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Post by java on Jan 5, 2020 17:20:35 GMT -5
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Post by iona05 on Jan 5, 2020 17:49:05 GMT -5
Recruiting drop off. Huh? 05 this years newcomers are turning out to be very disappointing. Think how bad next years team will be without Agee and Crawford. Need to bring in at least 4 quality starters, That’s not easy to do. There has been a significant drop off the last 2-3 years. Everyone is hyped and almost all of them turn out worse than touted. We absolutely miss coach Grasso’s coaching ability, temperament and presence. But when it comes to recruiting, I feel as if we’ve done a good job replacing Grasso’s production as a recruiter (which was phenomenal BTW). Agee and Gist were both Arnold recruits if memory serves me right, and I’m not ready to write off Jelly or Thiam as recruiting busts yet.
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Post by sharkey on Jan 5, 2020 17:59:28 GMT -5
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Post by iona05 on Jan 5, 2020 18:15:15 GMT -5
Fair enough. Guess it’s just Agee, Jelly, etc then.
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Post by ichoops on Jan 5, 2020 18:16:34 GMT -5
We returned 4 starters. Doesn’t appear they are even running the Cluess offense. Sounds like they took the summer off and took the game for granted. Should have hired a local assistant. Welcome to Siena post Fran!
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Post by epatrick on Jan 5, 2020 18:27:22 GMT -5
Iona in dire need of a true pass-first PG. For those who don’t like jelly, you can see today they have no chance to get better without him. Either he improves his play or this team is an 8th or. 9th place team. IW is the only true point on this team. Can't have a point who hesitates on every possession leading to forced shots with time running out. Gist is best as a "2."
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Post by Z-73 on Jan 5, 2020 18:45:46 GMT -5
Hopefully, we can get things together. That was hard to watch. Keep the Faith, boys!
Go Gaels!!!
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Post by GuyF on Jan 5, 2020 18:46:16 GMT -5
The other coaches are FAAAR less qualified than Arnold. We were VERY spoiled to have Grasso. We are seeing it with the recruiting dropoff and we are seeing it here vs how Grasso is turning Bryant around. Recruiting drop off. Huh? Are you kidding me? Your delusions regarding this program are comical.
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Post by GuyF on Jan 5, 2020 18:48:56 GMT -5
05 this years newcomers are turning out to be very disappointing. Think how bad next years team will be without Agee and Crawford. Need to bring in at least 4 quality starters, That’s not easy to do. There has been a significant drop off the last 2-3 years. Everyone is hyped and almost all of them turn out worse than touted. We absolutely miss coach Grasso’s coaching ability, temperament and presence. But when it comes to recruiting, I feel as if we’ve done a good job replacing Grasso’s production as a recruiter (which was phenomenal BTW). Agee and Gist were both Arnold recruits if memory serves me right, and I’m not ready to write off Jelly or Thiam as recruiting busts yet. Where are this team's Machado Glover Momo Armand AJ Laury and JWash?
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Post by java on Jan 5, 2020 19:03:19 GMT -5
For those at the game, I’m curious as to the interactions between players and coaches during the regular/media timeouts?
Did you witness coaches giving instructions, finger pointing, silence, etc.
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Post by iona1970 on Jan 5, 2020 20:23:55 GMT -5
With the team playing this bad and him still not getting in, I would have to say he is buried 6 feet deep in the doghouse! He doesn't deserve to play
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Post by iona1970 on Jan 5, 2020 20:26:26 GMT -5
Can we please stop the talk about Iona having, by far, the most talent in the MAAC? The game became unwatchable. I was switching back and forth to the Rider-Siena game and the intensity and level of play was on a different level. Praying for Cluess to get healthy and just recruit, forget coming back to coach. This team has zero leadership. With any luck next Friday night's game at Rider will be knocked off of ESPNU, it's going to be ugly Exactly, we have the most talent but talent can't win without effort and cohesiveness
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Post by iona05 on Jan 5, 2020 21:12:59 GMT -5
We absolutely miss coach Grasso’s coaching ability, temperament and presence. But when it comes to recruiting, I feel as if we’ve done a good job replacing Grasso’s production as a recruiter (which was phenomenal BTW). Agee and Gist were both Arnold recruits if memory serves me right, and I’m not ready to write off Jelly or Thiam as recruiting busts yet. Where are this team's Machado Glover Momo Armand AJ Laury and JWash? OK, you’re taking about 8 years worth of talent and bunching it into one group. Grasso was a phenomenal recruiter, not taking that away from him. Machado was Willard’s guy. Agee is every bit as good as Washington. Jelly has played all of 10 games in an Iona uniform with a coach that he didn’t sign up to play for. Can we give him a bit more time before we call him a bust? He was every bit as heralded a recruit as Momo was when we landed him. Glover, Armand, AJ and DL3 were all recruited in the first two seasons under Cluess. They were legendary players, but the back end of Grasso’s time with Iona’s produced the same level of quality recruits that the past two seasons have under the new staff. JMO.
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Post by imagael on Jan 5, 2020 21:19:56 GMT -5
Not buying we have the most talent in the MAAC. We have no one who can take over a game.
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Post by iona05 on Jan 5, 2020 21:21:41 GMT -5
Not buying we have the most talent in the MAAC. We have no one who can take over a game. Hard to argue at this point.
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