03-03-18 10:32 PM - Post#250639 In response to Vonsid
Oh please. I'm just saying what the players themselves say all the time. They lose focus. They lose confidence. They hesitate. They play scared. They give up. They go through the motions. Every basketball player talks about the effort not being there sometimes, often for an entire season.
I always repeat this story, but Brian Earl himself spurred the team to a must-win victory over Penn back in 2011 by saying, "They just aren't playing hard enough." Kareem Maddox agreed and said he didn't realize he wasn't being aggressive as usual. Sometimes you just need a kick in the pants.