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Message: [QUOTE="ctchamps, post: 5236605, member: 37"] At the start of this season a lot of things had to come together and come together quickly. Additionally there was no room for setbacks. We had too many new pieces plus only one position that was established. Solo needed more time than was ideal before his defense and rebounding improved. Liam improved his defense relatively early but was significantly worse after his injury. Nowell started the season injured so he missed the early season. It was compounded by his second injury. Samson improved his fouling and rebounding but it was late in the season. Hassan had his knee injury. The staff missed on a starting point guard but Hassan ended up being more than adequate. The knee injury and not having a reliable backup were the problems. How much of that miss was the result of the handicap the NCAA imposes on teams going deep in the tournament? Hurley’s technical which I feel set the tone for our results in Maui put tremendous pressure in all the subsequent games. And outside of his inability to control his interaction with the refs contributing to our foul discrepancy I felt the staff did a decent job and got the most out of this group of players as was reasonably possible. Especially given their limitations, inexperience and the pressure to win when we were every bodies championship game. The only flexibility Hurley had was at the five. And outside of the argument Reed should have started, the staff rotated them to maximize the efficiency for that position. The limitation was this team was a bad passing team reducing that position’s production. Last season the players, as a group were as good a passing team and the best at anticipating each other’s moves as ever played in college. This year we struggled figuring out how to inbound. And yet we were one shot away from making the sweet sixteen. [/QUOTE]

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