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Message: [QUOTE="Sphinx, post: 4209219, member: 4623"] Congrats, OP. This is the most intelligently-directed set of observations I've read on this forum in a good while. It's refreshing to see our limitations realistically weighed against our prospects for improvement. I'd observe, recalling early season expectations, that this team has survived a frustrating set of worst-case scenarios. We've gotten next to nothing out of two 4-star recruits and our junior backup center. We've lost our PF backup to injury. Our PG backup has been largely ineffective. Our 3-point specialist (until yesterday) was averaging 32% from the 3-point line, and our most promising newcomer has gone from a 16-point performance against Auburn to an occasional trey and a hint of greater defensive awareness. Essentially, 7 of our 12 players have fallen short of expectation. And yet your projections of how little improvement it would take to turn our close losses into close wins is, I believe, realistic. Despite everything, we are borderline being a very good team. [/QUOTE]