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Message: [QUOTE="MexicoHusky, post: 3880609, member: 6438"] The thing that stands out to me is how well the end of the season has gone. Since Bouk's injury actually. When Bouk was injured I thought to myself, this could be good. It will force the others to improve. When Bouk returns we'll have his greatness back combined with the new and improved supporting cast. I suspect everyone on the Yard had a similar thought. We all reviewed the schedule. Assuming Bouk returns on schedule, we recognized we would have 5 or 6 games regular season games to make things right. 5 or 6 games to integrate Bouk back into the flow and maybe earn an at-large bid. This isn't the first time we've been in this situation. This isn't the first time I've formulated a low percentage fantastical plan in my mind. A low percentage plan that requires 2 or 3 unlikely things to happen. I've done it for the last 5 years while contemplating our path to the NCAA tournament after playing horrible for the first half of the season. Eventually after losing all the "must win" games it boils down to, "well fudge, we gotta win the conference tournament..." This year the low percentage plan actually happened. The team grew without Bouk. Bouk returned more or less on schedule. The team gelled quickly. The final piece, Bouk appeared to get his deep range shooting back in our last game. It never or almost never works out this well. One other thing. Individual growth. Cole and Martin. Cole in particular has grown a ton. He still has flaws, but we almost never see them. He shoots when it's advantageous. When he's in a high percentage situation for his skill-set he attacks. He almost never forces situations that are not suited for his skill-set. To a lesser extend Martin as well. I felt Martin sorta operated outside the offense early on. He was a bit of a black-hole. Similar to early Cole, Martin forced situations that didn't seem to align with his skills. We saw all those wild short range misses. We haven't seen many of those shots in a while. At this moment I'm very thankful to be a Husky fan. We haven't won anything yet, but we've gone through enough in the past 5 years to be thankful for the good that has happened as of late. [/QUOTE]

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