I'm with stupid
So, I don't intend to take this blog over with sports talk, but the developments of the last few weeks deserve some discussion.For those of you not following the Irish hoops team, we started the year off on fire, and have dropped off of late. As with last year, our ability to finish out the close games is suspect at best, although nonexistant might be the
better assessment. Considred a "lock" by several internet talking heads as recently as two weeks ago, most now list us as having "work left to do."The fact is that everyone was drinking the Kool-Aid when we knocked off Alabama and Maryland, but even those are not that impressive anymore, as neither team is ranked at this point (Alabama is #25 in one poll, but may not last long there).
My point is that I was ready to believe that maybe Brey had turned a corner this year. For the first half of the season the team was playing aggressive defense and was pushing the ball inside down the stretch to close out games, rather than relying on shooting the outside shot. Now, at the end of games we surprise no one by giving it to our marquee player so that he can chuck up a desperation shot with two guys in his face only to have it bounce away harmlessly, which apparently has been our end of game plan since the days of Chris Thomas. Everyone knows it's coming and no one is fooled by it. And yet, at the end of every game, he pulls a stupid face, looks like he's constipated, and chalks up another loss to "That's just Big East basketball."
It is what it is, I suppose, but it'd also be an immense shame to squander such a promising start to a season by bowing out early of the Big East tournament and spending our postseason in the JACC in the early rounds of the NIT.
posted by Short Round @ 1:00 AM
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