(02-11-2013 02:23 PM)toley2345 Wrote:  

(02-10-2013 09:18 PM)OrangeCamel Wrote:  I listened to the game and they said McCarter may be out the next 1-2 games (in addition to the CSU game). At one point, they said it wasn't injury-related.

In the post-game, Laing said the team had faced adversity this year and the players had not handled very well. Also, the players' effort has been an issue over the span of the last few games. Very frustrating to hear this once again this season. Makes one wonder what the root of this is.

No, I don't think we'll have a winning season. Right now, it looks like the question might be... Will we have a 20-loss season?

What do you think is the underlying prolem?

This may be a little out there and may say too much but the night before this 5-game losing streak started, I heard loud yelling and commotion outside my apartment window. When I looked out across the courtyard, I recognized many of the basketball players. Two people were being held apart from one another and I think one may have been a player. Whether they were fighting with one another or together against a common enemy, it's not good for the program. The fact that it happened right before this losing streak makes me wonder if it affected the team chemistry.

I've also heard that for some reasons very few of the players are enjoying playing for Coach Laing this season. The reason for that I don't know, but we had team chemistry problems last year as well so I wonder if it has to do with the coaching at all. I would expect these kind of clashes at the beginning of the season (which there were but I will not mention) but this late, it hurts tremendously.