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Message: [QUOTE="AZHuskiePop, post: 3080835, member: 1609"] Obviously injuries played a part but even bigger than that was the unexpected strength of the AAC . We we talking a 1 or 2 bid league now it could be 4 or 5 . Bad losses that the season turned on AZ at home that should have been a W That was my only unexpected loss in OCL Losses in conference that I exspected as wins 4 of the 7 possible winnable games @USF @Memphis @ Tulsa @ Temple Cinn UCF Houston That’s 20 regular season wins That was extremely doable with a team that returned 10 guys including Adams with Gilbert Healthy. This season was pretty disappointing. The mountain got steeper after The AZ loss and USF game we gave away. After that 20 wins became a dream. We ended up with zero quality AAC wins that’s was the biggest disappointment. I like Hurley and i’m overly sympathetic to coaches (I wasn’t screaming for KO’s head ) but if our former coach had this record with this team I would have been carrying an axe. Hurley gets a pass because he was playing as much for next year as this but Im sure he is disappointed. Keys to failure this season. 1. Moving JA to the 2 were he was totally lost most of the year and not getting definite buyin from him. 2, Yakwe injury the kid was a good backup rim protector for the few minutes he was healthy that’s a defensive game changer. 3. Gilbert’s injury 4, Adams injury 5, My biggest disappointment was how poorly we played defense for most of the year. I expected more from the D. Gilbert never returned to the form he showed against MSU in 2017. Adams was tnever totally engaged.i exspected it to be difficult to run offense against intense guard pressure. I actually knew we were in trouble when UMass Lowell scored 70+on us. [/QUOTE]

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