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[QUOTE="nychuskyfan, post: 2978773, member: 3456"]
If you want to avoid examining the coach’s performance, “Fit and balance” are a conveniently subjective explanation for how a far less talented team whips a far more talented team.  But if you want to go there, do you really think USF has that much more “fit” and “balance”?  They play 3 guards, we play 3 (more talented) guards.  They have a bunch of raw bigs (except for Yetna), we have a bunch of raw bigs.  So your ridiculous subjective argument, to the extent you even thought about it and aren’t just throwing words around, boils down to the fact that they have Yetna.  Nice player but doesn’t nearly make up for the raw talent differences everywhere else on the floor. And btw, we also had a decent big yesterday but he found himself glued to the bench despite 7 rebounds in 15 mins.

So what you saw as “fit and balance” was actually Brian Gregory getting the most out of his less talented (and much younger!) roster.  Can’t say the same about us and that’s on the coach.  Love Hurley and acknowledge he does have a flawed roster, but he’s not beyond reproach.
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