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Message: [QUOTE="Cuango, post: 4326202, member: 3834"] Grateful to the departed seniors for their efforts and loyalty to the program. I wish them great success in all their future endeavors! However, I am looking forward to a new era now. I am optimistic for the future and feel like we have an opportunity to let some new players become the architects of a new team, one that (hopefully) will have the “clutch” and “big game” gene that (no disrespect intended) this team has been missing for the past few years. This, shall we say “deficiency” imo began to be addressed two years ago with the successful recruitment of Paige, who has it in abundance. Last year we saw Caroline and Azzi demonstrate that they too were able to raise their game when the chips were down. Meanwhile, Nika showed encouraging signs towards the end of the year that her offense was beginning to improve. Aaliyah too seemed to break out of her early season funk and reverted to the promise we all saw in her freshman season. Now we have to hope our five “newbies” (I include Aubrey and Amari here) are able to hit the ground running and that at least two of them surpass expectations and are also able to raise their game against the tougher opponents. Finally, we have to hope our big girl is completely healed and ready to go! My hope (and belief) is that this team (as currently constituted) is far less likely to have catastrophically poor performances in big games going forward. If I’m right, and I believe I am, the next time we find ourselves in a Final Four, we will be far more likely to bring number 12 home to Storrs! [/QUOTE]

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