This team gets a total pass for last night

[MegaBlue05]

We won. As has already been pointed out, this was sandwiched between a full travel week going to Clemson and then all the way to Seattle for a late night Saturday game, down two point guards, a big Saturday coming up with a rivalry game. The excitement of playing the cream puffs on the schedule goes away after the first three games. This was a trap game no matter how you look at it and we pulled it out. Someone already posted it bit earlier but I remember that 1992-93 game against EKU sandwiched between big games and we had to have Mashburn score a career high 38 points to win by single digits.

I was at that game. I was in the 6th grade. If we didn’t have Mash, we lose that one by double digits. That season turned out OK.

 

[AzubuikeandFitch]

Absolutely. This was the epitome of a Trap Game. Matchup against a lesser known opponent immediately following a win over a top ten opponent before a rivalry game with UL.
Win is a win.

 

[NociHTTP]

the offense scheme was non existent

It wasn't non-existent, they just started running it really late in the game.

 

[Roe07]

Are people mad? Wasn't the prettiest game or best performance but we won, end of story.

 

[AshWilliams]

We have had a few other recent flat moments which have been as long as entire halves so there is room for reasonable criticism.

And in those situations the criticism has been justified. Against Colgate I think they deserve a pass.

 

[AshWilliams]

Exactly right. Trying to say it was just last night is false. The 1st half of Gonzaga was the same way, and the effort and focus was lacking early on against WKU and Jackson St. Nothing wrong with pointing that out and seeing how that can cost the team down the road. Hopefully it’s figured out sooner rather than later.

Straw man. That's not what I'm saying. I never said it was just last night. But last night should be taken as a separate event given the circumstances.

 

[bbncal02]

It did, but we can’t also act like Kentucky wasn’t playing like they were to cool for school at times either.

Yep. I think this team believes so much in their ability to score that they get careless. If they decided to just be dogs and unalive some teams, man. Could be scary.