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Message: [QUOTE="Sphinx, post: 2569616, member: 4623"] I agree that the team's total crash can be traced to those injuries but not the slow, steady demise of UConn as a championship program. Larrier, we know, is a seriously flawed basketball player, and Gilbert, though smart and talented, has everything to learn about running the point. We forget that AG was not his team's starting PG in high school. He was no more a playmaker than Adams was. Like Adams, he was his team's principal offensive weapon, and there was always going to be difficulty meshing the two similar talents. We saw this in their moments together on the court. In my view, without the injuries, KO's 16-17 season might have been 20-13. This year much the same. KO himself would now be entrenched as the journeyman coach of an up-and-down program, dependent entirely on its coach's ability to recruit Shabazz-like self-starters who can operate in essentially a coachless environment. There would be an occasional year when the chance confluence of a Shabazz and a Boat could lead to some excitement, but the more common result would be the chaos we see presently. It is a mercy, thanks to the injuries, that the moment of truth comes now and not after KO has added 13 dreary years as a journeyman coach to his 13 years has a journeyman NBA-er. [/QUOTE]