GUJook97
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Post by GUJook97 on Mar 16, 2009 7:15:15 GMT -5
By my quick count, we went 6-8 against teams in the tournament. That's a pretty good number, if we beat SJU twice I think we're dancing. Oh well, could've, would've, should've. Let's win the NIT instead. I think so, too. When you consider all that went down, e.g., BC was a #7 seed, Maryland was a #10, 5 BE teams in the top 12 seeds, geez!, basically, the committee seemed to be dying to give the Big East another team. ND and GU completely choked away their seasons. Not really depressing to me, just annoying and frustrating.
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Post by hoyaheaven on Mar 16, 2009 7:19:42 GMT -5
Re Louisville: Compare the improvement of Samuels to Monroe. Compare the drive, hustle, pressing defense to the the PO. Gotta' hand lots of it to Pitino.
Don't we look old, (not young), dated, listless by comparison???
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Post by Hoya TMF on Mar 16, 2009 11:47:09 GMT -5
I think you can definitely point the finger at JTIII for the collapse at the end of the season. Still, we win two more games in the regualr season and we are a tourney lock. You have to put that on the players. Somewhere along the line, the first St. John's game, the Seton Hall game,where coach specifically said the players ignored his game plan, at home vs. Cincy, overtime at Cuse, we had a chance to pick up two wins. We had a chance to pick up two more wins and the players didn't get it done. The "collapse" would still be alarming, but there wouldn't be so much to gripe about if we made the dance. We could have done that if the players had made just a few more plays in crunch time of two of the many games we lost in January, February and March. They didn't execute when it mattered most. Coaching only goes so far; at some point, the players need to take ownership of their season. We lost too a number of bad teams; we should have won a few more games on talent alone and execution.
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Hoyaholic
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Post by Hoyaholic on Mar 17, 2009 12:49:34 GMT -5
In my opinion, if players are ignoring a coach's orders, you have a coaching problem more than a players problem.
That said, it's time to let the healing begin. Let's see how players and coaches grow in the NIT and offseason, and circle back on this topic in 12 months. Hopefully we'll all be too busy making tourney travel plans to remember how crappy this moment feels.
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