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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 4470396, member: 55"] That's a little harsh. They won a heck of a lot of games and won a #1 seed. What they didn't have was a secondary ball handler after Marcus Williams, either from the wing or as a backup point. As we've seen time after time, normally to our benefit, guard play becomes more important in the tourney than it is in the regular season, and we had one true guard. And what they also didn't have was the pure alpha dog who you could get the ball to and they were going to get their own shot and make it no matter what. Anyone like a Rip Hamilton, a Ben Gordon, an Omeka Okafor, a Kenba or a Shabazz. Everyone on that team could score, but only Rudy Gay had the real skill set to be the alpha scorer, and as an underclassmen on a team full of good upperclassmen, he never wanted to take over offensively. (Anderson had the onions, but he needed the offense to get him looks with his feet set.) [/QUOTE]