{"id":4282,"date":"2022-12-12T15:01:56","date_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:01:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=4282"},"modified":"2022-12-12T15:01:56","modified_gmt":"2022-12-12T15:01:56","slug":"seahawks-and-husky-mens-basketball-are-facing-trouble","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sportspaper.org\/?p=4282","title":{"rendered":"Seahawks and Husky men’s basketball are facing trouble"},"content":{"rendered":"

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TERRY MOSHER<\/p>\n

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TOP OF THE TOWN<\/strong> \u2013 I have been around basketball, baseball and football for almost eight decades, and not just as a fan but as player and observer who likes to break apart games in progress and try to determine what I would do. I have always been that way, and it comes in other areas too, like murder mysteries and political discussions as well as social issues. I for instance can\u2019t figure out why a major political party (Republican) works so hard to deny basis rights and help to the citizens its suppose to work for. We are all here on this Earth to benefit each other \u2013 humans, plants, animals insects, birds. When we don\u2019t, that\u2019s when trouble starts. Trouble has come to the Washington men\u2019s basketball program and the Seattle Seahawks. Coach Pete Carroll of the Seahawks is 71 and has had a mostly distinguished career. The Positive Pete way is good. Nothing good can come from coaching negatively. It bothers me, though, that game after game the Seahawks are being pushed around up front and teams are running roughshod over them. So why can\u2019t Positive Pete figure that out? \u00a0Things can happen in a game or two over a 17-game schedule that will surprise you. But there\u2019s no surprise what teams are doing to the Seahawks. They are running right at them. When your linebackers are making all the tackles, but making them 7 or 8 years down the field something is seriously wrong. I realize the Seahawks had injury and sickness to two of its best run stoppers in Al Woods and Shelby Harris for Sunday\u2019s game against the Panthers, but pro football teams play with a lot of injuries and they adapt. Film study will show you where your strengthd and weaknesses are and what you have to do to get the best performance week after week. So why aren\u2019t the Seahawks getting good performances from its D line? Positive Pete should know and should know how to fix it. Next up are the rolling 49ers and maybe the best team in the NFL, the Kansas City Chiefs. If something isn\u2019t patched up, this Seahawk season is done. \u2026 God bless Mike Hopkins, or Hop for short. He\u2019s a good guy, but good guys don\u2019t often cut it in major college men\u2019s basketball. He\u2019s not getting the best players but continues to play on expecting to win the Pac-12 and make March Madness. That, of course, is pure madness. It\u2019s easy for the casual observer to look what Hop puts on the floor night after night and take a deep breath, sit back and watch the expected \u2013 wins over inferior mid-level college teams and destruction against the better major power teams. The expectation of waiting for Hope and the Huskies to go to Spokane and play Gonzaga was like waiting for a public execution by hanging. You knew, I knew and everybody knew what was going to happen. Just looking at the contrast between the Huskies and the Bulldogs as they took the floor and you knew this wasn\u2019t going to be pretty. Drew Timme made it look easy against the outclassed Huskies, although to give Timme credit, he took it easy and didn\u2019t embarrass the Huskies the way he could have if he had wanted.\u00a0 I think the Huskies should stop playing Gonzaga until they can attract major college players who actually can pay at a major college level. As nice of a person as Hop is the Huskies really needs a cigar smoking, whiskey drinking, coach with a 5-day growth of beard who can cuss and stomp his feet and chew out referees and whip players into a frenzied non-stop mess until they drop from sheer exhaustion. No more nice guy. Get players who can actually shoot he basketball with some regular success. Then go to Spokane and really take on Timme and mates. That\u2019s it for today. Stay safe.<\/p>\n

Be well pal.<\/p>\n

Be careful out there.<\/p>\n

Have a great day.<\/p>\n

You are loved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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