A UConn win today would be nice. There are a few of our OOC opponents that are on the borderline to getting into the next quadrant, which would help our OOC resume for our seeding.
OT: AUBURN BASKETBALL
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There has been a lot of big bets being thrown out on the Bunker over the last month.
Rice's $250 bet on KJ returning
Mudder having $300 (3 $100 bets) on Junibor signing with UGA or bama
Some dude betting $500 (wanted 15-1 odds and some dude gave them to him) right after the bama loss (we were 16-2) that we would not win more than 20 games (20 was a push)
Now some dude wanting to bet $500 on us v the field that we win the SEC.
Rice's $250 bet on KJ returning
Mudder having $300 (3 $100 bets) on Junibor signing with UGA or bama
Some dude betting $500 (wanted 15-1 odds and some dude gave them to him) right after the bama loss (we were 16-2) that we would not win more than 20 games (20 was a push)
Now some dude wanting to bet $500 on us v the field that we win the SEC.
I know what team our tigers remind me of.
The 1990 UNLV Runnin Rebs.
The 1990 UNLV Runnin Rebs.
I’d love to see us jump Duke in the rankings. Prob won’t though thinking just 9th. Jump AZ and Kansas.
I don't think so. He can still post under carolina tiger (unbanded)
Our Boogs allegedly ranked #8 in the latest CBS poll.
This is unbelievable to behold.
This is unbelievable to behold.
It’s so insane. Never imagined we’d fly this high without Wiley/Purifoy.
I do think the next Boog loss is going to bring a lot of “ah yeah, that was nice but we see their faults now” stuff. Especially if it’s against a size team like A&M and they hurt us in the post. The narrative is too easy to write and dismissing a good AU hoops year is as simple as dismissing a good Vandy football season. Nobody wants to really buy in anyway from the outside and they all wait for any sign the fluky dream thing has ended.
Us against the world. I'd have it no other way.
We should and better be ranked ahead of Duke and Kansas.
I am the most half glass full guy on the board. And while I thought and said we still had the talent without Purifoy/Wiley to make a run at the NCAAs, this is beyond anything I could have imagined.
I love you, Bruce
I am the most half glass full guy on the board. And while I thought and said we still had the talent without Purifoy/Wiley to make a run at the NCAAs, this is beyond anything I could have imagined.
I love you, Bruce
Gonna pull a rice here and say that my preseason/early season NIT prediction wasn't wrong. I just didn't know that we would have stock piled so many wins at this point in the season. Good think I don't owe any poor starving Kenyans any money. Otherwise, my wife and daughter would be malnourished and pissed.
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Does anyone think we can improve another step or that we have peaked? I just don’t see a way to play any better than we have. I would like to be better inside but Mac and Horace are what they are and I just don’t see them able to improve that much to make a huge difference for the overall team. I hope we can keep this pace going but I don’t want to peak now and slow down in March.
I've seen the peak comment/question a few times recently. I don't think we've peaked. IMO we haven't put together 2 great halves for one game, let alone 2-3 games in a row. I also think this team may never see a "peak" because we get production from so many different places. Yeah, the primaries are usually reliable, but we could easily get 2 double doubles from the bench on a given night. I just think we're deep enough that we may not actually peak at all because we don't stick to a short rotation. And I think that's a good thing.
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we’ve not yet begun to peak... Young Davion has struggled the last few times out... Mac, Horace, and Desean are up and down - we usually get good production from at least 1 if not 2 of the 3, but rarely all 3, which is a good thing...
if we were winning with 9 guys playing above their heads we’d be in trouble... but we’re winning because our guards are stone cold killers and everyone else takes turns filling in on any particular night...
as the season goes along, our depth will continue to allow us to sustain the level we’ve been at as other teams fade, thus giving the appearance of or boogs peaking, when the reality is, teams are just falling behind because of their inability to keep up...
we’re a month away from “peaking”
if we were winning with 9 guys playing above their heads we’d be in trouble... but we’re winning because our guards are stone cold killers and everyone else takes turns filling in on any particular night...
as the season goes along, our depth will continue to allow us to sustain the level we’ve been at as other teams fade, thus giving the appearance of or boogs peaking, when the reality is, teams are just falling behind because of their inability to keep up...
we’re a month away from “peaking”
another thing to calm the nerves of anyone waiting for our squad to turn into a pumpkin...
stop buying into the scrappy underdog stuff the tv guys or anyone else keeps feeding you... that’s something they can use to excuse the fact they didn’t see it coming... acting like it’s a surprise or we’re doing something impossible helps build the narrative they want...
luckily, BRUCE is smart enough to turn it around and motivate our guys, so now we have a team that is just flat out more talented than most opponents - AND is playing in a system to maximize that pure talent - AND has a huge chip on its shoulder
it’s like BRUCE has taken Bryce and Mac being under the radar and somehow convinced Staph and Jared and Horace and Chuma and Davion and Malik that they weren’t highly regarded either... or that Desean didn’t demolish a lesser conference
the only guy who is doing anything at all this year that was unexpected is Mac making 3’s... and it’s not like that’s the missing ingredient and why we’ve been successful
this is not a fluke...
this is not luck...
and this is not temporary...
this is the current and future reality of our program as long as BRUCE is the corch...
stop buying into the scrappy underdog stuff the tv guys or anyone else keeps feeding you... that’s something they can use to excuse the fact they didn’t see it coming... acting like it’s a surprise or we’re doing something impossible helps build the narrative they want...
luckily, BRUCE is smart enough to turn it around and motivate our guys, so now we have a team that is just flat out more talented than most opponents - AND is playing in a system to maximize that pure talent - AND has a huge chip on its shoulder
it’s like BRUCE has taken Bryce and Mac being under the radar and somehow convinced Staph and Jared and Horace and Chuma and Davion and Malik that they weren’t highly regarded either... or that Desean didn’t demolish a lesser conference
the only guy who is doing anything at all this year that was unexpected is Mac making 3’s... and it’s not like that’s the missing ingredient and why we’ve been successful
this is not a fluke...
this is not luck...
and this is not temporary...
this is the current and future reality of our program as long as BRUCE is the corch...
I’m thinking 6-2. Maybe 7-1, but you gotta think we’ll eventually run into a couple of squads that just make a ton of shots and can slow us down just enough to eek one out. Sorta similar to what bama did.
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Yeah me too. Those idiots over in boogville (and a few here) will probably freak TF out, but the few of us who have knowledge of how CBB works will know that’s it could be for the best at this point. It’s no coincidence that we’ve played our best ball of the year since we dropped the bama game...
I'm just gonna say 5-3 to keep my boog in check even though there's no reason we can't win all of them. Got this conference completely outclassed right now.
I actually think a loss or two could do us some good. Let’s keep that underdog “Fvck you” mentality going.
each game taken individually - if you ask me the day of “do you think we win?”, my answer will be yes... but that’s different than taking all 8 collectively
as of this minute, I think we go 7-1 with a loss at Arkansas... 6-2 or 5-3 are probably the most likely outcomes statistically, but if my theory about our depth, minutes distribution, and pace is correct - we should continue to outperform expectations
if anyone shoots better than Vandy did against us the rest of the year then god bless them and they’ve earned their W...
that was our “the other team can’t miss and we’re being lazy on defense with 4 guys playing smart each possession but 1 making a mistake and the other team is taking advantage every time”... and that game was never in doubt
Arkansas has the guards to do that... and maybe Florida or BAMA get hot and just shoot us out of the gym - but I don’t see it... those should be the 2 games - along with Kentucky - that our squad should definitely be up for and locked in defensively... I think those 3 get our best swings
I'd like to say that's where our realistic floor should be, because I see know signs of the bottom just falling out. We can play less than our best and win 4-5 games I think. We probably run into one or two nights were a combo of us being off and the other guys being on fire happen. And I feel like someone is just going to get us on matchup night where we get the wrong guys in foul trouble.
Our ceiling is running the table. I can hardly type that out but that's the truth. I honestly feel like A&M and bama at home are the biggest hurdles. A&M is the size/strength problem and bama just seems like a bad matchup to me right now....they may actually be better when they are forced to play faster and their defensive length gives us fits. I'm not high on UK/UF at all right now and I don't think USCe is good enough to bully us even on their court.
