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Message: [QUOTE="Hans Sprungfeld, post: 4187311, member: 181"] Closing games, especially against experienced coaches, is Danny's growing edge. This has been phrased many other ways, and I offered in November that I regard this season as one in which my overall patience is at a level where it would normally apply to "Season 3 of a total rebuild," having adjusted my POV due to combination of COVID and the shift in conference affiliation and opponents. This 'winning close games' challenge has always been the season's theme, because it was last season's theme, and the year before's too. I see more pessimism than optimism here that the hurdle will be cleared this year. It's pretty much my focus in every game I watch. I have an opinion on every shot taken, as to whether it's a good shot or a bad shot. It's a simplistic, unsophisticated, binary lens. The team takes many rushed, off-balance, ill-advised, poorly-chosen, and unfocused shots. Each player demonstrates their own version of this. An alarming number of dhots look like unforced errors. Sometimes the shots go in, which masks how troublesome the larger pattern is. I still believe that we have every piece needed to nudge things up to a pretty high level. The point-guard, leadership, and game plan components are really a three-part description of a single triad where the team is most insecure. This most will be a constant challenge. I'll continue to count syllables in the haiku thread in dedication to the 'little things' that can make a big difference. As far as I can recall, I was not at all present in the haiku thread during the Creighton game, so that loss might be on me. I offer that I did watch the game in a long-sleeved Husky t-shirt, and that this was my outfit when on that day I was photographed holding my granddaughter for the first time. For all I know, somebody wrote a Haiku that predicted that Hawkins would have his best game of the year, without specifying whether it was a reference to Ryan or Jordan. Let us all regroup, rededicate, and perform at our highest level tomorrow - coaches, players, and fans. [/QUOTE]

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