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(02-02-2016 09:52 AM)Memphis Blazer Wrote:  

(02-02-2016 09:48 AM)demiveeman Wrote:  

(02-02-2016 09:27 AM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  I would describe us as a very talented team that plays inconstantly and to the level of it's competition.

^ Yes ^

Since we have only played teams that sucked, isn't that saying we suck then.

LOL. I was more agreeing to the "inconsistent" part (although it was spelled incorrectly). We don't ALWAYS play to the level of our competition...sometimes we play well below the level of our competition for the first 8 minutes of a game and then spend the rest of the game coming back to put ourselves in a position to win.

You get better through competition. If you play a bunch of teams that are not as talented than you, you get used to not having to play as hard as you are capable of playing. That is a very dangerous habit to get into. When we played Western Kentucky, we showed up thinking that showing up would be enough to win. Six of their first seven made field goals were uncontested layups, and we fell into a hole that we never climbed out of.

(02-02-2016 10:03 AM)BlazerMatt Wrote:  You get better through competition. If you play a bunch of teams that are not as talented than you, you get used to not having to play as hard as you are capable of playing. That is a very dangerous habit to get into. When we played Western Kentucky, we showed up thinking that showing up would be enough to win. Six of their first seven made field goals were uncontested layups, and we fell into a hole that we never climbed out of.

The Memphis Syndrome.

Are we playing down to other teams, or are they playing up to us?

I watched Wichita St. vs. Evansville the other night and I think we could have beaten them both.

(02-01-2016 10:56 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  We need a drastically better OOC schedule.

or not lose to the any sub 100 teams

(02-02-2016 04:24 PM)iam4uab Wrote:  Are we playing down to other teams, or are they playing up to us?

I watched Wichita St. vs. Evansville the other night and I think we could have beaten them both.

The answer to your question is it is probably a combination of both.