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Message: [QUOTE="LStudfellow, post: 2450022, member: 5436"] Ok. I have seen a few people say this in different threads over the last few years. Can we please put this to bed? The 2005-2006 team had a lot of individual talent on it, that is true. HOWEVER, it was not the most talented TEAM, arguably or otherwise. I would absolutely take either the 98-99 1st National Championship team or the 03-04 2nd National Championship team over the 05-06 "team" every day of the week. The 05-06 team was thin and weak at the most important position on the basketball court - Point Guard. Now, if AJ Price had been an active member on that team and playing at full potential, then you would have an argument. But Marcus Williams was our starter, and Craig Austrie as a last-minute Freshman add-on who was mostly in over his head was our back up. Marcus Williams was an excellent distributor for sure, but only an adequate scorer and frankly slow on defense. His less than stellar defense caused us to struggle controlling tempo against teams with better point guards, particularly later in the year. Our problems at point guard were exposed in our loss in the Big East tournament to Syracuse, and throughout the NCAA's where we struggled with 16-seed Albany, struggled again with Kentucky, should have lost to Washington in the Sweet 16 and then did lose to George Mason. And one other thing I see people conveniently forget on here... hypothetically if we had beaten George Mason, we would have faced Florida in the next game in the Final 4. And I believe Florida would have soundly beaten us. They were playing much better as a team, and they proved it by dominating that same George Mason team that we struggled with, and then going on to win the championship by also dominating UCLA in the final. Their guards Lee Humphrey and Taurean Green would have shut dominated Williams and definitely Austrie... as they did Arron Afflalo and Jordan Farmar in the championship. [/QUOTE]

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