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Message: [QUOTE="karstenkibbe, post: 4506134, member: 4139"] I knew that it was coming. Many reminded me by re-posting the Hurley postgame presser from a few years ago. I just didn’t think it would come and go so quickly. This team has a lot of talent and a few glaring deficiencies. The problem is that players and staff alike don’t seem willing to address those deficiencies, and it will cost this team dearly. Hurley has his own bag of coach-speak, just not as catchy as “ten toes in” and “no escalators”, and it’s beginning to lose luster and credibility, just as it did with our previous head coach. A lot of empty words. If we are in “we season”, as he likes to describe, why is it so apparent (to me) that a few players, one in particular, play like they’re in the middle of “me season”? I’ve said it before and it bears repeating. There’s no accountability on this squad. Make bonehead plays? Show less than complete effort? Cost the team a win? Get rewarded with playing time. Zero consequences. It’s human nature. People don’t stop taking short cuts and don’t start exerting more effort when they know they won’t be held accountable. This team came out in the second half and decided they didn’t need to match Seton Hall’s increased intensity and physicality. They literally couldn’t get stops. Or, they felt it wasn’t critical to get stops. One other consequence - if this team absolutely implodes the rest of the season - the Hurley recruiting momentum, which has been moving at the speed of that runaway subway car in The Taking of Pelham 1-2-3 (RIP Walter Matthau), will stall out. And that’s no bueno for Hurley and the fans thru the term of his contract. [/QUOTE]

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