re: 2014-2015 Basketball season outlook

Not looking good. Jalen Jones 0-7 so far

Another embarrassing loss for Kennedy. KSU is a bottom 3-4 Big 12 team and is well below average overall. They lost to Long Beach State by 9. They lost to a very mediocre Pitt team by almost 30. Tennessee, which lost several of its S16 players and has a new coach, handled them easily (a burst of KSU 3 pointers in the final minute made the game look much closer than it was, but Tenn was up double digits almost all night). KSU struggled to beat Bradley and U of Missouri-Kansas City in Manhattan. Coming into tonight, KSU's only accomplishments were playing Arizona close and beating a pretty bad Purdue team by 9, and Purdue has since lost to Vanderbilt by 10 and Notre Dame by 30-something.

So tonight, in a game that we desperately needed to boost our chance at a post-season tournament for which we don't have to pay, we shite the bed. For the first half, we repeatedly gave KSU 1) great looks near the basket after their forwards executed fairly simple work in the post and 2) a truly embarrassing number of uncontested dunks/layups after rotation flubs. A quick note on that: KSU was shooting a face-melting 80% at halftime. On the surface, that sounds like a "well it's just one of those nights" scenario; sometimes the other team is just ON. But that wasn't the case with us. As somebody who watched the game, it wasn't even like KSU was redhot. We just gave them THAT many gimme baskets. Any offense would have shot 70+% on the looks we gave up tonight.

On offense, it was the same dogshit Kennedy rolled out the last 3 years, just with better athletes: lots of jumpers and not nearly enough attempt to get into the lane. Dumb passes into a very crowded lane creating stupid turnovers, which led to fastbreaks (we committed stupid fouls on several). Lots of pointless off-the-ball motion. Far too much iso work. Just the usual.

After falling behind by ~15 halfway through the 2nd half, we made a bit of a run near the end of the game, which made the final score look respectable (it helped that KSU choked and at one point when we were fouling, missed like 5 straight FTs). But make no mistake, they controlled us basically from the first whistle. They were better prepared and out-performed us on both ends of the court. And again, this is a team that was humiliated by Pitt and handled by Tenn.

Hit the best case scenario for nonconference. We'll see how conference play turns out.

Here's the schedule (with my predictions) if anybody wants to take a stab at guessing.

@Alabama: L
UK: L, and it'll probably be by 40.
Mississippi State: W
@LSU: L
Missouri: W
@Tennessee: L
@Auburn: W
Vanderbilt: W
@Ole Miss: toss up
@Missouri: W
Georgia: W
Florida: toss up (could move to the loss category if they get healthy and start playing well)
LSU: toss up
@South Carolina: L
@Arkansas: L
Auburn: W
@Florida: L
Alabama: L

Worst case: 7-11
Best case: 10-8
My guess: 8-10, miss the NIT, and pat calling for 3 more years.

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and pat calling for 3 more years.



It's not really a prediction if it's a sure thing.

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Heh, just screwing around with you.

Sad thing is, you're right. He gets year 5 because of the recruiting class, and then he'll get year 6 because of the promising foundation he's put down, and then he'll get year 7 because in year 6 he'll take the best recruiting class in A&M history (as sophomores) to an 11 seed, which the AD will call progress.

He's basically here as long as he wants to be.

I am not confident. Kennedy's Krew gonna have to show me something.

No change

Close, but still a loss

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I'm wondering what seems to have changed since Alabama

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You said it yourself. Consistency. I think this team is a tournament team, but lack the consistency to prove that they are.