re: Tide Hoops | 25-12 (13-5)

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If we can get Wague to stop fouling and play him 20-25 mins a game I think we will end up being a MUCH MUCH better team

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I think Stevenson will grow faster than Wague will solve his foul problem.
Solving a foul problem may seem easy, but it is surprisingly a very difficult problem.

I certainly understand the frustration from fans, but I will say that no one thinking logically instead of emotionally should have a worse outlook on this team now than they had before the last 2 games. My outlook has improved greatly despite the now "ugly" 6-4 record. You can look at the Purdue game and maybe say it was just fluke level shooting, but today we shot horribly, had both bigs foul out, had a 16 FTA disadvantage, and we still managed to be a buzzer-beater miss away from OT.

I think I need to reduce the ISO a bit. I think we need to set more screens and pass the ball more.

Just like Purdue, I don’t feel bad about the effort tonight.

I am worried though that we’ll have bad record heading into conference play without any notable wins. Just a lot of good losses.

So, we jumped up 3 spots on Torvik after losing. They have us at #5.

The sky isn’t falling and this team isn’t missing the NCAA tournament. Will probably end up somewhere between a 5-9 seed. The SEC isn’t that good this year. Right now, I’d still say we finish 3rd in the league, behind UK and Tenn. Rest of the league is a lot of meh. Really wish we could add a quality non conference win to the resume because there won’t be a ton of quality wins to be had in conference.

That being said, it’s also ok to admit this team has been somewhat disappointing. Estrada and Nelson have been very underwhelming. Nelson isn’t an NBA player right now, let alone a first round draft pick. And we are bad defensively. Awful. We’ve played 5 P5 teams and four of them have shot 50% or better from the field. We’ve yet to hold a P5 to below 85 points. This isn’t a great team, but if a 5-9 seed in the tourney is our floor under Oats, I think you take that all day.

Probably more for the recruiting board but..Be interesting to see how things shake out rest of this season heading into to next. Sherrell, Reid, and Cunningham..the front court will be stacked with talent next year. Nelson and Stevenson probably thought they would get drafted after this year. Maybe Stevenson still based on potential but he really needs another year. Could you talk either into possibly coming back next year..or would they with what we have coming in for the front court. Nelson didn’t want to come back to college this year and some team probably takes a flyer on him in the 2nd round.

We are still going to be kicking cans in the portal looking guards next year though. And these transfer portal mid major guys are usually mid major for a reason as we’ve seen this year.

Then we have three freshmen-Cosby, Parker, and Dioubate, who we don’t trust enough to see the floor. Wouldn’t surprise me if all three are in the portal after the season.

Creighton is not a MidMajor? They are in the BigEast