[TheFarm07]

I mean, why even have a basketball team at this point?  No coach will ever run the offense that we want them to run and thus no decent recruit will ever pick Stanford, so we will just suffer a death spiral and descend to oblivion.  Kill me now.

Sheesh, guys (and gals).  Sometimes recruits pick somewhere else.  Almost never do we know the reason (even when the recruit says something, it may or may not be the true reason). Sometimes we have poor games.  There are a myriad of reasons for that, including the fact that a) we feature a lot of freshmen heavily, b) the defense has something to say about things and a good coach will exploit match-ups rather than force a particular style, c) we do have to work within our limitations and d) sometimes teams have good nights and sometimes they have not-so-good nights.  I too would like a faster paced offense, and to crush all our opponents, but I will settle for any game where we score more points than the opponents and recognize that sometimes, these are going to be a slog.  We will lose some games, though hopefully fewer than before.

Still, I would advise enjoying what we have, and given that the biggest drop-off last year was actually defensive, I’m happy that so far, none of our opponents have broken 60 points and that they are averaging 50.25 ppg.  I hope we keep up the defensive intensity as the caliber of opponent improves.

BC

I imagine you must not spend too much time with intense sports fans...I think what I've and others have said are measured observations not just from the beginning of this season but over the last few (I know more than a few people who often like to make broad conclusions based on a few plays within a game).

Respectfully, I feel like you are missing the forest for the trees. If these examples have been isolated, I would not be as worried as I am. I also mentioned that hopefully, our offense will become more fluid once our competition improves, but to provide one example, our criticism of the aimlessly passing around the perimeter offense is not exactly a brand new concern but one pointed out repeatedly.

[TheFarm07]

I mean, why even have a basketball team at this point?  No coach will ever run the offense that we want them to run and thus no decent recruit will ever pick Stanford, so we will just suffer a death spiral and descend to oblivion.  Kill me now.

Sheesh, guys (and gals).  Sometimes recruits pick somewhere else.  Almost never do we know the reason (even when the recruit says something, it may or may not be the true reason). Sometimes we have poor games.  There are a myriad of reasons for that, including the fact that a) we feature a lot of freshmen heavily, b) the defense has something to say about things and a good coach will exploit match-ups rather than force a particular style, c) we do have to work within our limitations and d) sometimes teams have good nights and sometimes they have not-so-good nights.  I too would like a faster paced offense, and to crush all our opponents, but I will settle for any game where we score more points than the opponents and recognize that sometimes, these are going to be a slog.  We will lose some games, though hopefully fewer than before.

Still, I would advise enjoying what we have, and given that the biggest drop-off last year was actually defensive, I’m happy that so far, none of our opponents have broken 60 points and that they are averaging 50.25 ppg.  I hope we keep up the defensive intensity as the caliber of opponent improves.

BC

I imagine you must not spend too much time with intense sports fans...I think what I've and others have said are measured observations not just from the beginning of this season but over the last few (I know more than a few people who often like to make broad conclusions based on a few plays within a game).

Respectfully, I feel like you are missing the forest for the trees. If these examples have been isolated, I would not be as worried as I am. I also mentioned that hopefully, our offense will become more fluid once our competition improves, but to provide one example, our criticism of the aimlessly passing around the perimeter offense is not exactly a brand new concern but one pointed out repeatedly.