Nobody accused Tom Crean of setting the bar high for his first season in Athens.
Crean stressed, at his introductory press conference back in March 2018, that the process would take time. Perhaps the entire year, maybe, before the Bulldogs began to fully grasp his style and run it cleanly.
“I know it’s not going to happen overnight,” he said in his 20-plus-minute opening statement.
Two games into the Bulldogs’ Southeastern Conference slate, it’s becoming increasingly clear that Crean wasn’t lying. He continued to stress that it would, in fact, take some time before this team could grasp his system in various interviews since.