Thursday, February 18, 2016

Coaches who refuse to discipline

UIC (Illinois-Chicago) is awful. Just downright awful. They are 5-20, and two of those wins are over non-D1 teams. I  saw them play on television earlier this year and they are a bad version of street ball. Their shooting is atrocious. What amazes me - once again - is that their coach evidently refuses to bring any on-court discipline to the program. Freshman Dikembe Dixson (6-7) leads the team in scoring with 19.0 ppg, but that is one of the most bogus numbers you ever saw. He shoots a lousy 37.1% overall and a poor 32.8% from the arc. Even at the FT line he is only shooting 64.8%, which is nothing to brag about. And yet he has taken 27.8% of all the shots the team has taken. He just blasts away, whether or not he is making shots - AND THE COACH LETS HIM DO IT! They are a poor-shooting team, but they do have a few other players who are making shots at a significantly better rate than Dixson, but let's just throw away game after game by letting some kid determine what he is going to do on the court. Come on, Coach, do your job!

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