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<blockquote data-quote="YlJacket" data-source="post: 554074" data-attributes="member: 2784"><p>It is hard to look at this season and especially how it ended (last month or so) and not have concerns about whether next year will be a step forward.</p><p></p><p>The upside is that our core will be another year older and hopefully another year stronger. That one fact is the jist of most optimism about next year. Plus a belief that one project - Moses - may have found the path to the promised land and started to show the promise that his athletic prowess always hinted at.</p><p></p><p>On the not so upside level, we were 3-7 over our last 10 games notwithstanding 2 decent wins over NCSU and BC. But those are really outliers and we ended up losing really handily to the bottom team in the ACC in the tourney who was decimated by injuries. The 2 guards who are supposed to be a combination as good as any backcourt in the ACC as they get older was not quite so golden over the last 10 as Jose averaged 12 PPG, Devoe 11 PPG and Banks 10 PPG. All with an extreme level of inconsistency despite the fact all 3 played as close to 40 min per game as their foul situation allowed. The rest of the supporting cast has basically shown nothing - Sjolund made a splash and disappeared. Haywood faded into nothing. Cole disappeared as did Moore. Then we get to Philips who was so far under the bench he was beyond disappeared. </p><p></p><p>I note the 2 most recent wins we had (NCSU and BC) were teams that had not seen our zone before. To my eye teams who had seen it once or twice before started playing a lot better against it. ND saw it for a 3rd time and torched us - especially in the first half - despite not having their primary shooters available. </p><p></p><p>Without getting into efficiency stats, we were last in the ACC in scoring at 65 PPG. 3 less per game than Wake. Let that sink in. That includes the least number of 3 point FG's per game - at 5 3's per game a full three pointer per game less than Wake. I don't have a stat for it but my eyes tell me we are near the bottom of "easy" field goals in the ACC. Everything is hard for us.</p><p></p><p>Net net, I didn't see us building to a crescendo with this season or seeing a consistency of who was going to be what role into next year. Everyone was way up and equally way down depending on the game. That is hard to project. CJP must agree with that as well as he is quoted as saying he needs a couple of "bucket getters" in the spring season. That doesn't give me the feeling that he is sold on this roster as well.</p><p></p><p>So next year we have a core of Jose, Devoe and Banks who are a year older and hopefully stronger (Devoe has to get into the weight room). Each has their issue as to whether they are top of ACC starters. Who knows if Moses is going to maintain his 25 point outing from tonight. And I hate to say it but who knows what Usher will bring next year - I thought Philips would be a player for us this year based on his history. And we still have a workshop full of projects that who the hell knows what we will get out of them. </p><p></p><p>I thought this year was going to be the last year of major questions or required contributions from first year players. We are back in the same place next year. Maybe the answers are better next year. I don't know based off of this year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="YlJacket, post: 554074, member: 2784"] It is hard to look at this season and especially how it ended (last month or so) and not have concerns about whether next year will be a step forward. The upside is that our core will be another year older and hopefully another year stronger. That one fact is the jist of most optimism about next year. Plus a belief that one project - Moses - may have found the path to the promised land and started to show the promise that his athletic prowess always hinted at. On the not so upside level, we were 3-7 over our last 10 games notwithstanding 2 decent wins over NCSU and BC. But those are really outliers and we ended up losing really handily to the bottom team in the ACC in the tourney who was decimated by injuries. The 2 guards who are supposed to be a combination as good as any backcourt in the ACC as they get older was not quite so golden over the last 10 as Jose averaged 12 PPG, Devoe 11 PPG and Banks 10 PPG. All with an extreme level of inconsistency despite the fact all 3 played as close to 40 min per game as their foul situation allowed. The rest of the supporting cast has basically shown nothing - Sjolund made a splash and disappeared. Haywood faded into nothing. Cole disappeared as did Moore. Then we get to Philips who was so far under the bench he was beyond disappeared. I note the 2 most recent wins we had (NCSU and BC) were teams that had not seen our zone before. To my eye teams who had seen it once or twice before started playing a lot better against it. ND saw it for a 3rd time and torched us - especially in the first half - despite not having their primary shooters available. Without getting into efficiency stats, we were last in the ACC in scoring at 65 PPG. 3 less per game than Wake. Let that sink in. That includes the least number of 3 point FG's per game - at 5 3's per game a full three pointer per game less than Wake. I don't have a stat for it but my eyes tell me we are near the bottom of "easy" field goals in the ACC. Everything is hard for us. Net net, I didn't see us building to a crescendo with this season or seeing a consistency of who was going to be what role into next year. Everyone was way up and equally way down depending on the game. That is hard to project. CJP must agree with that as well as he is quoted as saying he needs a couple of "bucket getters" in the spring season. That doesn't give me the feeling that he is sold on this roster as well. So next year we have a core of Jose, Devoe and Banks who are a year older and hopefully stronger (Devoe has to get into the weight room). Each has their issue as to whether they are top of ACC starters. Who knows if Moses is going to maintain his 25 point outing from tonight. And I hate to say it but who knows what Usher will bring next year - I thought Philips would be a player for us this year based on his history. And we still have a workshop full of projects that who the hell knows what we will get out of them. I thought this year was going to be the last year of major questions or required contributions from first year players. We are back in the same place next year. Maybe the answers are better next year. I don't know based off of this year. [/QUOTE]
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