it is a time to get ready for the MAC.

I thought we had energy, guys were full of energy. We lacked a lot of other intangibles. Focus, BBIQ, desire, all those things that make up the aggressor, the one that is said to have outhustled the other. It is all semantics but heart,  character and desire are the elements that generate what many folks see as energy. Robby Mo had that, walked in having been there and intend on going back. What many perceive as arrogance and aggressive behaviour is swagger and confidence from having been there and within that heart of a champion beats the desire to go back.

OUr kids will get there. Groce is building a monster from the ground up. Book it.

I don't think either team deserved to win.

Still, it's not the end of the world. I am, however, concerned with our rebounding performance and how well we can improve on that in MAC play when we are against the teams with far superior big men.

We need to get Stevie in the game more. When he came in and took it down the court for the layup and 1 they crowd went wild and stevie was more than pumped up. He brings energy to the team and you have to love his effort on defense.

Uhhhh OK

every time they step between the lines is key. To compete at the level this program is goijng there are no days off. When a kid like Michael Kidd-Gilchrist out of his own volition starts a "breakfast club" where the athletes lift and have breakfast together above and beyond what their coaching staff thinks they need then to take a practice off or a day off is unacceptable and actually harkens back to what happened many times under the previous regime.

Not gonna say the team did not focus on records but if you listen to Walt he said essentially that they were taking things one day at a time, I don't think there is any p-int in time where the coaching staff is letting them not live in the here and now or let them get big heads. Your assertion that they were even thinking about records does not reflect my experience with any of those guys.

Can t  say much about the D softening .....not gonna argue relative levels of intensity as I am not really sure whether they dropped off or the teams they played did not have better plans and executed them well. I like the system we use for defense but question the ability of guys to listen and execute. Sitting in the Bobcat Black seats I was impressed by Robby Mo's Defensive ability to  sniff out most of our sets and options and shut them down although I saw Ivo's dunk coming as soon as he opted to run through the high ball screen and circle for the bucket......NICELY EXECUTED 

I think our shooting was an anomaly caused by huge difference in RObby Mos defensive pressure. I thought we looked at defensive close outs and guys hurried shots (sped their release up) or did not fundamentally execute the shots (Falling backwards and out bounds whilst kicking one leg out looks good on tape but it rarely goes in)....i.e the shots they shot in the game were not the same shots they shoot in practice. Using Defense to balance out poor shooting is kind of akin to taxes and balanced budgets.

Already addressed energy.

Not sure there is a right or wrong here unless I read it wrong. Just an opinion held by each poster and discussed like gentlemen.

12-1 does not necessarily mean that a team has learned to play at a top level every night.  It's not two steps forward, two steps forward, two steps forward.  Occasionally it's two steps forward and one step back.  So, do we learn from Bob Mo's example of toughness (turned it over a million times but didn't let that affect their D and their rebounding...so got the very-nice-for-them road W)?

We are on the right track.  Gotta keep on it, keep on improving.