1-Man’s Opinion on Sports-Thursday. “AZTECS–WHO ARE YOU?”
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“AZTECS BASKETBALL-WHO ARE YOU”
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They are surely not the team we expected at this point of the season.
Definitely not the program who we have seen over the last group of years.
Something is missing at San Diego State right now, and even Coach Brian Dutcher, admits his team is not the same one night to the next.
The team that played so well in beating Houston early; the one that always gives Gonzaga fits; the side that loves to play in big non conference tournaments, is staggering.
How do you explain the hot-cold outings?
Yes you can scream, ‘back off dude-they are (14-5)’.
But the bracketologists are now saying this is a bubble team, a likely 10th seed if they get in, and wondering if they even survive their own MWC tourney.
Aztecs basketball, at home, used to sledgehammer teams. Not so much now.
This SDSU team was outscored by lowly Air Force (18-2) at home and trailed. And could have-should have lost to Air Force last week.
This Aztecs team trailed sub.500-San Jose State (30-10) early at home and needed a hair on fire comeback to win.
They blew an 18-point lead and got creamed at home by Utah State. They got torched at New Mexico
Something is missing. The back-court which hit tons of three point shots early in wins, is clanking more. We have had first halfs where they scored 20-23 and trailed by 20-at home this season.
The two legitimate bigs have some good games but then games where Magoon Gwath and Jared Coleman-Jones go MIA.
Miles Byrd, their star outside shooter, has gone streaky on them, and this is from a veteran player, who yes is a marked man, but has so many dynamics to his game.
And veteran transfer guard Nick Boyd has had more substandard offensive outings than dominant games you would expect from an NCAA experienced lead guard.
The clock is running out on veteran guard Reese Waters rehab from foot surgery whose rehab seems behind schedule. But the team problems are more than just him being out.
Maybe we expected too much growth in too short a period of time from a rather young roster.
Don’t want to hear about lack of charter flights, transfers, NIL money, tampering, altitude, or guys who transferred out. SDSU played so well so early. Not so much now.
Time is growing short. Once upon a time, they were in the AP-weekly rankings, now no longer a consideration.
Stunning too this is such an up and down year considering, this will not be a year where six MWC teams wind up in March Madness like last year’s assault on the tourney.
Here comes the conference tourney in a couple of weeks and there seems no clear solution to problems. Who is going to score constantly; where did all these turnovers come from; explain these long scoring droughts; where is the tighten the screws defense that was part of the Red-Black personality?
Not jumping off the bandwagon. Just asking one thing.
Aztecs basketball-who are you?
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