In Reply to: One thing I don't think anyone has mentioned. posted by mh on December 18, 2025 at 22:53:19
Sometimes they slip in one area while improving somewhere else. It can look like one step forward and two steps back, but overall I feel this team gradually and incrementally improves. Each game they seem to play more as a team even while some players may yo yo up and down.
I have enthusiasm for everyone individually and collectively as a team. I think there is plenty of room for this team to improve. I'm not saying they are so bad that they have plenty of room to grow. What I'm saying is that I believe the ceiling for this team and for many of the individual players is quite high.
I'm not sure they are going to rise anywhere near what they could be this season. Their improvements are so slow that they may just run out of time before realizing their potential or near their potential. And then we're on to the next season and that could mean a totally different team and then the process starts all over again.
If everyone on this team suddenly "gets it" and the team improvements rapidly make leaps and bounds upward, I believe this team could be a "tough out" and could challenge for a double bye in the conference tournament and could become the type of team that nobody really wants to play in the big tournament. Of course that's a long way away right now and a lot has happen before any of that occurs. But right now I can see that it's possible - that this team still has that potential. It seems unlikely but one never knows. In the meantime I will continue to watch closely with fingers crossed that everyone gets much closer to their potential and that collectively they continue to gel and continue to learn how to play effectively together.
I'm looking forward to the Bruins trip to Iowa City and Madison in a couple of weeks. Let's see how they're playing then. That should tell us a lot about how the rest of the season may go. I know it's only just over two weeks from now, but I think they will be playing better by then then they are now. Two victories are no out of the question, but then again neither is a couple of blowouts. It all depends on whether they can maintain their trajectory of improving and not slip back or stagnate. We'll see.