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Message: [QUOTE="moqui, post: 193655, member: 214"] yup . . . and the .001% who doesn't run away from his opinions. I said it, I stuck by it, and I don't try to pretend that I didn't . it certainly was the last two seasons, wasn't it? Try to be objective. You tend to find yourself in half court, possession-by-possession struggles in one or more rounds of the NCAA tournament. If you can't execute efficiently, then you go home. Pretending that those games don't happen, and that SU has a real problem in them, is whistling past the graveyard. The fact of the matter is that SU was part of a large scrum of BE teams at 12-6 and 11-7 - about 1/3 of the conference was in that pack. Pitt and Notre Dame were the class of the conference and each was several games ahead of that pack. You can pretend that SU was an elite BE team last year, but you are kidding yourself. And regardless of where they were (over)seeded, they lost in the Round of 32 to the kind of team that always bedevils a squad that struggles in the half court. Again, you can choose to ignore that inconvenient fact (and the even more inconvenient history that precedes it), but I am not required to join you. no, I was factoring improvement into the mix, I always do - that is why I am very high on Rakeem Christmas, for example - but I still didn't see anyone who was going to become a consistent low post threat. And, I was right, BTW. but you don't have to take it as a personal affront because someone has a different assessment from yours. If all you want is rah, rah, rah, we are the best, nothing bad can happen, pass the Kool Aid, then don't read my posts. I am going to write it as I see it - sometimes it will be very positive, sometimes it will be very critical, but I try not to write what I [I]want[/I] to see rather than what I actually do see. I am happy to admit that I have been wrong about how this season would play out, but I also know that I have been right a lot of times, too. And, I really, really hope that when this season is over that Corduroy and IthacaMatt and Cusetown and dozens of others can spend the entire off season belittling me for how off base I was. I want to be wrong. [/QUOTE]

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