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Message: [QUOTE="VAHuskyFan, post: 3906480, member: 1585"] 1. Bouk was better. Whaley was better. Akok was injured. Sanogo is a huge step up on the inside and got much better in the second-half of the season. Cole was great in the second half. 2. Hurley does some things really well. The team fights and plays hard for 40 minutes. They are generally well prepared on the defensive end. He draws up some good plays out of timeouts. Agree he tends to react a bit too much. The offense looked really good with great ball movement sometimes, but did tend to completely devolve at others. The team occasionally forgot how to shoot the ball, including at the line. Hard to blame Hurley for us shooting under 50% from the stipe. 3. Bouk improved year-over-year, Whaley improved, Sanogo improved, Polley’s ceiling was capped by injury. Carlton I think largely played to his potential. We also had two COVID stoppages and Bouk/Jackson were both injured, so tough/unfair to draw negative conclusions about player development. Not sure what was up with Bouk after his return - never quite got back to 100%. Nothing to do with coaching. 4. We played great against a bunch of good teams and were competitive (but largely came up short) against top teams. MD is not great, but they shot lights-out tonight. Meanwhile, we couldn’t hit the side of a barn. I think Cole’s concussion really hurt us. He was huge for us down the stretch and looked out of rhythm a bit tonight. Just the nature of the injury (I doubt we ever see him fall into the lane again.). The season was another step in the right direction. We made the Tournament and battled for 40 minutes in a game where nothing went right. Thanks to the team for making March fun again and looking forward to next year. [/QUOTE]

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