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Message: [QUOTE="Cuango, post: 4147403, member: 3834"] The main weakness is when two or three fifths of your highly ranked starters turn out to be non alphas and/or you don’t have that super dominant super alpha either! The truth is, virtually all of our NC teams had a super alpha ( Dee, Maya, Stewie) and other alpha players as well who, in the immortal words of Josie Wales, got “plumb nasty” when things weren’t going well. Everyone can speculate and argue and point fingers as much as they want, imo the reason we haven’t won a chip in five years is not because of no bench, playing time issues etc but rather because we haven’t had one of the above mentioned types of players and we have not been lucky. When you have a talented but alphaless team you need a little luck to go your way. You need a last second shot to not fall or at least one of your seniors to step up or not foul out or your back up point guard to not be injured. Every one of those teams made it to the FF! They were capable of winning all of those games and the next one! However, unlike our (most of them, anyway) NC teams, they needed a little help. I truly believe we are going to start winning those games (hopefully) this year but certainly starting in 22 because I think we are about to see a lot more alphas on our roster! [/QUOTE]