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[QUOTE="Powellfan, post: 4608204, member: 4819"]
I was expecting more from the Orange this season.  I still think they have more talent than UNC, and they really should have beaten a Hopkins team coming off short rest who was playing on the road.  Those two losses really sting.  Additionaly those are two teams they will be fighting against for tournmanent births, and they already put themselves behind the eightball.  And while Duke probably earned the win, SU let them off the hook.

It's been a pretty troubling recent history of not being able to close out close games (UNC and Cornell last year). The Brent Axe article recently seemed to be pretty positive about the team (ironic given the recent uproar surrounding poor Axe), intimating the team was getting close to turning things around. Is it fools gold I guess is the question?  Right now it kind of seems like it.

Frustrating season to be honest. SU is getting tremendous contributions from their freshmen and transfers, but they just have issues at SSDM and face-off that I feel like are going to hold them back all season.  We shall see what happens, but if they are only able to win the next two games (no wins against ACC or Princeton), that will be a big underperformance for me. Yes the team is incredibly young, but they also are talented, more talented then I think the results show. Time to put up or shut up.
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