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I deliberately stayed away from posting anything during the Tournament and especially after the loss to UCLA.  I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to wrap my head around, not only our losses, but all the way-too-close wins the team has had in the season.

My frustration (like many of you), has centered around the shortcomings of our lineup and our offense.  I've had nothing to contribute to the discussion because all of you have stated what our problems seemed to be a lot more eloquently than me.  Something has been missing from this team from the beginning, but I was not able to put my finger on it all these months.

Yesterday I had a thought.  I was thinking back to our National Championship team of 2020-2021 and everything they went through to get to the Final Four and played 3 spectacular games against elite opponents to win it all.  And then a lightbulb went on.

May I humbly suggest another reason (besides lineups and offensive woes), why this team, so loaded with talent, has not played to their potential?  Our championship team was HUNGRY and this team (for reasons I don't know why), is NOT.

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I deliberately stayed away from posting anything during the Tournament and especially after the loss to UCLA.  I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to wrap my head around, not only our losses, but all the way-too-close wins the team has had in the season.

My frustration (like many of you), has centered around the shortcomings of our lineup and our offense.  I've had nothing to contribute to the discussion because all of you have stated what our problems seemed to be a lot more eloquently than me.  Something has been missing from this team from the beginning, but I was not able to put my finger on it all these months.

Yesterday I had a thought.  I was thinking back to our National Championship team of 2020-2021 and everything they went through to get to the Final Four and played 3 spectacular games against elite opponents to win it all.  And then a lightbulb went on.

May I humbly suggest another reason (besides lineups and offensive woes), why this team, so loaded with talent, has not played to their potential?  Our championship team was HUNGRY and this team (for reasons I don't know why), is NOT.