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[QUOTE="IthacaMatt, post: 270664, member: 405"]
This is a perspective that I think it will take time for people to come to.  The end of the season is too fresh, and although I think Scoop lived up to our collective hopes and expectations, I think Kris didn't, to be honest.  And Fab getting kicked off the team, to leave us without our starting center twice while they were here, I think that is going to be a big part of how we remember them, too.  
 
I think ultimately, Scoop, Kris and Rick Jackson will be lumped together as the program guys who bridged us out of the "selfish star/comeback years" and hopefully into the new Glory Years. They were guys who changed the culture of the team for the better.  They achieved a lot, but missed out on a couple LEGITIMATE chances to make another Final Four and possibly win it all.  
 
So in a sense, they will be remembered as this generation's guys like Stevie Thompson or Adrian Autry - not in terms of how we remember their individual games, but where we place them in the context of the quality of teams they were on, the talent they displayed in comparison to other (star) players around them and the importance of the contributions they made to that success, even if we fell a couple steps short.
 
All in all, not a bad reputation to leave here with.  Best of luck to two of the good guys, who we are all proud and happy to call Orangemen.
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