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Message: [QUOTE="UConn_Top_Dog, post: 2561946, member: 2285"] This my friends is what is lacking from this team, along with a true leader and skilled shooters. The kids are trying, but it's difficult to keep spirits up and team confidence up the way things are going right now. Losing is like a snowball rolling down a hill gaining momentum. This team needs someone to step up and get everyone focused and glued together. Very little KO can do in this department. And with grad transfers and freshman comprising our teams the past few years who also transferred out, it's very difficult to build chemistry. No true leader emerged at the beginning of the season. I believe Gilbert was the one, so that was a huge huge blow to this team. We need the core of players to stick together for next year. No one should be going anywhere next year including KO. Only then will we have a chance to do great things. A team is family, and if KO is fired that family will break apart. On that note I leave you with a perfect example of leadership and team chemistry and how one player can have such an influence in turning a program around. We forget this program was in turmoil under Calhoun as well before the 2011 title run. [URL="http://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/tournament/2011/columns/story?columnist=oneil_dana&id=6294312"]O'Neil: Walker cooks up championship chemistry for UConn[/URL] [I]"His greatest achievement, though, isn't the 271 postseason points he scored or the 381 minutes (out of a possible 445) he logged. It's the reboot he gave to a program that had lost its swagger amid a dismal and difficult season a year ago."[/I] [/QUOTE]

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