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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4901148, member: 181"] That's a tall statement, and I'll decline looking across history to make an assessment, without claiming disagreement with what you wrote. I do believe that coaching from the top down (plus the buy-in you noted) best explains the distinction between last year & this year's teams. Less than one year ago, this forum's experienced, knowledgeable, and opinionated fanbase was quite arguably at an unsettled 50%± level regarding whether the team had a good head coach. That does not seem to be an open topic since April 3, 2023. In the Seton Hall game, I texted to my sister in the opening 10 minutes - when the game was close, and SH went up 18-14 - that the team looked like it was taking an extra pass or two during several possessions, as though it was insisted upon as part of a game plan exercise in discipline. Rewatch the game highlights again. While they aren't quite the iso magic you refer to, Castle's dunks; Diarra's corkscrew layup; Johnson's alley oops; Cam's fadeaway; Solo's snakey drive to the rim; Alex making his line three after five misses, but having figured other ways to score; and Clingan's jams straight up without a bounce, going high off the glass, and the sequence with 2 clean-ups offa first missed shot in order to pad his stats to get the double-double (lol) all delighted me in real time, then seeing them collected together, and now picturing all of them in my mind's eye as I write these words at least 36 hours after last viewing the second of two highlights compilations. [/QUOTE]

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