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Post by Luchador El Guerrero Azteca on Apr 3, 2015 19:06:52 GMT -8
Individual talent and the best roster you can recruit are hands-down thee most important factors in winning championships ... Just ask UNLV and the Dodgers. Lol
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Post by podpeople on Apr 4, 2015 0:05:25 GMT -8
I don't see the current line up as capable of competing with any of the SS teams - with maybe the exception of efUCLA. Having watched all 8 games, those teams were on a different level than SDSU. While the Aztecs might have been competitive - at least for a half - with most of those teams, talent would have eventually led the way. This is not to say the Aztecs don't have talent, they just don't have elite talent - yet. I'd go as far as saying they don't face elite talent or competition in the MWC, but neither does Gonzaga in their league. So what's the difference? I think it's elite talent. the 'zags showed they could compete with elite talent and win - because they had their own. But in the last 8, you could see differences - even in a level we call "elite". Will the Aztecs ever get there? Who knows. But it will take much more than the team they have today. It will take at least one truly elite player - and a strong team to support him. And then you still have to hope for the best: good seeding, no bad luck with health or injuries, stuff like that. This year was not a debacle by any means, it was a part of what's hopefully a natural progression. But that progression may take another 10 years to come to fruition. It ain't happening tomorrow - or even next year. In retrospect, I'd say SDSU's best chance was the Kawhi lead team that lost to the U-Cons the eventual NCAA champs. They were in that game all the way and got as close as a Technical Foul and foul trouble for Kawhi. I think it will take more than just a couple of 4* players to carry a team to the Final 4! JMO that was one loaded team. None since has come close to comparing with the talent on that team... though, Fisher did say this years team was the most talented he's had, I somehow feel it was to give them some swagger. I still find it hard to believe that BYU beat us twice during the regular season. And, I think they lost to us in the MWC championship game with their top post guy suspended. They must have had a great team as well.
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Post by bearfoot on Apr 4, 2015 8:07:30 GMT -8
The biggest problem the Cards had was when coach finally kicked the starting PG off the team. Imagine how good they would have been with that guy. As for our Aztecs, baby steps. First get into the E-8. As good as Arizona has been, they still can't crack the F-4. Arizona has won the tourney before. Sean Miller has never been to the Final Four though. I know they have, but I meant since S Miller arrived and they got really good again.
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Post by bearfoot on Apr 4, 2015 8:11:44 GMT -8
Our players are not in the same stratosphere as Okafor, Winslow, Kamisnky, Decker, Towns, Cauley Stein, etc. If we ever want to get to the Elite 8 or Final four we have to do much better than the zero star recruits like JJ'Obrien and Aqueel Quinn trying to lead our team. We're getting there with players like Pope, Z and Hemsley but is gonna take time to compete at the level that those teams are at. Im pretty sure JJ and AQ weren't zero star recruits FWIW ESPN had JJ at two stars and AQ at one. DP was #92 and had four stars.
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