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Kevin, get a technical when it means something,
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[QUOTE="UConnNick, post: 2060470, member: 1526"] I'm watching the Wisconsin @ Ohio State game. Tulsa is also playing USF at home, and at this point barely ahead by one point. It made me think of teams and games we played this season that were winnable but we lost. Why we lost is the big question. We have been looking to put the blame on something or someone. Injuries certainly played the biggest role, but it has been frustrating to see us lose games which could have or should have been wins regardless. Games like Ohio State, Georgetown, Tulsa and others against teams not all that much more talented than we are. And there's no excuse for losing to Wagner and Northeastern at home when we were at full strength. I'll acknowledge we have underachieved, even taking the injuries into account. We should be better than a team flirting with an overall .500 record. Who's fault that is presents a very complicated set of problems. Ollie probably deserves the brunt of the blame, although he has held things together, because we could easily have tanked the entire rest of the season after Larrier and Gilbert went down. Players? Wildly inconsistent from game to game, but they've generally played hard. Some of the blame has to fall on them. Certain players that are seniors have never improved during their tenure at UCONN. Again, some of the blame for that falls on the coaching staff, but those players should share in some of the blame for that. At this level, you need to be self aware enough to try and correct some of your own personal deficiencies. I'm not buying into the tired excuse because plenty of teams run with short rotations, especially at this time of year. If we are either mentally or physically gassed, or both, at this point in the season, that's a conditioning deficiency. I think it's crazy to call for Ollie to be fired, but I also think that next season should be a make or break one for him, assuming we make it through the entire year relatively injury free. He deserves some slack this year due to the rash of season ending injuries, but perhaps not quite as much as some are willing to give him. Going forward, anybody who thinks we have much of a chance against the elite AAC teams is being wildly optimistic. We have absolutely sucked vs Cincinnati and SMU, and to a somewhat lesser extent vs. Houston, and I expect we will continue to. The only way we win the AAC tourney will be through some virtually unimaginable perfect storm of early round upsets that miraculously take SMU and Cincy out of it. Otherwise, we eventually have to beat one or more of them. That's not happening. I hope I'm wrong and everyone can throw this back in my face afterward, but I'm afraid that's the cold, hard reality we face this season. We definitely lose in the AAC tourney, and our NIT chances I'd rate as a toss up at this moment. [/QUOTE]
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