Living up to expectations
I don't like the premise of this thread. It implies that our guys haven't lived up to expectations. If said by one of the players or by a member of the coaching staff, that is useful information. Coming from people who don't know these guys well at all, it just seems wrongheaded. The transition to college is a big deal (athletically, socially, and academically), and it's even harder when it's played out on national television. Very few of our greatest players were as studly as freshmen as they were when they were upperclassmen. For example, Bobby Hurley now lives on Mount Olympus, but I recall cringing at his youthful passes into the stands, and, while Grant Hill always looked smooth, he didn't break out until the Final Four dunk that astonished everyone. Corey Maggette can start in the NBA, but he didn't start at Duke as a freshman. Even Christian Laettner had a freshman year that included his missing free throws that cost us a game in the Meadlowlands (and led to a locker room pat on the back by R. Nixon). The rest of us get off free (for example, I don't think Lance Thomas wrote in to comment on the original posters poor subject-verb agreement, and presumably the poster took English at some point). Yeah, it would be nice if one of those three guys were playing like Kevin Durant. If that had been the case all season, we wouldn't be playing on Thursday. So they're playing like excellent, solid freshman on a top 20 team. That's pretty good, and I'd say that we would be better off without the sniping.