The main reason we see glimpses of last year's team? We're depending mainly on players from last year's team. You're not going to change a culture in 10 games, and you're not going make pure shooters out of people who just aren't. This staff did not recruit and assemble this team. Granted, they didn't look prepared tonight -- mentally more than anything. Honestly do you think this staff doesn't emphasize fundamentals like boxing out and making free throws?
I blame Coach Vic for leaving Charli in when she had two fouls but that's it. We got shots, we didn't hit them. We attacked the defense and got fouled, then missed free throws. Our defense was forcing missed shots, but then didn't clean up the glass and WVU pretty much buried us in the first half on second chance points 19-3 while we were 5-13 from the line to boot. Once they got some cushion they relaxed and everything got clicking for them. Game over. Bad night all around for us.
Anybody who doesn't see the marked improvement (aka development) in some players and other parts of our game just doesn't want to. Still angry about KA not being retained. She did a decent job while she was there, and made us relevant again briefly. But the current staff was brought in because decent was good enough. They're going to need more than a few games into one PANDEMIC RIDDEN season to put the product on the floor that will eventually be.
I have enjoyed watching the improvements and development that this staff HAS been able to facilitate in such a short, crazy time. If we don't look any better than this in years three and four, after there's been time to bring in their own recruits and teach them, then I'll start bitching... and you know I will. But for now I'm riding with them just like I did KA in her first five years.
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