(01-06-2016 01:23 AM)Tiger Greg Wrote:  

(01-06-2016 01:16 AM)elmoshow21 Wrote:  Ohio St. is quietly on a roll.

Yeah, but Oklahoma just lost a triple overtime game to a so-so Kansas team, so who knows.

So #1 rated team vs #2 rated team are so-so teams?

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(01-06-2016 04:02 PM)bluebacker Wrote:  This years team is better than last years. Tarrant, Shaq playing harder, D. Lawson, Burrell all added up more that make up for AN leaving.

How many more wins does that translate into? Don't know; maybe none but I'd still be on this year's team in a game against last year's.

The ONLY places where last year's team is better than this year is FG% and 3 point FG%

Category.......2014-15.....2015-16
3pt FG At.......289th........251st
A/TO ratio......125th........106th
Asst pg.......... 94th..........52nd
Blocks pg.......... 4th...........2nd
D Reb.............103rd............7th
FG%...............144th.........295th
FG Def..............40th.............3rd
FT%................258th..........101st
Scoring Off........176th...........73rd
Steals pg............77th............21st
3pt%................236th...........316th

(01-07-2016 02:08 AM)BealeStreetTiger Wrote:  

(01-06-2016 04:02 PM)bluebacker Wrote:  This years team is better than last years. Tarrant, Shaq playing harder, D. Lawson, Burrell all added up more that make up for AN leaving.

How many more wins does that translate into? Don't know; maybe none but I'd still be on this year's team in a game against last year's.

The guard position doomed last season’s team. IMHO Josh should have stuck it out with Pookie. But he was sent to the doghouse and never got out. You mentioned Burrell and he was on last season’s team. Only thing he was in Josh’s doghouse too.

What I see between the 2 teams is this year’s appears out of sync most of the time running the MDD and way too many players forcing shots in traffic instead of finding the open man. In the past the motion-dribble-drive had been compared to streetball, but now we look like we ARE playing streetball.

This year’s team could be better but it’s hard to judge playing a long string of cupcakes (at home) and hasn’t beaten a decent team yet.

Agree about the guard position killing us last year, but revisionist history on the doghouses. Pookie was allowed to play through mistakes last year right up through the Tulane game in Memphis. Pook absolutely gave that game away. Killed us. Everyone lost confidence in him after that, and CJP had a shorter rope as a result - rightfully so.

And Burrell had the 4th most minutes on the team last year, so how do you figure he was in the doghouse?

(01-07-2016 02:36 AM)Cletus Wrote:  

(01-06-2016 01:23 AM)Tiger Greg Wrote:  

(01-06-2016 01:16 AM)elmoshow21 Wrote:  Ohio St. is quietly on a roll.

Yeah, but Oklahoma just lost a triple overtime game to a so-so Kansas team, so who knows.

So #1 rated team vs #2 rated team are so-so teams?

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Historically, he's not wrong, because college basketball as a product is absolutely awful right now.