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Message: [QUOTE="businesslawyer, post: 2897868, member: 55"] Obviously there is no way to go back and prove it but I could not disagree more. Drummond's minutes and roles were the cause of AO's attitude going south (again, that's primarily AO's fault but it's also not hard to understand) and Roscoe, who was such a key defensively to winning the prior year, being stuck to the bench. And, for all his talents, the things he couldn't do yet (shoot foul shots and set screens) made it hard for the rest of the team. IIRC, we didn't beat a single Top 50 RPI team that year and were lucky to get into the NCAAs. A team that started AO, Roscoe, Lamb, Bazz and Boat, with a bench of Giffey, Daniels, Olander, etc., should have been more than talented enough to play better. And, for all the crap hurled at AO for that year, sucky attitude or not his plus/minus was significantly better than Drummonds that year. And, since they played most of their minutes together, that meant that the team was much better off when AO was at the 5 and Drummond was sitting than when Drummond was in and AO was sitting. Finally, it might have been easier to transition leadership to 'Bazz if we weren't dealing with a surefire lottery pick who showed up the first day of classes and was instantly supposed to be the Man. [/QUOTE]