Is this years basketball team better than last years?

No. We'll be 4th-7th in the SEC. If we make the tournament, we'll probably have hit our ceiling. Ross is as selfish as Pressey with far less talent. They don't know how to pick a shot. Our best post player is Rosburg. It could be a painful year to watch.

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We'll be 4th-7th in the SEC

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The SEC is better this year.. so not totally relevant.

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Ross is as selfish as Pressey with far less talent

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But Ross isn't the QB. He's not the pulse of the team.

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Our best post player is Rosburg.

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That could change..

I guess I don't know for sure, I don't grasp basketball as well as other sports. Was just getting a feel for what others thought.

I'll say I feel a lot better after our second half tonight. N'western is a small team and not super athletic, so we match up well with them. But we look better than most SEC teams at this point in the season. We'll be ok. I'll still probably be a nervous nelly about it for a while though.

Hard to tell at this point, but maybe. I am not expecting much. Hopefully, I will be surprised.

I thought last years team didn't improve during the season, maybe even played worse. Hopefully this years team will improve as the season progresses. The freshman should progress. Clarkson after sitting out a year may improve as the season progresses. Brown is noticeably better. Will Criswell and Post improve? Rosberg is improving but has a limited upside.

I'm glad to see Rosburg starting to play above the rim. Less likely for shot blocks when we play a good team down low. Rossy is also a good free throw shooter too.

A few things I'd like to see out of Clarkson is getting his ball control down alittle better in traffic. He does ok, but he has room to improve. Also having more court presence. Looking for an open shooter when he's driving. He has a tendency to drive into traffic.

J3 is going to be special. The guy has a vertical I just can't believe. Killer rebound. His game seems to improve everytime out. Really needs to work on driving the paint. It's really the only thing missing in his game now.

Brown is just Brown. He's hot and cold. But his inside game just keeps getting better.

Ross, what can you say. He's kind of like a larger version of Brown. He doesn't do one thing great, but does many things fairly well when he's on.

Criswell is my favorite player out of this group. He's a scrapper. It's a different team when he's down low. He just needs to work the inside more. He's not a perimeter shooter. It gets him in trouble with the staff.

The rest of these freshman, I haven't seen enough to really make a comment on. Shane and Wes seem like they are searching for their role with the team.

I do see this team coming together through the season. They can either play the fast break game or slug it out below the basket. They are built for both really.

I can't argue any of those points jafo.

Regarding your thoughts on Clarkson, the fact that he has like 20 assists to 15 turnovers shows he needs to do a bit better job protecting the ball and/or not try to dribble through traffic so much.

Clark is just playing nearly mistake free basketball. Weakest part of his game is FT's.

As a team, we're pretty poor from the FT line. We also need to take better care of the ball overall. I think as a team we have more TO's than we do assists.

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I think this years Brown is better than last years Brown. I think Criswell could prove to be an important cock for this team. Hope he gets his house in order.

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agree

Agree.