yup thats due to lack of execution...my point is that will change if Lance was to come here. and contrary to what other posters are saying, if we were to win those types of games this season we would have made the NCAA.
How is Lance alone going to be able to get the ball over half court? To stop runouts off a long rebound? It's not like Lance will be indefensible; I am sure Jamie Dixon and Rick Pitino will find a way to get the ball out of his hands (or make him take bad shots - from all accounts, his range is not his strength) and the rest of the team has to improve to sniff the NCAA bubble.
He is one player. The team can get better, and I hope they will. But Lance isn't the only difference; the team needed depth, turnover prevention on offense and turnover creation on defense (both which I think were lacking), more consistent interior scoring, more consistent perimeter scoring... Lance Stephenson can change some of that. But he can also be a turnover-prone guard who feels that he needs to put the weight of the team on his shoulders (and turn the ball over while doing so.
I'd like to dream big too, but I'm not talking NCAAs for this team. The gap between this squad and ANY of the NCAA Big East squads' offense is a gulf.
I'll also note that some of the losses were competitive at times (Pittsburgh and U Conn for example); some involved a team that let a player who wasn't cutting it on the floor (Louisville and Terence Williams' hand - they were unnaturally bad that whole game); and some were not remotely competitive (PROVIDENCE, Marquette, Villanova). With Lance, maybe the Louisville game is a win.