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Message: [QUOTE="Dave85, post: 1098889, member: 3946"] I thought after the first Duke win last season the team went off kilter. Something was just not right in the team chemistry although I just can't put my finger on it. If it were not Cooney having a career night they would have got toasted by ND. I was wondering if Patterson got on JB's bad side somehow last season. Coach can be pretty stubborn when it comes to player shenanigans. I thought maybe Patterson cutting his hair last season was way to try to get on JBs good side even though I thought the dreads looked pretty cool. I'm sure there's a lot that goes on in the practices that determines who plays. It would be interesting in my mind to find out the importance of bench players and their role during practices. Maybe if you have better hard working bench players the starters would do better. I always wonder if that were true. When JB clamped down to just 7 players I wonder if the bench lost some of it's motivation. [/QUOTE]