[FarmTeam]

Rather than helping Hasse keep his job, I think this win shows how badly Hasse squandered the talent he has on this team.

I was at the game and, not surprisingly, that was the most rocking I've seen Maples in years. The admittedly million Arizona fans filled out the place and that helped, but the team's play got the crowd going in a way that I haven't seen in a long while and has been much missed. 

Really, really happy for the players to get a W like this.

As for Haase, he was doing some of his usual inane stuff: practically chest-bumping some of the players and waving his arms to the crowd for noise. I don't hate Haase (I've said before that he seems like a great guy and is certainly a great representative of Stanford), but he's almost a goofy self-parody at this point. We won tonight because we shot the lights out. It happens in basketball. Sometimes the basketball gods are just smiling. 

But I agree with your assessment. There's real talent on this team. NCAA tourney-bid talent in my opinion. Haase has squandered pretty good talent for, what, 7 seasons now? This was even the first night that I thought: hmm, Spencer Jones could maybe have an outside shot at playing at the next level as a 3-and-D guy. He's big, moves relatively well, and can of course shoot. If Haase knew how to run an offense then Spencer's 3-pt %, which is a pretty good 38%, would be ten points higher because nearly every shot is contested (Haase only recently seems to have figured out that there's this thing called "screening to get an open 3-pt shot for the guy curling around the screen", though there still was very little of it tonight).

In short, I'm pumped for the win. It will be the Stanford sports highlight of my year! But Haase still needs to be gone yesterday.

[FarmTeam]

Rather than helping Hasse keep his job, I think this win shows how badly Hasse squandered the talent he has on this team.

I was at the game and, not surprisingly, that was the most rocking I've seen Maples in years. The admittedly million Arizona fans filled out the place and that helped, but the team's play got the crowd going in a way that I haven't seen in a long while and has been much missed. 

Really, really happy for the players to get a W like this.

As for Haase, he was doing some of his usual inane stuff: practically chest-bumping some of the players and waving his arms to the crowd for noise. I don't hate Haase (I've said before that he seems like a great guy and is certainly a great representative of Stanford), but he's almost a goofy self-parody at this point. We won tonight because we shot the lights out. It happens in basketball. Sometimes the basketball gods are just smiling. 

But I agree with your assessment. There's real talent on this team. NCAA tourney-bid talent in my opinion. Haase has squandered pretty good talent for, what, 7 seasons now? This was even the first night that I thought: hmm, Spencer Jones could maybe have an outside shot at playing at the next level as a 3-and-D guy. He's big, moves relatively well, and can of course shoot. If Haase knew how to run an offense then Spencer's 3-pt %, which is a pretty good 38%, would be ten points higher because nearly every shot is contested (Haase only recently seems to have figured out that there's this thing called "screening to get an open 3-pt shot for the guy curling around the screen", though there still was very little of it tonight).

In short, I'm pumped for the win. It will be the Stanford sports highlight of my year! But Haase still needs to be gone yesterday.