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Message: [QUOTE="Arangeman, post: 2169355, member: 6300"] Dasher raised an interesting point about Hop being away with USA basketball and not 100% focused on his actual job this summer. Both he and JB were paid a lot of money to work for someone else and it could be argued the program took a hit. I expected the involvement with Team USA to bring positives that justified the time away. New wrinkles in the offense or defense, new strategies and concepts, and make SU more enticing to recruits. And maybe that has happened, feel free to point things out. For example, I think Coach K has implemented a more effective zone from working with JB. What did we take from K? Or from working with the world's best? JB recently said he's run practice the same way for 41 years. Did anything translate? It was good exposure for the program but particularly this summer, with recruiting in flux and trying to get a team to gel, did it hurt us having them away? [/QUOTE]