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Message: [QUOTE="DMIL, post: 4245857, member: 8539"] It depends on what the goals were going into the season. If it was to finish 3rd in the conference, get to the semis of the BET and just be happy to get into the NCAA tournament then it was a success. We’ve seen this team play like this numerous times this year and we all knew it when we saw it today. Coming out flat, the lack of execution, missing bunnies, no sense of urgency, inability to let that supposed great defense create easy buckets, etc. For some reason it’s hard for us to be honest about the obvious. If anyone knows what our goals were coming into the season and during the season clearly this wasn’t it. You have to acknowledge the failures before you can move forward and grow from it. I should be feeling pretty devastated and a bit surprised that I’m not. When I think about it a bit more it’s because at some point during the season I stopped lying to myself about the ceiling for this team. Solid, yes but they showed us today a version of themselves that we’ve seen plenty of times this season and within the first 10 minutes of this game I knew in my gut that they did not bring what was required to win this game. We are a piece or two away. Bonafide, smart, Alpa Dogs are needed. This was clearly not the expectation. Call it what you want. [/QUOTE]