The Class that saved Coach C. Will start airing next November and will be played 32 times a day.
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We'll be live tonight at 8:30 pm for this week's Panther-Lair Show. You know the deal: we'll be talking all things Pitt sports, so tune in with your comments and questions to join the conversation. Should be a fun one.

We'll be live tonight at 8:30 pm for this week's Panther-Lair Show. You know the deal: we'll be talking all things Pitt sports, so tune in with your comments and questions to join the conversation. Should be a fun one.

Pretty shocked by where Pitt is on this. I thought we would be further to the right and a little more towards the top.
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Emirates FA Cup 4th round. Scoreless at half. This is the replay after the 3–3 draw in Wrexham 1/29. Winner hosts Tottenham in the next round. Wrexham gets through the first half without playing their top side. Announcer says that if this match had been for promotion, only four of their starters would have started. Curious to see what manager Phil Parkinson brings out for the second half. For Wrexham, promotion out of the National League is the goal for the season, but this would be huge, to host Tottenham.

It’s kind of like David versus Goliath, in that Sheffield is approximately 72 teams ahead of Wrexham based on the English football diagram.

ESPN2 and ESPN+ have the game.

Boston College beating Clemson last night is an example of why that is so. Pitt could go anywhere between 2-7 and 7-2 the rest of the way with neither possible end point being too surprising.

Pitt is shooting 46.7 from three-point range over its last four games. The Panthers are of course 4-0 over this stretch.
But...51-109 over a four game stretch is INSANE.

Over these four games....

Nelly Cummings 12-19 63%
Nike Sibande 8-13 62%
Greg Elliott 13-22 59%
Blake Hinson 16-34 47%

Nelly Cummings is 8-for-9 these past two games.

I wouldn’t even call him a chelsea man, as he barely had any appearances, but looks like Aubameyang is headed to LAFC. Good riddance. It was a terrible signing anyway.

Mike, you can’t get rid of the guy afterall. Lol.

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** I had to do a little research, but the answer I came up with was the Boston College game at the Pete in 2016. This was the last time I approached an ACC game with complete certainty we were going to win.

** I offered this notion to my son and friend pregame, and they didn’t quite share my 100% certainly. There was something of a consensus among them that we wouldn't beat the spread. I even saw a handful of some of the same thoughts on the PantherLair. I can only say that I wish I would have bet.

** Harbored among all of these false notions is something that those of us among the PantherHoops nation must now be finally willing to accept wholeheartedly … we have a pretty darn good basketball team.

** And even if you can’t get 100% on board with that notion, then you must accept the fact that two thirds of the way through the ACC season, we sit tied at the top of the League.

** What I can say about my pregame prognostication was it gave me the fullest opportunity to enjoy this ACC game 100% stress free. With that, I got to enjoy all of the wonderful aspects of our Panthers without worrying about anything we might not do right.

** And other than the first few minutes when we gave the Cards a few too easy jumpers, there was almost nothing we didn’t do right tonight.

** Move the ball on offense? Check. 23 assists on 28 baskets.

** Shoot the three at a high level? Check. Almost another record.

** Disrupt shots? Check. 28% for the Cards.

** Heck, we can do an even deeper dive into the fun. For the first time in a while, we activated the Wonder Twins to the tune of 19 points, 8 rebounds and a pretty incredible 9 blocks.

** Nate Santos joined the 3 point party and even turned a three into a four.

** This was even the kind of night when Nike could blow his completely appropriate breakaway showboat dunk and then circle around and hit a three instead.

** I’m not even going bother to describe how inept Louisville was tonight, or is in general, because … well … why bother.

** Like I said, I think it’s just a much better idea just to be on board with our pretty darn good basketball team.

** In five days, our Panthers must go on the road and play one of only three ACC teams who have been able to beat them. And while winning on the road in College Basketball should never be seen as a small task, I’m feeling pretty good about our chances for that one too. I wouldn’t call it 100% certainty. But I’m actually fair close to certain.

** Meanwhile, Clemson must go on the road and play UNC on Saturday. So allow me to dream a little and consider the notion that our Panthers will be sitting all alone atop the ACC on Saturday night. Two days later, allow me to conjure the image of seeing the name “Pittsburgh” among the teams listed among the Top 25.

** I’m always one to warn against getting too far ahead of ourselves and I know I’ve done just that. But I’m nonetheless smitten that all of these glorious items are in play 7 days into February when 17 days into November our Panthers were a miserable looking 1-3.

** But please play along for a second and assume these things I’ve just described come to pass in the next week. Then I think it should be 100% certain that Jeff Capel should sit at the top of everyone’s list as ACC Coach of the Year. Check that even. How about National Coach of the Year?

** OK … I’ll pull it back for a second and put my feet on the ground and leave with this -- I am indeed certain we can quit playing around with bubble talk because we’ll be dancing in March.

** And there’s a pretty simple reason why. We are a pretty darn good basketball team.

I can't think of a game I would least like to go to. Cuse fans will not be there....rooms will be $450/night....sight lines are horrible....pain the neck to get there.....EVERYTHING is overpriced. I'd rather play in Miami.

Here’s what was said to him about Pitt by an anonymous ACC coach

Pittsburgh​

“They remind me of the old Ben Howland/Jamie Dixon teams. Their physicality can really mess you up. They’re an old team, and Jeff Capel lets them take a lot of ownership. They are very serious about it. They communicate to each other, and they hold each other accountable. Jamarius Burton is very strong. You have to have somebody in the gap on him. You have to take away Blake Hinson’s 3s, make him put it on the floor. A defender with length can disrupt his shots because he’s not that big. They don’t have an inside presence. They’ve had a favorable league schedule to this point. They don’t score the ball in the post, but they’re sharing the ball. Nelly Cummings has been an unbelievable addition.”

tomorrow?

Back to back made threes. Highlight of the night.

Somewhere, RJCMAN38's head is exploding.

Ok, we all know Louisville
stinks, but the other night
was almost a perfect
offensive display by Pitt.
Just like the NW win
earlier this year we were
on fire. As I watched
both games, why were
we on fire? To me it's
pretty simple....we had
great ball movement all
game long. It appeared
that Capel's pg oriented
offense that I've criticized
on here for years was all
but gone..

Cummings and Burton still
control the ball, but the
one on one with the others
standing around was all
but gone the other night.
Those shots we kept hitting
were the result of great
ball movement, and the
shooters getting the ball
in rotation.

I gotta believe the coaches
are stressing this. Capel
deserves credit for this,
and just as important,
getting the players to
buy in and execute it.

Lou at home, FSU on the road, BC at home. Win those 3, get to 12-3 and I'm 99.9% certain we make it because I'd expect us to win a minimum of 2 of the final 5 to get to 14-6, which would leave no doubt.

Louisville still scares me a little though I know they shouldn't. Just have PTSD from losing to them so much. FSU has better players than we do but Leonard Hamilton is back to his roll the balls out ways. So that game worries me a ton. BC has maybe the most underrated players in the league in Center Quinton Post, who is easily one of the better Centers in the league and the Langford brothers can go off every once in awhile.

We should win a minimum of 2 and have a great chance to win all 3 but this team isnt good enough where we can just show up and win these games. If we don't play well or we shoot 5-25 from 3, we will lose.

It's strange that we have a game with L'ville tonight and nary a word about the game from anyone? Are we getting that confident that we know we'll win this one? Just a reminder that there are no easy games in the ACC or in any of our remaining games. We can't take L'ville for granted one bit.

I got to thinking about our current roster and the talent we have. I have been watching a lot of NBA lately, so I started going through our roster and did some research via Google. I couldn’t find one NBA Draft site that even evaluated Jamarius Burton. So I tried to think of a comparable Pitt player and I thought of Brad Wanamaker. Here was his nba scouting report coming out of Pitt. Hardly anything impressive.

Wow, I didn't even know half of this.

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I see all a lot of people online referencing that we had similar drama to what’s currently happening in UNC. I obviously can figure out what the gist is but was wondering the specific players were involved

Some stuff that came from one of the Pitt coaching staff members at NLI event...

- Addison was never hurt this year. He went on strike because he didn’t get nearly the money people think or that he was promised.

- The Niners have a first round grade on Clancey, while the Falcons have a 5th round grade.

- Okunlola will have a big year.

Second hand info as I didn't attend the event, but interesting stuff.

You have to watch Payne's post-game presser. We are the best team they've faced in the conference. We have the chance to go deep in the NCAA tournament. Wow! It's been so long since I've heard such accolades from an opposing coach.