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“AZTECS BASKETBALL–A DISAPPOINTMENT”
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Enough with all the talks about Quad 1-wins
Let’s stop discussing bad refs calls..or playing at altitude..or travel delays
No conversations about NIL money or the transfer portal.
Stop the talk about NBA potential players.
End the talk about preseason accolades to the players.
For San Diego State fans, friends, alums, this is your team.
And this team has underachieved, never come together, has not stood the test of time.
Hard to think you’d speak badly of a team that is (19-9) with all these players who came into the season with experience, wearing the colors of Scarlet & Black and its traditions.
But this is an SDSU team that has gone (3-9) against top teams on the schedule. A team that has lost games to Grand Canyon and Troy, and then gotten battered at New Mexico, Utah State, Colorado State.
Thank goodness Wyoming-Fresno and the list of non-conference have nots have also been on the schedule.
I’m not big on pinning a ‘Blame Game’ pin on any one player.
Injuries (Magoon Gwath), inconsistency (Miles Byrd-BJ Davis-Reese Waters) and youthfulness (Compton-Harrington-DeGoureville-Simmons) are all part of this equation.
Brian Dutcher never found a true rotation. Luckily there is so much talent on this roster, that guys with off nights were bailed out by a bench bunch that scored lots of points.
But there were too many key players MIA in games that meant alot. Consistency has been missing. Fans spoiled by this teams’ brilliant defenses, saw lots of nights where teams piled up points including a couple of 100-point nights (Troy-Boise). The 3-point shooting became not-trustworthy. They got torched by the other guys 3s all year long. And in stunning fashion, they’ve been beaten on the boards alot, much of it because Gwath is not what Gwath used to be.
So SDSU staggers into the final week of the season with no hope in the league race; sitting on the bubble; and knowing full well they have to find a way to run the table in next week’s MWC tourney to have any real hope of postseason play.
Just a tough year for Brian Dutcher to find the right mix. Just a disappointing year for a program that has carried the school flag to nationwide recognition and respect.
Just an isolated strange winter of basketball. But like in all things in sports, once you’ve won for a long time (Fisher-Dutcher), you are expected to win yearly.
And that has not happened this season at San Diego State. A disappointment beyond belief.
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