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Message: [QUOTE="August_West, post: 4146049, member: 1047"] This. To answer OP’s question. Yes we are good. But at this point only just good. Tough call on where this team goes from here. We can continue to improve and tighten up things and maybe some slumping players ( Hawkins gaff, Polley) come out of those slumps. 2.5 months left in season plenty of time we can have that happen. Then this good team moves up to really good. That’s what I’m hoping. But another part of me has the suspicion that we are who we are: a decent defense, poor shooting, mistake prone, crunch time allergic squad and we are going to lose a bunch of tough games where we have been in them until winning time and then fall short. We do have some glaring flaws. Including guard play ( RJ is great but those circus shots he was making yesterday is not something you can hang your hat on game in and game out) . Maintaining leads, valuing possessions, shooting, and running good stuff at critical moments. We make so many mistakes at crunch time. Including our wins. We survived Martin with 2 offensive fouls and RJ getting trapped over 1/2 court twice ( how does that still happen ?!!?) in crunch time last night simply because Marquette missed 3 bunnies including a gimme dunk 3 trips in a row. While I liked last nights win I still don’t like the way we look in critical moments. [/QUOTE]