Its unfair of me to have grouped all the players together when I said that they don't care enought about winning. There are players that have consistantly shown that they want to win and those players play there butts off. Do i think there are times when i think those players slacked off on a play or two here and there. Yeah. But it could be from being gassed or worn thin.
However, I will stick to my guns about saying that there are players who don't show the heart and will to win that an athlete at the division 1 level should show. Hell at any college level. When i see players laughing and smiling on the court during a dead ball when they are getting killed that urks me. I knw basketball is supposed to be fun, but its winning and competing that make it fun. When you sign up to play college hoops there is an expectation that you are going to give it ur all and earn the scholarship you have been given. It is a business agreement, and players are expected to hold up their end of the bargain.
Here is another reason I know they don't have the heart and detemination that they should out on that court. You are telling me that when other teams are putting their body on the line to get boards and lose balls, that we have heart and determination? If that is true, do all the other teams just have a much higher level of heart and determination this year than usual? If everyone else is making far more hustle plays than we are that either means we are lazy or just don't care enough. There is no other answer to getting beat in the hustle category by almost every team we have played. Bad teams can hustle and put their bodies on the line. Hustle is noticable. Hustle is directly corilated to Heart and determination. And as a TEAM we are severely lacking.
So as sad as it is that players like Paris are pulled into the middle of this arguement, basketball is and will always be a team game. And those guys out there not putting in the extra effort, not giving 110%, it makes the entire team look bad.