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Message: [QUOTE="August_West, post: 4252719, member: 1047"] Kind of. That would've been a step forward. I don't see this past season as a step forward. I saw it as holding ground with last year. Same results. 3rd place finish in Big East regular season. Loss in BET semi's and 1st round NCAA loss as higher seed. It actually played out as exactly the same as the year before so how can that be a step forward? Especially after all that hullaballoo with the 45:07 (or whatever it was) mantra and all that. I guess if you want to say we were top 25 for much of season, I guess that is something, but that is marginal to me compared to the overall arc of the season. I believe we could've stepped forward this year. I believe we had the pieces to play just a bit better than we did as I look at the overall arc of the season. Was it a successful season overall? I suppose I would say yes. But for me it was a frustrating successful season. It felt like we had another gear to hit, and saw flashes of it but could never fully put it together. Very tantalizing season and I'm using tantalizing in the original reference to the story of Tantalus. We had a lot of very serviceable and sometimes excellent pieces to this team. It definitely wasn't easy to fit them together. I do believe though that there were fit possibilities that could've been addressed by coach. It was mystifying to me at times, after everything we had seen. Combined the lack of addressing of the ill fitting pieces, along with some inconsistent play on pretty much everyone on the team at some point this year, and it always felt that we were just short of getting over the hump. I'm looking forward to next year. I think we have some real possibilities. I don't think we should be looking to step back from what we've done the last 2 years or expect it. I expect to be better. [/QUOTE]

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