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Message: [QUOTE="swish7, post: 223235, member: 486"] Thought it appropriate since we played Florida, Florida played Kentucky, and if all goes well, we will play Kentucky. Also I have this nagging concern (despite the pom pom crew's vehement protestations) that we are not playing like we are capable of. I won't go so far as to say we were a different team back then, but we kinda were a different team back then. First of all, some context. College football was still king. It was our second televised game removed from the breaking of the Fine fiasco. Not sure if it was before or after the infamous JB presser. By all accounts, we should have been on the ropes (emotionally). But the opposite was true. We were in control. We played as a team. We had passion, intensity, fight. While every player was not perfect, they gave their all in that game. On the negative sideKJo and BT had a few of the completely avoidable What turnovers that are so common with our team. BT started the game with one. We occasionally ball watched on D, especially as the shot went up. But for the most part, we played much better then than we are now. That might be because FL played at a high tempo. That gave us more transition opportunities. Watching this game, I noticed some positives: [LIST] [*]KJo was active and involved on O and D. He got rebounds! He had a sweet transition dunk. He took and made some big shots. [*]BT drove into the lane with great determination. He did not "settle" for 3s. [*]Fair showed flashes of what he would become about a month later, a monster inside outside player. [*]Melo was drastically different. He ran the floor extremely well. He was all over the place on D. Taking charges, blocking shots, just sortof relentless. [*]Scoop played with more control. He (gasp) looked to Fab, setting him up for some dunks. He seemed less reckless on O, taking his time, setting things up. [*]Keita provided good energy off the bench. [*]The whole team was more purposeful, more intense, and under a much greater cloud of uncertainty. [/LIST] I hope we get these guys back to their highest possible level of play. To get that great 8 appearance that anybody but a zombie would expect of a #1 seed, we will need these guys to gel again. [/QUOTE]

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