One way of describing it is the ol’ Yin and Yang from ancient Eastern cosmology.
Yin representing the passive, absorption. Darkness.
Yang, activity, penetration. Positive.
It is essence of the Louisville Cardinals in recent games, as they have shown incremental but palpable improvement, but are still far from where they’d like to be.
In less philosophic terms: The Cardinals dig a hole. Then can’t quite fill it back up.
Against visiting Florida State, U of L gave up scores on the Seminoles’ first four possessions, were immediately down 9 when Kenny Payne was compelled to call a timeout.