Our mid-term grade? Well, we definitely did not do well. It was a failing grade, but I will give us an F+ as a nod to the injuries. But the sad fact is that our talent did not pan out and we did not do much with the talent we had. A few players did reasonably well - better than an F+ - but the program overall failed. It is not just that we lost, it was how we lost. I can forgive a team for losing, but not for playing bad basketball. We shot poorly, we defended poorly (that improved somewhat as the season went on), we turned the ball over too much, our rebounding was sub-par. The coaches let players do what they wanted to do instead of making them do what they should do. There just was not much to cheer about in the first half.
Is there a glimmer of light? Sure. We get probably our best shooters back at some point. Our defense has improved markedly. The Sun Belt is not so good a conference but what we should win a few games, and maybe even surprise a few folks. But we have to do it. It cannot be just theory, or what "might be."
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