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[QUOTE="Strathless, post: 5513251, member: 10558"]
Yeah, I think people can get too lost in the sauce on analytics. I've had professors swear straight up that there is no such thing as "getting hot" in basketball, and that the entire concept is just fluctuation around a mean. While I get that accounts for lots of variability, I do not believe you can take actual players out of the game. Thoughts and emotions have a real impact on execution and production, and I won't be convinced otherwise.

So, to agree with others above, when you can jump out to a 10-point lead before the other team touches the ball, that dick kick reverberates for the rest of the game.

Also, to stay on topic in this thread I'm cautiously optimistic about Rickie coming in. I think the rest of the team is capable of executing a level that takes a lot of pressure off him and that Coach Nixon will put him in favorable spots to get in rhythm and exploit mismatches (especially on the outside with Duke's undersized corners). Let's go!
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