I'm worried. This is not a good team without RJ, and the way they talked during the game about him going to see a specialist is not good. This is more than a banged/bruised hand.
This team has looked uninspired half of the season, which scares me.
This team can't shoot 3s or FT
They resort back to Haith ball, or Heat ball, but don't have a LeBron to bail them out.
They seem to sulk when the going gets tough, especially Larkin, which is troubling.
I know I'm probably reading too much into things, and overreacting, but things are not looking good
Let's at least wait until we get into ACC play before we go into panic mode.
Let's wait until we have a confirmed diagnosis on RJ's injury before we go into panic mode.
Before the AZ game, everyone on here was going nuts, saying sweet 16, how special this team is.....and we lose to Indiana State in OT, without RJ and now all of a sudden everyone is putting us into the NIT.
We have a pretty good amount of quality wins so far for not being into conference play yet, and all of our losses have been without a full lineup, the committee certainly takes that into consideration. It's still December, jesus.
Everyone chill the **** out.
You're right to a degree, but I can't stand the "It's still December" line (and this is not just directed at you). In college basketball every single game is important. December won't matter if we win 12, 13 or 14 (or more) ACC games, in that we'll make the NCAA tourney, but it'll matter when they hand out seeds. In 2000 we had a very bad OOC run, went 13-3, won the Big East, but only got a #6 seed. Problem is, we've painted ourselves into a corner by losing to FCGU and ISU. We now have to win at least 11 ACC games to feel safe. If we beat LaSalle and go 11-7 in the ACC we'd be 20-10 heading into the ACCT. We'd be a bubble team. If you go 11-1 in OOC games, you don't have to win as many other games. All games count, and all are important, and all factor in at the end, not just ACC games.
I do understand your point, if we take care of business in the ACC, no one will remember Indiana State (except for the fact that we'll get a 6 seed instead of a 4 or whatever), but my point is and was, we just made it harder on ourselves
As for the other points, I simply do not like the the attitude it seems and I stress seems, this team has. They don't seem to have the fire night in and night out. Everyone has off nights, I get that, but this is the 5th time this year we've had a lackluster performance, and we've only played 11 games. Remember how the team looked against Minnesota in the NIT last year? That's what worries me.
