Fully agree. I said starting in November and have repeated since, 18 wins and a good showing in the Big 12 tournament gets us in. Depending on what other teams do now until the end of the season, possibly even less. But this is the time of the year, teams either rise to meet the challenge or fall apart.
They just can only take so many injuries. No shame in dropping these games as the season progresses shorthanded. I’d certainly like to see some more wins, but I think DeVries has proven his worth thus far and it can still be easy to sell recruits our success despite the injuries and lack of depth.
There’s definitely a blueprint now on how to stop us. Devries is a great coach. He will adjust. 🤞
Can adjust all we want but still need to get the ball through the hoop.
Great coaches have their teams prepared for the tipoff. That didn't happen. He's still got a long ways.
They play with 8 but whose counting. Obviously they can win with this depth due to beating top teams in conference including #2 Iowa State.
Were they "shorthanded" when they won at Kansas? Or beat Iowa State? That excuse didn't seem to be brought up then. Instead it was "Devries is a genius". Now that we've lost to two bottom-feeders, it's suddenly "we just are shorthanded". Amazing how that works, isn't it?
Other coaches adjust too. I would smother Smalls too. He has to be exhausted after every game.
So, our legs were good at Kansas and home with Iowa State, but we "lost our legs" against ASU and Kansas State?
I’m simply saying having a short bench has an impact. Is it the only reason we lost? No, but it doesn’t help.
I think he’s not happy with only three top 10 wins so far this season and is sharpening the pitch forks
Nope. Just pointing out how some of the arguments give a "pass" to bad losses, and credits for the wins. Everyone should stop anointing Devries as the second coming of John Wooden.
I'm not happy with losses to ASU and being down 42-18 at the half against a BAD K-State team. Forgive me.
I didn't see any annoiting except as our new coach. He seems pretty good, has some nice wins and too many players riding the bench with ghost injuries that were supposed to make a difference. I expect more losses because other teams are going to defend us like the last two teams
I’m guilty. Sorry, I am pretty high on what they’ve been able to accomplish. Of all the great Huggins teams, none of them beat Gonzaga. None of them won at Kansas. And to do both early in year 1 (especially after experiencing 6 years of HCNB), I’ll give him a pass dealing with the short handed team and still be excited about long term potential. You are right though, the last two games were bad losses. No argument there at all.
