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Message: [QUOTE="Ceerqqq, post: 2735778, member: 6702"] I believe you're right about this, but I also believe there are at least a dozen other teams out there who feel the same way about [I]their [/I]chances of winning the National Championship this season. What makes it significant to me is that it is the kind of mindset/belief that will motivate this particular collection of young men---[I]our guys[/I]---to push themselves to perfect their performances on the court from day one. As good as their defense was last year, they are going to want to make it the focus of their domination of other good teams this year. Not taking any defensive plays off. Finally getting to that point of [I]experience [/I]with the zone where they are no longer thinking about what they are supposed to do but are able to rely on pure 'reflexive' instinct. When the Boeheim Pressure Zone reaches this level of execution, the players start to look forward to [I]the next defensive possession[/I] with shared anticipation and amped up energy, cuz they know it will give them another opportunity to experience a moment of domination over their opponents. I'm expecting this year to see the best overall performance of a Boeheim defensive unit ever...a classical presentation of his genius as a defensive strategist/tactician. A career statement, of sorts. And along with that, I expect to see an equally impressive improvement in his team's offensive performance [I]due to experience[/I], as well. So yeah, I think another National Championship is a very real possibility for this year's team. Of course [I]anything could happen[/I] to derail it, but I'm not going to assume that such is the fate of this team in advance. It's a good feeling that I have about this team's ultimate potential right now and I'm not going to give it up to some open-ended inchoate fears that various good-meaning but unnecessarily tense pearl-clutchers might give voice to... :cool: [/QUOTE]

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