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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 5263709, member: 175"] Or Darrion Williams. Christian Anderson was TT’s fourth or fifth best player. Depending on how you feel about Hawkins and his 6.5 assists per game with poor shooting. The other guys were all transfers. Pettiford and Labron had good seasons but were “fourth or fifth option” cogs on teams built around lineups loaded with basically all transfers. They helped but the team wasn’t built around them. Would be like saying our 2014 team relied on grad transfers because we had one. It’s a new era. Our first two titles … and our fourth … were teams that gelled for 2-3 years before winning. The third was year 3 Kemba and new pieces. The nucleus of our fifth (Sanogo, Jackson, Hawkins) gelled a bit, but then some veterans came in. Our last one was all guys who played 1 or 2 years, but we had some continuity with Tristen, Alex and DC. It’s a new era. We had to wait a year for Cole to be eligible after transferring, so it wasn’t that long ago that you couldn’t find instant help. But now you don’t have to groom people for a long term run, since short term help is always there. And the people you groom might not even stay. You don’t have to like the system now, but you better play by the new rules. [/QUOTE]