re: 2022-23 Basketball MegaThread

I think even if Arkansas lost the last two games they are still in.

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We’re getting better but running out of games. We may be the best NIT team of all time.

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Arkansas is a tourney lock unless they draw Ole Miss in the SEC tourney and lose.

Also we are playing much better with Nick and the committee takes injuries into account

Best coach since Nolan

B2B elite 8’s

A lot of restructuring after losing two big pieces.

You can get the heck over the LSU loss

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Cannot believe Auburn, Vandy and A&M are ahead of us in conference. Still going to be hard for me to forgive Muss for that LSU loss.

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Let’s look at it from a different angle…It should hopefully give our squad a few more games to gel and “hopefully” get another 2-3 wins in the SECt. That also does bring another land mine game into play.

I’d prefer the 7 seed and playing the 10 seed in game one with the next matchup being against aTm. I’m confident in beating them on a neutral floor. You win that, you’d likely get Kentucky in the semi’s for possibly 3 total extra wins and two Q1 wins.

The problem is going to be needing to go 2-0 and needing Vandy to go 0-2 to finish the season with the 7 seed. We would lose the tie breaker with Vandy and get the 8 seed.

8 seed in the SECt plays the 9 seed to open, which right now would be Florida. Win that game and you’d play the 1 seed, which looks to be Alabama. That’s worst case scenario, but is probably the most likely scenario. Not that I am scared of Alabama, but a Q1 win against aTm or Kentucky is more likely. So you could possibly just go 1-1 and have a shitty win and add another Q1 loss if you can’t beat Bama.

Think about this season realistically and the job Muss has done is pretty amazing.

October 2022 - Title Contender
Nov 2022- Lose Smith, retool roster 7-1

December- Loose Brazille & Smith 5-1

January - figure out a whole new offense entering SEC Play starts off rough but start to gel end of the month. 4-5

February - 2 good wins to start then Smith returns and have to reset the rotation again and regel as a team. 4-3

My hope is this gel comes in full by the UK game in time for a run. This team is fixing things. Just look at turnover numbers, which we’ve all complained about.

Outside of Graham there isn’t much really.

It’s been said it took till Dec/Jan for the Mitchell’s to figure it out.

Ford, Dunning, and Pinion needed to be gymrats all summer and fall to get into the rotation. If the rest of the team is better then you then you have to outwork them. Not sure they were willing to do that.

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This isn't about winning and losing, it is about life.

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The Bama board is probably made up of a bunch of kids or people without kids. You never truly understand the loss of life until you love more than yourself.

There are also trashy people in this world with little to no morals

If there's a part of the team we haven't figured out yet, it's the 5.

We had 3 guards score 20+ points yesterday. Those 3 cycling in and out with Black as facilitator is perfect.

Walsh is the glue guy for lack of a better word. Not flashy but doesn't hurt the team, great effort, lengthy. Affects the game in ways that don't always show up in the stats.

Makhi, Makhel, and Graham have all shown flashes at times but we never know who is going to show up from game to game

Oats (most likely) ripped his teams arse first of all at half time then figured out a strategy to attack the basket. We didn't appear to be mentally prepared for expecting Bama to come out and be a different team after the half and got beat. To our team's credit, they did come back and make a game of it.

Black was a little off, it appeared. Didn't have his 'normal' game. Maybe that was part of Bama's strategy. Old Nolan 'cut the head off the snake' strategy.