SpiderRico
Well-Known Member
The problem is that one of our captains is a very soft spoken, introverted individual and the other just got done blasting a keyboard commando with a very uncaptainlike "SAFO" which resulted in the entire team being banned from Twitter.
And now we've got a coach who is publicly unsure of what buttons need to be pushed to get the team back on track.
If this was some sort of mid-season slump (ala Wisconsin), then I wouldn't feel quite as negative as I do now, but we only have 3 regular season games to get this figured out before the BTT starts....you just can't have a slump like this 2 days before March and expect to recover.
All I know is that there isn't going to be a "magic formula" that's going to solve this. All of this team's problems are fundamental....sloppy ballhandling and passing, terrible defensive positioning, poor communication on both offense and defense. It's not a physical thing and it's not a talent thing. It's right between their ears.
What I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around is this.....back on Saturday, Feb 15th, we are coming off a tough, hard fought win over Penn State, which followed as thorough a butt-whipping as you're going to see a team get when we thumped Michigan. We go to Indiana and the game ends up postponed. We play Wisconsin and they come out and get wide open look after wide open look and end up shooting nearly 75% in the first half. So what the heck happened between Saturday the 15th and Saturday the 22nd that caused this? I've been following basketball for a long time and, other than the 2000-2001 season (which was the direct result of a season ending injury to our best player), I've never seen a team that turned on a dime in such a short period of time from utter success to looking completely lost.
I can't believe we may end up playing ourselves into another March Situation.
And now we've got a coach who is publicly unsure of what buttons need to be pushed to get the team back on track.
If this was some sort of mid-season slump (ala Wisconsin), then I wouldn't feel quite as negative as I do now, but we only have 3 regular season games to get this figured out before the BTT starts....you just can't have a slump like this 2 days before March and expect to recover.
All I know is that there isn't going to be a "magic formula" that's going to solve this. All of this team's problems are fundamental....sloppy ballhandling and passing, terrible defensive positioning, poor communication on both offense and defense. It's not a physical thing and it's not a talent thing. It's right between their ears.
What I'm having a tough time wrapping my head around is this.....back on Saturday, Feb 15th, we are coming off a tough, hard fought win over Penn State, which followed as thorough a butt-whipping as you're going to see a team get when we thumped Michigan. We go to Indiana and the game ends up postponed. We play Wisconsin and they come out and get wide open look after wide open look and end up shooting nearly 75% in the first half. So what the heck happened between Saturday the 15th and Saturday the 22nd that caused this? I've been following basketball for a long time and, other than the 2000-2001 season (which was the direct result of a season ending injury to our best player), I've never seen a team that turned on a dime in such a short period of time from utter success to looking completely lost.
I can't believe we may end up playing ourselves into another March Situation.
