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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin" data-source="post: 1427841" data-attributes="member: 4069"><p>IMHO Kipper's greatest need for improvement is his mental approach to the game. Some guys just don't have the chip on their shoulder and focus to bring it in big games, and I find Kipper to be a guy who's inconsistent. It's frustrating because watching him you know he can do better. I think it's doubly frustrating in that we saw a lot of softness in the Groce years, and we desparately need to get over the hump and get rid of guys who can't push to the finish and close games out with effort and pride. I'd love to see him develop that, but I don't think it's realistic to project traits on him he doesn't currently have.</p><p></p><p>That said, I think the guys behind him have to earn their minutes. Even if Kipper has weaknesses, it's up to those guys to compete with him, and him to compete to keep his minutes. I really think we win this game with Trent --sucks big time not to have your best player. What a difference for us as fans to find out the kid suffered a concussion earlier and needs to rest. But F!@# us as fans. Happy they care enough about his health to play it safe.</p><p></p><p>There were definitely positives in this game. LOT of ups and downs defensively that need to improve. I give Georgetown a lot of credit. They made plenty of mistakes, but never wavered --and that's a young team too.</p><p></p><p>We need to get over the hump, but we have a lot of freshman, and it's unrealistic not to think they'll be freshman this year.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin, post: 1427841, member: 4069"] IMHO Kipper's greatest need for improvement is his mental approach to the game. Some guys just don't have the chip on their shoulder and focus to bring it in big games, and I find Kipper to be a guy who's inconsistent. It's frustrating because watching him you know he can do better. I think it's doubly frustrating in that we saw a lot of softness in the Groce years, and we desparately need to get over the hump and get rid of guys who can't push to the finish and close games out with effort and pride. I'd love to see him develop that, but I don't think it's realistic to project traits on him he doesn't currently have. That said, I think the guys behind him have to earn their minutes. Even if Kipper has weaknesses, it's up to those guys to compete with him, and him to compete to keep his minutes. I really think we win this game with Trent --sucks big time not to have your best player. What a difference for us as fans to find out the kid suffered a concussion earlier and needs to rest. But F!@# us as fans. Happy they care enough about his health to play it safe. There were definitely positives in this game. LOT of ups and downs defensively that need to improve. I give Georgetown a lot of credit. They made plenty of mistakes, but never wavered --and that's a young team too. We need to get over the hump, but we have a lot of freshman, and it's unrealistic not to think they'll be freshman this year. [/QUOTE]
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