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Message: [QUOTE="tzznandrew, post: 4105972, member: 168"] But that's just not how progress goes, typically. You take away a lotto pick who would have been an AA candidate (probably second team) had he stayed healthy, and that's hard to replace, even with great talent influxes. In 2003, Ben Gordon, Emeka Okafor, Tony Robertson, Taliek Brown all got better. They added players higher ranked than we added this year. And the team was good, but definitively not better than the Caron led team because the alpha makes a team go. We can see the same thing in 2010 and 2012. Role players getting better is important, but you need a star, and removing one and filling the team with talented freshmen is usually—at least for UConn—lead to a worse year. Now, we may end the year thinking this team was better overall, but that [I]may[/I] be because of how many games Bouk missed. [/QUOTE]