Georgia Tech sucks. North Carolina is overrated. Louisville sucks. Clemson is overrated. I watched ND go toe to toe with 4 pedestrian teams. They hung with all 4 of them. Played their balls off, but bottom line is they can't fucking score. Farrell has regressed offensively. Pfleuger has regressed offensively. Thank God for Mooney and Geben for stepping up their game or these games would have been blowouts. I'm used to Mike Brey teams sucking ass on defense. The one thing I haven't seen the last 18 years is shitty offense/shooting. It's so fucking tough to watch. See you in '19. Hopefully that 6'11" transfer from UCONN can change things for the Irish.
Carolina and Louisville and shooting hurt us too in those games, and killed us against Clemson. I see us making some noise in the ACC tourney with Bozie back, if we don't draw Duke early, and if we can finish with even 8 wins in the regular season and get 2 in the ACC tourney with Bonzie back, we can get in and maybe pull some upsets off in the Big Dance.
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and show himself sometime.
again. Now if he is 100% by the ACC Tournament, ND's only shot to make the tournament would be to win it, and a 100% Colson might give them the opportunity to win the tournament. But, can't imagine Brey would play him, if Colson hasn't played at least one game before the tournament. Just my $.02
I posted below, this season ended with Bonzie's injury..ND, quite obviously is not Duke, UNC or Kansas when it comes to basketball talent..When they have a super star like this, an All America, a player of year candidate, there is just no way to compensate for the loss..And this team, give them credit, they haven't accepted that, and battle every game, but they are not very talented without Bonzie..And that regression you mention, again just another effect of no Bonzie..Teams now can go after Farrell, Pfleuger, with out Bonzie getting their undivided attention..
A Duke, UNC, Kentucky can lose an All American, simply put ND can t..
You may be right. All of those games seemed winnable but we have been playing with only 8 players for the last 5 or 6 games. Rebounding seems to be the reason we have been so competitive while fielding the worst shooting team Brey has ever had.