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Message: [QUOTE="RuffRuff, post: 5179582, member: 1268"] Losing your alpha hurts team chemistry beyond just the talent. Take a team like Purdue for instance, who is playing amazingly well. I thought they’d take a massive leap back with Edey gone. They are really a 3 man team and a bunch of role players, and two of those three are good but not great players. Smith is just so good, he runs that system and the entire ecosystem rolls through him. Liam is not that but he was starting to take on that role. It’s hard to project their upside with him back because his role as that leader hadn’t fully baked out yet and now he’s coming back off his second injury of year. There is reason to hold out hope as long as you manage expectations. [/QUOTE]