As I said in the game thread, throwing away big leads and coming out flat against lesser opposition is a hallmark of Gottfried’s coaching, dating all the way back to Alabama.
Yes, college basketball is a game of runs and nothing can ever be taken for granted in the ACC, but it gets maddening to see a talented team giving away double-digit leads by not playing hard-nosed, smart hoops after watching them do exactly that in the first half of the same game. It’s truly frustrating to see the team let up and not put away an opponent with a strong start after the break. Or letting an obviously lesser opponent build a 20 point lead by coming out flat. But that’s our DNA, not this season, but last season and in years past too.
We got lucky today, to be blunt.
