Game Thread: Xavier v. TCU (12/5/2024)

[A Fan]

Honestly, I thought Claude would be a loss but I didn't think it would be to this point. I thought that at the time because I thought Swain would have developed offesnively a lot more than he has, and I thought he'd be playing his natural position at the 3. We have serious issues because 1.) Swain is playing out of position. 2.) So is free. 3.) We don't have anyone that can play the 5 because Hugley has been down right awful and Traore got hurt. 4.) Dayvion has regressed the last few games. He's been crap.

Foster shouldn't be starting, and on a good high d1 team, he wouldn't be. He's a good 6-7 man, not a starter. He doesn't bring much to the table. I really think our lineup needs to be moved around a bit. I know he hasn't been great but either insert Jerome at the 4/5 to play with Free and move Swain to 3 with the current guards, or go smaller with Maddox and Dayvion at the guards and slide Conwell over to the 3. The starting lineup just isn't working.

That’s an honest answer . Your Board nemesis claims this team has talent and Sean is a bad coach …implying that a good coach could win with this roster. What am I missing ? The only “ coaching” related disappointment is Swain . He has not developed. You can attribute it to playing out of position. I attribute it to a lack of basketball maturation and confidence. And that relates to coaching.

[Xville]

That’s an honest answer . Your Board nemesis claims this team has talent and Sean is a bad coach …implying that a good coach could win with this roster. What am I missing ? The only “ coaching” related disappointment is Swain . He has not developed. You can attribute it to playing out of position. I attribute it to a lack of basketball maturation and confidence. And that relates to coaching.

I think there is plenty of talent on the team to make the tournament. I don't think Sean is a bad coach by any means, but he doesn't seem to be pushing the right buttons either. He seems to be a very different coach this time around than he was the first time, and while he's now a nice guy, I'm not sure I love the style...its a little too ho-hum for me. Not saying he needs to be Hurley flopping around like an idiot, but some of the fire/intensity seems to be gone, and I think the players are a reflection of how they are being coached.

Plenty of time left in the season to right the ship, but its gotta be pretty soon because the schedule is about to get real.

[bleedXblue]

That’s an honest answer . Your Board nemesis claims this team has talent and Sean is a bad coach …implying that a good coach could win with this roster. What am I missing ? The only “ coaching” related disappointment is Swain . He has not developed. You can attribute it to playing out of position. I attribute it to a lack of basketball maturation and confidence. And that relates to coaching.

You only see it in Swain? I mean the offense is hard to watch as a whole and defensively we're getting exposed inside and almost any time someone gets inside the paint? I call this part of coaching the tactical piece. Thats where Sean hasn't figured it out

[Xville]

You only see it in Swain? I mean the offense is hard to watch as a whole and defensively we're getting exposed inside and almost any time someone gets inside the paint? I call this part of coaching the tactical piece. Thats where Sean hasn't figured it out

I'd love for the packline to be put out to pasture. Most coaches that used to play it, have scrapped it. There are too many shooters in college basketball for it to work effectively night in and night out. Go to a matchup zone, or pressure d...anything else.

[bleedXblue]

I'd love for the packline to be put out to pasture. Most coaches that used to play it, have scrapped it. There are too many shooters in college basketball for it to work effectively night in and night out. Go to a matchup zone, or pressure d...anything else.

this 1000000%

I mean we have guys that excel in the open court, so why would you play more pressure?

[X-band '01]

Honestly, I thought Claude would be a loss but I didn't think it would be to this point. I thought that at the time because I thought Swain would have developed offesnively a lot more than he has, and I thought he'd be playing his natural position at the 3. We have serious issues because 1.) Swain is playing out of position. 2.) So is free. 3.) We don't have anyone that can play the 5 because Hugley has been down right awful and Traore got hurt. 4.) Dayvion has regressed the last few games. He's been crap.

Foster shouldn't be starting, and on a good high d1 team, he wouldn't be. He's a good 6-7 man, not a starter. He doesn't bring much to the table. I really think our lineup needs to be moved around a bit. I know he hasn't been great but either insert Jerome at the 4/5 to play with Free and move Swain to 3 with the current guards, or go smaller with Maddox and Dayvion at the guards and slide Conwell over to the 3. The starting lineup just isn't working.

Last thing...outside of the buy-game this schedule starts to get really brutal. It's gut check time...next 5-6 games can completely sink the season if they don't get their shit together.

Keep in mind that Foster started on a Furman team that beat Virginia in the NCAA Tournament 2 years ago. He is a capable starter, although there are going to be rough patches along the way. Even Jerome Hunter wasn't consistently great 2 years ago, but he clearly did get better as the stakes got higher after Freemantle's injury.

What is more concerning is how this team constantly runs out of gas at the end of games for 3 games straight. That can't go on.

[xukeith]

I do not think giving Conwell the green light helps X. We had some better balanced scoring last night but TCU was aggresivelly defending Conwell and at many times X could not turn that into a frre wide opoen X player. Sometimes that worked.
I know last night was sad but I thought there were some positives.
X needs to not have luek warm halves rebounding and playing defense.

Maybe a solid post player outside of X would be a difference maker.

So maybe X can win teh NIT tourney this yeart and next year be good enough for a Sweet 16 push. Obviously Miller's teams cannot be top notch with all these transfers.

[Xville]

Keep in mind that Foster started on a Furman team that beat Virginia in the NCAA Tournament 2 years ago. He is a capable starter, although there are going to be rough patches along the way. Even Jerome Hunter wasn't consistently great 2 years ago, but he clearly did get better as the stakes got higher after Freemantle's injury.

What is more concerning is how this team constantly runs out of gas at the end of games for 3 games straight. That can't go on.

I don't see how Foster starting at Furman has any bearing on whether he should be starting at this level or not. Furman's leading scorer last year is at Auburn now and barely gets off the bench. This is a different animal.

I hope im wrong and Foster is fine once he gets more comfortable with his role. I know he does a lot of the little things here and there, but from what i can see he doesn't have high d1 talent. I don't remember people being all that excited about him when he came on board.

As a fan I'm just extremely frustrated with this program, I don't like the feeling of treading water that we have been doing now for a very long time. I can't imagine what the high dollar NIL donors feel, they should have just lit their money on fire.

[paulxu]

What is more concerning is how this team constantly runs out of gas at the end of games for 3 games straight. That can't go on.

I think that only gets worse if we are only 6 deep.

[xubrew]

I don't see how Foster starting at Furman has any bearing on whether he should be starting at this level or not. Furman's leading scorer last year is at Auburn now and barely gets off the bench. This is a different animal.

I hope im wrong and Foster is fine once he gets more comfortable with his role. I know he does a lot of the little things here and there, but from what i can see he doesn't have high d1 talent. I don't remember people being all that excited about him when he came on board.

As a fan I'm just extremely frustrated with this program, I don't like the feeling of treading water that we have been doing now for a very long time. I can't imagine what the high dollar NIL donors feel, they should have just lit their money on fire.

I think the Furman team that Foster played on two years ago would beat this year's Xavier team. Just sayin'.