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Message: [QUOTE="champs99and04, post: 2731821, member: 488"] I suppose it depends which way you look at it. From a numbers standpoint, your perspective makes sense. A jump from 180 or so into the top 50 basically never happens. I haven't gone back and looked at every team over the last century, but my brief research definitely didn't return anything suggesting that's possible, much less realistic. The flaw in that approach, from my end, is that it standardizes something that is no longer relevant in an attempt to make any future accomplishments look more impressive (I am not saying that was your motif, but I think it's natural to overstate the accomplishments of the guy that follows the guy everyone wanted out). It's like if I start talking about the world's population and finish with "but only a select few have had what it takes to join the 6,000 post club on the boneyard." Well, yeah. When you describe the exception from the viewpoint of the exception, it's going to look like you defied the odds because it's muting all the variables that don't align with that trajectory. In terms of talent, this is a tournament roster. Last year we had NIT talent and bad coaches take that to where we were. Talent upgrade, plus experience upgrade, plus coaching upgrade is the formula that makes us an anomaly, IMO. That's not to say I'll be turning cars over if we don't make it, but we should be a team that plays good basketball. Talent regresses to the mean in the end more than anything else. I can't see Jalen Adams finishing his career with one tournament appearance. I just can't. [/QUOTE]

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