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Message: [QUOTE="CL82, post: 5000363, member: 44"] Welcome to the board. This is a nice first post. Keep posting. With the potential loss of all five starters we need a ton of things to go right for us to repeat. Yeah we need last year's freshman to continue to improve. We need Hass to make better decisions and be able to stay on the floor longer. We need this year's freshman to materially contribute and we need Reed, and Mahaney to learn and adapt to Hurleys complex system so that they can play very significant roles. As [USER=71]@FfldCntyFan[/USER] points out we need all of that to happen while all these new pieces and players in new rules gel together to form the incredible chemistry that we've seen over the last two years. That is a huge mountain to climb pretty much everything needs to go right in order for lightning strike a third time. That said, I would not bet against this staff. They've made a jump in their approach to the game and teambuilding, and the rest of college basketball is struggling to catch up. (We're still doomed though.) [/QUOTE]