Reply to thread

Message: [QUOTE="homunculus, post: 5206807, member: 3170"] Exactly. All the talk of Mahaney’s size is merely people searching for an answer and presenting it as fact. It’s easy to name players who are [I]at best [/I]the same size as him who have won championships in this program, or as you said, are even currently playing in the big east. It’s not about his size. (I mean he just had his single best moment of tough one-on-one defense in the entire season against RJ Luis, who failed to score against him, and then he permanently disappeared back to the bench shortly after). It’s about Hurley being too slow to adapt to the players he was responsible for bringing in and the personnel he has. I completely disagree with the people who say he is “outmatched at this level” or “too slow.” He scored 9 points against the best team in the country as a freshman. I see a player who started the season thinking he could get there but who no longer has any idea what he’s supposed to be doing. I understand that he was brought in to be an PG but it should have been clear to the staff that major adjustments needed to be made early on, something more profound than “run Diarra into the ground.” I believe that failure and its long tail is the primary difference between our 9 losses and maybe 4-5 at worst. Even with Karaban’s horrendous slump and McNeeley’s injury and our less than stellar defense. [/QUOTE]