overall the glaring hole this year has been the wings

Farrell & Bender have never emerged as a reliable 3rd scorer

Bender had the game Beach has needed all year vs. Northridge, Still he's shown more

the real head scratcher during this stretch

Farrell - there must be something in practice Acker sees, that never happens in games, and I have no idea what it is. His shooting is downright horrible. He played 21 minutes vs. Irvine in spite of not contributing. & to follow that up he then STARTED vs. Northridge, and on the court mostly that start that got the team in a hole. It's like Acker must keep thinking despite what is crystal clear he struggles to deliver in a game maybe Acker likes athleticsm for athleticsm sake? Hard to bag on the kid, I'm sure he is a good kid, just players have to perform

then 2nd is this 'formula' that Lewis and Diaz only play 20 minutes a game, it's like the coaches are keeping track to make sure either does not play too much or too little. Lewis has grown, and simply do not understand why both haven't taken more of Farrell's minutes with Diaz more at the point. granted DIaz and Lewis are not lights out shooters and Diaz bricked a wide open critical 3 last night. but why not have Lewis play some at that 2 or 3. I do not get it.

in prior years, the only key player we'd lose is Bender.

the team would want to add some athletic wing that can shoot! ha, good luck.

just hard to expect it will be nearly that easy.

I think there might be less turnover than we think but who knows. I do not see a true impact player except Sykes and Sykes needs a huge amount of work on his defense. Petar, just he has a role at Long Beach not sure he could duplicate anywhere else. and he complains way too much, in part he gets beat up a bit being doubled all the time

oh well, only 4 more games and the misery is over, hopefully beat Bake to stay out of the cellar. just crazy this team has been in position to bat almost all the top teams and multiple chances and can't execute in the crunch