no

No

No way.

If Precious was on last years team... yep. He”s a special talent.

Right now, I would say no. But I could see this team struggling mightily in the road on conference. It’s not an outlandish question.

(01-10-2020 09:17 AM)Tiger87 Wrote:  Tell your friend he doesn't have to ask or guess. He can check the advanced metrics, rankings, and record.

We are 40th in KenPom currently and finished last season at 56. Not a huge difference, at present.

Its hard not to compare this years team AT THIS POINT to last years team at the end of the season... we have the whole body of work to reflect on with last year, and we are only 1/3rd through this years body of work..

This years team is better at the 1/3rd point than last years team at the 1/3rd point

Last year's team lost 14 games and was saved by one player, Jeremiah Martin. Without him they would have had a losing season or .500 at best.

This team won't lose 14 games.

You mean that was a serious question?

(01-09-2020 07:35 PM)TigerTim Wrote:  Asking for a friend.

Last years team had lost to College of Charleston and Oklahoma St by this point.

Nope. We were down 27-1 to USF last year.

Short answer: No

(01-12-2020 11:21 AM)MtownTigers916 Wrote:  

(01-10-2020 09:17 AM)Tiger87 Wrote:  Tell your friend he doesn't have to ask or guess. He can check the advanced metrics, rankings, and record.

We are 40th in KenPom currently and finished last season at 56. Not a huge difference, at present.

It's a 29% improvement. It's the difference in being an NCAA team and an NIT team.

(01-10-2020 04:42 PM)tharmon15 Wrote:  

(01-10-2020 11:02 AM)macgar32 Wrote:  Offensively last years team was absolutely better...Due to J. Martin

Defensively this team is 100% better...

If Martin is on this team we are ranked #1 in the country right now...(We wouldn't deserve it but we would be undefeated)

Agree. Do you envision any player on this roster as a senior having any degree of impact that JMart had last year?

Never know. His frosh year, when he averaged 3 points a game, did you envision JMart having the degree of impact he would have?

(01-10-2020 05:12 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  At least last season we had some leadership & not everyone attempted to be the self-appointed hero. Last season the players seemed to better know their roles.

You have much different memories of last year than I do. We lost to College of Charleston last year. We got a double-OT win vs Yale at home. At this point last year, game #16, we had a halftime deficit with a come from behind win against ECU at home.

We had guys who couldn't figure their roles out (Kyvon, Parks, Tyler, Alo). Frustrating D (Brewton, Martin, Kyvon). Other than Martin, there was zero court leadership. Penny was very frustrated post game.

We had an older, more experienced team who never quit - a staple of Hardaway - with a player who took his game to a new level. But they were not better. Not close.

This years team is so much better than last years it not even close...

(01-12-2020 11:21 AM)MtownTigers916 Wrote:  

(01-10-2020 09:17 AM)Tiger87 Wrote:  Tell your friend he doesn't have to ask or guess. He can check the advanced metrics, rankings, and record.

We are 40th in KenPom currently and finished last season at 56. Not a huge difference, at present.

But at the same time last year we weren’t 56. Probably in the 70s.

(01-10-2020 05:12 PM)Atlanta Wrote:  At least last season we had some leadership & not everyone attempted to be the self-appointed hero. Last season the players seemed to better know their roles.

Dude. How quickly we forget.

(01-13-2020 11:17 PM)BigDye1976 Wrote:  This years team is so much better than last years it not even close...

Absolutely!!

Anyone who's watched a game knows better. Achuiwa is the best player we had since Rose, probably top 10 already.

Last year at this time we were 11-6 with 6 more regular season losses to come.