What is this basketball team missing?

[Adam Stokes]

  I think Steven Hill has heart when he's not gasping for air.  He'll jump after balls on the ground and force steals which you rarely see from a big guy.  The lack of Thomas got him tired yesterday, he just needs to be better conditioned and he will be a first round pick.  Also your point about Weems and Ervin are right, they aren't used to playing with each other.  But we will be better next year!!! (pun and no pun intended)

[Junkyard Hog]

A Coach.

[Tone]

The team needs to adopt the fan's personality.

I hope not.  Sitting on the sidelines, just watching the game and bitching about the players, refs and coach. (I include myself)  Fan's personalities even for ex-players are a far cry from what a player's should be. 

[jpenrod1]

coaching

[Silver Hog]

missing 3 pointers, missing free throws, missing rebounds, missing the NCAAT.

Our 3 point percentage and free throw percentage were better than Kentucky's today. Without looking it up, I'm pretty sure that both of these percentages are better this year than any year in the Heath era. Rebounds were basically a tie today. Our rebounding is improving - no longer a weakness. So I think you just listed the team's three strengths.

Missing 2 points shots? 

Missing enough to lose games.  Strengths or not, they are not making enough.

[colbs]

A team leader

[Biggus Piggus]

All of Heath's teams should be playing for Emerald City. No heart, no brains, no courage, no way home, and the man behind the curtain is a lying old charlatan.

[Buck Ocean]

Al Jefferson

[idochog]

Same thing the football team is missing:

A REAL COACH

[pigture perfect]

This team is not missing a player. It is missing an identity. It really is that simple.

When asked by reporters how he was going to play any particular opponent, he had only one,
invariably tranquil, answer: "The same way we play all of our opponents. We never change our
style to match the competition. We only play our own game."- John Wooden.

What style do we play? Whatever style the other team does.

Charles Thomas has twice been quoted this season as saying the team would get better as the season went on because we would have more film on our opponents and be prepared for what they want to do.

I would rather take the Wooden approach.

Jamie is right on with this one. IMO

[HDale]

Ronnie Brewer!

[wishyjoshy]

All of Heath's teams should be playing for Emerald City. No heart, no brains, no courage, no way home, and the man behind the curtain is a lying old charlatan.

Nicely done.

This team is not missing a player. It is missing an identity. It really is that simple.

When asked by reporters how he was going to play any particular opponent, he had only one,
invariably tranquil, answer: "The same way we play all of our opponents. We never change our
style to match the competition. We only play our own game."- John Wooden.

What style do we play? Whatever style the other team does.

Charles Thomas has twice been quoted this season as saying the team would get better as the season went on because we would have more film on our opponents and be prepared for what they want to do.

I would rather take the Wooden approach.

Jamie is right on with this one. IMO

Good post, Jamie.  I agree.

There are two types of teams: 1) teams that dictate the style of play and 2) teams that are reactionary.  I have never seen a reactionary team win ANYTHING, let alone an NCAA Championship. 

It's time that this University draws a line in the sand and tells the world what it stands for.  This University is about excellence and integrity.  It will not stand for leaders who show no sense of direction for the programs on the court, on the field, in the classrooms, in the homes of recruits, in the meetings between the PTB, and in the media.  If those respective leaders can't get their shiite together, let them be gone.

Oh if this business was ran by someone who saw a future beyond his own life.