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[QUOTE="SoBeCuse, post: 56812, member: 796"]
The slower combo guards have been part of our problem the last few years, IMO. Not enough good and quick ball handlers against solid m2m defense. That is just a pure fact and not any speculation. Yeah we usually get into the tourney and have pretty good seeds but we have to start doing better, period. Nationally, from a media perspective I think we have a bit of choke/underperforming cloud hanging over us. I don't like it and it's starting to become a bad recurring theme.

I am excited about the potential of our guards this season. The changed bodies and seemingly improved quickness could be really huge. We won't really know until we play the Pitts, Marq, and ULs but more likely than not we will face another tough m2m similar to those guys somewhere in the tournament. I'm sick of the excuses also. Sure the AO injury was a bad break, the KJo takedown, and so was drawing Marq, but we have overcome this somehow. One could argue that Butler would've pressured Scoop and co. so badly and made them pick up the dribble too far from the basket (big problem of theirs due to lack of quickness), taking AO out of the equation. Who knows? I am encouraged though for this coming season and the future. If we are dealt one of those types of teams, hopefully we have the personnel to make a big run if you look beyond the recruiting rankings. LGO!
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