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Message: [QUOTE="freescooter, post: 5175240, member: 1023"] I think this team is good, not great. Probably not a serious March threat. We are going through the adjustment period that virtually every defending champion does. Guys move on and new guys in new roles need to adjust and sometimes don’t quite work out. Biggest thing I see is the fact that we no longer have the totally dominant shot blocker inside. Both Sanogo and Clingon controlled the inside. Guys dribbled by their guarder only to find very large athletic people who understood how to block shots standing in the way. That made the defense infinitely better. Neither Johnson nor Reed are that type of player. On offense, we have a 6th man running the point. I like him. He was terrific in his role. He is just ok as the full time ball handler. In some ways it takes away from his ability to hit those corner 3s. I honestly don’t know how we just miss so many bunnies. I think Hurley is a jerk. Good coach. Great recruiter but still a jerk. It will be interesting to see if he is another Coach K who won back to back, then won 3 more titles and 7 more Final Fours or more like Billy Donovan who also went back to back but only made 1 more Final Four and zero additional titles. Side notes he has one earlier final four run. His only post title Final Four he lost in 2014 to UConn. He was considered the next big thing in 2007. He was just a good coach when he left for the NBA in 2015. [/QUOTE]