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Thank youIt means that our teams were inconsistent under HD and it was an (I'd say, the) issue that never got addressed. It showed up in the following ways...
- Huge swings in how the team played during individual games...starting exceptionally flat and only getting going after we'd get down a significant amount or playing well and being in the game (or even leading) and then have a 5+ minute section where we'd look like we had no real game plan and we'd give up a significant run or blowing significant leads near the end of games and either losing or pulling out narrow wins.
- Significant game to game inconsistency and never really knowing how the team would show up. The team would play really well one game and then look significantly worse the next and then like a much better team in the next game. Or we'd play really well over a 3-5 game stretch and then suddenly play really poorly over a 3-5 game stretch.
- Significant season to season inconsistency. One year we have a guard heavy roster and the next we have great bigs and not-so=great guards. There has been little continuity from year-to-year and, when there has been, it hasn't borne fruit on the court. And, of course, the biggest example here returning most of the starting lineup from a team who played in the NC game and then missing the NCAA tournament.
A lot has been said that the issue with HD is simply wins and losses and, at the heart of the matter, that is true. But a significant related issue has been that under HD, Carolina has failed to meet the standard of "Play Hard, Play Smart, Play Together". Far too often, the team has not done those 3 basic things that lead to success and the result has been, in addition to too many losses, a team often displays wild swings in performance between portions of games, games, and seasons.
It was not an inconsistent 5 year season record : it was possession to possession and game to game inconsistency.
