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Originally Posted by BigRedChief
I got a question for you guys. Not trolling.
I watched a lot of games last year. They didn't seem to play as a team until later in the season.
With Embid and Wiggins on the team, why didn't the team perform better this year? What's the general consensus on the under performing last year?
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With Embiid on the team in March, I suspect they still would have made the FF. That's how much his impact was (probably the biggest in NCAA) and how much he covered up for the team's flaws on both ends. Without him there, they just didn't guard well enough to accomplish that. The term soft came up a lot (which wasn't surprising considering their eldest players were two guys who didn't play defense in Tharpe and Ellis and the rest were all freshmen). PG was a serious issue as well as Tharpe only played at his best for a short stretch during the season.