I know I said earlier that I don't really get into basketball until conference play begins but the most amazing thing happened on Friday. My office closed at 2:30 since nobody was there anyways. So I found myself at the house and my options on TV were watching Tech finish off its end of season collapse or the Baylor Basketball team play what should have been a "semi-test."
As all you (again, the 2 of you) know by now, another quality opponent found a way to schedule us on defense optional day, which we all know is Monday through Saturday. Tell me if you've heard this before: we don't drive to the basket, opponent is in the bonus early in both halves, paper thin defense, and no production at all from our 5 position. What? You think you see that in virtually every game?
If the game wasn't bad enough, I had to go onto Baylorfans and read this idiot's opinion on how he was glad we lost because this will cause our team to regroup and learn from this game what it is going to take to win in conference. When the core of this team (Jerrells, Dugat, Rogers, Dou) are seniors and have played close to 100 games for Baylor, the time to "learn how to win" is over. If they haven't gotten it by now, they never will. You would think that by now they would have lost in the same manner so many times they might start considering changing the way they play just a little. Doesn't look like they will.
So what do we have to look forward to this season? We'll beat bad to average teams and may upset one team if we get hot from beyond they arc. Any team with a warm body at the 4 and 5 positions will give us fits. 2009 will be a carbon copy of the end of 2008. Virtually nothing has changed. We might actually win a game in the conference tourney and make the dance only to get run out of the gym by a complete team.
Put the Kool Aid down and tell me I'm wrong.
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