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[QUOTE="SWC75, post: 4206819, member: 289"]
Competitive means you stayed in the game and had a chance to win it at the end. Uncompetitive means you have no shot. Successful means you won most of those games, which we did not do. We need to improve so we can be again be successful. We were uncompetitive with Duke the first two games but very competitive in the third game, but still lost.

Here is a very good summary of the season by Donna Ditota:

[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.syracuse.com/orangebasketball/2022/03/syracuses-2021-22-basketball-season-in-review-defense-closing-out-games-were-biggest-issues.html[/URL]

"In nine Syracuse losses this season (at Georgetown, Virginia at home, Miami twice, at Wake Forest, FSU at home, at Notre Dame, at North Carolina, and Duke in Brooklyn), the Orange either led or was within four points or fewer with four minutes to play. SU could not make enough plays down the stretch of those games to win."

Don't treat every loss as if it were by 30 points. The margin of defeat tells you how much you have to improve to be successful. I agree that the state of the ACC this year suggests that the gap is wider than the scores make it appear. But the statement that "we don't have the players to compete with the teams we are playing" is a false statement. That's what I was responding to.
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