[quote="Logen" post=408601][quote="Beast of the East" post=408557][quote="Logen" post=408555][quote="Beast of the East" post=408553]We gave the ball away twice in the last two minutes of regulation, made only 2 of 4 free throws with Champ and Posh on the line, but a 7 point lead with Gtown having the ball is not exactly insurmountable. As soon as Gtown scored it was a two possession game with over 2 minutes remaining. The final play of regulation with Greg Williams scoring a floater at the buzzed was brilliantly executed and a great spread of the floor. We rarely have seen an out of bounds play at game's end executed successfully. Credit there.
This was basically a winnable away game between the predicted 9th and 10th place team in conference. We played well in spots and poorly in others. The same was true w=for Georgetown. It stings that we didn't put it away, or at least run some time off the clock on those two inbound turnovers.
We are 0-1 in conference, but to listen to some guys here, it's like we are 0-6. You are already predicting a losing season overall, the firing of the coach, losing the Cuffe recruiting battle, on and on. I posted yesterday that if we lost at Georgetown (we were a 2 point underdog), it puts pressure on us to win next week when we play them at home.
Relax, this isn't supposed to be a tourney team. Weaknesses will be exposed, some correctable, some only with more talent. Wahab blocked 9 shots, but wandered away from Moore so often that Isaih went 26 and 14 rebounds. Good teams will carve up Georgetown if this is how Wahab plays defense. With some corrections, we will drive and dish more when our guards and small forwards encounter Wahab - maybe by next Sunday.
It's frustrating, but admittedly a lot easier to post this the morning after and not right after the game. Perspective, right Panther?[/quote]
We are 0-2 in the conference and if posting the morning after works for you, do it. Many here have perspective but perspective does not mean being blind to what you are seeing. I respect CMA for taking the blame for the loss, hopefully that translates into something real. I agree he cannot play for the players, he is not missing free throws, throwing bad passes or committing untimely dumb fouls but the trend of playing tentative and folding at the end of games needs to addressed by the staff, plain and simple.[/quote]
You game critiques are valid, but obviously I'm not too concerned at this point about our record because I never believed we are a bubble team or anything close to it. I stated very early I felt this team was somewhere between 7-13 and 9-11 in conference, and I still think that's in range.[/quote]
So what? I agree we are not a bubble team and with all due respect, I don’t care what you are concerned with; if you are satisfied to lose so you can be right, so be it. I don’t care to speculate on records before a season begins but that is just me. But poor play late resulting in our beating ourselves has happened too frequently to be ignored. I raised this last year and all the “ranking gurus” ignored me then and will now - how is it that our low ranking players are good enough to lead games for 37 minutes and then pull a Cinderella and turn back into pumpkins for the last 3? Still interested in basketball related reply’s but I’m not holding my breath.[/quote]
The problem with you is that you are just so goddamned smart, and every post tries to prove superiority to every single poster here. We do not have the talent to compete against the top 6 teams in the league. IF you expect an undermanned team with a new cast of rotation players to play like a squad that has played together for an entire season go ahead. What do you think, you see bad defense and no one else does? You see turnovers and no one else does? You see bad decisions on offense and no one else does. When you insult any poster enough and he bites back at you, you go into fetal position, whine, and disappear vowing never ever to return. You are just what the majority of this site is, a bunch of old men with nothing better to do than to watch games on TV and report on how much they know, constantly comparing the current team to teams of 20,30, and 40 years ago. Sort of pathetic. Now you can go on to expand on how you didn't go to college because you were way too smart for that, but still had a brilliant career.