Buzztheirazz
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Sucks to be a “basketball school” and absolutely **** the bed game after game.
When does Pastner feel heat
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GTNC72
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He doesn't feel it now?
jbix80
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43! Lol
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Pastner knows his days are numbered. I would not be surprised if Batt is already talking to him. I don't know how it happened, but this season has been driven off the cliff. My worry now is not about the end of season record, but how do we keep some of these guys from bolting via the portal. It almost seems like they are halfway there now. Today was embarrassing.
Steverc
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I think both the coach and the players need to be replaced. If they want to stay and get there degrees, I am all for that.
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Pastner had slack, and he may have run out of it. Before the season, it needed a disaster of a season to end his career here. It’s hard to believe that he’s had a disastrous enough season to do that in one year.
Steverc
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The evidence would suggest otherwise.
LargeFO
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He’s 102-110 and won ~39% of acc contests. You could likewise say some fonts massively overvalue the past. 7 year sample size is pretty stout to know what you have.
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... It was even worse than losing by 41, we lost by 43!
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At least there was a silver (gold?) lining for you to witness the disaster in person.
The portal piece may not be as big of a deal as it seems. Kansas State is ranked #5 after a terrible season last year and their entire team is transfers the new coach Tang brought in. Otz at Iowa State did a similar thing last year for their 2-win-to-Tournament turnaround.
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People get upset when someone suggests that a team has given up (see past football discussions) but there is a point where a team loses confidence in their ability to win and starts going through the motions. This seems to happen with less talented teams (where margin for error is small) and cascades. It feels like it only took a couple of weeks for fans to move from “I see how this team might get better and figure out how to win” to “I don’t see how this team will ever get better.”
It looked to me like the team lacked a leader and also needed to add two positions, a quality big man and a point guard. Otherwise the effort by all the other players often goes for naught, hence the feeling of giving up.
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I get it. He is an adorable little leprechaun with his bushy sideburns, but he has no part of gold. So in summary he’s just a leprechaun!
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Basketball is the easiest of the major sports to turn around. You need two guys to add to the team. Give me a Jarrett Jack/Travis Best level guard and an Alvin Jones/Lammers level big man, and we’d be instantly competitive in every game. Those are guys we should be able to recruit every year.
Jetdrive3
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Am I correct in asking if the program has hit such a low that people don’t even care about posting? Who can recruit Atlanta and get big men in the door?
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Getting a smaller and smaller crowd that do care enough to do so...
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Kinda sums up a lot of thoughts, "A season that continues to explore new depths descended even further Saturday."
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Georgia Tech clobbered by Duke at McCamish Pavilion
A season that continues to explore new depths descended further Saturday. Georgia Tech was outplayed in the first half and then was trampled in the second, with the final result a 86-43 defeat to Duke at McCamish Pavilion.