One positive is the return of Seth's offense. I just hope it's for real and not because of the low level of competition.

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It’s just a really inconsistent team. I’ll disagree that this is a supremely talented team. I think it’s talented in some parts but very inadequate in other parts.

But this is what inconsistent teams do. They have head scratching wins, losses, and everything in between.

I don’t think this team right now is above squeaking by bad teams. They barely beat Georgia Tech and other every mediocre teams. I don’t think they’re above playing a really bad team closely on occasion. It’s just where this team is right now.

But that inconsistency might turn into some surprisingly good performances against the meat of the schedule here. I’m not going into these games with any expectations either way though. This team is way too unpredictable minute to minute for me to have a firm grasp on anything.

At this point, they can’t be choosy on style points. They need to simply stack wins no matter how uncomfortable those wins may be. You earn having disappointing wins. This team hasn’t earned that.

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I'm glad he's okay. When I saw him laying on the floor, holding his knee like that... I was sure he was done for the season.

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Geth said:

To be fair several of those 3's were well contested and a few were of the answered prayer variety. Couldn't have been defended much better.

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Absolutely, well defended, late in the shot clock prayers, especially by Hand in the last six minutes. 🤭

I don’t see how we can take any danm positives out of yesterdays win… Is this really where we are at now as program??? Barely scrapping by against a team 1-7 in the league in a game that was a must win for us … it’s downright embarrassing… coaching is pathetic, certain players lack of effort is pathetic.. how many players on this team are actually better now then they were at the start of the season.. the chances of even going 2-2 in the next 4 are beyond slim at best. So now we are going to resorting to needing to win a bunch of games in the ACC tourney to have to sweat it out on selection Sunday..

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al would said:

We let BC shoot 60% from three.

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To be fair several of those 3's were well contested and a few were of the answered prayer variety. Couldn't have been defended much better.

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gary-7 said:

Look, there's no objection to rants --- I know my pen will never be the same after several table slams --- so yeah, I get it.

Meanwhile, before I respond, allow me to digress for a second:

I just watched another game tonight, and the very idea that Doug Shows is allowed within 50 feet of a basketball arena wearing a striped shirt is an abomination on the game. Lord knows, he and Groover gave us a royal butt-f***ing in Winston Tuesday, and with all that said, I have little doubt that one or both of those jabronies will show up in Durham Saturday...

Anyway, while I'm not backing away from my systemic critiques of what we are doing (and the 1st-half defensive no-show tonight), there were some things that can be objectively taken as positives. For example, we batted a thousand in OT on the offensive end, while making enough plays on the other end to take a must-win home...

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You're rigbt, Gary, when things really mattered yesterday the team did what it took to win and it can be argued this current team has lacked that ability for the most part so far. It was against BC and we shouldn't have been in that position to begin with, but baby steps I guess. We need some big steps this week though. Hopefully playing against BC's atrocious D and seeing the ball go in got us out of that prolonged shooting slump too. If we can hit some shots maybe we overcome our other deficiencies. Guess we'll see. Not holding my breath though!

I remember posting last summer about who would step up to replace Cormac and Ingram. They were tough players and helped set a mindset that all successful teams need. Regretfully my concerns have come true.

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