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[QUOTE="OrangeFoo, post: 1220235, member: 210"]
You're damn right... I do blame our recruiting.  But not in the way you think.  I could care less about the one and doners, I am tired of the fact that we don't recruit shooters we recruit long and rangey athletes who play the zone well.  I want a freaking shooting guard who can shoot.  Cal, Michigan, Iowa, and St Johns had three players who can shoot on the court we have none.  We should be able to get any player St Johns has on their roster if we want them.  I would love to hear the story about why Rysheed Jordan is not a cuse player... Who did we recruit over him and why?

Folks need to realize that our offensive ineptitude is not a one year thing... We have been trending this way for years and this year seems to be the culmination.  The last few years our D and the general sh!ttiness of college hoops has masked our offensive ineptitude.  JB is a brilliant man... He saw the way college hoops was trending a decade ago (poor shooting, crazy slow pace) and created a program optimized to take advantage of the trends.  When he has a team playing even average D he is guaranteed a NCAA bid, a decent seed, and a loss when his team of non-shooters goes cold and the opponent is competent on offense. Most years it will be in the sweet 16 but in other years college hoops will be so bad and his D so good that he might make the final four.

This years main problem is that the zone is getting sliced up way too easily... I would say its one of the worst since the dynasty team.
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