So let's see here: the Deacs were a 'no show' for the ACC tourney this year. What do you suppose our young team (and coach) can take home from this experience? Well, let's couple it with the regular season wins and loses. Great wins against Duke and Carolina; bad losses to the likes of Virginia Tech (at WFU) and NC State, for example. We've shown up at every game (and in particular away games) with a big question mark hanging over the team. Who's going to play today? No real consistency. No consistent tough defense. A bunch of hot dog dunks. Very little finesse. The Deacs are just not a seamless team. Not yet.

What they have shown me this season is they are individually greatly talented; as a team, though, they are typical of a bunch of young guys that just haven't had enough experience together to get their act on. It needs to jell.  The message here to our gifted kids is 'stay put; no NBA aspirations for a year, if not two'. You've got the potential to get to the Final Four, but not this year. It'll come together for you in the next year or two. Just give it a chance as great teams and great college players have done in years past. Len Chappel took us there in '62, his senior year.  It's high time to get there again. We can do it with all the talent we've got, but not if we lose the likes of James Johnson, for instance, if he should choose to exit at the end of the current year.