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"if" structure

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Hi

There is a dialogue in Kongfu Panda(2008) that Master Shifu says to his students:

"well done students...
If you were trying to disappoint me."

now what exactly does he mean by that? the "if" sentence is incomplete and needs a second part...right?

I guess this dialogue is kinda vice-versa and it's in fact something like this:

"If you were trying to disappoint me, well done students" meaning "you did a good job in disappointing me"


well....any ideas?
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Well done, Silentboof, if you were trying to answer your own question :ok: ;-)
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LoL...Thank you sir :D
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:)
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