(10-30-2019 10:08 AM)pesik Wrote:  

(10-30-2019 07:56 AM)b0ndsj0ns Wrote:  If Robinson and Jackson both miss extended time early in the season I'm concerned for ECU. Obviously the schedule is pure trash, but it's got landmines early for a team that could very well only have 2 true freshman active at the PG position. Road games @Navy, @App State, Liberty (only "good" OOC team we play all year) and then a tournament in the Bahamas within the first 3 weeks. If both miss that entire stretch I suspect ECU is going to lose some of those games, probably dooming the NET before you even get to December.

those are 300 rpi teams..except liberty.. if 2 injuries equate to losses vs those teams, you were never going to be a good then..

i already said this to sj, injuries are sometimes a blessing...if ecu is good this season, with that schedule , in this case it should be one aswell

dooley is already calling robinson a starter and he hasnt been active in a ecu practice yet..if he was healthy he was going to be doing 30-35mins a game ..your backup pgs were going to get no real minutes

this forces your backups to develop/step up...no better development tool than game reps...houston i genuinely think was that good last year becuase we got injuries early..our expected to 2 scorers missed 9-11 OOC games..other players stepped up and when they came back we had 2 layers of scoring

If all those opponents were at home I wouldn't be that concerned. Road and neutral site games with a completely new roster and 2 true freshman as your only PG options though is a recipe for having games with like 20+ turnovers. Realistically without injuries Newton would probably be a guy who gets limited minutes early and Curtis would probably be redshirted. Instead that's likely it at PG for a completely unknown length of time. I would not be stunned if neither of them are ready and it costs us games and then Robinson and Jackson come back and we look like a completely different team, but if that happens because of how terrible our schedule is from a NET perspective the damage will be done. I get and do mostly agree with you that if we actually are much improved we should still be talented enough to beat those teams, but the biggest equalizer in terms of losing games like that is a pile of turnovers. Assuming that doesn't happen if we lose to any of those opponents not named Liberty then you'll be absolutely correct to write us off.