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[Sean Miller Fan]

Very young, very talented, terribly coached, no defense.

XRM, Dwayne Bacon, and Malik Beasley will all play in the NBA in my opinion. All are excellent offensive players. 1 will go for 30+. However, they dont have a true PG and their offense is a lot of one on one "go make a play" kind of stuff.

7'3 Bojanovsky is much improved and will pose challenges offensively and defensively underneath.

I think FSU has too much offense. Its 3 vs 2, really. XRM/Bacon/Beasley vs Artis/Young. FSU is going to score 75+ so if Artis and Young don't have real good games, we have no chance....but that goes for any game. We're not playing good enough F and dont have a consistent enough 3rd scorer to win games without Artis and Young going off. Would be nice to see a big game from someone else in addition. Cam Johnson?

Prediction:

FSU 82
Pitt 71

Hope I'm wrong.

 

[KiwiJeff]

Very young, very talented, terribly coached, no defense.

XRM, Dwayne Bacon, and Malik Beasley will all play in the NBA in my opinion. All are excellent offensive players. 1 will go for 30+. However, they dont have a true PG and their offense is a lot of one on one "go make a play" kind of stuff.

7'3 Bojanovsky is much improved and will pose challenges offensively and defensively underneath.

I think FSU has too much offense. Its 3 vs 2, really. XRM/Bacon/Beasley vs Artis/Young. FSU is going to score 75+ so if Artis and Young don't have real good games, we have no chance....but that goes for any game. We're not playing good enough F and dont have a consistent enough 3rd scorer to win games without Artis and Young going off. Would be nice to see a big game from someone else in addition. Cam Johnson?

Prediction:

FSU 82
Pitt 71

Hope I'm wrong.

I'm not sure anyone knows what to expect from our team at this point. A 10 point win or loss, nothing would surprise me.

 

[UPitt '89]

Very young, very talented, terribly coached, no defense.

XRM, Dwayne Bacon, and Malik Beasley will all play in the NBA in my opinion. All are excellent offensive players. 1 will go for 30+. However, they dont have a true PG and their offense is a lot of one on one "go make a play" kind of stuff.

7'3 Bojanovsky is much improved and will pose challenges offensively and defensively underneath.

I think FSU has too much offense. Its 3 vs 2, really. XRM/Bacon/Beasley vs Artis/Young. FSU is going to score 75+ so if Artis and Young don't have real good games, we have no chance....but that goes for any game. We're not playing good enough F and dont have a consistent enough 3rd scorer to win games without Artis and Young going off. Would be nice to see a big game from someone else in addition. Cam Johnson?

Prediction:

FSU 82
Pitt 71

Hope I'm wrong.

FSU looked even worse against Louisville last night than we did last week. Hopefully we get that FSU team.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

FSU looked even worse against Louisville last night than we did last week. Hopefully we get that FSU team.

XRM didnt play and they are too young to win road games vs good teams.

 

[Pittx9]

If Pitt loses this game, they might as well cancel the rest of the season. Huge game after the State loss, we can't afford to drop to 4-3 in conference. Pretty good team, but we should be able to run away with this one late. That is dependent however on our offense (and defense really) actually showing up today.

 

[Scruffy the Panther]

Cancel the season? I'd say that's a bit dramatic.

 

[R-M-U-h-o-o-p-s-f-a-n]

Cancel the season? I'd say that's a bit dramatic.

Agreed... Even if they lost to BC you don't cancel the season. You always play hard till the games run out.

Go Pitt & get a win today!

 

[Pittx9]

Cancel the season? I'd say that's a bit dramatic.

Yes, bit of an exaggeration lol. My point is this team is good and needs to start playing up to potential. A win to put them at 16-3 (5-2) and I think they'd be right on track. Back to back losses against talented teams, but teams Pitt is better than would be unacceptable.

Actually I think a win and we're in a better position than most teams that people would call really good. Michigan State and Duke look awful right now. Honestly I have no idea how Michigan State is ranked right now.

 

[Sean Miller Fan]

Next 2 games:

2-0 = NCAAT
1-1 = a fight to the end
0-2 = NIT