Dirtywater {l Wrote}:twballgame9 {l Wrote}:Dirtywater {l Wrote}:Pathetic and putrid. I have never seen a BC team fold so easily as this team. Talent not there folks. We need a fucking miracle here.
I love this one. The minute the team (and Reggie) plays like shit, "the talent is not there." Like clockwork.
The minute the team? There weren't minutes this year when this team played like shit - there were hours upon hours with some minutes of very good play. The fact that this team should have done better because of your belief in their inherent physical talent (but failed because they were psychologically fragile to defensive pressure or some other reason) is irrelevant. The only "clockwork" here was this team's ability to roll it up and fold in important games.
Yeah, you really don't win as many games as they did with hours upon hours of shit with some minutes of good play. This team was very inconsistent, didn't show for some games, and had bad stretches in others. But they played very well an awful lot. That's not a sign of a team with a lack of talent.
Truth is that BC is a decent, borderline bubble team talent wise. Most of the time they played that way. I attribute the bad games/stretches to what was going on between the ears, frankly, and I am not sure that there is much the Don could have done about that.
I thought the Don did a good job getting guys that don't fit his system to fit his system. There were times this season when that square peg/round hole problem made things look awful. But I can live with that, overall it was a decent season, with a couple of WTF losses that prevented it from being a very good season exceeding my expectations.