rgdeuce wrote:we worry too much, next year is going to be fun. Only thing I am worried about right now is landing JJ and perhaps having one of Trier or Ferguson. On a lesser scale, Simon sticking around.
I don't think Arizona fans, by and large, want to have fun. I am guilty of it, too. Putting so much pressure on outcome that the journey is no fun. The, in my mind, false narrative of Final Four or Bust will especially affect 2016-17 because of the FF location. Yet this year is the only year I really walked away from a Sean Miller coached team disappointed. I understood what happened, but I was disappointed. I didn't leave 2011, 2013, 2014, or 2015 disappointed. 2012 was disappointing, but what happened happened. We were not a quality team. And 2010 was so different as to almost have been a different program..
Next year should be fun. I really think we will have an edge that was missing this year. We had a lot of nice guys this year, and some selfish guys, but mostly just a decent bunch of disparate pieces thrown together with no cohesiveness or collective goal because that is what happens when you lose 4 starters and 3 one and dones in 3 years and a Ray Smith to injury and a Craig Victor to transfer. You have to throw something together. All these pieces from somewhere else thrown together with 2 real vets and a super freshman. Shit...we almost had a generational gap between our front court and our 2 guard.
I am going to enjoy next year. I will start to get stomach pains before our first or, if god willing and the season we should have puts us at a high seed, second NCAA game. Until the, I will follow the JJ recruitment with interest and then shut down immediately when that is done and revisit this come the start of practice.