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Message: [QUOTE="RF2044, post: 4208148, member: 40"] SWC, as I mentioned in the other thread, you perform a valuable service for the board. As such, I apologize for responding in such a pointed manner, but it is pretty clear that you aren't viewing this objectively. I'm borrowing information shamelessly by a post [USER=39]SUFan44[/USER] made today. You act like we either won games, or lost close ones -- when in actuality, that wasn't the case. From his post: [INDENT=2]We lost 0 games by 1-2 points in our last 10.[/INDENT] [INDENT=2][/INDENT] [INDENT=2]In fact, we lost 1 game in our last 10 by less than 9 points (Miami).[/INDENT] [INDENT=2][/INDENT] [INDENT=2]9, 3, 9 (OT), 25, 10, 12 were the margins of our last 6 losses.[/INDENT] In actuality, the team started out the season horribly uncompetitive -- posting several embarrassing losses to the likes of Colgate and Georgetown, looking hapless defensively at times. About 25 games into the season -- far too late, BTW -- they started to figure things out. Winning several games in a row, and getting a few games over the .500 mark, which we'd hovered around all season. Understandably, fans got excited. People started talking about maintaining "the streak," and talking about us making a run in the standings. But then we hit the back stretch of the conference schedule and things fell apart. And we didn't perform great in key games -- several of which SUFan44 outlines above. So we're going to have to disagree both about how competitive the team was, and how the players -- who essentially the reasons for the team's numerous shortcomings -- were equipped to compete. Not only does the data not support your conclusion, but the net results of the season don't, either. It's nice to think about what might have been if we'd been able to maintain that midseason uptick, but we didn't. It's nice to pretend that we were as good as we were against BC or Florida State in the ACCT, but we weren't consistently. What we were was a streak shooting team that could get hot and torch the nets in individual games [or portions of games], but couldn't do that on any sort of consistent basis. Which is why they are what the team's record suggests they are. [/QUOTE]

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