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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 4141757, member: 55"] We said all offseason that this team had a lot of pieces, but that we didn’t know that it had one reliable big time scorer to replace Bouk, and without that there would be games where it would be a struggle. Well, we were right. Let’s stop gushing about Hawkins. Maybe someday but he’s nowhere near where Bouk was as a fresh. Jackson is giving us a lot, but is not a big time scorer. Cole and Martin have balls, but neither is a number 1 or 2 scorer for a top ten team. Akok is looking more athletic but hasn’t figured out yet how to score without being uncovered at the three point line. Gaffney has not been good enough and Polley hasn’t been consistent enough. And Sanogo is out. Do I love our offense? No. Do I think Hurley is as good as Calhoun as looking at a team and determining and then communicating and selling to the players how it should play? No, of course not. But no one I’ve ever seen coach is as good at that. But the bottom line is that we had more than enough good shots and foul shots to win today, and players didn’t make them. Players can make coaches look good and players can make coaches look bad. Today it was the latter. We’ve lost three games. One without IW and two without Sanogo. I’d give this time before I give up on us not being better this year than last year. But this was never a Top Ten team unless Jackson or Hawkins became a big time scorer, and the fact that they aren’t isn’t because of Hurley. [/QUOTE]

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