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[QUOTE="billsin01, post: 5087357, member: 837"]
Yeah, I try not to be super negative going into an off-season because A) it's depressing and B) things can happen that we either aren't privy to because we don't have reliable sources around the team all the time (that's almost everyone here) or just aren't able to forecast because no one can see the future quite that well. It's easy to point to a guy like Fab Melo's transformation but most people will say, 'yeah, but, he was really talented.' Very true.

But take a guy like Griff -- struggled to finish a bit but a pretty decent young player on the 98-99 team. Came back in 99-00 and was basically unplayable and his minutes were cut drastically. But he came back as a senior in 00-01 and had a really, really nice senior season. The shooting percentages were still meh, but he got to the line a bit, put up an 10.8 ppg and 6.5 apg line and averaged 2 steals per game.

Long way of saying it's tough to know. But I'm with you -- this is a sum of its parts team if we're going to be any good and it is nearly impossible to know how these parts fit together until we see them in action.

Edit: Sorry, meant to add that sum of its parts teams by nature need a lot more things to go right. Teams that have a ton of talent need things not to go wrong (injuries, egos, etc.). We need a lot to break in our favor and that is always a bit dicey. Hard to feel overly confident at the moment.
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