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bakaduin · 12-22-2012, 10:14 PM

Not sure if expectations were raised to high by beating up on names like Wisconsin and FSU or if the last two big games were a fluke. That being said thoughts of a number 1 and likely a number 2 seed are on life support. Not enough good teams in the SEC to get quality wins against. Plenty of time to turn it around but definitely have ratcheted down the expectations a bit.

born2beagator · 12-22-2012, 10:16 PM

My expectations are gone. From what I have seen against the good teams we have played tells me we are a long ways from championship material. KSU dominated us tonight.

gatorfansrule · 12-22-2012, 10:18 PM

Don't know what happened tonight. They seemed to make everything and we couldn't even make free throws. I think Boynton at PG is not working, especially when Wilbekin is in the game and playing SG. We should have pounded the ball into Young as much as we could. We struggled with chasing them around all night in their motion offense and their rebounding was much better than ours.

UFreak · 12-22-2012, 10:20 PM

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Originally Posted by bakaduin

Not sure if expectations were raised to high by beating up on names like Wisconsin and FSU or if the last two big games were a fluke. That being said thoughts of a number 1 and likely a number 2 seed are on life support. Not enough good teams in the SEC to get quality wins against. Plenty of time to turn it around but definitely have ratcheted down the expectations a bit.

I think we'll be ok but guys like Murphy and Boyton can't just disappear like this. They were nonfactors. Wilbiken and Young brought it. Aside from those two, we were absent. Disappointing game for WY. He killed us a couple times when we were trying to cut into the lead.
It was a bad showing.

That being said, it's hoops. We're a good team. We will be all right.

Noahtogo24 · 12-22-2012, 10:20 PM

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My expectations are gone. From what I have seen against the good teams we have played tells me we are a long ways from championship material. KSU dominated us tonight.

Yeah but to be fair, out of the 4 teams to make the elite eight the past two tourneys (Florida, Kentucky, Duke, UNC), Florida is not the only team to struggle this season.

Gator40 · 12-22-2012, 10:21 PM

People will have to come to the realization we are just an average team right now.

We will not win the SEC like this. Those who thought we'd breeze through the conference better hope things turn around. Mizzou is way better than us.

HALLGATOR · 12-22-2012, 10:22 PM

Murphy only had 3 rebounds but the real bad thing about that is he had 1 more than Will.

tommyuf21 · 12-22-2012, 10:23 PM

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My expectations are gone. From what I have seen against the good teams we have played tells me we are a long ways from championship material. KSU dominated us tonight.

KSU is a better team than pretty much everyone here gives them credit for. They are definitely a tourney team and on par with the top half of our league.

To think that we could lose to them on the road was not a stretch.

VandyGator13 · 12-22-2012, 10:23 PM

I feel like the basketball IQ needed to be a championship team is not here..they made critical mistakes when we were down only 2-3 points and had chances to take the lead. Rosario would throw up a shot that is reserved for the streets, Wilbekin drove the lane and put shots up with 4 defenders around them..Hopefully they learn from these and put it together in March!

REM08 · 12-22-2012, 10:23 PM

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Originally Posted by born2beagator

My expectations are gone. From what I have seen against the good teams we have played tells me we are a long ways from championship material. KSU dominated us tonight.

Your expecations were probably too high before. Good news is they're surely too low right now. Its just one game. In December.

No excuse for Young not getting a touch on every single possesion in the 2nd half though.

gatorbogey · 12-22-2012, 10:26 PM

gotta play better, that's for sure.

still, given that's it's still before january, we have some time to get into form.
expectations can take hit for now - that might actually be a good thing at this stage.
we know we have alot to improve on. some humility is good for us. toughen us up a bit, maybe.

tommyuf21 · 12-22-2012, 10:27 PM

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Your expecations were probably too high before. Good news is they're surely too low right now. Its just one game. In December.

No excuse for Young not getting a touch on every single possesion in the 2nd half though.

We did have a thread here asking for predictions about our chances of sweeping the league this season. I thought it was unrealistic and in a way, highly disrespectful for our conference.

We're still a good team that has a chance at another deep NCAA run. However, to expect them to do what the 04's couldn't do (basically beat everyone) was very unrealistic.

akaGatorhoops · 12-22-2012, 10:34 PM

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Originally Posted by Gator40

People will have to come to the realization we are just an average team right now.

We will not win the SEC like this. Those who thought we'd breeze through the conference better hope things turn around. Mizzou is way better than us.

We lost by a combined 7 points in two VERY difficult road environments. One game we literally gave away.... the other we played a poorly as we have all season, and still had chances to win.

This is FAR better than an average team.

HALLGATOR · 12-22-2012, 10:34 PM

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We did have a thread here asking for predictions about our chances of sweeping the league this season. I thought it was unrealistic and in a way, highly disrespectful for our conference.

We're still a good team that has a chance at another deep NCAA run. However, to expect them to do what the 04's couldn't do (basically beat everyone) was very unrealistic.

It wasn't disrespectful, it was simply a thread to get some talk going.

tommyuf21 · 12-22-2012, 10:36 PM

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It wasn't disrespectful, it was simply a thread to get some talk going.

Basically, it inferred that because the rest of the league stunk, we could steamroll through it.

We're going to find out in January and February that not every team in the SEC sucks.

HALLGATOR · 12-22-2012, 10:38 PM

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Basically, it inferred that because the rest of the league stunk, we could steamroll through it.

We're going to find out in January and February that not every team in the SEC sucks.

Do you always overreact to things? I never inferred the league stunk because I thought (and still do) that we have a very good team.

UFreak · 12-22-2012, 10:39 PM

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We lost by a combined 7 points in two VERY difficult road environments. One game we literally gave away.... the other we played a poorly as we have all season, and still had chances to win.

This is FAR better than an average team.

True.

tommyuf21 · 12-22-2012, 10:39 PM

Maybe not you, but a lot of people who post here think that teams that play poorly in November and December (like UT last year) are jokes.

tommyuf21 · 12-22-2012, 10:41 PM

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Do you always overreact to things? I never inferred the league stunk because I thought (and still do) that we have a very good team.

No, and I'm not throwing myself off a building tonight like some here probably are.

I think making gradiose predictions and building huge expectations are usually invitations to extreme disappointment.

HALLGATOR · 12-22-2012, 10:45 PM

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No, and I'm not throwing myself off a building tonight like some here probably are.

I think making gradiose predictions and building huge expectations are usually invitations to extreme disappointment.

You haven't seen me go over the edge about this loss and in actuality there only a few that were taking it a bit too far. Seriously, you seem more concerned with what other people are doing than you do with the team.