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Message: [QUOTE="Towney007, post: 3366129, member: 5832"] I think we're in pretty good shape for the most part. Bubble team. Us getting in to the tournament or not totally depends on the upperclassmen guards and whether they can remember how to play basketball on a given night. When/If they show up - we can hang with and beat anyone. If they don't, we're pretty easy pickings sans a colossal effort from our bench. Everyone else has done what's expected of them, for the most part. Getting to the tournament or the NIT or wherever is so totally arbitrary and not even part of my thinking right now. I just want to see them get better. So far - everyone looks *a lot* better than the last two years - so we're making progress. Adams doesn't look like the same human. Whaley is about as good as could possibly be expected of him. Wilson looks useful this year. Polley looks more confident even though he tunes in and out a bit still, Josh is fantastic when he remembers he's 8,000 feet tall and Akok came as advertised and then some I think. Gaffney looks like a freshman. Bouknight looks like a really good freshman. Vital is exactly what he's always been. Gilbert should be fine, hasn't played well. Would like to see from Hurley: -Give a shorter leash to Vital and hand minutes to more talented underclassmen (I think we'll see a lot of this in the coming weeks) -Design some not bad inbounds plays -Press more because for whatever reason as soon as we start pressing, our guys get themselves confused with Duke or something. Other than that, i'm fine where we're at. We're right where I expected us to be right now. St Joe's loss was bad. Florida win was excellent. Beat a tough Buffalo team and a good/above average Miami team. Lost a dumpster fire game against Indiana that we might have been able to pull out. All things considered, we're right on schedule. Man, what a difference RJ Cole would make on this team. That's all I got. [/QUOTE]

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