Sooner or Later, Youth, Inexperience Won’t Explain Losses

FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. — Contemplating that is getting near the time when Eric Musselman often turns issues round, we’d not need to get too gloomy.

However that is what quite a lot of Arkansas followers are feeling proper now.

Going to Missouri for a Wednesday evening late sport is not essentially the crossroads, however the Razorbacks may be getting shut.

The Razorbacks have fallen all the best way to No. 25 on this week’s rankings after creating a streak of not with the ability to end video games within the second half currently.

Musselman is invoking the inexperience argument.

“We’re going by quite a lot of new experiences, that means sold-out buildings,” Musselman stated Monday morning. “We’ve six freshman that clearly haven’t skilled school basketball and another guys that most likely haven’t performed in these sort of atmospheres.”

All of that could be legitimate and the explanation, however they higher determine it out shortly. They’ve already found out sluggish begins aren’t good and managed to show a double-digit lead right into a double-digit loss over the span of lower than a half.

With 13 league video games left on the schedule (seven at dwelling), they higher determine it out fairly quick if they need any shot in any respect of getting a lot post-season success.

“You achieve confidence by enjoying good for 40 minutes,” Musselman stated. “You achieve confidence by successful a sport. Our mindset going into the sport needs to be that we’re going to play in entrance of a crowd, we’re going to play in opposition to a extremely well-coached group and we’re going to play in opposition to a group that’s very assured in their very own constructing. So that you’ve received to match all of these areas as a way to give your self an opportunity to win on the highway.”

Nonetheless, there’s not a single particular space Musselman can put his finger on to repair.

“It is quite a lot of issues,” he stated. “There’s quite a lot of areas that now we have to proceed to enhance and develop in, each on the highway and at dwelling.”

Musselman hasn’t forgotten methods to coach. You surprise if it is all one thing to jot down off as younger and inexperienced as this group as a result of the expertise is there.

Not being an skilled on these items, I do not know that there’s a magic reply.

Which, naturally, goes to result in different questions … eventually.

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