[NU Sports] Sun Times' Columnist puts his finger on the Ill-noise"problem"

[Beamsley, Jeff]

I think that we just got beat by a better team last night. 

UoM had every reason the let down after beating OSU, bit didn't.  

They just played better D than us. 

They forced us out of our game by aggressively defending the three and switching on all screens. 

They were able to get their three point shooters open looks  against our D and those kids made their shots. 

We had them in foul trouble early, but they fixed that in the second half. 

Sobo had another tough game, but you really can't blame this on him. All our kids gave max effort and just ran out of gas in OT. 

It was a very tough loss, because a win was there for the taking. Just turned out that UoM was the one who took it. 

Jeff 

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On Feb 22, 2012, at 6:18 AM, "Roy S. Lamberton" <rstetson at capps-assoc.com> wrote:

> "So the question at the heart of Weber’s demise is this: Why is it so much more difficult
> to get better players to overachieve? Maybe Weber is just more adept at getting more out
> of less. But you also have to consider this possibility: Maybe good players are harder to
> coach today. Maybe the increasing influence of AAU programs in the development of young
> players — and the decreasing influence of high school coaches — instills a sense of
> entitlement in talented players that makes it difficult for a coach like Bruce Weber to
> get through to them."
> Full Sun Times column: 
> http://www.suntimes.com/sports/colleges/10784671-419/what-went-wrong-with-bruce-weber-at-i
> llinois.html
> 
> And maybe NU's (Bill Carmody's) system of getting lower ranked prospects to (sometimes)
> play at a very high level is why NU can overachieving one game, and fall flat the next? 
> 
> Or maybe it is just that NU has been losing for so long on the court...
> 
> Kelly Amonte-Hiller didn't have that baggage when she took came in to start the Women's
> Lacrosse program. She had her personal tradition of winning (from Maryland) and never had
> to face the "never been there" syndrome that always seem to lurk in the background at
> Welsh-Ryan.
> 
> I know that once you lose that "winning" feeling, it can take a long time to get it back.
> If you've never had a real winner, creating a winner is even harder.
> 
> rsl
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