Since I watched the replay in shock I wanna focus on what's wrong because no matter how great that was (that was ------- awesome), we could be in trouble.
This has to be an offensive team. Yes TB is a defensive coach, but like Arden said, FOM has hurt this team because we aren't built with the speed on defense to compensate for the rule changes that don't allowed us to be aggressive on the edge and bumping cutters.
Our bigs are soft (even Gill sometimes). How many times instead of going up with authority do we go up soft which leads to not getting and 1's or missing layups?
Quickness- Our main issue this season on defense. We are slow. The rule changes hurt that, but teams are splitting us left and right or we are too slow to recover.
Pace of play- Why is the only time we look to be quicker on offense is when it's late in games? I know this irks a lot of people on the board, but the tempo needs to pick up in a hurry.
Road games? Defense travels, but if we can't score or show more effort on the road it won't matter. We should be 0-4 on the road which is sad because we are better than every team we faced in ACC road games so far.
1st and 2nd year guys- these guys go in and the inconsistencies are too much. Yes MS, DH, DT, JR, IW may step up, but we are done in the tourney by the 32 if we don't get consistent contributions from one or two of these guys.
Nolte and Tobey- Nolte hadn't scored in a month and a half. Tobey is Tobey. Sometimes good, mostly bad.
In my honest evaluation of the team, maybe expectations for this group was just too high (hint why the lower expectations for next year's group actually might lead to us going further than this team). We don't have the quickness, consistent third scorer, the energy leader. Next season we might have guys learning, but AN will make a bigger impact than some think. The guy will be a 1st round pick when he leaves. Kyle Guy is ready and this is LP's team.
If we get past the 16 this season I'll be stunned. We have our work cut out.
This has to be an offensive team. Yes TB is a defensive coach, but like Arden said, FOM has hurt this team because we aren't built with the speed on defense to compensate for the rule changes that don't allowed us to be aggressive on the edge and bumping cutters.
Our bigs are soft (even Gill sometimes). How many times instead of going up with authority do we go up soft which leads to not getting and 1's or missing layups?
Quickness- Our main issue this season on defense. We are slow. The rule changes hurt that, but teams are splitting us left and right or we are too slow to recover.
Pace of play- Why is the only time we look to be quicker on offense is when it's late in games? I know this irks a lot of people on the board, but the tempo needs to pick up in a hurry.
Road games? Defense travels, but if we can't score or show more effort on the road it won't matter. We should be 0-4 on the road which is sad because we are better than every team we faced in ACC road games so far.
1st and 2nd year guys- these guys go in and the inconsistencies are too much. Yes MS, DH, DT, JR, IW may step up, but we are done in the tourney by the 32 if we don't get consistent contributions from one or two of these guys.
Nolte and Tobey- Nolte hadn't scored in a month and a half. Tobey is Tobey. Sometimes good, mostly bad.
In my honest evaluation of the team, maybe expectations for this group was just too high (hint why the lower expectations for next year's group actually might lead to us going further than this team). We don't have the quickness, consistent third scorer, the energy leader. Next season we might have guys learning, but AN will make a bigger impact than some think. The guy will be a 1st round pick when he leaves. Kyle Guy is ready and this is LP's team.
If we get past the 16 this season I'll be stunned. We have our work cut out.
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