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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 3327500, member: 5832"] I guess the three things I noticed: -The Ollie kids aren't going to get better and probably weren't ever going to get that much better because they're not good basketball players. I mean how many more college basketball games do people need to see to the point where asking anyone to 'develop' them becomes fruitless? It's the same thing every game - slow start, dig a huge hole, go on a run that gives you just enough hope to think there's some talent there and then fold up like a deck of cards down the stretch making all the same stupid decisions they made earlier in the game. The faster we can cycle in the freshmen - the better. -Hurley's gotta find some creativity. You can't let Vital and Gilbert go out and do what they did tonight. Rotate Gaffney in, rotate Adams in - rotate anyone in. There's no way it could possibly be worse than what we saw tonight. SO why not try it? And defensively I mean... they ran the same spread the floor, drive to the lane for an easy bucket play 25 times before we made an adjustment. When we found success pressing, he then inexplicably took it off and wham-o - right back to a double digit lead. All this from a team with a walk on who was shredding us and a bunch of guys who were 6'4. Speaking of which, someone tell Josh Carlton he's enormous. He clearly hasn't figured that out yet. I'm not down on Hurley or anything, but he was a steaming pile tonight. -I don't know if this team is PTSD or what the deal is - but the lack of aggression on the boards and general knowledge that they're bigger, longer and faster than most of their opposition seems to be totally lacking with these guys. It's like they can drop it into a gear most teams can't but just refuse to - for whatever reason. it's a total mental thing. I don't expect Hurley to be able to develop bad basketball players - and the mental stuff is part of the reason they're bad - but there's gotta be some trigger somewhere. Their inability to come out right off the gate, the playing scared and with no confidence... it's just bizarre. I've never really seen anything like it... Anyway - it's one night. It's game2 of year 2 and this is gonna be a 3-4 year thing. Far from the end of the world, but absolutely an unacceptable performance and frustrating. On to Florida. [/QUOTE]

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