Jucker Court Basketball Board

Great Road Trip

I will piggy back you and vent for the last time.

JJ frustrates me so much sometimes due to his lack of playing good position defense or making the easy play sometimes. He will not play proper position defense sometimes or let his man get a step on him with ball because he thinks he can block everything. But that usually leads to fouls either from him or from other guys having to rotate over to help. He gave up that lay up and foul right at the end od the first half because he was not playing good position D. I'm not sure how mick held his composure that last 1:00 minute in the first half with JJ.

On the other hand JJ makes so many great plays that others don't and we couldn't win without him. The guy makes me smile a lot and then want to pull out my hair. I wish we could keep him 3 - 4 more years.

Great game and fun to watch. That game showed how important Cash is to the team. No surprise they struggled when he is out and dominated when he played. Still put the blame on Cronin for the end of first half miscue. The game was almost ruined by the officials. Called everything inside on both teams. What did Woods play 7 minutes before fouling out.

We had two big bursts in the games on Friday and Saturday, only to see the opponent rally once the momentum faded. Once we get in that position of being up big and you start to sense the other team getting ready to counterpunch (with desperation, because the game does have ebb and flow to it, and their backs are against the wall), I'd like to see us drop back into that matchup zone we used to great effect later in the year last year. It's harder for us to rebound out of, but when an opponent is in the frenzy phase that Iowa State and Oregon were in this weekend, we're getting beat in rebounding aggression anyhow. Let's at least keep people in front of us and away from the basket. It would also help protect our bigs, who appear to be foul magnets at the moment once anything gets past our perimeter defenders.

Would be awesome if a student made a large replica of a 5 hour energy bottle and called it like "2 hour JJ" or something creative.

Would also be nice if a student did a Lawrence big head.

I propose the use of this picture.