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omghulkhands said:
I will say, barring something unexpected. The window closes after this season.

I hope everyone has enjoyed this 10 year run.
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If the 5 year rule passes as is being predicted, then Lanier is the only guy whose eligibility is exhausted. Bring back everyone else, get JP healthy, and find another good portal shooter and we’re top 10 with a chance once again .
 
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omghulkhands said:
sure. Fair statement.

i just see a lot of variables ahead and to be final four good would require a lot of them to go heavily in our favor.
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That was very much like a tournament game today. We won and we move on to the next one. Your comment is absolutely true for virtually every 1 and 2 seed
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
That was very much like a tournament game today. We won and we move on to the next one. Your comment is absolutely true for virtually every 1 and 2 seed
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Sure. I’m a bit confused though. The window closing statement I made was in reference to after this season. Like next year.
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
That was very much like a tournament game today. We won and we move on to the next one. Your comment is absolutely true for virtually every 1 and 2 seed
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Just coming on to post the same thing - that was a tournament level game against a high seed on their court, exactly the kind of game we're going to have to win a few of to advance. Incredibly impressed with the resilience of this group, and ZZ's ability to take games over down the stretch.

Cade was tough as nails today, Gainey made some huge plays on both ends, and I love Lanier's improvement defensively. He's getting more and more confident with both his 3-ball as well as taking it to the rim in league play, and against a great defensive team today.
 
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omghulkhands said:
Sure. I’m a bit confused though. The window closing statement I made was in reference to after this season. Like next year.
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I feel pretty good knowing our posts will be Estrella and Phillips. We are one of the last couple for a stud 5 star guard, plus Barnes has handled the portal very well. Go back and look. Over the last two years posters have been predicting a big drop off for the following year. Damnit, if we haven't been getting better each year since the portal and NIL
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
A&M shooting out their ass from the charity stripe as the worst free throw shooting team in the conference, and the officials awarding them a ridiculous amount of free throws, was simply infuriating. Glad it didn’t cost us, but man it almost did.
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Glad to see you around man
 
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omghulkhands said:
sure. Fair statement.

i just see a lot of variables ahead and to be final four good would require a lot of them to go heavily in our favor.
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This will make 7 straight years of a Top 5 seed in the dance, 6/7 as a Top 4, that to me is having yourself in contention. Maybe you know something I don’t, but I’m not betting against Barnes having another Top 15-20 team next season.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
This will make 7 straight years of a Top 5 seed in the dance, 6/7 as a Top 4, that to me is having yourself in contention. Maybe you know something I don’t, but I’m not betting against Barnes having another Top 15-20 team next season.
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I thought that a Sweet 16 was going to be the unlikely ceiling this year. How soon they forget about, and take for granted, how good this program is right now.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
I thought that a Sweet 16 was going to be the unlikely ceiling this year. How soon they forget about, and take for granted, how good this program is right now.
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Not sure there’s been a better regular season program in the country the last 7 years, yes the postseason success needs to happen but talking regular season it’s crazy what he’s done on a consistent basis.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
Not sure there’s been a better regular season program in the country the last 7 years, yes the postseason success needs to happen but talking regular season it’s crazy what he’s done on a consistent basis.
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You don’t get an opportunity to lose early NCAAT games when you’re left out entirely on Selection Sunday.
 
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bleedingTNorange said:
This will make 7 straight years of a Top 5 seed in the dance, 6/7 as a Top 4, that to me is having yourself in contention. Maybe you know something I don’t, but I’m not betting against Barnes having another Top 15-20 team next season.
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Nothing you are saying here is wrong or anything @BernardKingGOAT said is wrong.

My perspective is just a little nuanced. I view things as a series of probabilities (which is why you never find me being emotional or reactionary).

But the TLDR is that next year has a lot of things needed to work in our favor to be FF good again. and these things aren’t guaranteed and they have probabilities to happen or not.

I don’t know if anyone cares to go deep into it. But a way to kinda understand my view is to look at this year and last year and a single variable that greatly determines the outcomes of our seasons.

Lanier and Knecht.

IMO we aren’t FF good this year or last year without them. Them being recruited and being healthy enabled that. That is an example of a single variable that had a probability attached to it that causes a huge swing in outcomes.

Now yes, it’s possible we don’t hit on those guys, maybe we hit on someone else or a player emerges with the opportunity already on the roster etc.. those are all factors I try to consider in my thinking too.

So next year, things we can kinda count on is we will have a good frontcourt (if everybody stays, which is again, another variable)

Outside of that, there is a chance Barnes won’t be here next year. We basically have to reload an entire backcourt.

Those are two enormous variables.

Barnes is capable. If someone can do it, by god it’d be him. But i find it hard to see it as probable we will be FF good
 
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omghulkhands said:
I will say, barring something unexpected. The window closes after this season.

I hope everyone has enjoyed this 10 year run.
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I'm not sure I'd go that far but I'm waiting for us to finally have the type of tourney run that so many others have had. Like we're good but I want that combined with an NC St. type run last year where for 4-5 games in a row we're just on a streak.

Last year and 2010 are the only times I feel we've come close to that and last year I thought we were good enough to win it all if we got hot. 2010 I didn't think so, I thought we'd lose our FF game.

It would be kinda fitting if this team that has been so inconsistent on offense went on a historic offense run to the FF.
 
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BernardKingGOAT said:
I feel pretty good knowing our posts will be Estrella and Phillips. We are one of the last couple for a stud 5 star guard, plus Barnes has handled the portal very well. Go back and look. Over the last two years posters have been predicting a big drop off for the following year. Damnit, if we haven't been getting better each year since the portal and NIL
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Unless Felix enters the draft, he is back next year as well. If he's smart, he'll spend one more year here and improve his post game, he's already an elite rim runner and shot blocker.
 
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Who gets to Final Fours? The Blue Bloods have traditionally taken more than their share. UNC, KU, UK, UCLA, and Duke. Then a lot go to the next tier. UConn. Michigan State. Louisville. Some go to great teams that aren’t great every year. Gonzaga. Houston. UNLV. Nova. There really aren’t that many spots left. Major conference teams having a great year. Florida. Barn. Purdue. Michigan. Ohio State. Then about one per year falls to a Cinderella. There really aren’t all that many spots left for all of the rest to fight over. So you better be good year after year to get a shot at one of those rare spots.
 
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Thunder Good-Oil said:
I thought that a Sweet 16 was going to be the unlikely ceiling this year. How soon they forget about, and take for granted, how good this program is right now.
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We've seemingly been at least as good or better than the previous team the year before. Certainly since '21 and '22 with the 5 stars. Chandler was a stud. Still, we have been getting progressively better since beating Duke. Barnes has handled NIL and the portal comfortably
 
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