BYU vs St. Mary's

This poor shooting by the cougars has got to stop.

Ratings bureau just slapped an MA rating on this game.

Rose should make these guys find their own way back to Provo if this embarrassment continues.

Nevermind. The players should make the coaching staff find their own way home.

Is this any different than how we played St. Mary's the 2 other times this year?

Yes. We are even worse this game....

byu's zone vs smc has been amusing so far. the gaels are so damn efficient at finding any weakness (which doesn't take much) BYU looks like they've never played zone together.



on the other end we have tj with the green light from 3 or driving and dishing to no one in blue. OR another guard driving against 3 smc defenders and throwing up a a prayer.



poor poor play and coaching tonight.

byu has no answer for this offense. zone defense sure hasn't worked. hate coach rose zone defense. it's my biggest gripe about rose. Guinn is the only one who looks like he can handle playing zone defense.

Can we just skip the NIT and let the players and coaches stew over this for the next 8 months? Wow...



We got worse against SMC every time we played them this season. Bad coaching. Even worse effort by the players. Where's the pride?

St. Mary's is a good team, but we did not even look like an NIT team last night. The effort was awful and the performance difficult to stomach.

St Mary's is just a horrible matchup for this young undisciplined team. I am giving this team a semi pass this year but frankly, I am disappointed with the lack of improvement from them this year. They actually look worse now than they did early in the year and that is not good. If this team isn't in the top 25 next year, I will start joining the "we need new coaches" crowd.

Dave Rose said that they played with good effort "for awhile" and then suggested that not being able to practice on Sunday was a factor in the embarrassment.



His seat needs to be warm. Not hot, but uncomfortably warm.

snoscythe wrote:
Dave Rose said that they played with good effort "for awhile" and then suggested that not being able to practice on Sunday was a factor in the embarrassment.



His seat needs to be warm. Not hot, but uncomfortably warm.

I agree, if this team is not in the top 25 next year, it needs to get hot. We have way too much talent to be losing to St. Mary's by 30.

BYU has performed better with lesser talent. Something is up, and sadly I think it starts with the coaching staff.

I don't even get the good effort for a while quote. It started out like 9-2 with us scoring only 2 points in like the first five minutes. We sucked from the very get go. And how pathetic is it to say that our play was reflective,of not practicing on Sunday? A Sunday practice would not have saved that crapfest. Rose comes off as a whiner.

Unfortunately the Cougars were unable to pull together and come out on top.

It sounds like I should be glad that I didn't stay up and watch it.



I was flabbergasted by the score as I woke up this morning and I checked my ESPN AP on my phone. I didn't have my reading glasses on and I kept trying to focus believing that my eyes must be having some major problem with focusing because surely we didn't get beat by 31 points and a team kept us down to scoring only 50. No way!



Slowly, reality settled in and I grabbed my glasses and sure enough, we were run out of the arena. Man! That's not a scenario you want to be in if you want to make it to one of the other tournaments. Worse loss since 2008.

The problem is defense. When BYU struggles to score we get beat, happens every time. The thing we forget about the 2010 team, because Jimmer was scroring 40 all the time, is that team played really good defense. We haven't played defense worth crap since then and it is getting maddening. Until we figure out how to coach and play defense again, we are going to be disappointed like this every year.

Dave Rose is not Dave Rose without Dave Rice.



Rose has struggled to find an adequate replacement down the bench since Rice left for UNLV.

frdbtr wrote:
The problem is defense. When BYU struggles to score we get beat, happens every time. The thing we forget about the 2010 team, because Jimmer was scroring 40 all the time, is that team played really good defense. We haven't played defense worth crap since then and it is getting maddening. Until we figure out how to coach and play defense again, we are going to be disappointed like this every year.

Jimmer did all the scoring. The rest of the team just needed to play defense. We all saw it. Hustle on defense, get back on offense, clear the middle, and watch Jimmer.



Everyone wants to be Jimmer. No one wants to be the "other guys".