dude what happens if jones misses the shot, and the ducks hit a three? its a coin flip, personally i would have fouled at the 20 second mark, but still dude, young ass teams have growing pains, you can’t expect miracles this early in their careers, but you should expect a couple like this, as much as they hurt. I would expect ernie to have these guys challenging e very night in the pac ten come january, not freaking mark few

what happens if oregon makes the shot, ernie is a genius right? seriously cmon now, the ducks went almost 8 minutes without a bucket in the 2nd half, was that ernie’s fault? they ducks did what i would expect of them right now, too many mistakes to win a game like this. but i would also expect them to grow and mature over the course of the year, and because of that become much better. that turnover in ot by garrett sim? stupid, but he’ll learn how to swing it around to get to dunigin, it happens man, gotta learn patience with a young team….remember malik maarty and bryce’s first year? what about AB’s

i dont agree with ernie’s clock management, but did he cause the 8 minute drought? the stupid fouls? the shot clock violation? the turnover by sim? no those were all inexperience, which can be bettered by…..wait for it….experience dude come on now you can’t throw all the freshman mistakes on the coaching staff

I want only two things from this team this year. 1. Compete – bring effort every game. 2. Learn – absorb it all and get stronger from it.

I posted it very impulsively last night when I was frustrated and tired.

But I stand by my opinion that it was a terrible coaching decision to let them bleed clock like that. I may have been unclear as to explaining it. It IS a young and inexperienced team. They DID make mistakes due to their youth, and I’m not holding that to them nor Ernie. But as I saw it, the players played their asses off to be let down by coaching in that final 41 seconds. The analogy I thought of went thusly:

A ship full of young seamen and their celebrated captain sailed a treacherous sea. Overcoming very dire straits and rough patches of the ocean, they were finally within eyeshot of land. The men cheered giddily, as their strenuous venture seemed to be coming to a delightful end. “We did it! Everyone on the mainland considered us too young and unwise to complete this trek, but we are no more than 3 salty miles from land”
cried the First Mate. At this point the captain had emerged to give his words to the men. He greeted them, then said “Alright boys, let’s drop anchor here.”
“But captain… it’s right there.”
“I know it is son. Halt the turbines. We will sit here until the tides carry us in.”
“But my captain, that simply doesn’t make se-”
And suddenly they were devoured by a giant JSquidfelt.

but seriously, Earnie Kent cannot coach. Especially over the last few years, we were loaded with talent and saw so little results it was nausiating. Hey, at least we made the NIT when we had Luke Jackson on our team, not like he was any good. Luke fucking Jackson, and we dont even make the tourny. I am aware that he can recruit, but he still cannot coach.

name one other major contributer from the LJ NIT team…..a coach cannot do everything for his team….neither can one PTPer….look at our elite 8 teams. loaded top to bottom with capable and aged contributers (with the exception of the lukes). Do us all a favor butthol, and wait to pass judgement on ernie and these players until they have time to develop, grow and mature. We should learn what expectations can do from the ones we piled on our last massive recruiting class. Conversely, what was aaron brooks rated coming out of high school…..