We are who we are and the sky isn't falling

[Captbluefin]

Go away

Enter reality. Have ya watched a game?

The fact is Hurley will learn from this and be better..

 

[RuffRuff]

I think many, many times can play the multiple “if” game. We needed an awful lot of things to go really right with the way the team was constructed.

Team just doesn't have an identity outside of having some hot shooting nights. It's a real slow footed team as a whole, multiple players in our rotation are glacial, starting with AK. Solo, Stew, Liam aren't fleet of foot. Combine slow feet with a general lack of physicality, and all you're really left with is shooting.

I will forever be miffed on how that part wasn't recognized when the staff decided on Mahaney, and how he could help. Did they think the team was going to just action teams into submission?

 

[homunculus]

This is going to look like a different team when the Big East season is over. I don’t care what the computer rankings and metrics say say - the Big East is a pressure cooker and a brutal grind. And we still have the same coaching staff that engineered two dominant championship runs. I’m not throwing in the towel and making plans for next season’s lineups yet.

 

[Jumpman62114]

The journey is the reward. Part of the reason the back to back titles felt so damn good was the struggle to achieve that success in the years prior and the lessons that had to be learned. This season humbles us for things that we both could and couldnt control. I believe in our coaches to continue to learn and adapt in this NIL era. I think we need to be realistic about expectations in March but you never know, just look at nc state last year. I’ll be in Providence rooting for the team on Sat!