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Message: [QUOTE="billsin01, post: 2743132, member: 837"] Interesting post because it's always the question in the preseason, right? So I think it's been answered pretty well and if we were looking for a really succinct answer, it'd be fair to say we should be good defensively (we were all year, even while losing more games than we wanted last season) and better overall offensively (even if the improvement is nowhere near as significant as many or all of us hope it will be). That should lead to a team that is fighting for a top 4 ACC spot and at least a threat to go pretty deep in March. I think the part of the question that interesting is how likely or unlikely are the 'this will be a special season' type expectations. That to me is really intriguing. One of the things that got lost a bit as the losses piled up at times last season was how many of those games were tight games: ND was brutal, the Bonnies in OT, FSU in OT, at GT, NC State at home, Carolina at home, even Duke in the tourney ... Now, I don't get into the what-if game very much because for the most part I don't believe we were quite good enough to pull those games out -- that's part of being a solid but not really good team. Those things happen. But it's interesting as you look at this year b/c it's not a huge leap to say that if we play with more tempo and have more depth and more variety of offensive threats, that we have a chance to be at least 5-6 ppg better offensively while still being really tough defensively. Not sure that exactly makes me think we're seeing a 30-win season, but it's not hard to talk yourself into a scenario where we see maybe 25 wins in the regular season. Again, it's hard to look at paper and predict what's going to happen on the court, but what makes this group interesting is that I'm not sure it really requires a massive sea change to see a dramatic shift in the regular season win/loss record. [/QUOTE]

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