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[mdchick]

wishful thinking

Cats 63
Suckeyes 55

 

[Queens_NYC]

Believe it or not both of these teams have quite a few similarities.

1) Both teams lost 3 major contributors including a conference player of the year from NCAA 2nd Round squads.

2) Both teams shot the 3 at about an even clip last season (we were 148th nationally, OSU was 152nd).

3) Both teams return their starting point guards and have unsettled front court situations.


Our advantage over OSU is Cumberland as a go-to scorer, someone who I don't think OSU has established going into the season.

OSU's advantage is Kaleb Wesson in the post, a very talented second-year player and probably one of the best back-to-the-basket bigs we'll face this year.


I think it'll be a low scoring affair and our offensive incompetencies will keep us from pulling away at any given point. I still like us to win.

Cincy 65
OSU 61

 

[WAITE HOYT 2]

Believe it or not both of these teams have quite a few similarities.

1) Both teams lost 3 major contributors including a conference player of the year from NCAA 2nd Round squads.

2) Both teams shot the 3 at about an even clip last season (we were 148th nationally, OSU was 152nd).

3) Both teams return their starting point guards and have unsettled front court situations.


Our advantage over OSU is Cumberland as a go-to scorer, someone who I don't think OSU has established going into the season.

OSU's advantage is Kaleb Wesson in the post, a very talented second-year player and probably one of the best back-to-the-basket bigs we'll face this year.


I think it'll be a low scoring affair and our offensive incompetencies will keep us from pulling away at any given point. I still like us to win.

Cincy 65
OSU 61

good info. I like us to win at home. Like you I think it will be a close game with us coming out on top. With both teams adjusting to loss of talent playing at home early in year gives us the edge.

 

[Cin City]

Bearcats 63
Buckeyes 57

Close throughout. A nice little run sparked by the rockin shoe pulls us away.

 

[cincrulz11]

Believe it or not both of these teams have quite a few similarities.

1) Both teams lost 3 major contributors including a conference player of the year from NCAA 2nd Round squads.

2) Both teams shot the 3 at about an even clip last season (we were 148th nationally, OSU was 152nd).

3) Both teams return their starting point guards and have unsettled front court situations.


Our advantage over OSU is Cumberland as a go-to scorer, someone who I don't think OSU has established going into the season.

OSU's advantage is Kaleb Wesson in the post, a very talented second-year player and probably one of the best back-to-the-basket bigs we'll face this year.


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they also added a grad transfer from wake forest that put up 12 ppg in the acc and has shot 42.5% from 3 for his career.

 

[Queens_NYC]

they also added a grad transfer from wake forest that put up 12 ppg in the acc and has shot 42.5% from 3 for his career.

A true freshman, Luther Muhammad, started over the grad transfer, Keyshawn Woods, in their last exhibition game although Woods did end up leading the team in minutes that night with 23.

I'm guessing they'll both share minutes on Wednesday and whoever has the hotter hand will play the last quarter of the game.

 

[waterhead]

In this one game I don't care if the score is 44-43 as long as we win.

 

[GarradJ21]

I can't believe it's finally here. It looks like the 6 o'clock game is due to a college football game starting at 8.

I go back and forth on the outcome of this game. I just hope we win. OSU and Xavier are two teams that I cant accept losing to.

 

[tonka]

I went to the Buckeyes board to see what they were saying about the game. Most are skeptical that they can win considering we are opening our new arena, they lost 3 of their best players, and they didn’t shoot the 3 very well in their exhibition. Couple that with the loss of a key rotation player who announced he’s transferring yesterday and it looks like we should have the momentum. Bottom line is OSU doesn’t have any top 70 players and their upper class men are all outside of the top 200. Hopefully we can rattle them early, force some turnovers, get the crowd really into it and have a comfortable lead throughout.

 

[ervins84]

I'm guessing we'll be favored by around 3 or 4 points.

Expecting a tight, low scoring struggle, that hopefully Cumberland/Broome make enough plays down the stretch for the win

 

[GarradJ21]

Getting really nervous. Not just for tomorrow's game but the whole season. I really don't know what to expect. I feel we are better than SK's year still, that's what I'm banking my expectations on but of course I could be wrong.

 

[waterhead]

In games like this one that could be close...Cumberland is going to have to run about 35 minutes and Broome for 30+. I don't know how we score when they are out.

 

[GarradJ21]

UC is -6 tomorrow.

 

[mdchick]

I don’t get people saying we are better than sk’s senior year, that team was a 5 seed in the tournament and made it in the top 10 of the polls, I don’t see that for this team.

 

[TheLivingLegend]

I don’t get people saying we are better than sk’s senior year, that team was a 5 seed in the tournament and made it in the top 10 of the polls, I don’t see that for this team.

Correct. This team has major potential to stink.

 

[TheLivingLegend]

UC is -6 tomorrow.

Will be score 6 points? TBD... offense continues to be a major concern under the mickles cronin

 

[cincrulz11]

Will be score 6 points? TBD... offense continues to be a major concern under the mickles cronin

first team to 50 wins? 40?

 

[waterhead]

I don’t get people saying we are better than sk’s senior year, that team was a 5 seed in the tournament and made it in the top 10 of the polls, I don’t see that for this team.

Would you take the SR season of SK over Junior Cumberland? Yes. SR Jackson over JR Brooks? Yes. SR Rubles over JR Scott? Probably. FR Caupain over SR Jenifer? Probably.

I would take Broome over the next wing on that team.


We have our work cut out for us and some players have to step up in a big way to do what that team did in the regular season. If we make the dance it won't be hard to do better there.

 

[waterhead]

first team to 50 wins? 40?

I think we are gonna have a lot of games that depend on that 3 ball number. When we hit 15% we might be in the 40's or 50's. When we hit 30% plus we should be able to hit 60's.

We need Moore to hit his shots. We can sugar coat this all we want but that's what he is here for on offense. He is a DECENT defender but nothing special. He can't create. He has to be 37%+ this year from 3 to be worth putting him out there on the floor. I think he can do it unless we are struggling to get shots off early enough in the clock.

 

[TheLivingLegend]

first team to 50 wins? 40?

It's not good. Meanwhile a quick glance at scores yest, big numbers.

Mickles so desperately needs a philosophy change. Offense wins games. Style points matter.