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HOW QUICKLY THINGS CHANGE

Da Coach said:
I think we would have won Tuesday if we had Jeremy. He is such an important part of the team, that he will be missed in every game he doesn't play.
The team did well considering we were without our leading scorer (16 ppg), and one of the better defenders (leads the team in steals).
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While that may be true DC we also could have won without him.
 
LB-- every one of the thoughts stated in those posts from Feb 8, were thoughts I had, too.
So I am not troubled at all by the opinions.
But I was willing to be patient and not literally call for Jim Les to be ousted, as some did at that point (and there were several other posts that no longer exist of that nature, even one I recall that touted bringing Steve Lavin or Rick Majerus in at mid-season!)

I just think if you spend the time and energy to get a new coach, then short of some moral bombshell, he should be given 4-5 years and all his own assistants and players before he is judged.

But if there's one thing more than any other that has troubled me it's that many, many vocal people and column writers have NOT given Jim Les the benefit of the doubt in this area.
Literally from his first year on the job we've heard and READ tirades and vicious, unfair attacks wishing he hadn't been hired and calling for an immediate replacement.
And as I (and others) have pointed out in this thread, many of such calls have been based on single game or short stretch evidence. Very one sided and bias filled if you ask me.

As I have said many times, if the same criteria were even employed on Mike Krzyzewski (in his first years at Duke), Dana Altman (in his first years at Creighton), or Bill Self (in his first years at ORU/Tulsa), they would have been fired, since their initial performance was considerable worse than Jim Les' in the first four years.
 
I am having a hard time understanding how anyone can be blaming the coaching staff for these losses; the team is undersized because of Pat leaving early so our team is getting killed on the boards; we had a depth problem at the start of the season and that has gotten a lot worse with the injury to J.C.; we were picked 8th for a reason; the other teams have most of their starters back from last season and are pretty good basketball teams.
 
real fan said:
I am having a hard time understanding how anyone can be blaming the coaching staff for these losses; the team is undersized because of Pat leaving early so our team is getting killed on the boards; we had a depth problem at the start of the season and that has gotten a lot worse with the injury to J.C.; we were picked 8th for a reason; the other teams have most of their starters back from last season and are pretty good basketball teams.
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That is a good point. But I think the obvious concern is that we are seeing the exact some problems surface that represented the first 3.5 seasons of the current staff.

The little fundamental things that didn't improve at all during that time and prevented us from becoming more than mediocre during the 2nd and 3rd years are once again present.

This team is playing exactly as most level-headed people would expect. They overachieved early and have a great system in place. The key now is to regroup and stay above water in the absence of Crouch.

But it starts with good FT shooting and rebounding, both of which have been non-existent during Les' tenure. So this is a period where we should see improvement given the combination of experience and obviously better talent available at this juncture.
 
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