I didn't say the "team" was "incapable." I said everyone here knew we weren't among the top 4. IF Skinn honestly thinks we were a "really really good" team then I want no part of him. He, like DP, can't judge talent.
On your other point, we also had the easy schedule due to Covid. We ducked Duquesne, Davidson, Richmond, and St. Bonaventure and got St. Joe's and LaSalle. Had we played the actual schedule we could have just as easily been 6 - 12 had we played a full season.
Another case of we'll just have to agree to disagree.
Yes, that's exactly what you are saying. You are saying regardless of the coach, the players are not good enough to compete. Saying Skinn is not a good judge of talent is basically saying the players suck and it's not Paulsen's fault they can't compete.
We played the Bonnies. We were only scheduled to play them once originally. The same as Dayton, where we got them twice instead of once. The games we missed out on in the original schedule were UMass, Davidson, Duquense, GW, Richmond, and Saint Louis.
Duquesne is an interesting case, because the last four seasons those games have all been one possession wins or losses for either side. I have no idea how that game would have played out, but to say they are "clearly" better defies the evidence on the court. So maybe we lose to both Davidson and Duquesne, but again, the reason why we got blasted by Davidson in the quarterfinals was Paulsen's dumbass defensive strategy of giving a great shooting team free range to shoot 3s (as McKillop said in the postgame presser being "surprised" Mason gave them so many "dare" 3s).
Go back to the 2018-2019 roster and tell me that team shouldn't have won more games than it did, a team that had two chances to beat Kansas State couldn't beat American, Penn, Georgia Southern, or Davidson on a day where they went 4-29 from 3.
John Vaughan also said "it's not the talent that's the problem. Wake up people!"
