Development

BoWallace

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Anybody else upset with the development of the players from last year to this year and even years before?

The whole team just looks physically and mentally weak. They get pushed around all the time. The players looked the same ever since their first day on campus. Not saying putting on muscle is always a good thing in bball but jeez we got physically dominated. We were scared to go into the lane and draw a foul. That second half especially. Aaron White is a great bball player but I think everybody knew he had to work on his shot this off season. To me, it still seems like he hasn't. He made one tonight but he is still hesitant to shoot. He's shown us he has the ability so it's not like gaining a jumper is too far of a reach. Jok looks the exact same. Thats really the biggest disappointment to me. He needed to be the one who stepped up and established himself as a scorer. Gessel, exact same. Clemmons, looked the same tonight. Uthoff and Woody are about the only ones who I can tell have made strides. Our upperclassman should have tons of confidence with how much experience they have and they look like dead scared. They have done what they did tonight 100 times. Same Story. I don't understand how they don't finally say, enough is enough.
 
Yeah I agree. Very frustrating. The same problems arise year after year and it seems those issues aren't corrected. It's the exact same **** again.
 
This thread is about 4 months premature. Lets not overreact to a bad 2nd half against a top 10 team in November.
 
Certainly lots of games left and time to grow....but I'm betting on:

Best Case:

Middle to lower mid finish in Big Ten (5-7th place)
Getting a lower seed in the Big Dance (8-12 seed). Getting bounced in the first or second round. Hello Kentucky or the alike in the 2nd round.
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Worse Case:

NIT
Semi deep run.
 
Yeah I agree. Very frustrating. The same problems arise year after year and it seems those issues aren't corrected. It's the exact same **** again.

And year 5 of the current coach who just got an extension. Don't get it. And don't tell me "It's for recruiting" because he still had 5 years remaining. By year 5 he doesn't have a single playmaking PG. East Coast guy and there wasn't a single one he could find?
 
Don't know why you think there is something magical about the off-season that gives players brand-new skill sets. I promise you, that White has been shooting lots of jump shots in the off-season for a long time. He's not a great shooter. He never will be a great shooter. It's not lack of effort. Just like Gessell is never going to be explosive at the rim. Improvement is incremental.
 

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