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Message: [QUOTE="boog204, post: 5203715, member: 880"] I fully expected us to get blown out. For one, we are a flawed and very fragile team top to bottom. St. John's, is actually not that talented but they have a master technician who could make any team successful and he knows exactly how to game plan to exploit the weaknesses of the opposition. This team would beat us 9 out of 10. It's just a terrible matchup across the board for us. As said throughout, the biggest issue is that our team is just not very athletic, lacks "complete players," and is frankly pretty soft. There is a lot of "pressure" on us from the expectations standpoint but we just do not seem to have the mentality/physicality to answer to it. I worry going forward about the collective psyche of this team. There appears to be a lot of bickering, etc. going on. Maybe that's what we need? I don't know. At the risk of being called a "hater" for pointing out fairly obvious deficiencies, we see the same issues from a preparation standpoint that we have all year. We still struggle inbounding the ball. We still struggle with our defensive principles. And we are still struggling to make any adjustments game-to-game. When your coach says that he feels like he's watching the same game tape since November, and nothing has changed, I really start to ponder what is actually being altered to best meet the needs/skills of the team. Again, the team is flawed. But I do not see many variations to try and mask those flaws, especially on the defensive end. I don't hate Dan Hurley. I don't think I'm being "entitled" or whatever. I just don't think he's figured out how to get the most out of this team. JC had a handful of seasons like this, too. [/QUOTE]

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