[Oskee] Wow...

[Robert Mingee]

What a major flameout.  I figured out I could watch for free last night and watched the last 7 or so minutes to see us implode against Utah.  I was pretty pissed, but after I calmed down I reminded myself it's a young team and this is to be expected.  Besides, Utah has been pretty good in the recent past under Majerus.  I decided to reserve judgment and see how they rebounded tonight.

So much for that.  That's 2 games in a row with a total collapse down the stretch.  Missed FTs.  Stupid TOs.  And by far the worst of all, getting outhustled and outrebounded when it counted (no idea what the total stats were for either game, and not sure I care - when it mattered, we missed them).  And it wasn't the young players making these mistakes, but they were not having any positive impact either.

This is clearly not close to a top 25 team, and obviously we'll drop out next week.  This is a team that needs to show major improvement to even finish in the top half of the conference, let alone consider post-season play.  It's a long season, so I'm not going to panic, but I am disappointed that we're not where I'd hoped we'd be.  I am afraid we're going to get humiliated against Clemson on the road and cost the B10 its first Challenge win after way too many years.  And I'm very afraid of the damage that 3 straight loses will do to the mental state of a team with no real leader (I'm not convinced McCamey is that guy yet).  Man, do I hope I'm wrong.  There will still be time to fix it, but it won't look good if we end up in post-season contention.

-- robert

-- Sent from my Palm Prē

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