I'm with you on this, but the constant turnover in basketball is not good for a coach like Sha. It took him 2 years to develop Richmond, Dawes and Dre. We're in year 1 for the overwhelming majority of these guys who may not be as talented as those guys. Maybe that group didn't buy in soon enough and why it took 2 years, I don't know. I believe no doubt this team in March will be exponentially better. The question is will we be like last year with a really slow start and will we be good enough within 4 months to be a top 5 team in this conference.
Who knows, maybe a problem last year was that a kid could close out with his hands in his pocket and watch a loose ball roll by and not be given a seat and the nastiest damned look he has ever seen from his coach, or a shooter could miss all night but shoot them all game, cause there was not a trusted option on the bench.
Maybe we looked like crap to start the season cause of the stars. Maybe if Dr Bill's man didnt come in and save our ass in the Monmouth game, after the RU game and and the dreadful first have of Monmouth, then they would have followed the same tune a little longer. A staff of Auerback Riley and Holtzman could not improve a team asmuch in a week as our team improved. They had it in them. They knew what to do but they didnt make it happen. We were uninspiring in the OOC P5 games, we played a putrid game vs RU on 12/9, slipped by Monmouth on 12/12, then 8 days later we kicked Uconn's butt. The difference was mental, buy in. The question is why did it take so long?
The new system for college hoops/nil is what it is. It is amazing that it has come to this. But that is where we are at.
But SHU hoops is starting soon. Few things better than that.
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