If Lavin had just started Sheed instead of Ndaye I wonder if the backlash would be as bad as it is. Personally I would have been more patient and waited til after we lost a home game to put some blame on Lavin but starting a walkon in a huge game put me over the edge.
Think on any given night we could beat anyone or lose to anyone. I would be concerned if we lost to DePaul and Seton Hall to open up Big East play. I had the last two games as losses.
I'm not asking to win them all. But we couldn't win 1 of Wisconsin, Syracuse, Xavier, Georgetown ?
I could see if we were a little inconsistent ... I didn't expect us to be world beaters. But where is the upside?
When was the last time we won a game we weren't favored in? We're not even inconsistent... we're consistently mediocre. There's a difference.
So if the team is consistently mediocre and you know this, why get all upset with a game or two that you probably expected them to lose anyway?
Because I expected them to win a couple of these games. I expected us to be a bubble team and sneak into the tournament, not blow the doors off the new league... but be in the upper echelon. We're not doing that at the moment.
I thought we WOULD be inconsistent.. we would win a couple of big games and lose a couple of big games. We haven't had nearly enough of the good moments ... and rather than getting better as the season has gone on, it looks like we're falling apart. That's what's frustrating.
But I agree with what Dave said in the other thread... there's still a lot of basketball left to be played, let's see if they can turn things around.