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Message: [QUOTE="FfldCntyFan, post: 5000173, member: 71"] I believe the first item will be [B]team chemistry[/B]. In 2022-2023, due to the leadership of the three (which Dan Hurley empowered them with shortly after the NM St loss), we were able to seamlessly integrate a number of new pieces and adopt an entirely new approach while taking a quantum leap forward in overall performance. In 2023-2024 there were fewer new pieces (but arguably more important than the prior year's additions) but once again, we seamlessly became a team who, due to an additional year in the offensive system, performed even better than the prior national champions. We will be adding quite a few pieces for the 2024-2025 season but fortunately, much of it will be merely existing players taking on larger roles. How well and how quickly we reach a point where the chemistry is where it is needed to be competitive at the highest level will play a major role in our success. I believe [B]overall team health[/B] is the second item. While we did have some nagging issues during both title runs, the SJ injury in 2022-2023 was the only one that led to any severe missed time and fortunately for us, the only big impact that had was the number of minutes AK played as a freshman (and the debates here as to whether we should have tried to play Sanogo and Clingan together). A couple players getting a little banged up here and there won't hurt us. Something more severe will be a different story. Samoo credited our S&T team in an above post. They deserve quite a bit of credit but we need this to continue. Finally I believe [B]on court leadership[/B] will be critical. I also believe that this is why Dan Hurley has been making such a point to praise Stewart and Ball. We went from Sanogo, Hawkins and AJAX, all returning players with a lot of minutes and practices with this staff under their belts to Newton, Karaban and Clingan as returning players with a lot of minutes and practices with this staff under their belts. The value of this cannot be understated. We will need this to fall in place if we want to reach the lofty heights we have recently gotten used to. [/QUOTE]

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