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Message: [QUOTE="hoophuskee, post: 4196642, member: 3535"] I don't agree. Read my 1st post on this thread. Yes I spoke of having Walker vs Arizona. That is an inferred expectation that UCONN would have won. Why wouldn’t I have mentioned that? The OP was talking about the last few years too, wasn’t he? And he is sort of writing UCONN off, isn’t he? So what makes this comment I made not appropriate vs the OP sort of writing us off when his thread is about about setting expectations? And my subsequent comments are expectations too if we had these players that have been hurt. (If you want to discuss who would've stayed or gone and create another thread or do a PM I'll be happy to go back and forth on that. Let's see who has been burned the worst. And to go back above regarding the OP and expectations- this was one of his major focal points, wasn’t it? Setting expectations? He said; [B]"It’s not as awful as you imagine, but you do have to shift your [U]expectations[/U] and be willing to take a rebuilding journey."[/B] And as far as "talent." IMO it's sometimes overused and sometimes irrelevant. You need both fundamentals and talent. I've made this comment many times. Before this Nova game and after Paige got hurt the fundamentals of shooting for this UCONN team was not good. So the "talent" they have gets minimized because they don’t have the complimentary fundamentals. For example, how much of a triple-threat are individual players if they can’t face up and hit a jumper/shot facing the basket? Yet there will be screams that the player has all this “talent.” But talent without good enough fundamentals is what? [B] [/B] [/QUOTE]

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