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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 697241" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>So, let me see if I can sum up the subtext:</p><p>1. We’re 9-9 in conference, and it’s been a long time since we were .500 or better in conference, but</p><p>2. We’re 15-14 overall, and you’d expect us to have a better overall record if we did so well in conference</p><p></p><p>So, what caused this?</p><p>TL;DR version: Slow start, taking too long to find ourselves, slightly down ACC, never completely finding ourselves, missing some players along the way, and needing to have one or two more contributors. </p><p></p><p>1. The ACC is down a little bit, I think somewhat in the middle. Wins against UNC and NCST and upsetting the number 11 team aren’t wins we could usually count on. We’ve done well in conference, and it’s not all the ACC being down. UNC is down, though. Miami isn’t as good as they’ve been in the past. Maybe if we’d only played an ACC schedule we’d be on the tournament bubble, but we also played out of conference and didn’t make as much hay there as we needed to. </p><p>2. Our pre-conference record wasn’t nearly as good as we needed it to be. Some was having players out like Alvarado, and not getting Usher eligible as soon as we would have liked hurt. Some of it is struggling to find an offensive system that works for the team; we didn’t end the season playing the same offense we started the season with. Some of it is lacking instinctive teamwork—that level of teamwork where players know where each other are going to cut and move and box out so you know where to pass and where you can find an open shot. Even towards the end of the season, we’ve had miscommunications between players. Some of it is a lack of available and harmonious bench depth. Players have gotten tired and run out of gas. </p><p>3. We got better as the season went along, but not “better enough”, so our record picked up but not enough to get on the bubble. </p><p>4. We started slow. </p><p>5. If we can pull out the last two games as wins, we still need two or three more wins than that. Arkansas, Syracuse x2, UGA, and some others are games we really needed to have a shot at the postseason. Having 18 wins before the ACC tournament (not counting Morehouse) and a couple of wins in the ACC tournament would have us looking good. Best we can do right now is get to 16 wins (not counting Morehouse). As a P5 team, you need to be one of the top 50-ish teams in the country to make the tournament because of some of the automatic qualifiers, and we’re not there right now. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 697241, member: 282"] So, let me see if I can sum up the subtext: 1. We’re 9-9 in conference, and it’s been a long time since we were .500 or better in conference, but 2. We’re 15-14 overall, and you’d expect us to have a better overall record if we did so well in conference So, what caused this? TL;DR version: Slow start, taking too long to find ourselves, slightly down ACC, never completely finding ourselves, missing some players along the way, and needing to have one or two more contributors. 1. The ACC is down a little bit, I think somewhat in the middle. Wins against UNC and NCST and upsetting the number 11 team aren’t wins we could usually count on. We’ve done well in conference, and it’s not all the ACC being down. UNC is down, though. Miami isn’t as good as they’ve been in the past. Maybe if we’d only played an ACC schedule we’d be on the tournament bubble, but we also played out of conference and didn’t make as much hay there as we needed to. 2. Our pre-conference record wasn’t nearly as good as we needed it to be. Some was having players out like Alvarado, and not getting Usher eligible as soon as we would have liked hurt. Some of it is struggling to find an offensive system that works for the team; we didn’t end the season playing the same offense we started the season with. Some of it is lacking instinctive teamwork—that level of teamwork where players know where each other are going to cut and move and box out so you know where to pass and where you can find an open shot. Even towards the end of the season, we’ve had miscommunications between players. Some of it is a lack of available and harmonious bench depth. Players have gotten tired and run out of gas. 3. We got better as the season went along, but not “better enough”, so our record picked up but not enough to get on the bubble. 4. We started slow. 5. If we can pull out the last two games as wins, we still need two or three more wins than that. Arkansas, Syracuse x2, UGA, and some others are games we really needed to have a shot at the postseason. Having 18 wins before the ACC tournament (not counting Morehouse) and a couple of wins in the ACC tournament would have us looking good. Best we can do right now is get to 16 wins (not counting Morehouse). As a P5 team, you need to be one of the top 50-ish teams in the country to make the tournament because of some of the automatic qualifiers, and we’re not there right now. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk [/QUOTE]
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