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Message: [QUOTE="Gurleyman, post: 3906073, member: 175"] I may have been more forgiving since we had just won in ‘04. And maybe if that NC State loss was in the Sweet 16 or EE, I might have gotten caught up in visions of a repeat and feeling like we missed a great opportunity. Repeat chances don’t come along often, and we haven’t come close in any of four opportunities. The ball stuck in the rim in Texas was also a little easier to get over since I felt like we’d be better the next year, and I probably had some of those same thoughts in 2005 - thinking everyone was returning and we’d add AJ. Of course, then the laptops thing happened, and I don’t think AJ would have played anyway. It was 2008 before he looked like the player we expected (not sure if CV turning pro was a surprise at the time - I remember it being really surprising he went so high in the lottery, but I forget if conventional wisdom was that he was leaving). [/QUOTE]