Effort not great, Baylor is very long but probably half of the offensive rebounds were because they wanted it more. Stupid, stupid shot selection from NWB, Shayok, Wigginton, THT a couple of times. We get that TO with 22 seconds left and Lindell takes a highly-contested 3 for an airball. No urgency inbounding the ball down the stretch. Shayok goes for a layup with 5 seconds left down 6? Are you kidding me? This is a group of good supporting players without a leader. We step on the floor in Hilton and just assume we are going to win. That will never happen in the B12. The efforts in our three home losses this year have been an absolute embarrassment given the talent we have. It's not just physical effort or hustle, it's more playing stupidly - allowing their best shooters constant wide-open looks, over-pursuit on hedges and help, no one pulling the ball back out and moving it around when we get in a funk, but just dribbling into a trap and taking a dumb long fade-away two (that is always short) with no one in offensive rebounding position. We quit in the K-State loss and in the last two, I think the guys just thought once we got some sort of lead, the other team would fold. Problem is, they were both much mentally tougher than our team was.
At our best, we can be very good - there is no doubt. Agree completely that the game at K-State was fluky because Wade was out down the stretch and THT couldn't miss (not a great shooter). I think the problem is the players seem to think they only have to play this way on the road and it will just "happen" at home, or possibly they just don't really care that much about winning the league - hard to believe that but the lack of focus has now become a trend and isn't just the exception. Baylor, freaking Baylor, just came into Hilton and beat us without their best post player and we just got schooled by a guy who didn't even play at a D-3 school. Where is the sense of urgency? You can't play hard for only 10-15 minutes and win.