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Hot start cooled in a hurry for CU Buffs' Lucas Siewert

(This is the ninth in a series of nine BuffZone.com profiles reviewing the rotation players for the 2018-19 Colorado men's basketball team.)

For a while, it looked as if Lucas Siewert finally was putting it all together.

That 3-point shot, always a staple of the junior forward's game, was connecting at an incredible clip. His rebounding had improved, as had his passing skills — particularly from the high post when opposing defenses settled into zones.

At the conclusion of nonconference play, Siewert arguably was the Colorado Buffaloes' most efficient player. Yet his decline was so precipitous down the stretch it is easy to wonder if a player who was one of the Buffs' early stars will revert to being a 3-point role player off the bench for his senior season in 2019-20.