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Message: [QUOTE="Sherman20, post: 5692289, member: 6357"] This is a really good breakdown. A couple of additional points. When JB went into the 2014-15 season with only Rak and Gbinije as potential leaders, his complacency really started showing, especially in a year when the NCAA investigation was hovering around. We needed to get better players in that season (likely grad transfers or last minute recruiting adds), and he basically said he was expecting Rak to make a big jump (which he did, thanks in part to Hop’s work). JB’s poor roster building really started here. We had a really good recruiting class the next season, and that helped, but we never landed Thomas Bryant, Mustafa Diagne didn’t qualify, and Malachi only stayed one year. So that set us back. Also, that 2017 team was so close to the tourney and was surging at the end of the season beating three top 25 teams. Oh what could have been if JB had only gone with Gillon earlier. [/QUOTE]