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Message: [QUOTE="Zelda Zonk, post: 2042494, member: 966"] This will be the third consecutive year at .500 or under in the conference, and I don't think anyone has great expectations for next year, so that could be 4 straight. When will we win our first ACC tourney game? Personnel? I don't think you can attribute that string of 'not very good' to four different groups of players. We began the year believing we had the deepest team ever, and now we are thin. Injury to Chukwu hurt, but it doesn't even seem likely he'd be playing now anyway. I still think we have more talent than most of the teams we play, and more than some of the teams we've lost to. We have two guys who will be in the NBA in the next two years (Lydon and Battle), a PF who should be our "Worm," a proven and experienced scorer who shoots over 40% from 3, a quick experienced guard, and a PG we thought was a great passer as a freshman, and who only needed to fix his jumper—which he did. Lots of teams with less than that play without the consistent lapses in judgement, and ineptitude that we show so often. Regardless of how you feel about JB and all he has done, we do not look like a well-coached team. Blame it on the kids if you need to—say they haven't learned well from the HoFer. Whatever. We still look like we don't practice. Questions I have: when did JB stop coaching practices? Any correlation to when we began to finish at league average? When did we stop playing m2m in practices? Any correlation to when our offense began to look so stilted and anemic? I'm not there, so I have to read 'reports' of what the staff is doing and not doing, and it seems he last few years have seen a change in jb's involvement and effort, along with the defensive practice change. Too reminiscent of the Bobby Bowden 'transition.' I'm hoping JB hangs it up this year, forgoing the ceremony and pageantry of a 'retirement season.' I can't see him smiling through all the gifting if we are playing like this, and I can't really see him being enthusastic about all that even during a good year. I think he really thought we had good things happening this season, and I feel bad for him—not having the opportunity to go out on a good note. But it's time. I hope the kids we have coming in will be just as happy to play for Hop in their frosh seasons, because i think both will be pretty good for us. [/QUOTE]

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