How Is The Basketball Team Looking

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Young, probably lacking shooting

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Agree with this. All of our talent are FR and SO. If Post has a breakout year then we may be a bubble team. If he doesn't then we will be pretty meh down low and be lucky to reach .500. This team will be more fun to watch though than any recently so I am actually pretty excited.

Pretty much what everyone else has said. Solid young talent in this incoming class. A couple solid young players that will be sophomores. Not much else.

As for making the tournament, I'm not as hopeful as my fellow Tigers fans. I think we'll be doing good to make the NIT. We have our best OOC schedule in years, but probably not a good year for it when it comes to a W/L record. Highlights of Arizona(Maui), KSU/Purdue(Maui), @OU, Xavier, Illinois(St. Louis) and Okie State(Kansas City).

Much more talented but hopefully less coached teams finished 5th and 6th in the SEC. I suspect we'll hover somewhere around 7th in the SEC. I think we are hopeful that KA will do at MU what y'all hope MA will do at Arky and restore the program to some resemblance of the good old days and as you've seen, that doesn't happen overnight.

On the court, we have some young talent at the SF spot. Some outside guys that are better attacking the rim than shooting it. The inside game returns absolutely zero production but that's not an indictment on the players but on Haith. Haith never used them, other than to set screens outside the 3 point line. No touches down low. The new system under KA will change that. Having said that, I'd be shocked if we are anywhere near the top half of the conference in any offensive stats. The team will win and lose with their defensive work, more of a team approach and being scrappy.

Bottom line is my happiness levels with this year team will not be determined by the W/L columns but just by how the team plays and buys into the system overall.

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Matter article on freshman Teki.