Stallings is always so brutally honest. Hopefully the callers will give him some good questions.

They need to switch from the CBS Westwood One NFL stream…

Always a good sign…

His plus/minus was very good.

“very capable”
played the better teams on their schedule really well
should be entertaining game
up tempo
82ppg
8th leading scorer in country
lost to lipscomb and belmont (ot)

Quiet basketball team
Quiet guys
Very mannerly, well raised, proper good people
Difficult to lead vocally when you are quiet by nature
Jermaine leading by example
Guys follow his lead
Week stretch where his play was not indicative of the example we need from our only senior
Beal to coach: never been under the microscope from you so much
Coach to Beal: we need you to be successful for us to be successful
Beal was out of the game when they scored 14 points in 3 minutes

Reason for low number: Too many TOs!
Assist numbers down:
  Not made many jumpshots
  Jenkins only shooting close to % he, beal, tinsley are capable of
  Up until last 2 games, getting fouled so much (missing FG), make points at foul line, takes away an assist
  Bad play, poor passes

You SHOOT when you’re supposed to.

Brad, Jermaine, and John have earned in practice the right to shoot.

If he likes to see them shoot (in practice), they get the green light.

You can’t really get a sense of how good a leader he can be, how coachable a kid can be, until you get them.

Structure of recruiting prevents this.

Sometimes you get tricked by guys.

A leader budding as we speak: Jeffery Taylor! Ways he goes about practicing, competes, distaste for losing, willingness to say things to teammates starting to impact our team positively. Sometimes to be a leader you have to be confrontational. Andre, Darshawn starting as well. Fes and Steve are biggest encouragers. Great energy guys…

Jeff not afraid to call somebody out. He’s not afraid to be called out. Coaches are going to try to help enable him in this regard.

THIS IS GREAT NEWS, though perhaps a bit expected.

Learning how to cut
Learning how to use screens
They have to protect him some from the fans
John needs to be getting the ball with more space
Has done a great job so far.

Stallings was in favor of redshirting a guy – it was discussed. Entire staff was against. Decided not to go down that path.

Different challenges by scheduling different teams

St Marys – tough road game
Maui – tournament games
WKU – game at Arena, where SEC Tourney will be
Going into the game yesterday, 8th toughest schedule in the country.

$15 for floor level seats in student section.

Cincinnati/Illinois – toss up games.
Western Kentucky is a should win game.

Considers us to be -1 at this point. Not the end of the world. Wants to be gelling at a higher level than what they are now
Hopes to end this run prior to SEC play on good note.