How many firsts has this team set this season?

[Kung Wu]

Re: How many firsts has this team set this season?

I will stand by soft...and for anybody to discount it is certainly entitled to their opinion.

With this "perceived" talent; with the "perceived" great coach; with this GREAT fanbase, this team just plain layed some eggs when real toughness would have carried them through. How many times after we trailed in games did we make great comebacks just to see us do something dumb near the end of some of our losses.

We can argue about what "soft" means. This team underperformed based on the expectations...PERIOD. This current run is a great example of what was expected from them over the course of the first 32 games. A great coach and players with a championship mentality would have won the regular season Valley and Valley tourny. They just weren't tough and focused enough.

They have brought it the past three games and there is nobody that will cheer harder for them the NEXT TWO games than me.
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Yeah after I posted that I realized that its an argument over semantics.

Your "softness" is my "lack of composure". The thing is, "soft" implies they aren't trying in my book and that has NEVER been the case. They have always been trying hard -- just in a panicky way down the stretch a few times.

If you want to see what I consider "soft", fire up Missouri State's last game of the year when they were knocked out of the NIT. One of their seniors is showing heart and draining threes left and right, and the rest of the team is moping around hanging their heads like they lost already with 3 to 4 minutes in the game and only down by 10ish. That, to me, is "soft".

[SHOXAAC]

Re: How many firsts has this team set this season?

I will stand by soft...and for anybody to discount it is certainly entitled to their opinion.

With this "perceived" talent; with the "perceived" great coach; with this GREAT fanbase, this team just plain layed some eggs when real toughness would have carried them through. How many times after we trailed in games did we make great comebacks just to see us do something dumb near the end of some of our losses.

We can argue about what "soft" means. This team underperformed based on the expectations...PERIOD. This current run is a great example of what was expected from them over the course of the first 32 games. A great coach and players with a championship mentality would have won the regular season Valley and Valley tourny. They just weren't tough and focused enough.

They have brought it the past three games and there is nobody that will cheer harder for them the NEXT TWO games than me.
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Yeah after I posted that I realized that its an argument over semantics.

Your "softness" is my "lack of composure". The thing is, "soft" implies they aren't trying in my book and that has NEVER been the case. They have always been trying hard -- just in a panicky way down the stretch a few times.

If you want to see what I consider "soft", fire up Missouri State's last game of the year when they were knocked out of the NIT. One of their seniors is showing heart and draining threes left and right, and the rest of the team is moping around hanging their heads like they lost already with 3 to 4 minutes in the game and only down by 10ish. That, to me, is "soft".

I hear you Kung. In no way do I think our Shockers quit at any point this season. My definition of soft is the lack of toughness, focus and basketball IQ in key situations during games. We bail out with stupid 3's or fall away shots in the lane, when having that mentality of "I'm going to challenge the weakness of the opponent with my strongest effort...come get me." We just don't have players who "will" the ball in the basket.

I love our players. They just have limitations, including some coaching decisions, when the heat is on. I am glad they are playing well now, but it is too late considering what the expectations (fair ones at that) were at the start of the season.

With that said... :goshocks: in MSG.