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Every player on the team has bought into playing hard, rebounding, playing defense, and making the right play. That allows each player to play free and to their strengths.
 
Every player on the team has bought into playing hard, rebounding, playing defense, and making the right play. That allows each player to play free and to their strengths.

It seems I learn something new and positive about our team each time we play. Last night I was extremely impressed with the effort we gave. I now think it is possible with our depth to put up better defensive numbers than we have in the past. We don't have to worry so much about dropping quality when starters get a breather...we can just sub when a guy gets tired and not skip too many beats. What a relief...and the ability to press is another dimension we can use!

The hustle was off the charts last night. The battle for minutes is going to keep our intensity level extremely high. I would not want to be a player taking a play or two off with so many other players wanting my minutes. With increased pace I don't think players have to be worried about getting points either even if they play less minutes.
 
Love to see us putting up 100+ pts against these cupcakes. If anything, it helps our bench players mentality to see a couple of their shots splash through the hoop. The starting 5 will need to play SIGNIFICANT minutes if we want to win the gauntlet of games coming up against top 25 competition. Still wayyyyyyy to many turnovers.

Side note: traffic both pregame and postgame continue to be an absolute nightmare. Any suggestions from this group? My only thought is heading down 90mins before tip and just enjoying a few beverages in the Braxton Beer Garden.
 
Still wayyyyyyy to many turnovers.

I dont know that 13 is too many with the more possession we had. Then you see scott, brooks, and washington had 8 of them and I feel a bit better. As long as the PGs are taking care of it the others have shown in the past they will too.
 
I dont know that 13 is too many with the more possession we had. Then you see scott, brooks, and washington had 8 of them and I feel a bit better. As long as the PGs are taking care of it the others have shown in the past they will too.

Good point! Even more than that our PG's had 0 TO's and our frosh wings had 0 TO's.
 
tre has been impressive in both games. Don't think he'll ever be a double digit scoring but can be a good defense, Justin Jackson energy type player.

Keith Williams looks great. His ball handling and passing has been impressive. Could be a good point guard in the future i think.
 
We stayed put in Kenpom. So if we can destroy the cupcakes maybe it won't hurt so much. We can move in December. We can hold tight in November.

I think we were like 1.3 ppp last game vs .66 ppp for WCU. That's just insane. We played SOOOO much better than the first game...which is scary.
 
tre has been impressive in both games. Don't think he'll ever be a double digit scoring but can be a good defense, Justin Jackson energy type player.

Keith Williams looks great. His ball handling and passing has been impressive. Could be a good point guard in the future i think.

Tre was all over the court. I would limit his dribbling to 1 time just like most of the bigs not named Clark or Washington. He is a great passer. I think I almost cried when he backed his man down on the block and then kicked it out for a 3 to Broome. He looked like Gary on that play. He's killing it in assists right now.

Keith is a f-ing stud. CoachPipe called it a long time ago. There is little to no dropoff when Williams is in the game. I was thinking hey...we just had Evans AND Cumberland come through...let's just calm down a bit. Not all frosh can do what those two did or can do. Keith is the real deal IMO!!
 
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Keith is a f-ing stud. Keith is the real deal IMO!!

We've had a good run in getting a top tier recruit every year for a while now and you can see it's really paying off.

Caupain
Clark
Evans
Cumberland
Williams
Johnson?

And with the new arena and our top 10 success this year I think it's only going to continue.
 
Tre was all over the court. I would limit his dribbling to 1 time just like most of the bigs not named Clark or Washington. He is a great passer. I think I almost cried when he backed his man down on the block and then kicked it out for a 3 to Broome. He looked like Gary on that play. He's killing it in assists right now.

Keith is a f-ing stud. CoachPipe called it a long time ago. There is little to no dropoff when Williams is in the game. I was thinking hey...we just had Evans AND Cumberland come through...let's just calm down a bit. Not all frosh can do what those two did or can do. Keith is the real deal IMO!!

I am sorry RogerOH...I totally messed that up. You were the one calling for Keith as a legit baller. You were the one that was relentless on this subject.
 
I am sorry RogerOH...I totally messed that up. You were the one calling for Keith as a legit baller. You were the one that was relentless on this subject.

"Keith Williams will get the most minutes because he can come in for JC or JE and I don't think there will be any drop-off."


Any drop off? Are you kidding me? Evans and Cumberland? Potentially the prediction of the year by RogerOH. I remember thinking...sounds nice but WAY too much confidence in a frosh. We always think the frosh are going to be great.
 
"Keith Williams will get the most minutes because he can come in for JC or JE and I don't think there will be any drop-off."


Any drop off? Are you kidding me? Evans and Cumberland? Potentially the prediction of the year by RogerOH. I remember thinking...sounds nice but WAY too much confidence in a frosh. We always think the frosh are going to be great.

I think 2 games into the season against Cupcake U and Cupcake A&M may be too early to start validating any predictions.

We have what appears to be a good team that are deep, let's not get too far out over our skis.
 
We've had a good run in getting a top tier recruit every year for a while now and you can see it's really paying off.

Caupain
Clark
Evans
Cumberland
Williams
Johnson?

And with the new arena and our top 10 success this year I think it's only going to continue.

Johnson? Who are you referring to?
 
I think 2 games into the season against Cupcake U and Cupcake A&M may be too early to start validating any predictions.

We have what appears to be a good team that are deep, let's not get too far out over our skis.

That's cool. Are you going to predict something different? I would rather you just say it instead of making ambiguous statements. Let's hear what you have to say about the team?
 


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