re: It's time! Pessimistic outlook of Billy Kennedy's final season

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What I understand is that anytime our team does anything good, coaching has no effect and the other team was obviously terrible.

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Baylor is a solid team. They won't finish the year ranked as they are about the fifth best Big 12 team but they are solid. We just thoroughly outclassed them. They simply couldn't match our skill across the board. If we played that game at a neutral site ten times, we'd win 8 of them. We are LOADED this year, this is an elite 8 caliber team or better with good coaching.

It was a great win over a good team that had everything to do with us having more good basketball players than they did.

Meanwhile, our fundamentals are still poor, we don't shoot FTs well, our half court sets continue to be abysmal and our zone defense rotation is very sluggish. All the things that involve being "coached up" in the game of basketball we are from average to bad in all of them. What we do well and why this team will save Kennedy's job is making plays in the open court, getting loose balls and disrupting shots due to our great length and generally out-athleting most of the teams we play because we have a lot of future NBA players on this team. We also finally have enough shooters to hold our own against zone defenses (which we are incapable of beating otherwise because again our half court sets are not good).

In 2013 DJ Hogg would have been our second leading scorer. He didn't even get on the court until what, five minutes left in the first half last night?