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Message: [QUOTE="CardiacCuse, post: 3685507, member: 6979"] i mean these are real people not video game characters. I'm sure they hear the negativity and criticism pretty loudly. Some may be much more sensitive than many realize. This is a guy who grew up in NY...bleeds orange and wants nothing more than to win. On top of that he had a pretty solid freshman year. I'm betting its getting to him that hes been turned on by the fanbase. But on top of all that...this year sucks. These guys normally get so much love from their fellow students/fans/alumni...easy to keep your chest puffed out. Now, in these isolation times none of that is there. Everyone is in a bubble and maybe for the players that really feed off all of the hullaballo of being a college bball player and all of its trappings its extra hard right now. Also missing 40 days of practice is not insignifcant that is a MAJOR DISADVANTAGE. I am not happy with the games I have seen this year at all...but I have also had the thought that if this board really wants a winner...publically sh((((((ting all over the program is probably not helping...and many are going that route. the best fans in the country are MIA...that is having a huge impact on performance, imo. Lastly - the system doesnt work. It could work if 4 year playing was the norm...it could really get revved up so everyone out there was firing on the same page and really knew it inside out. But now players are only here long enough to learn it then leave befor the team benefits. in essence, the team suffers learning pains that it never benefits from. the approach is way too rigid, the best caches are flexible and make adjustments to what is happening...in theory that is what the zone is for...but its not playing out like that when players cant execute. its like those old english regiments in the revolutionary war who stood in lines facing each other to shoot. the game has changed...3point shooting is common...before it used to be rare. teams are slicing it up now. theres no reflexiveness in the approach...its way too formulaic and predictable to work. [/QUOTE]

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