[washingtonismoney]

The final margin is incredibly deceptive -- Stanford padded it extensively with free throws. Apparently Seattle led most of the game, which is not exactly encouraging considering they are Ken Pomeroy's #274 team in the country.

Josh Huestis's 10 blocks marks him as an exciting player, but oy vey the rest of the team. Chasson Randle is making a heaping of dumb mistakes -- a few days after his tragically terrible decision to foul a half-court shooter for a Minnesota win, he dribbled on the endline trying to break a full court press with Stanford up 5 with about a minute fifteen left on the clock. Randle's poor decision-making is emblematic of the team's, which makes plenty of bad decisions but has a coach who seems powerless to correct the problems, if he is even aware they exist.

For a team that was supposed to represent Johnny Dawkins' job application, it is disappointing terribly thus far. It is, in terms of results, worse than last year's team at a similar stage. (And Dawkins' teams don't have a great record about improving relative to the competition as the year progresses.) It's getting hard to avoid the conclusion that if Stanford basketball wants to do anything resembling Montgomery's teams in terms of results, there has to be a change at the top.

[washingtonismoney]

The final margin is incredibly deceptive -- Stanford padded it extensively with free throws. Apparently Seattle led most of the game, which is not exactly encouraging considering they are Ken Pomeroy's #274 team in the country.

Josh Huestis's 10 blocks marks him as an exciting player, but oy vey the rest of the team. Chasson Randle is making a heaping of dumb mistakes -- a few days after his tragically terrible decision to foul a half-court shooter for a Minnesota win, he dribbled on the endline trying to break a full court press with Stanford up 5 with about a minute fifteen left on the clock. Randle's poor decision-making is emblematic of the team's, which makes plenty of bad decisions but has a coach who seems powerless to correct the problems, if he is even aware they exist.

For a team that was supposed to represent Johnny Dawkins' job application, it is disappointing terribly thus far. It is, in terms of results, worse than last year's team at a similar stage. (And Dawkins' teams don't have a great record about improving relative to the competition as the year progresses.) It's getting hard to avoid the conclusion that if Stanford basketball wants to do anything resembling Montgomery's teams in terms of results, there has to be a change at the top.