Recruiting Survey: Would the 10-11 Final Four Team won the NC if Larry Sanders Stayed?

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duncanlamb

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We would have been seeded higher. I dont kmow if we would had the focus or motivation to make that tournament run.


Bonus: How would the FF team matched up against last year's Obi Toppin Team?
 
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I'll try to find the interview at some point but Larry himself said they probably would not have made it if he had stayed
 
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TampaKAP said:
I'll try to find the interview at some point but Larry himself said they probably would not have made it if he had stayed
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You are correct. He said something along the lines of he "was holding the team back."

My observation was that he went what I would call soft. He knew he was going to go to the NBA and stayed away from the physical stuff, avoiding contact. I get it. Why risk getting an injury and ruin an opportunity? Made sense for him personally, but when you're a mid-major making a F4 run, you need all hands on deck giving 100%, not somebody protecting their NBA body/career.
 
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NO!

Larry Sanders would not have been good for team chemistry on that 2010-11 team. He was not the "team player' poster child his junior season before he left the program. He, by far, lead the team in fouls his last season at VCU, including a few technicals. There were also some off the court issues that year.
 
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Just imagine if we had won the CAA tournament instead of losing in overtime to odu. Maybe that bumps us up a couple of seed lines and we end up as a nine-seed playing Butler in the first round. Maybe we lose a close game to a last second tip in and the whole run never happens. I wouldn't change anything about that season.
 
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I'll take the bait- Yes but only under this scenario - No Larry until we get to Houston and then Larry off the bench. Chemistry that went through quite a journey that year but peaked at the right time would not have been the same with Larry during the year.
 
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I don't think so. He would have thrown team chemistry off, and we would likely have tried running our entire offense through him like we did in 2009-10, instead of the 4-out scheme that gave defenses fits in the Tournament.

Bonus: I'm not sure, but Obi Toppin vs. Jamie Skeen would have been a very interesting matchup.
 
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