Stanford played at home last night for the first time in nineteen days and lost to Oregon State 62-50. Oregon State beat Stanford on the Farm for only the second time since 1993. Stanford beat Oregon State earlier in the year but could not finish this time. With Oregon State leading the entire game, Stanford pulled within five points of the Beavers with 1:07 to play making it 54-49. However, Oregon State began to pull away. Oregon State made their free throws in the final minute while Stanford turned the ball over and missed shots.
Like last game against Cal, Stanford couldn't shoot the ball well. They shot 37 percent from the field and about 28 percent from the three point line. Stanford had only two players with over ten points. Rosco Allen had twelve, and Grant Verhoeven had ten. Meanwhile, Oregon State had three players in double digits, and Oregon State's Tres Tinkle led all scorers with nineteen.
Stanford has now lost four straight games and has struggled in the second half of the season. In the past few years, Stanford seems to always struggle in the second half of the season. With Dawkins leading Stanford, they have gone 44-60 in the second half of the season and 3-11 against ranked teams. Surely, Stanford has a problem to fix. Maybe the solution is a change in coaching.
Looking forward, Stanford plays #11 Oregon on Saturday. A win Saturday won't come easy and to win, Stanford needs to improve their shooting and not continue their struggles. With last night's loss, Stanford moved to 11-11 overall and 4-7 in conference.
Comments
Regime change -- go get Tommy Amaker at Harvard
Being "true to your school" doesn’t mean cheering for them no matter what the Admin does… Time to face the music. Regime change.
Dawkins is a nice man. Maybe that’s part of the problem. No killer instinct. Not hungry enough.
Back in 2000/2001 we were a #1 seed; made the Final Four in 1998 with Coach Montgomery and the Collins towers. It’s possible.
Cardinal have now lost 4 in a row to slide to 10th in Pac12, at .500 (11W-11L; 4-7 in conf), with 7 games to play. We will be picked by oddsmakers to lose most of those.
I doubt we will make the NIT. Dawkins is spent… if Muir is willing to face the music. Showing up with the lowest 3pt FG rate in the Pac12 is malpractice. We should be sniper city, 3-deep in marksmen. Sure, a lot of scoring punch graduated last year — that’s why you BUILD A PIPELINE (See: David Shaw).
UTEX brought in Shaka Smart from VCU by doubling his salary, (from $1.5M to $3M+ for seven years) plus benefits.
Smart was Steph Curry’s coach — knows how to coach 3pt shooters !!
GO GET:
1) Tommy Amaker at Harvard. Zero recruiting advantage, and Amaker finds a way. Wins Ivy League every year. Played at Duke (1984-87). He was an Asst for Coach K also, including Nat’l Champ years of 1991 & 92. We could pay him more. Miami and GTech have already made a pass at him.
2) Archie Miller at Dayton (paid under $800K now), who is Sean Miller’s (ARIZ) younger brother. Dayton fields a better team every year than we do — with what recruiting advantage? His brother beats us like a drum every year now. In the late 1990s; it was a rivalry.
3) Fran McCaffrey at IOWA. Consistently solid defense with good 3-pt shooting — is that a difficult formula ?
4) Gregg Marshall at Wichita State is another over-achiever, but he was raised to $3.3M per year now. Out of reach.
We don’t tolerate poor performance in engineering, physics research, or the classroom — why condone it on the hardwood?
By ADPATERSON on 02.12.16 10:19am
Ummm...
Purely in the interests of accuracy:
Steph Curry went to Davidson, which is in N. Carolina, not Virginia (as in Virginia Commonwealth University). His coach at Davidson was Bob McKillop, who is still there. (Sure, Stanford can take a run at McKillop, but many others have tried and failed.) In any case, Steph probably learned more about shooting from a guy named Dell Curry, who knew something about putting a basketball through a net.
And what’s with Stanford fans’ Shaka Smart obsession, anyway? His name was always front and center whenever a replacement for Dawkins was solicited. His "system" is built on a style of play known as "Chaos," which would be nearly impossible to replicate at Stanford. That’s not to say he couldn’t coach a different style and be successful with it, but Chaos is what made his VCU teams so tough to beat in the tournament, which is how he made his rep. You need a bunch of hyper-athletic guys who can zip up and down the court for 40 minutes, pressuring the ball and tracking down long rebounds. Not gonna happen at Stanford.
As for your other suggestions, Amaker has been a miracle worker at The Stanford of the East, but he’s probably not "clean" enough for you guys after the cheating scandal and whatnot. Plus, do you really want another Kerchooski acolyte? Miller, McCaffrey — maybe. Not sure Stanford is that attractive a destination for an established basketball coach. More likely to find the guy coaching a mid-major (forget Randy Bennett — not coming to Stanford).
By Cardinal&Orange on 02.12.16 1:45pm
D'oh
"Havoc," not "Chaos."
By Cardinal&Orange on 02.14.16 12:57pm
Russell Turner
has done a fantastic job at UC Irvine.
Fundamental question about some of the names you list, especially McCaffrey & Marshall and probably Archie Miller. Stanford is a step down for those guys no way they come here.
And why should we accept mediocrity not only in Maples, but in Arrillaga? Muir has been a storeminder. If he doesn’t replace Dawkins in about six weeks, he needs to go.
By winflop on 02.13.16 7:37am