Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="tzznandrew, post: 4459737, member: 168"] I always felt that 2006 had two problems, and structural and one dispositional. 1) Because of AJ Price's injury and then laptopgate, we had an excellent PG and no competent backup. Now, Marcus Williams was near impossible to shut down, but he could be exhausted. 2) They just didn't respect teams they didn't think were on their level, and so they didn't get up for "bums." If they met UNC or Michigan State in that E8 game—or even the 2 seed Tennessee—I think they play hard, tough, and win. George Mason—or Wichita State, who was the other S16 team—just weren't teams they cared about and it took far too long for them to realize they needed to give full effort. It's like they were just trying to put the minimal amount of effort possible to win a game. Sort of the opposite of what we've seen with this team. [/QUOTE]