Many of you likely read Jim's report of Coach Cut's view of what has gone wrong and what needs to be done to fix things.
https://www.dukebasketballreport.com...-virginia-tech
With sincere, due respect and appropriate humility, Cut's analysis was not encouraging. Essentially, it was "we must do almost everything better". It doesn't address the fundamental problems of resilience [noted by Jim]. It doesn't address the woeful offense, hobbled by poor play calling and execution. It doesn't address the many fundamental miscues, i.e., we are not talking about "finishing" here, we are talking about fundamentals.
What I see is a coach [whom I admire] who does not know how to fix what's wrong. As said in a prior post, I hope that he will continue to soul search and ask trusted friends and advisors.
Addendum: Forgive me, but I am watching MNF [Chiefs v Ravens] and am drooling over the Offensive play calling. I know that we can't replicate pro level O complexity, but what are our potential sources of competitive advantage? We are not going to be bigger, stronger, more skilled, better conditioned and more motivated than most of our opponents. We can be smarter and more imaginative. What we need on O is a young, super talented, wunderkind O genius, such as Brad Stevens in b-ball. I am sure that they are out there. I am thinking about next year of course. Too late to change management staff at this point.