When you say 12 win team and pretty soon we are what we are, you have to consider we played one of the toughest schedules in the nation last year.
I think with Andrew White, last year's team dances. With him, you turn a couple of those demoralizing losses from that difficult schedule into wins, and that helps keep the ship righted so that we don't go on that losing streak to end the year.
I've said a lot of times how I think that the experience of losing just wore on last year's team too much and you add Ed Morrow's injury and they just didn't play as well as the kind of team they could have been.
So, I'm serious when I say last year's team was better than their final record. I think they were actually a lot better. I just think they got, as I said above, demoralized. It was just tough.
This group will be a more complete team. We don't have quite as tough of a schedule, and so there's less chance of them getting just beaten down as the season goes on and checking out at the end of the year, which I truly believe happened with Ed. After he came back, he was nowhere near the player he'd been before.
Anyway, I think this squad is more complete, and some of the holes from last year are now filled. This will be a much better shooting team. Maybe better than last year with Andrew White would have been.