the biggest issue with this team is without Brown we have no closers

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nsl1ZxnreDE

Sigh. Just the same old crap from this season. Almost feels merciful to end it.

Defense was messy chasing again, and honestly I thought we were fortunate several times as Toledo missed open looks both short and long. Our reckless defense put them at the free throw line and they hit them, 29/35 in total my goodness that is a lot of free throws.

Reef made it a lot easier to accept his graduation, my God some of the shots he took was the picture of "F it I'll figure it out." 3 for 14 from 2 and 2 of those 3 were assisted to the paint. He was terrible on offense. Similar story to a lesser extend with James, some really dumb overconfident shots. 8 for 30 between them.

Vic was fine except when we tried to funnel things thru him, he is just inviting a turnover and he had 3 big ones today. He shouldn't have the ball in his hands more than 1 second unless it is in the paint, and he should find the open man the 2nd a double team comes.

Hats off to Pavs, he got better and better throughout the year and is poised for a huge senior year, hopefully with us. Appreciate Hadaway's boost, he looked good after such a long absence. I also believe he is posed for a big senior year.

Clayton wasn't bad, he just wasn't "the man." I know he catches a lot of grief around here but he had a good 4 year career. He is the opposite of what the direction of college sports is right now, he just turned 21 a month ago and has depleted his eligibility and all at one school. Hats off to AJ a true Bobcat.

where was Elliot the last third of the game? Especially at the very end of regulation. He’s arguably our best on the ball defender at the guard position. I’m concerned he’s going to portal to a better situation (and i’m not referencing NIL) and I wouldn’t fault him.

And so begins the most interesting part of the season, when hope springs eternal that we will find the next set of players to take us to the promised land.

To use an oft-employed analogy, I thought we were a team full of Robins. Pav, AJC, AJB would all be great second options, but there was no Batman on this team. It was bucket-getting by committee, with no real plan on who to go to when facing adversity. And hence the frequent collapses and periods of confusion.

Did not like the final defensive possession of regulation. Did we not learn anything from the Illinois game? Go zone press. Maybe don't even guard the inbounder if he's pinned to one spot on the base line. Keep the receiver of the pass in front of you and then maybe swarm him with a double team. Force them to move the ball through passing and burn off the clock.

Six assists on 32 made field goals. Not great. We had decent motion for the first half of the shot clock but once that option got cut off we resorted too much on one on one ball.

Alpha performance by Pavaletzke. I trusted every decision he made today. I wasn't sold on him to begin the year, but he came on great down the stretch. A priority to retain for next year.

Boals sure made it known after the game about all of the team’s injuries.

“I told them after the game, the one regret I had about coaching this team was we were only together for nine games."

To me this is by far the most infuriating thing a coach can say. It happens overcome it.

Boals seemed less engaged this year and less happy in general. I saw a lack of coaching passion in him which is disappointing.

I thought that I noticed the same thing, Perhaps, it was a perception thing and projection thing on my part, but it actually had me wondering in idle moments if he might be considering packing it in and seeking another line of employment. I guess we'll know very soon if that's the case. I highly doubt it, but the prospect of it did cross my mind.

The offense was never good but the inability to rebound, or generally play any defense at all, spelled disaster the entire season.

100%

You people are wacky.