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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 5262171, member: 44"] Your memory is fading then, my friend. Although to be fair, it's a lot easier and more fun to remember their national championship seasons, then their early years. That was kind of the point. Taliek in particular caught a huge amount of heat, not unfairly. he was inclined to take off with the ball at 100 miles an hour and end up losing an out of bounds at the opposite end line. It took time for him to to learn to play with pace and choose his moments when he wanted to use his explosive speed. Likewise, Ricky Moore caught the nickname rickety early on. We all remember that amazing and heroic national championship game, where his offense carried us in the first half and his defense shut down Duke guards in the second. He literally left everything on the floor. But he didn't come out of the womb that way, it took time. I don't know if it's much of an argument to say Mahaney was a little used bench player. The kid wasn't a walker, he was a highly sought after portal player who came in to give us much needed help at the point guard position and ended up being unable to do so. He definitely caught criticism for that, but it isn't unexpected, and definitely not worse than other guys on this team have seen. I'm not big on being overly critical about players. They want to be successful even more than we want them to be successful. I don't think the heat that Mahaney caught here was unusual or surprising compared to what others have and certainly not more than you would see on virtually any college basketball fan board in the country, given the circumstances. [/QUOTE]

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