re: 2021-22 Basketball Mega Thread

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Wow. I wouldn’t have thought the GA victory would be that powerful.

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By itself, it isn't

The margin of victory and added efficiency really help

#Negahog. We know you would never come eat crow if they won 7 out of the next 10 anyway.

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Somebody needs to cut y’all off! Only good team we’ve beat in this stretch is LSU and that win is getting less impressive by the day. We’ll be lucky to split the final 10 games and that would be an achievement.

Y’all think I’m being negative but I’m not, it’s just an honest assessment. I like this team outside of Lykes and he finally had a good game so who knows.

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I get where you're coming from, this hasn't exactly been a murderer's row lately.

But if you'd asked me after the A&M game how many wins this team had left on the schedule, I probably would have said 7 wins was being generous. Much less 7 in a row. The team has improved leaps and bounds, so there's plenty of reason to be optimistic. Particularly when yesterday was probably the most complete game we've played all year (sure beat grinding out wins against Mercer and UALR).

But the back part of the schedule will show if they've turned themselves into a good basketball team or a nationally competitive one.

I see where Stone is coming from. We've really beat hardly anyone to this point and have had 2 or 3 bad games. Pretty much all our opportunity games lie ahead

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Yep. This team is 1-3 vs. Q1 teams. Overall, weak schedule to this point. Weakest in the league from a Quad 1 perspective. Arkansas has played the fewest Quad 1 games of anyone in the league.

That changes pretty quick as 7 of our last 9 are Q1 games.

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While all very true, 5-0 in Q2 is pretty nice. There are many that like to lump to Q1/Q2 together to get a feel of tournament quality games and 6-3 is solid so far. Once again, the two Q3 losses are the real issue at the moment.

Damn proud of this team from where they came about a month ago, 7 in a row is impressive against any high major competition.

Something that is very interesting, on barttorvik you are able to see teams that have similar metrics throughout the years. This team is very closely leveling out to the same style as last years team.



Kind of crazy when you think about it.

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Damn proud of this team from where they came about a month ago

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I'll eat some crow on this front. I had completely written this team off a few weeks ago. For some reason I just didn't see this specific group putting it together but they've looked much better.

I do think I'm leaning toward's Stone's line of thinking where I'm just waiting to see how the team plays against Q1 competition, however, there's no doubt they're playing better basketball ESPECIALLY on the defensive end. I think if we were to make the dance we'd at least have a shot at getting to the 2nd weekend. Definitely wouldn't have said that a few weeks ago.

Ladybacks are getting housed by 11-9 A&M, down 16 at the end of the 3rd quarter.

The good news is they only have 1 ranked team left to play of the remaining 7 games.

I never have any idea how to read these