Let me start with a disclaimer. Frequent readers of this board know that I have long been a CVS fan (and apologist). I, unlike many posters on this board, know that CVS knows 10 times more about the game than anyone posting here.
Nevertheless, even though it hurts to say it, I don’t think I can take what’s been going on (particularly with her demeanor) for another year.
Dour.
Joyless.
A coach slumped in her courtside chair with her arms crossed.
Postgame press conferences with depressing body language and mumbled responses that even when they start with “We aren’t…” really sound more like an affronted “They aren’t…”.
Sub’ outs that seem more like public rebukes than game situation adjustments (or teaching moments).
Desperate line-up churnings, searching for elusive magic, churnings that continue from November to March, year after year after year.
And it is NOT just this young 2016-2017 team (incidentally a team I found, even if they couldn’t shoot for beans, full of young student athletes who came to every game to play to the last hopeless minute).
Dour. Joyless.
It’s been this way for several years, even with teams with lots of final-four-level talent. Even with talent like that, such underperformance, such a sad, sad mood. (If Tyler hadn’t gone coast to coast with 5 second left in El Paso, it would have been years and years of unrelenting sadness.)
Sure … winning fixes everything.
But what if, even with The Rojas, we get more of the same next year?
A new coach after that will be a season too late.
Better to bring new hope and joy-in-the-game back to RUWBB as soon as possible.
Nevertheless, even though it hurts to say it, I don’t think I can take what’s been going on (particularly with her demeanor) for another year.
Dour.
Joyless.
A coach slumped in her courtside chair with her arms crossed.
Postgame press conferences with depressing body language and mumbled responses that even when they start with “We aren’t…” really sound more like an affronted “They aren’t…”.
Sub’ outs that seem more like public rebukes than game situation adjustments (or teaching moments).
Desperate line-up churnings, searching for elusive magic, churnings that continue from November to March, year after year after year.
And it is NOT just this young 2016-2017 team (incidentally a team I found, even if they couldn’t shoot for beans, full of young student athletes who came to every game to play to the last hopeless minute).
Dour. Joyless.
It’s been this way for several years, even with teams with lots of final-four-level talent. Even with talent like that, such underperformance, such a sad, sad mood. (If Tyler hadn’t gone coast to coast with 5 second left in El Paso, it would have been years and years of unrelenting sadness.)
Sure … winning fixes everything.
But what if, even with The Rojas, we get more of the same next year?
A new coach after that will be a season too late.
Better to bring new hope and joy-in-the-game back to RUWBB as soon as possible.
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