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Old 10-21-2018, 10:23 AM   #41
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its got a decent shot to be a 1 bid league with that bid being a 7-10 seed. the league lost a ton of talent. it might be a more competitive conference, but no teams in the top 30 isn't a very good conference.
As of today, it looks like we have 4 tier 1 wins and 4 tier 2 wins available to us in the conference portion of the schedule.

Last season we had 4 tier 1 and 3 tier 2..... the league is better, if UConn and Memphis move up as well like I expect they should, our league will provide more opportunities for every one in this league.

We just need to collectively do work in the non conference
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:35 AM   #42
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Jennifer is trash on defense against any team that's not playing high school point guards. Against some of the teams we have in the AAC he's adequate enough but people need to stop acting like he's some great defender. He's just not.
The numbers and synergy say he is an excellent defender.

And the narrative that says he is only a good defender because of Gary and Kyle, is also not supported by facts. His worst defense came on shots 17 ft and closer, his best defense came on everything 18ft she beyond. Call it what you want, but he grades out as an excellent perimeter defender. He doesn’t generate steals, but you don’t need to to be a great defender to do that.

His pick and roll converse was excellent according to synergy.


He played good defense on the perimeter. And it’s hard to show me evidence he didn’t
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:48 AM   #43
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As of today, it looks like we have 4 tier 1 wins and 4 tier 2 wins available to us in the conference portion of the schedule.

Last season we had 4 tier 1 and 3 tier 2..... the league is better, if UConn and Memphis move up as well like I expect they should, our league will provide more opportunities for every one in this league.

We just need to collectively do work in the non conference

our conference benefited a great deal last year from rpi being awful. we stacked up much better in the quad system under rpi than we did if it used kenpom if my memory is correct. i could be wrong but i swear i remember looking that up last year.



a quick peak at some schedules and some of the teams have some OOC games that could really give the conference a boost. a lot of the teams have a lot of roster turnover, they might be a lot better in feb than early on, which won't do our conference a bit of good in resume if they can't pull off some of those early games.
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:53 AM   #44
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The numbers and synergy say he is an excellent defender.

And the narrative that says he is only a good defender because of Gary and Kyle, is also not supported by facts. His worst defense came on shots 17 ft and closer, his best defense came on everything 18ft she beyond. Call it what you want, but he grades out as an excellent perimeter defender. He doesn’t generate steals, but you don’t need to to be a great defender to do that.

His pick and roll converse was excellent according to synergy.


He played good defense on the perimeter. And it’s hard to show me evidence he didn’t


broome was very good according to synergy as well right? jenifer does scrap his way through a lot of screens, but we also switch most screens right? i dont think either of them are great at stopping penetration. could be a problem playing them both.
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Old 10-21-2018, 11:12 AM   #45
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With that being said our defense has always been the system. as long as guys stay disciplined our defense is always going to be great. maybe not as good as last year, but we will always be in the top 25.
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Old 10-21-2018, 09:52 PM   #46
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I was also at the scrimmage. I'm not nearly as optimistic about what I saw though.

The best part of the night was Logan Johnson really showed his upside. We've really never had a player like him since Cronin has been here. I had seen his YouTube videos but I never thought he looked all that athletic in them but he always looked like a very solid, high iq player who just found ways to get where he wanted. Boy was that wrong. This guy is bouncy but still very smooth basketball wise. I expect to be very frustrated with his lack of playing time this year with Jenifer ahead of him. Sure he's going to make lots of mistakes, but I think long term we'd better by the end of the year if he played a lot. The block he had where he pinned it was super quick... He stole an outlet pass in the first few minutes that I don't know how he got there. The team in Black put him in pick n roll a bunch, and he was physical trying to defend albeit he seemed to be thinking a little bit too much on some of these actions. I'm sure that will improve, but will ultimately be what dictates his playing time.

Cumberland looks like he lost weight. He was noticeably quicker. He was about exactly what everyone expected from him.

Jenifer was 2-9 in the first half, not sure what the final stat line was. He did knock down two or three 3's though, but I think his career shooting is a better predictor of what's to come. Bright side is he actually didn't seem to hesitate to shoot from 3, so hopefully if he's just selective and only takes wide open in rhythm catch and shoot looks, he'll be ok.

Fredericks looked lost to me. Not sure if the competition level is too big of a jump, he just had an off night, or what, but he seemed like just another guy.

Brooks/Eliel/Diarra are all exactly what you thought they were.

Cane's floater game and ability to finish over bigs and in the paint looked good. He knocked down a few 3's too.

Trevor Moore is a very good shooter when catch and shoot. He doesn't do a lot more than that on offense, but that's ok because i don't think he has a very good handle nor is good at creating. The spacing he allows our offense with his shooting ability is important. If he isn't requiring teams to not leave him, we're going to have a very clogged paint.

I see everyone's very excited with Scott. I really just didn't see it. I thought his game was more of a product of his competition. His season is going to tell a lot about how far we go, so hopefully in wrong.


Prince/Hardnett aren't anywhere near ready.

Keith Williams. Still not a good shooter. I think he's our irrational confidence guy, in he's going to take some terrible shots and do some awful stuff, but some nights it will work out fall in the hoop. I did forget about just how athletic he is. He's going to translate that athleticism into high level wing defense for our defense to reach similarly high levels. His ability to create is still lacking, but he will try that's for sure.

I thought we did play with more pace than normal, but it's practice and I've thought that many years before expecting a change. Not falling for that trap again.


I thought our defense overall in the scrimmage was trash. But again, it's October, a scrimmage, and we have the athletes to guard. Add in Cronin's history and I'm sure we'll be a top 30 kpom defense with a chance at cracking the top 15.

This team seemed scrappy in the scrimmage. They played hard. Legitimately very hard. The last five minutes got really intense when the Red team made their run.

Overall predictions:
Win between 20 and 24 games.
Bubble team most of the year that probably gets in and finishes with an 8-12 seed. Maybe win one tournament game.
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Old 10-21-2018, 10:41 PM   #47
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Lol
At this point, I'm done responding itt. You provide zero counter to anything substantive I provided. Why do you even feel the need to post that?

I'm not some negative fan. Go read my post history or try wrapping your brain around someone having serious concerns about our offense.

Responses like yours aren't productive. Posters like you can take a hike as far as I'm concerned you're blocked. Good Day Sir!
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Old 10-23-2018, 06:36 AM   #48
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With that being said our defense has always been the system. as long as guys stay disciplined our defense is always going to be great. maybe not as good as last year, but we will always be in the top 25.
Hmmm...Obviously Gary was great, but last year, everyone, including at times the head coach, cited Kyle's defense as his major weakness. He may have blocked some shots, but I think players like Nsoseme might be an upgrade defensively...now the offense on the other hand...
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Hmmm...Obviously Gary was great, but last year, everyone, including at times the head coach, cited Kyle's defense as his major weakness. He may have blocked some shots, but I think players like Nsoseme might be an upgrade defensively...now the offense on the other hand...

theres a good chance last years defense was the best we'll ever see here. statistically it was off the charts. we forced a very low shooting% against, we turned teams over a lot, we didn't give up a lot of Ft, we stopped 3's, we blocked a ton of shots. Our only weakness was giving up offensive rebounds.


its going to take a step back cause nobody can be gary and the perimeter is going to go from jake to broome.
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theres a good chance last years defense was the best we'll ever see here. statistically it was off the charts. we forced a very low shooting% against, we turned teams over a lot, we didn't give up a lot of Ft, we stopped 3's, we blocked a ton of shots. Our only weakness was giving up offensive rebounds.


its going to take a step back cause nobody can be gary and the perimeter is going to go from jake to broome.

It can take a step back and still be top 10.
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