Will Fricking Wade. This dude gets it. Explains why he went off on the team.

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To the media he says that (Paraphrasing)-

—- It may be a good story for you to say we won the last 6 games by so few points, but it does nothing for us in the NET rankings. What I told the team, I did it in a good way. Our guys understand we had to get better. What we were doing was not sustainable.

The real reason I did it is because we are winning all of these games and our numbers aren’t improving. We aren’t beating the computers. YOU HAVE TO BEAT THE COMPUTERS. We were hovering in the 20’s. We are going to move up tonight. There’s other stuff that goes into this as we get going. As you go further up, the margins are thinner and thinner. We were winning but the numbers weren’t moving in the NET. All of it matters... efficiency... everything.

I was so mad when we gave up that 3 at the end of the Texas game. There is a big difference between a 2 point win and a 5 point win. It’s nice to win a game, but you have to beat the computers. There’s predictive models in the NET. You have to beat the predictive models. You’re not just playing the other team and the scoreboard, you’re playing the computers. We need to get as good a seed as we can get if we get in the thing. It just wasn’t sustainable. The number one thing is to win and then you have to win the right way—-