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Message: [QUOTE="ORANGEsPHK, post: 1050510, member: 1072"] I'm kinda lost on the arguments that are going on here, mainly because I can understand all the points being made but not sure how valid any of them are. The way I saw the season end was like this: 1) Our offense stalled, we couldn't hit shots we were hitting earlier in the year. This includes "Mr. Consistent" in Mr. CJ Fair. He has been an incredibly consistent player but missed a lot of shots he has been money on. Cooney, same thing. Ennis had games where he missed his shots. The entire team did. I'm not sure changing up the offensive scheme would have helped when open shots weren't being hit. My take on this is that the starters lost some of their legs and their shots weren't going in. There were sooooo many shots that should gone in the basket (given past performances by the players), but they didn't go in towards the end of the year. 2) As for playing the youngsters - I would have loved to see them play more, especially when some of the starters aren't hitting their shots. But do you take out CJ? Grant? because they're not hitting shots? I'm not sure if its a good call to take out your most consistent offensive threats to put a freshman in. You have keep the faith in your starters and keep confidence in them. Cooney was subbed out often but Gbinije is third in line and he seemed most game ready than the freshmen in my opinion. To be honest, I thought we saw Roberson a lot more than I expected this year, so to me it looked like JB was looking for something more off the bench but Roberson wasn't playing up to JB's standard (although I thought he did a pretty good job on D for a freshman). I think this year's team played pretty darn well but the fact that they lost steam towards the end of the year does seem to indicate tired legs and having a longer bench could possibly helped, but its not like they played an NBA schedule. I don't know what happened and what could have been changed so we had a better end to the season, all I know is that I really enjoyed this year's team and next year we get to see what the freshmen can bring to the table. And seriously, UCONN won the NT, not Kentucky, Mich St, Kansas, Arizona, Florida, etc. UCONN. I'm not sure I buy any arguments that changing up the offense, playing/developing young players would have changed our NCAAT outlook; it may have helped, it may not have. Way too many variables. I enjoying reading the collective wisdom of this board, but since my wisdom is lacking, I'm just gonna read all the insights you guys have, learn some more about the game of college basketball and then just root for SU to do well. Its all I can do. [/QUOTE]

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