This is one of the worst posts in forum history. Our second and third best players (by a mile) are brand f*cking new. We weren't good last year. We were horrible the two years before that. Do you guys get that?
You act like other programs don’t have to deal with player turnover, this doesn’t seem to bother Duke this year or most programs. We are not as talented as those Duke freshman granted, but if you listen to some on this board we have 4 NBA players on our team, 3 of which are upperclassmen. We are not Duke, and Bowling Green and Cal aren’t Kentucky and Auburn either. It’s clear the team has things they will need to improve upon, you subscriber to the notion that they need to “gel” when I believe there is more evidence to suggest that the teams flaws lies with the coaching. Time will tell but don’t believe my position is off base.
To expect to go from a team that was staring a WINLESS conference slate in the face last year to being a team that actually does something in March in five games is beyond unreasonable.
That makes some sense although it’s curious you chose to look at the team that started conference play and not the team that finished it. The same team that was able to beat Duke and Villanova. From that perspective it’s not unreasonable to expect us to handle lessor talented teams fairly easily this season after the additions of LJ and Heron.
I'm not even sure I'd label us good yet. VCU is about as good of a team that we can beat right now.
We have four NBA players, the pre-season Big East player of the year and VCU, a team that was picked to finish at the bottom of the A10, is as good of a team that we can beat? I’m not disputing that, but the reality of that comment isn’t frightening to you? I hope this staff can get the team to play better, but 5-0 is 5-0.
You can throw whatever we got from Simon last year out the window. His role will be completely different in three weeks and each game gets us a little closer.
His role may change but his overall production shouldn’t go down.