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“AZTECS–CAN YOU BELIEVE THIS”
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So this is what ‘rock bottom’ looks like.
This is what it feels like when the roof caves in.
This is the ache you feel when a very good program doesn’t have a good season.
No one could have predicted any of this, considering what we have experienced.
That’s why this tastes so bitter right now in the mouth of the ‘Show-the loyalists’.
Hard to watch what he had to see on TV, this blowout loss at Boise State.
Bad shots…bad passes…bad rebounding…bunch of bad fouls.
A (22-5) deficit at the start. Eventually a 21-point hole in the ground.
Boise beat their brains out (37-15) on the boards.
The Broncos had 12-3’s. They sank 26-of-33 free throws.
SDSU went 10-possessions-covering 6-minutes without a basket.
Went (2-for-12) shooting in one segment.
Had 1-offensive rebound 35-minutes into the night.
So bad that Brian Dutcher emptied the bench and played everyone within the first 15-minutes of the game. The only guys who did not play were the non scholarship end of the bench guys, the trainer or the SID.
Magoon Gwath’s game has gone MIA.
Miles Byrd’s offensive skills have become hit and miss.
The team is devoid of big-body bulk players.
Add in a critical need for trustworthy 3-point shooters who can be part of gameplans
Let’s get to the Mountain West Tourney, get that over with, watch the NCAA tourney on TV, and let Brian Dutcher hit the reset-button with his roster.
The season feels like the team has fallen down an elevator shaft.
Decades ago we saw lots of bad basketball, Fred Trinkle-Tony Perry and more.
We’ve seen so much great basketball including March Madness.
And now the Aztecs are getting pay-back, getting beat with the way they used to beat people. Getting out-toughed; out-defensed, outshot. And getting booed by fans in every arena, loving to heap abuse on SDSU for all the years their teams would get burned-buried-scorched by SDSU teams of the past. The Aztecs have become everyone’s enemy on the court.
We’re been spoiled haven’t we?
That’s why this feels ‘rock bottom’. Hard to believe what we are seeing.
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Great points,but i have a few others.First,the program should not have redshirted the San Jose St. transfer–he takes over games with instant offense and possesses a will to score. Second, defense is MIA–It always sems to be disjointed.Third, the new assistant coach (Coach Bard) has too much say so in games,too much bravado, too much peacocking. It seems there is a disruption or interruption in the assistant coaching ranks– The culture isn’t right. Look at the past Aztec games one would see Coach V making great game time moves with his players alongside coach Dutch. JUST SAYING !