Read it again - I said the team would be better. But if you want to focus just on Nelly, he's in theory replacing Femi - a career 58% FT shooter. But, as I said, my point is the team as a whole should be better.
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Read it again - I said the team would be better. But if you want to focus just on Nelly, he's in theory replacing Femi - a career 58% FT shooter. But, as I said, my point is the team as a whole should be better.
I hope you are right about the twins but “two extremely tall talented bb players” sounds like what one call McDonalds AA’s - not a pair who weren’t quite heavily recruited.
Sitting there watching them drain threes from substantially behind the arc sold me . Can’t say I’ve ever seen a Pitt player shoot so well from that distance .
Who knows the twins could turn out to be a bust ( I don’t think so ) , but talent evaluators miss just about as often as they get it right . Just look at guys like Tom Brady and AB as 6th rounders or Dan Marino as the 5th QB taken in the draft .How about Sam Bowie over MJ !
One needs to be better than Collier or what we have seen so far from Jeffress.
That is it.
Do that and i think we will be OK.
Four veteran guards and Two good frontcourt players with experience.
We need that one more.
What do you mean by “ok?”
Right now, me are preseason #14. How high do you think we can rise?
Willing to let the season play out, but....
I am thinking middle of the second third ( including ties for less) Serious.
If we don't escape the bottom third, I will be disappointed.
All the above is predicated on that "one more".
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We would have been better too if we had taken Seikou Jawara instead of Dior or McNeilly.
I was all for that,
I was all for that,
If we don't get to around #5 or #6 in the ACC and have an NIT bid, the season will be very disappointing, for sure. Capel's in year 6. If we can't get an NIT bid at the very least, he should be on a very hot seat, especially considering the issues he's been having with his recruits and the law.
Like you Gary, I'm willing to let the season play out. BUT, it must be a successful season or changes need to be made.
I agree it must be a successful season. I think we can achieve that and not be 5 or 6.
NIT and a solid recruiting class shows we are moving in the right direction. I would sign that deal right now.
Correct. And the NIT is hard to make now. Really only the best 20 teams who dont make the NCAAT make the NIT. If we go 18-14, we wont make the NIT but I'd say it warrants another year
The overall W's and L's are very important and a good indicator of overall success or lack of it. I'll also be interested in HOW we play as a team and the use of talent. If we have some L's with good team play and hustle and effort, that's an improvement. If the losses are close and not getting blown out as we have been the past 4 or 5 years, then there's improvement. But we also have to be winning some of those close games that we haven't in recent years.
18 wins would be a minimum in my eyes. By now, 20+ wins every year is the expectation. Maybe that's a little bit rough. But college basketball is a rough, dirty business now. These are professional players and they should be expected to perform and win. And coaches of losing teams get fired.
Would just like to see a consensus of computer rankings pick the basic field of 64 and then have the winners of conference auto bids who are not in the top 64 all put in play-in games.
Might that put the field to your (LOL) something like 90?
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