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Message: [QUOTE="MattMang23, post: 3327784, member: 1608"] Like Hurley, I don’t put stock in the near-comeback. No more moral victories. The second half was how the whole game should have gone if they’d decided they needed to play from minute one. The same thing has happened in the exhibition, against SHU and last night: They play like garbage in the first half then play with their hair on fire in the second because they got their butts lit up at halftime. They rely on their talent to dig them out of the early hole they’ve dug. They’ve been more talented than each team we’ve played so far, but this attitude has now already bitten us once. They won’t always be more talented than the opponent. And they certainly don’t have the talent to make up 30 point deficits against the vast majority of our opponents. They simply aren’t good enough to do that. They need to pretend that to win it’s going to take scrapping and clawing and playing suffocating defense from the jump, even if the opponent is St. Michael’s, SHU, or Joe’s because they have Florida next and it really will take that level of effort even to keep the game close and give themselves a chance to win. Maybe Hurley needs to give the halftime speech pregame? I don’t know. [/QUOTE]