Ahhhh. Panicking is used more for effect than anything else. But if you don't see the issues with this team well.... Everybody said once Paige gets on track.... Once Justin gets on track... well they have both played much better and we lost to a ND team who was not hitting 3's and almost to a BC team who is the worst in the conference and we continue to turn the ball over.
Let me see now, don't they still call those "almost lost" games still a win, do they not still go in the column that has the heading "W"?
I am not paniced at all, sorry but I am not.
First, I didn't see this game but maybe it is good I didn't, but there are some things I do know about it. I know we shot 50% for the game, I know we didn't shoot enough shots. I know as much as I see folks talking about the BC kid going off on us that he scored 26pts but did so on 30% shooting? I know home teams get home cooking most of the time, sounds like there was a fair share of that to the BC advantage. They scored what, 61pts on us, 61 points does not scream bad defense to me, the fact that we shot 50% and didn't score but 65pts, unhelped by the free throw line is a concern.
There was a fella who called for a lineup shake up a couple days ago, who was that again, oh yeah, it was me. Now not starting Brice, didn't see that one coming but Brice has not been much on the defensive end lately. I absolutely saw JJackson and Meeks sitting coming and glad to see it happened! CLEARLY JACKSON GOT THE MESSAGE! That is why you do it folks. Meeks with no offense and Clifford torching, yep, clearly meeks didn't get it, needs to remain coming off the bench. 7 rebounds is OK I guess but being totally uninvolved with the offense isn't.
Saw lots of folk upset with Theo's play but the box score does not look like he had a bad game, OK, so could have done without the 3 treys, he has to get that memo, you are open cause they want you to shoot it, don't shoot it. But other wise looks like the kid had a solid game. Marcus hit a couple big time game on the line treys, more like the Marcus of old and now JJackson is coming back, this game should really help his mojo.
But tell you a big reason I am not paniced, we are coming off 3 hard road games, lots of travel time. Think about it, long road trip to Louisville, followed by a long haul to NB last saturday and now all the way up to BC. geez, why not schedule Miami in there for sat in Miami? LOL My point, that is a lot of traveling playing 3 teams that were all coming off losses, that were amped up to show they can play this game in front of their home fans, and yeah, enjoying some home cooking as well. Traveling like that wears kids down and if you are worn down a little bit and you get in front of those hostile crowds and the opposing team is amped because of it, there begins to be a little blood in the water.
Finally we now get back home for a set of games, we get to practice & rest as opposed to practice and travel. You guys can tell me about the BC game but vs ND and Lville I thought they looked a little tired. And ya know, especially tired bigs, reach rather than move their feet, can find foul trouble from that, did ya see any of that last night? Folks worry because this was just BC, they suck, we beat them by 20+ earlier, yeah but they are still a ACC program, they are still at home, they are still in front of their fans screaming for them, they still got their home cookin, slept in their own beds, practice all the time on the court they played on, and were not on the road for the last 3 games playing teams coming off losses.
Finally we are back home and these kids can get settled, the good news is we got Marcus back vs ND and last night it seems we finally got Jackson back, now we need to put all the parts back together and I think we will. I suspect practice will not be fun this week, it shouldn't be...
