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Message: [QUOTE="Shamon30, post: 4318131, member: 11738"] TLDR: playing too many cupcakes is bad and can build unrealistic expectations, especially in the 06-07 season. I'll never forget the 06-07 season where we started 11-0 due to having more cupcakes than a first grade classroom birthday party. We were pretty highly ranked by the end of that stretch, though the rest of the season was kind of a disaster. Even though it went poorly, it was a really fun season to watch. We had 8 freshmen (Hasheem Thabeet, Jerome Dyson, Stanley Robinson, Curtis Kelly, Ben Eaves, Jonathan Mandeldove, Doug Wiggins, and Gavin Edwards), along with sophomores Jeff Adrien, Marcus Johnson, Rob Garrison, and Craig Austrie. AJ Price was a redshirt sophomore after missing one season due to AVM and another due to you-know-what. Some of my top memories from that season are Thabeet trying to pass the ball to Calhoun, Marcus Johnson's dunk-filled 16 point game against West Virginia, seeing Ben Eaves score his sole point at UConn, and Price and Austrie's different styles yo-yoing them in and out as starting PG. Also, Mandeldove showed flashes, sinking a mid-range jumper against Pitt and blocking 5 shots in as many minutes in another game. Seeing Johnson flounder at the 3 after a really encouraging freshman season (he was projected as a #9 draft pick for 2007 when the season started) and Rob Garrison's lack of success after a summer where he put in a ton of effort were saddening. Otherwise, it was in many ways a really fun season. Except for all of the losing. Speaking of Marcus Johnson, he's the only guy I remember who played in one exhibition game prior to transferring, rather than doing so in the off season. This probably should've been it's own thread, as I'm way off topic by this point. [/QUOTE]

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