Why Switch To Man?

[UltimateHog]

I mean honestly?

All game we played decent defense in zone.

Sure they ate us up some down low, but you've gotta stay in a zone that final minute or so.

We don't have the size to man up on them, and we got torched there at the end.

Same frickin' story, Sanchez can't block out or rebound, and gets shoved around like he's a twig.

Sanchez needs to be at UCA or ASU.

Period.

[Niels Boar]

Pel should have used a timeout to make some defensive substitutions in the last two minutes.  Vols scored on their last 5 possessions, twice after ORebs.  Smith scored once with Welsh guarding him, and Prince got a stickback over Clarke.  Shocking those guys would score with their defenders giving up half a foot.  Gawd, we need to be able to get bigger.  Sanchez is killing us with his inability to rebound.  Nobody scored for us in the final 10 minutes besides Fortson and Washington.  Why not have Britt in their for D in the final two?

[UltimateHog]

Sanchez plays like a 12 year old girl.

I'm sick to death of watching Sanchez get shoved around and watching someone else tip in a rebound.

Cost us the game.

[Niels Boar]

Pel made a strategic error when he decided Sanchez could hold down the PF slot in the SEC in a small lineup.  He should have gotten Moore and/or Clark ready in nonconference instead of having them ride the pine.  Monk might have saved us.  This eligibility thing is costing us W's. 

[UltimateHog]

I hate to play the "well if we had so and so" card, but we have no choice.

Monk proved he can get in there and bang down low, man up and block guys out and get tough.

Exactly what we are missing.

[TNhawgfan]

Pel switched because it's harder to box out in a zone d than a man. The only problem is we didn't box out down the stretch in either d

[hoggin25]

agreed, it is sad that this violation is keeping him out so long i haven't heard when/if he will be back, but if we had him in some of these games i don't think we would be 1-5 right now. he's got PT under his belt and could have put up a better performance that Sanchez has. damn this season is getting longer and longer...

[Jim Harris]

Pel should have used a timeout to make some defensive substitutions in the last two minutes.  Vols scored on their last 5 possessions, twice after ORebs.  Smith scored once with Welsh guarding him, and Prince got a stickback over Clarke.  Shocking those guys would score with their defenders giving up half a foot.  Gawd, we need to be able to get bigger.  Sanchez is killing us with his inability to rebound.  Nobody scored for us in the final 10 minutes besides Fortson and Washington.  Why not have Britt in their for D in the final two?

Niels, I say put everyone on one of those ancient racks and stretch 'em out 4-6 inches. That should do it. Imagine a 7-2 Michael Washington, not to mention a 6-5 Rotnei Clarke and a 6-3 Fortson.

[Jim Harris]

Pel switched because it's harder to box out in a zone d than a man. The only problem is we didn't box out down the stretch in either d

what's sad is that Pel and the previous coach didn't build the program in a way that such a player would have already been on the team and this current group wouldn't have had to be temporarily rescued on the inside by a guy cut from the NFL and just so happened to want to come back to school for a few months.
Frankly, I shudder to think where Arkansas might be if a coaching change had not been made two years ago.

[Niels Boar]

Niels, I say put everyone on one of those ancient racks and stretch 'em out 4-6 inches. That should do it. Imagine a 7-2 Michael Washington, not to mention a 6-5 Rotnei Clarke and a 6-3 Fortson.

Fortson could play PF at 6' 3'' the way he scores inside.  Charles Barkley with hair.

[BayofPigs]

Frankly, I shudder to think where Arkansas might be if a coaching change had not been made two years ago.

i'm curious about this, do you think we could even be worse this year with Heath? not trying to argue with you; just want see what makes you say that.

[HawgAdvocate]

i'm curious about this, do you think we could even be worse this year with Heath? not trying to argue with you; just want see what makes you say that.

Heath's locker room was a ticking time bomb always waiting to go off. He had good assistants, two of which who could really recruit, but Heath was no leader.

[BayofPigs]

Heath's locker room was a ticking time bomb always waiting to go off. He had good assistants, two of which who could really recruit, but Heath was no leader.

I agree, and I'm not saying Heath is a great coach, but we did pretty well on our homecourt while he was here

[Jim Harris]

i'm curious about this, do you think we could even be worse this year with Heath? not trying to argue with you; just want see what makes you say that.

more like worse over the next couple of seasons had Heath been retained. We can be worse than 1-6 in the league, but probably wouldn't be. I'm not sure what the guard situation would have been with Heath still around. I don't think it would have been better. I don't think Willie Warren or some of those guys were going to end up at Arkansas had Heath still been here. Maybe Cyrus McGowan would be an enforcer, though. Did you see the way he laid out the Wake Forest player for Miami on ESPN's highlights tonight?

[HawgAdvocate]

more like worse over the next couple of seasons had Heath been retained. We can be worse than 1-6 in the league, but probably wouldn't be. I'm not sure what the guard situation would have been with Heath still around. I don't think it would have been better. I don't think Willie Warren or some of those guys were going to end up at Arkansas had Heath still been here. Maybe Cyrus McGowan would be an enforcer, though. Did you see the way he laid out the Wake Forest player for Miami on ESPN's highlights tonight?

We most likely would have had DeAndre Liggins at PG this year instead of Fortson, thanks to Cyprien. We may also have had a chance at landing Daniel Orton for next season as well. He is related to former assitant Oronde Taliaferro.

But, it's doubtful that Heath would have maintained the respect of his team.