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Post by daveg023 on Mar 19, 2024 16:04:20 GMT -5
This is a case where landing a guy early will help land other guys as there becomes a path to believe the team can “win now”. It takes a leap of faith from the first guy and/or an overpay. But if you can get that first domino, it starts the chain reaction.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 17, 2024 17:39:28 GMT -5
BE heavy NIT coming…
Maybe a good thing for us to get a jump on the portal if a few of those teams keep playing.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 17, 2024 10:19:09 GMT -5
Feels like this year will be the impetus for tournament expansion. It seems inevitable now, despite no fans really clamoring for it. The $ drives the bus.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 15, 2024 22:12:27 GMT -5
For their fans, it’ll be a big "what if" wondering how good PC could have been with a healthy Hopkins all year. I think they'd have been a possible second weekend team.
As much as I don't want to say it, they had a really good 3 days at MSG.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 14, 2024 21:23:42 GMT -5
The other thing that is not as covered is the BE is going to be much weaker next year, absent some huge transfer classes. Pretty much every team is losing their core, and no one has that great an incoming freshman class.
If we return the 4 core guys we think plus the freshmen and 3-4 quality transfers, our roster quickly rises to one of the top rosters in the league. Whereas it's safe to say ours was no better than bottom third going into this season, and it played out to be even worse than that.
Sure a lot can change from now until next November in terms of incoming/outgoing players for each school, but here's who our peers are losing compared to our loss of Heath, Bristol, and Massoud:
UConn - Castle, Spencer Clingan, Newton, Karaban? Creighton - Alexander, Kalkbrenner, Scheierman, Ainsworth Villanova - Dixon, Moore, Bamba, Ware, Burton Marquette - Kolek, Ighodaro, Jones? St Johns - Jenkins, Soriano, Ledlum, Dingle, Allyene PC - Carter, Oduro, Gaines Butler - Alexander, Telfort, Davis Seton Hall - Richmond, Dawes, Davis, Addae-Wusu Xavier - Olivari, McKnight, Ousmane, Freemantle? DePaul - Terry, Raimey
In terms of the 2024 freshman class, Creighton is the only program with an incoming class near our level. Sure all these schools are capable of landing big time transfers to fill the holes, but I think it's safe to say the overall talent outflow will be greater than the inflow and we should be positioned much better in terms of talent this time next year.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 14, 2024 10:21:47 GMT -5
I'm a Cooley supporter, but there are zero excuses going into next year. Anything less than 9-10 wins in the BE is a failure in my book.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 14, 2024 6:30:43 GMT -5
If there's any advantage to losing early it's that EC and staff can hit the portal ASAP on their targets without any other distractions.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 22:14:33 GMT -5
Nova fans are losing their minds.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 20:37:29 GMT -5
Book it! The season is done. thankfully. After watching the disaster of missed free throws and dominance by one player, poor passes, no hands under the rim. This could not have been a more devastating loss. I now have serious doubts about Rowan, too many dribble, too slow, too weak. Lots of work ahead. You can also dismiss the argument the empty stands at the phone booth, the Garden was packed and the team played horribly. I don’t know how you can watch that game and that’s your takeaway. The FTs were incredibly bizarre but if we shoot an average clip that would be a tight game down the stretch. Team played hard the second half and adjustments were made. In a year full of losses, several others were much worse.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 19:55:44 GMT -5
And cook didn’t even take any. That was beyond bizarre given FTs weren’t an issue this year.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 19:50:14 GMT -5
4-17 might have to be an all time record for a team that shot at least 15 FTs.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 19:48:51 GMT -5
Bad time to have our worst FT game in recent memory.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 19:35:01 GMT -5
Man. Just average FT shooting and this is a two possession game.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 19:17:16 GMT -5
Brutal. They were on the ropes and we had good looks. You have to make those to win a game like this. Can’t fault the effort this half though.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 18:42:42 GMT -5
Here is some good news: After tonight, we will probably win 7 of our next 10 games! So long as we don’t schedule HC again
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 18:40:18 GMT -5
Nice play run for the "shooter" that just made one. Wide open look. And a chance for a 2 for 1 end of half. Miss. Honestly two good looks at the end. Much different feeling if we found a way to hit.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 18:31:50 GMT -5
Disagree. They are a mediocre offense and not a great shooting team (despite this showing). Well I said it cause the last matchup was a double digit loss and this game the Hoyas are currently down double digit, yet again You could say that for every BE opponent other than Xavier or DePaul this year. At least one game against PC we had a lead with 3 mins to go.
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 18:26:43 GMT -5
20 minutes until portal season…
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 18:06:25 GMT -5
Providence is a very, very bad matchup Disagree. They are a mediocre offense and not a great shooting team (despite this showing).
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Post by daveg023 on Mar 13, 2024 18:01:58 GMT -5
Another half were about to give up 55 points. Against a below average D1 offense.
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