Georgetown handed us chances to build a significant lead early, and we just couldn't score (jacked up wild threes instead).
I'm sick of the "there's no great teams out there this year". The reality is, this team struggles more to score than any team I can ever remember.
Very, very disappointed by the outcome today, especially considering the hype. Otto Porter looked like a man amongst boys today. He took a dump on the Dome.
This team lacks balls. Anytime a big moment has come up, they have not. They should have put away the Big East championship and lost to teams that aren't that good.
Now, sure, Christmas is hugely overrated, and seeing a Terrence Roberts out there right now would be huge improvement over what he's given us. Keita is Keita - an outstanding piece of a puzzle, but not the lead guy.
We are a team that is supposed to be relying on its guard play this year. But our guard play is very streaky and our offense too predictable. That was supposed to be a strength of this team. Triche is a head case. He scores 29 against Providence but he comes up short in big games sometimes. He's just not a star. He's so much better than he realizes but he's like Wes - he's a supporting player.
That 2010 team was better because Andy was the alpha dog, and Arinze was able to generate a lot of offense down low. This team lacks both an alpha dog and a guy who can score down low. We have complementary wing players, not star players.
This team lacks a big dog to lead them. In preseason, I hoped that Southerland was going to blow up this year, as I felt it was our best chance at a potentially great year. But he's just too inconsistent. Fair is our best player, but he's not a nationally elite player, in the All American sense. He's an incredibly good complementary player and is certainly all league, but he's not all american. Great college player, great 4 year player. Not going to be an NBA guy.
I thought this team will be so much better next year, but in truth, I think most of next year's class is also complementary players. We didn't bring in that mega-stud recruit in this upcoming class. We missed on those guys. Right now we are a program that has a great sum of parts, but lacks the cherry on top. We have to rely on these players getting better.
Carter Williams is not ready at all for the NBA. I doubt he stays next year, but he really ought to think hard about it. Losing Triche will be tough because he does so many things for this team, but he gets brain freezes in big moments. Scoop was more dependable to come up in a truly big spot than Brandon.
Cooney is so much farther away from being a contributor than I hoped after him having had a redshirt year, playing with guys like Dion and Scoop and Triche and Mike. Geez, does anybody see him as a starting 2 guard next fall and feel that we could count on him?
Christmas doesn't know how to present in the post to get the ball on offense. All he knows how to do is pick and roll. That's it. We run way too much pick and roll. It makes our offense too perimeter oriented and too predictable. If the PG can't consistently get around the corner on the defender, then what else do you have to fall back on ? I guess you could say that about a lot of college basketball today, though. Maybe that's part of the problem.
I don't see a lot of good offense out there, and I don't see very many teams who can feed the post. Is it the fault of college centers if no one passes them the ball for 95% of the game unless it's rolling to the basket off a pick? Are the centers really that deficient these days, or is it just that they don't teach or play that kind of ball very much anymore?
As the season has worn on, Mike is having a harder time getting that corner. At 6-6, he's not quick enough to get by some of these small waterbug guards. Will that get better with another year? I think a little. But his outside shooting could get a LOT better by coming back.
