How did PMG's boys do??
Think he said they took home a 7 point win, and Willard spent some time with his kids. Glad someone had a productive night.
All the hysterics aside... losing by 30 is never fun. But Hall is a good team with an experienced point and a solid big man; we couldn't have expected a win.
But, it's not like this is the time to be demanding performance either. Four years into Norms tenure it should have been put up or shut up time. We're one year into the Lavin regime, and he took us to the tournament last year. He had to replace an entire roster thanks to the prior staff, and if you throw in the fact he had cancer - you'd have to be completely irrational to say he needs to show us any results this season. It's painful to watch, but this is a throw away season whether anyone wants to call it that or not. You can't compete in the Big East with all freshmen. And you certainly can't do it with 6 scholarship players.
On the flip side though, there's obvious work to be done for everybody in this program. Hammer to the rock as they like to say....
Lavin needs to produce in the spring signing period. No miracles; but at the very least we need a solid 4 man class and one of the top 3 we talk about.
The guys need to continue to work their tails off. Moe in weight room, and Amir/Dom in the practice gym. Get with Rico as often as the rules allow and work on their individual skills.
And Dunlap needs to drill some efficiency into this team on both ends of the floor. If we're going to be a zone team, they have got to identify the shooters and know to shade to them, rotate early to their side. Drill the h$ll out of defensive rotations until it's like riding a bike. Same goes for the offense; when we see zone they need to know to attack it like teams are doing to us. Move the ball around, get guys off their feet on shot fakes, and cut back door when somebody's attacking the lane. Coach D certainly knows his bball ... he needs to find a way to impart more of that knowledge to our guys in uniform.
Ugly loss, but no reason to dwell on it. If we want things to get better, the whole program needs to keep working. A winning team next year is possible, but it's not going to fall into our lap. Everyone's got a job to do.