gary-7 said:

Yeah D, that's exactly what it's about, and hell, if we swept the rest of the schedule some here would still be riding a disclaimer. Part of growing into a good team is realizing that EVERY game means something, and that there's no such thing as an easy conference game.

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Yeah and when you say "EVERY game means something, and that there's no such thing as an easy conference game." that is a MAJOR point! One of, if not the most difficult things to do in NCAA basketball is to beat a team in your conference 3 times in a single season. For a UNC fan like me, I consider it harder for UNC to beat duke 3 times in the same season than winning a natty, manyg duke fans I think would say to beating UNC 3 times in the same season is harder than getting a natty !

The conference teams simply know the other conference teams better than what you can learn from film. Take even little BC, we go to their place and that is not going to often be a "easy" game for us, beating any ACC team on their floor is never an easy thing but there is hate that builds up for conference foes that you rarely see against non-conference foes. There are special circumstances, like both UNC and duke hate Ky, Clemson fans hate the gamecocks (so do we old timer UNC fans), that ACC tourney that the gamecocks last were involved in is something that will never be forgotten or forgiven. When you have history with a team it is just rarely going to be anything short of nail biting!

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nctransplant said:

Oh they taste it. They just don't have balls enough to admit it taste so good.

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that's one way of seeing it, but my take is they don't have the gumption to admit how bitter it is.

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After the Louisville loss we were facing a 7-game stretch of winnable games. Some tough ones, to be sure - especially the road games against ND, NCSU and Wake - but all possible wins.

I didn't expect us to go 7-0, but thought 6-1 was feasible and would be a good outcome. As of this moment, 6-1 looks assured and 7-0 is looking quite plausible.

My hope was that this stretch would allow the team to grow, gel, toughen up, and get used to winning. I also hoped RJ would be back on track before we face Pitt-Duke-Pitt-Clemson.

That hope is still alive.

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The games we played were a great idea because young teams need to learn about themselves and they need to experience rowdy, NCAA level crowds and they need to measure themselves against the best. Learning to compete IS extremely important as well! Some of them just happened due to tourneys. This team is growing right in front of our eyes and peeps are being developed very quickly, even if peeps don't want to credit the staff.

Peeps believe we will lose to all the good teams and only win against lesser comp BUT I tend to think these are ACC wins + top 3 in the ACC just might be favorable to us! I firmly believe we will continue to improve and reach a point that we can beat anybody in the ACC, I expect that if this scenario plays out, we will roar into the Tourney and put peeps on notice. JWash is one of the keys to an explosion. Confidence, strong lower body, and determinations is all he needs. Tyson could be an X factor but he isn't make or break to our season. RJ getting his swag back + learning to stay within the O flow would be the catalyst for a deep run IMO! 100% Seth will soon be a monster on both ends and hopefully it starts tomorrow.

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