Regarding the transfer portal -- would certainly hope Braden and Kennedy want to stay, but if they see no light at the end of the tunnel, I could understand them wanting to finish their careers on a winner. I'm not sure if they have a better shot at starting on a winning team than here, but if the wheels are truly falling off, then who knows.
Drew's postgame comments (
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=slQxhMgGoAU) were kind of pathetic IMO. He puts all the blame on the players for not playing hard enough. Maybe the Saint thing has something to do with it, but ultimately Drew needs to take public ownership of the team failing.
With the turnovers, the worst part is they are generally not playmaking turnovers, but just basic ball possession. At this point we know we will always get pressed -- how are we still getting 10 second violations? We also had a ton of turnovers from double-teams coming off dribble-handoffs, and never adjusted. I think we had one open layup off of it, but that was a fluke.
We never made adjustments in the second half for these, while VCU came out and dissected our defense in the second half. You could even see when we switched our zone in, VCU knew exactly what to do and methodically worked a wide open layup. When we were in man they got got the switches they wanted and took our foul-trouble guys to the hoop with ease.
Drew's plays coming out of timeouts are always disasters -- not a good sign for a coach. I'm close to no-confidence on Drew, sad to say. He seems like a good recruiter who is completely overmatched as a HC, and even as a "player's coach" it looks like he has lost the team. Hopefully he can turn it around, because in the transfer portal era this is the kind of situation that can snowball quickly...