Not sure what else to tell you, but you’re wrong about this. They imploded against Kentucky and the hangover continued against a really bad team. You simply do not lose—let alone get down by 23–against a team like Georgia if you have the talent we’ve got. That’s implosion with a capital I.
You can't call the first 5 the 5 best players. Just think of the men's team Jordan Gainey is probably the 3rd best player all around but never starts. You have role players not everybody is a scorer and not everybody is a lock down defender, not everybody is a big and not everybody is a ball handler. If you recruit well enough you can have a deep team with not much drop off and if you get 2 deep at each role and players coming in are almost guaranteed 10 minutes. Then when they get here if they show out in those 10 minutes it increases to 15+minutes.
True but the way we play defense is going to leave some players open sometimes. It’s a trade off— hopefully the steals and turnover exceed the made open shots.
If we want to get back to Pats heyday you have to recruit roster full of pro players like Pat. Holly recruited like this but couldn't coach them up so we replace her with Kellie who would inherit Holly's talent few pro players and add 1 more few years later in Jackson but was only a sweet 16 type of coach. Kim comes in and had to rebuild this roster and take an athletic gifted Cooper but not yet ready to lead a team Boyd Athletic Freshman and take some roll players at other schools and make this a team that can compete. Her system got us out to a really good start but as we have seen these last 3 games to play good basketball when offense is bad you need super depth of equally Athletic players who can keep up Defense intensity that keeps you from losing games like today. I'm patient and looking forward to see how it plays out next several years. In CHRIST Alone
The problem with that risk reward strategy is that it really only works against teams with below average guards. Good guards are easily able to break the press as we saw in the LSU, Oklahoma, vandy, USC, Kentucky games. And then obviously once they break it we are at a complete disadvantage and that’s not even including our atrocious on ball defense in the half court.
SOON..