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[QUOTE="bozophobe, post: 4611363, member: 2589"]
My problem with the 2010 over 2012 crowd is the often-stated assumption by many here that they would have won it all without the fateful injury. There would have still been 3 games left to win against the remaining best. Assuming they were all equal, that means a 12.5% chance of winning those three. Okay, we'll adjust upward because S.U. was intrinsically better than them, heh. Still nowhere over 50% for all 3 games. Need to keep respect for opponents. And Arinze was a beast by post-2020 S.U. standards. But he had too many 3 rebound games on his resume for comfort to assume he would have been adequate for every match-up.

That 2012 team had spawned a bizarre advantage nobody saw coming. Fab Melo didn't play the usual or expected Shaq-like role (being a monolith just for sheer size within 5 feet of the basket - how'd that work for Purdue?), but rather that Melo-in-the-middle thingy where he would palm the ball back inside or 8 feet to an open shooter. Even Kentucky didn't necessarily have an answer for that.

And we are probably blessed when we can use nicknames like "Melo," and people aren't sure exactly clear on the actual person being referenced.
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