended minutes for Marina for 3-4 games and see what she does. It’s not like the offense is running really well with Ariel managing the game, if that’s the concern. Everyone is going to guard Vittoria hard at the 3-point line, so you need another threat there to open it up for her a bit more. Marina is a much better option there over Ariel, for sure.

I don’t doubt you, but I missed it being mentioned.

That’s because they’re employed by the athletic department. They’re not going to tell you if he’s being disciplined, which is a good bet since they ignored his absence.

Yep, and I still wish Chaney had choked out Calipari when he had the chance.

That’s not the team we’ve been seeing for the past decade. But it’s a temporary inconvenience, as Mike said.

She does have a good handle and is an excellent defender, but I think her lack of offense - or even unwillingness to take a look at the basket - really hurts at this point because there just aren’t a lot of options. At the very least, Marina should probably be splitting minutes with Ariel. But Jose does what he needs to and it’s really hard to second guess him at this point. They’re going to struggle this year and still probably win 20 games.

No, they aren’t, but . . . honestly, our season comes down to four days in March anyway. Need to be peaking then.

Gonna be a frustrating year for Jose. If they’re not making threes, they don’t have much going. There’s zero in the post and although Wilson is a great defender, they can’t afford to have her on the floor this much when they don’t really have many offensive options. Feels to me like he needs to commit to Marina at PG and just ride with it. So unUSF-like team. They take bad shots, make silly passes, miss layups, etc. not stuff we’re used to seeing from Jose’s teams. It has to be killing him.

He has no post play and no scoring from his PG, so he basically only has three players on the floor who are a threat.

This. Chemistry or not, it’s probably a game you should win on talent alone. That’s the one we’ll look back on at the end of the year as the real head-scratcher. CMU lost to Loyola and FSU - two teams we beat fairly easily - by 65 combined points. It happens, I guess. But you have to like what you’ve seen over the past three weeks. Temple should tell us a bit more tomorrow. That’s a totally winnable game. They come in losers of three of the past four - VCU, Old Dominion, Nevada and the closest loss was 9 points - the only W was a grinder against Portland (55-54). Despite the numbers in our favor, in years past, we lose this one, so let’s see if we’re not the same old South Florida.

It’s funny what a 7-6 season and a rout of Syracuse will do. We were “USF Who?” or “USF brings no value” this time a year ago. When we were losing, these internet geniuses had a very short memory about how good we were just a few years before. Now we’re the sleeping giant arising again after a .500 regular season against some pretty awful teams. We’re making progress, our university is a good one academically, and our market ultimately makes us a viable candidate for anyone. Nothing has changed except a couple more wins, but in the minds of all these internet “experts” we’re somehow worthy again. It’s a laugh, and a very predictable one.

It’s all about pitching this year. With Brutcher, Boser, Snow, etc. there should be enough bats.

Also, I watched a good bit of FAU-ECU, SMU-Charlotte and UAB-UTSA. We should be able to play with any of them. There’s no reason we can’t finish in the top half of this league.