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The team is ok. Guard play is way ahead of what our bigs are bringing. Timmins wouldn't start on any top 25 team and Dickerson is inconsistent and at a physical disadvantage against elite bigs. It will be another couple of years but I like they way we play and we are seeing young talent develop. Hopkins has definitely got the team playing much more disciplined basketball than under Romar....
If they beat Cal tomorrow I'll really start to believe in this team. They look like they've matured a lot offensively and have figured some things out. The biggest thing is they've figured out how to not have to rely on Dickerson for points. Carter finding his shot has helped tremendously. Nowell was unstoppable off the bounce last night. I kind of feel like this team will win the conference going away but lose the PXT. I think the multiple back to back nights could be where not having a point guard finally catches up to us. I just don't know how they can stack enough wins in the conference to make the big dance, there just aren't enough quality wins out there.Would love to see Hardy or Bey get some more run, the 7 man rotation is working right now but we are going to need some more depth at some point this year and especially next year. The only players getting any run right now that will likely be here next year are Timmins, Carter and Wright.I just can't see Nowell coming back but if he does next year could be, well, special.
The team is ok. Guard play is way ahead of what our bigs are bringing. Timmins wouldn't start on any top 25 team and Dickerson is inconsistent and at a physical disadvantage against elite bigs. It will be another couple of years but I like they way we play and we are seeing young talent develop. Hopkins has definitely got the team playing much more disciplined basketball than under Romar.... Whether timmins would start for a top 25 team is irrelevant. Whether he's making positive contributions to the team is what matters. We have enough scoring on the wings and dont' need some dominate center. I don't agree dickerson is at a huge disadvantage against most teams. Sure, if you're talking the top 5 teams in teh nation than of course, but the other 20 in the top 25 all have their warts. The biggest fallacy is that there are a lot of posts in basketball at any level. There aren't a shit ton of good bigs in the NBA, let alone D1 basketball. At the college level the vast majority are developed. That's where Romar was such a joke. He couldn't develop anyone and yet would bring in projects.
Still wondering why Naz isn't starting? Just me? ok. Also, Noah is so polished with his post moves and inside game, I don't see him as a weak spot on our team, but would rather have someone taller with the same skills. When we land a 6'10+ kid with the same inside game that's when a reel run to the sweet 16 will happen.
Still wondering why Naz isn't starting? Just me? ok. Also, Noah is so polished with his post moves and inside game, I don't see him as a weak spot on our team, but would rather have someone taller with the same skills. When we land a 6'10+ kid with the same inside game that's when a reel run to the sweet 16 will happen. This isn't happening at UW. If it does, it will be a once every 15-20 years type thing. You don't need to be 6'10" to be successful. Brockman was one of our best rebounders ever and he was 6'7". We need guys who can score in the post(like MBA), guys who are tough, and those who know how to play. The extra 2" doesn't matter for shit if you have a guy who's mobile and knows how to make a post move. I would much rather have a front line of guys who are 6'8-6'10" than guys over 6'10". There are so few bodies that move quickly at 6'10" and they AREN'T coming to UW. Give me guys who have lateral quickness, good hops and the rest will figure it out with a real coach. What many of us were yelling about in the latter Romar years is that UW should be playing to win NCAA basketball games, not talk about all the guys they get drafted or how high a recruits ranking is. I don't give two fucks how many people are drafted if we suck. The role hop should play is putting the best basketball team on the court to win games, and then you'll get a few nba players here and there(similar to syracuse or mich state). People want to have NBA type guys on their team every year and that's just not realistic nor is it going to make this team progress. They need a good balance of Juniors and Seniors to go with the young guns who may stay 1-2 years.
If Naz can continue to hit the 15-18 ft jumper then the middle will soften up and Dickerson will have a much improved second half of the pac 12. Opposing teams glut the middle and say to themselves that Nowell can't beat them by himself. That was the formula the last 12 games of last year and the same this year. A reliable third option (Naz) is the key to ball movement and freeing up Noah. If Green or Matisse get hot in combination with the other three, which happens every few games, then the Dawgs become hard to beat for anyone, anywhere. Seeing Naz become consistent changes everything.
The team is ok. Guard play is way ahead of what our bigs are bringing. Timmins wouldn't start on any top 25 team and Dickerson is inconsistent and at a physical disadvantage against elite bigs. It will be another couple of years but I like they way we play and we are seeing young talent develop. Hopkins has definitely got the team playing much more disciplined basketball than under Romar.... Whether timmins would start for a top 25 team is irrelevant. Whether he's making positive contributions to the team is what matters. We have enough scoring on the wings and dont' need some dominate center. I don't agree dickerson is at a huge disadvantage against most teams. Sure, if you're talking the top 5 teams in teh nation than of course, but the other 20 in the top 25 all have their warts. The biggest fallacy is that there are a lot of posts in basketball at any level. There aren't a shit ton of good bigs in the NBA, let alone D1 basketball. At the college level the vast majority are developed. That's where Romar was such a joke. He couldn't develop anyone and yet would bring in projects. I guess I should qualify my use of the word "ok" to describe this team. When I say "ok" I mean that we are a fringe top 25 team. At this point I would be really surprised if we didn't make the tournament. The Pac 12 is weak so that should help us stay in the top 25 even though our RPI will be relatively low compared to teams in better conferences. Our out of conference schedule was was good so that should help. Not having good forwards isn't a problem until it is. If I remember correctly we struggled against Utah last year in large part because our bigs couldn't defend theirs and weren't scoring. Part of being just an "ok" team versus and good team is that you have holes and our bigs are a hole for us. There will be games where Nowell or Carter will be hurt or will struggle to score and their points will need to come from somewhere else. Timmins and Dickerson haven't shown that they can be consistent scorers or defenders. Dickerson in particular is foul prone.
The team is ok. Guard play is way ahead of what our bigs are bringing. Timmins wouldn't start on any top 25 team and Dickerson is inconsistent and at a physical disadvantage against elite bigs. It will be another couple of years but I like they way we play and we are seeing young talent develop. Hopkins has definitely got the team playing much more disciplined basketball than under Romar.... Whether timmins would start for a top 25 team is irrelevant. Whether he's making positive contributions to the team is what matters. We have enough scoring on the wings and dont' need some dominate center. I don't agree dickerson is at a huge disadvantage against most teams. Sure, if you're talking the top 5 teams in teh nation than of course, but the other 20 in the top 25 all have their warts. The biggest fallacy is that there are a lot of posts in basketball at any level. There aren't a shit ton of good bigs in the NBA, let alone D1 basketball. At the college level the vast majority are developed. That's where Romar was such a joke. He couldn't develop anyone and yet would bring in projects. I guess I should qualify my use of the word "ok" to describe this team. When I say "ok" I mean that we are a fringe top 25 team. At this point I would be really surprised if we didn't make the tournament. The Pac 12 is weak so that should help us stay in the top 25 even though our RPI will be relatively low compared to teams in better conferences. Our out of conference schedule was was good so that should help. Not having good forwards isn't a problem until it is. If I remember correctly we struggled against Utah last year in large part because our bigs couldn't defend theirs and weren't scoring. Part of being just an "ok" team versus and good team is that you have holes and our bigs are a hole for us. There will be games where Nowell or Carter will be hurt or will struggle to score and their points will need to come from somewhere else. Timmins and Dickerson haven't shown that they can be consistent scorers or defenders. Dickerson in particular is foul prone. Our? Current RPI is 28, which is higher than I would have guessed. Our? best win is San Diego (#81). Real Time RPI projected our win/loss at 22-8 (13-4). RPI at 33 and SOS at 84 in this scenario. That looks like a team squarely on the bubble most years so we can probably only have 2-3 PAC losses at most to feel comfortably in.We? need to sweep the Oregon schools (UO #90, OSU #79) on the road and hope a few Pac-12 teams separate themselves from the rest and raise their RPI. There aren’t any other PAC-12 teams in the top 50 RPI so getting a marquee win is going to be tough. Unless we? pretty much just roll through the conference I think we’ll always be a bubble team since there is a decent chance we’ll? have 0 wins to hang our? hat on. Not getting a W against Minnesota or Gonzaga really hurt with how shitty the conference is this year.
The team is ok. Guard play is way ahead of what our bigs are bringing. Timmins wouldn't start on any top 25 team and Dickerson is inconsistent and at a physical disadvantage against elite bigs. It will be another couple of years but I like they way we play and we are seeing young talent develop. Hopkins has definitely got the team playing much more disciplined basketball than under Romar.... Whether timmins would start for a top 25 team is irrelevant. Whether he's making positive contributions to the team is what matters. We have enough scoring on the wings and dont' need some dominate center. I don't agree dickerson is at a huge disadvantage against most teams. Sure, if you're talking the top 5 teams in teh nation than of course, but the other 20 in the top 25 all have their warts. The biggest fallacy is that there are a lot of posts in basketball at any level. There aren't a shit ton of good bigs in the NBA, let alone D1 basketball. At the college level the vast majority are developed. That's where Romar was such a joke. He couldn't develop anyone and yet would bring in projects. I guess I should qualify my use of the word "ok" to describe this team. When I say "ok" I mean that we are a fringe top 25 team. At this point I would be really surprised if we didn't make the tournament. The Pac 12 is weak so that should help us stay in the top 25 even though our RPI will be relatively low compared to teams in better conferences. Our out of conference schedule was was good so that should help. Not having good forwards isn't a problem until it is. If I remember correctly we struggled against Utah last year in large part because our bigs couldn't defend theirs and weren't scoring. Part of being just an "ok" team versus and good team is that you have holes and our bigs are a hole for us. There will be games where Nowell or Carter will be hurt or will struggle to score and their points will need to come from somewhere else. Timmins and Dickerson haven't shown that they can be consistent scorers or defenders. Dickerson in particular is foul prone. Our? Current RPI is 28, which is higher than I would have guessed. Our? best win is San Diego (#81). Real Time RPI projected our win/loss at 22-8 (13-4). RPI at 33 and SOS at 84 in this scenario. That looks like a team squarely on the bubble most years so we can probably only have 2-3 PAC losses at most to feel comfortably in.We? need to sweep the Oregon schools (UO #90, OSU #79) on the road and hope a few Pac-12 teams separate themselves from the rest and raise their RPI. There aren’t any other PAC-12 teams in the top 50 RPI so getting a marquee win is going to be tough. Unless we? pretty much just roll through the conference I think we’ll always be a bubble team since there is a decent chance we’ll? have 0 wins to hang our? hat on. Not getting a W against Minnesota or Gonzaga really hurt with how shitty the conference is this year. RPI is dead
The team is ok. Guard play is way ahead of what our bigs are bringing. Timmins wouldn't start on any top 25 team and Dickerson is inconsistent and at a physical disadvantage against elite bigs. It will be another couple of years but I like they way we play and we are seeing young talent develop. Hopkins has definitely got the team playing much more disciplined basketball than under Romar.... Whether timmins would start for a top 25 team is irrelevant. Whether he's making positive contributions to the team is what matters. We have enough scoring on the wings and dont' need some dominate center. I don't agree dickerson is at a huge disadvantage against most teams. Sure, if you're talking the top 5 teams in teh nation than of course, but the other 20 in the top 25 all have their warts. The biggest fallacy is that there are a lot of posts in basketball at any level. There aren't a shit ton of good bigs in the NBA, let alone D1 basketball. At the college level the vast majority are developed. That's where Romar was such a joke. He couldn't develop anyone and yet would bring in projects. I guess I should qualify my use of the word "ok" to describe this team. When I say "ok" I mean that we are a fringe top 25 team. At this point I would be really surprised if we didn't make the tournament. The Pac 12 is weak so that should help us stay in the top 25 even though our RPI will be relatively low compared to teams in better conferences. Our out of conference schedule was was good so that should help. Not having good forwards isn't a problem until it is. If I remember correctly we struggled against Utah last year in large part because our bigs couldn't defend theirs and weren't scoring. Part of being just an "ok" team versus and good team is that you have holes and our bigs are a hole for us. There will be games where Nowell or Carter will be hurt or will struggle to score and their points will need to come from somewhere else. Timmins and Dickerson haven't shown that they can be consistent scorers or defenders. Dickerson in particular is foul prone. Our? Current RPI is 28, which is higher than I would have guessed. Our? best win is San Diego (#81). Real Time RPI projected our win/loss at 22-8 (13-4). RPI at 33 and SOS at 84 in this scenario. That looks like a team squarely on the bubble most years so we can probably only have 2-3 PAC losses at most to feel comfortably in.We? need to sweep the Oregon schools (UO #90, OSU #79) on the road and hope a few Pac-12 teams separate themselves from the rest and raise their RPI. There aren’t any other PAC-12 teams in the top 50 RPI so getting a marquee win is going to be tough. Unless we? pretty much just roll through the conference I think we’ll always be a bubble team since there is a decent chance we’ll? have 0 wins to hang our? hat on. Not getting a W against Minnesota or Gonzaga really hurt with how shitty the conference is this year. RPI is dead Forgot that isn’t used anymore. Probably hurts us honestly. “Notable wins” is still a thing and right now we? don’t have much. No bad losses. Need to improve our? road record and hope 3 or so teams emerge in the PAC so we? can get some okay wins.It’s hard to tell how good we? are. Lost to every team with a pulse, though two games were close. Beat everyone we? should, but we’ve also played the bottom 5 teams in conference.
The team is ok. Guard play is way ahead of what our bigs are bringing. Timmins wouldn't start on any top 25 team and Dickerson is inconsistent and at a physical disadvantage against elite bigs. It will be another couple of years but I like they way we play and we are seeing young talent develop. Hopkins has definitely got the team playing much more disciplined basketball than under Romar.... Whether timmins would start for a top 25 team is irrelevant. Whether he's making positive contributions to the team is what matters. We have enough scoring on the wings and dont' need some dominate center. I don't agree dickerson is at a huge disadvantage against most teams. Sure, if you're talking the top 5 teams in teh nation than of course, but the other 20 in the top 25 all have their warts. The biggest fallacy is that there are a lot of posts in basketball at any level. There aren't a shit ton of good bigs in the NBA, let alone D1 basketball. At the college level the vast majority are developed. That's where Romar was such a joke. He couldn't develop anyone and yet would bring in projects. I guess I should qualify my use of the word "ok" to describe this team. When I say "ok" I mean that we are a fringe top 25 team. At this point I would be really surprised if we didn't make the tournament. The Pac 12 is weak so that should help us stay in the top 25 even though our RPI will be relatively low compared to teams in better conferences. Our out of conference schedule was was good so that should help. Not having good forwards isn't a problem until it is. If I remember correctly we struggled against Utah last year in large part because our bigs couldn't defend theirs and weren't scoring. Part of being just an "ok" team versus and good team is that you have holes and our bigs are a hole for us. There will be games where Nowell or Carter will be hurt or will struggle to score and their points will need to come from somewhere else. Timmins and Dickerson haven't shown that they can be consistent scorers or defenders. Dickerson in particular is foul prone. Our? Current RPI is 28, which is higher than I would have guessed. Our? best win is San Diego (#81). Real Time RPI projected our win/loss at 22-8 (13-4). RPI at 33 and SOS at 84 in this scenario. That looks like a team squarely on the bubble most years so we can probably only have 2-3 PAC losses at most to feel comfortably in.We? need to sweep the Oregon schools (UO #90, OSU #79) on the road and hope a few Pac-12 teams separate themselves from the rest and raise their RPI. There aren’t any other PAC-12 teams in the top 50 RPI so getting a marquee win is going to be tough. Unless we? pretty much just roll through the conference I think we’ll always be a bubble team since there is a decent chance we’ll? have 0 wins to hang our? hat on. Not getting a W against Minnesota or Gonzaga really hurt with how shitty the conference is this year. RPI is dead Forgot that isn’t used anymore. Probably hurts us honestly. “Notable wins” is still a thing and right now we? don’t have much. No bad losses. Need to improve our? road record and hope 3 or so teams emerge in the PAC so we? can get some okay wins.It’s hard to tell how good we? are. Lost to every team with a pulse, though two games were close. Beat everyone we? should, but we’ve also played the bottom 5 teams in conference. We are #40 in the NET rankings. Would have been nice to not get screwed in the Minnesota and Gonzaga games on fucking horrible calls.
The team is ok. Guard play is way ahead of what our bigs are bringing. Timmins wouldn't start on any top 25 team and Dickerson is inconsistent and at a physical disadvantage against elite bigs. It will be another couple of years but I like they way we play and we are seeing young talent develop. Hopkins has definitely got the team playing much more disciplined basketball than under Romar.... Whether timmins would start for a top 25 team is irrelevant. Whether he's making positive contributions to the team is what matters. We have enough scoring on the wings and dont' need some dominate center. I don't agree dickerson is at a huge disadvantage against most teams. Sure, if you're talking the top 5 teams in teh nation than of course, but the other 20 in the top 25 all have their warts. The biggest fallacy is that there are a lot of posts in basketball at any level. There aren't a shit ton of good bigs in the NBA, let alone D1 basketball. At the college level the vast majority are developed. That's where Romar was such a joke. He couldn't develop anyone and yet would bring in projects. I guess I should qualify my use of the word "ok" to describe this team. When I say "ok" I mean that we are a fringe top 25 team. At this point I would be really surprised if we didn't make the tournament. The Pac 12 is weak so that should help us stay in the top 25 even though our RPI will be relatively low compared to teams in better conferences. Our out of conference schedule was was good so that should help. Not having good forwards isn't a problem until it is. If I remember correctly we struggled against Utah last year in large part because our bigs couldn't defend theirs and weren't scoring. Part of being just an "ok" team versus and good team is that you have holes and our bigs are a hole for us. There will be games where Nowell or Carter will be hurt or will struggle to score and their points will need to come from somewhere else. Timmins and Dickerson haven't shown that they can be consistent scorers or defenders. Dickerson in particular is foul prone. Our? Current RPI is 28, which is higher than I would have guessed. Our? best win is San Diego (#81). Real Time RPI projected our win/loss at 22-8 (13-4). RPI at 33 and SOS at 84 in this scenario. That looks like a team squarely on the bubble most years so we can probably only have 2-3 PAC losses at most to feel comfortably in.We? need to sweep the Oregon schools (UO #90, OSU #79) on the road and hope a few Pac-12 teams separate themselves from the rest and raise their RPI. There aren’t any other PAC-12 teams in the top 50 RPI so getting a marquee win is going to be tough. Unless we? pretty much just roll through the conference I think we’ll always be a bubble team since there is a decent chance we’ll? have 0 wins to hang our? hat on. Not getting a W against Minnesota or Gonzaga really hurt with how shitty the conference is this year. RPI is dead Forgot that isn’t used anymore. Probably hurts us honestly. “Notable wins” is still a thing and right now we? don’t have much. No bad losses. Need to improve our? road record and hope 3 or so teams emerge in the PAC so we? can get some okay wins.It’s hard to tell how good we? are. Lost to every team with a pulse, though two games were close. Beat everyone we? should, but we’ve also played the bottom 5 teams in conference. We are #40 in the NET rankings. Would have been nice to not get screwed in the Minnesota and Gonzaga games on fucking horrible calls. Oh my gosh stop the dooging blame the refs for any close loss shit.
The team is ok. Guard play is way ahead of what our bigs are bringing. Timmins wouldn't start on any top 25 team and Dickerson is inconsistent and at a physical disadvantage against elite bigs. It will be another couple of years but I like they way we play and we are seeing young talent develop. Hopkins has definitely got the team playing much more disciplined basketball than under Romar.... Whether timmins would start for a top 25 team is irrelevant. Whether he's making positive contributions to the team is what matters. We have enough scoring on the wings and dont' need some dominate center. I don't agree dickerson is at a huge disadvantage against most teams. Sure, if you're talking the top 5 teams in teh nation than of course, but the other 20 in the top 25 all have their warts. The biggest fallacy is that there are a lot of posts in basketball at any level. There aren't a shit ton of good bigs in the NBA, let alone D1 basketball. At the college level the vast majority are developed. That's where Romar was such a joke. He couldn't develop anyone and yet would bring in projects. I guess I should qualify my use of the word "ok" to describe this team. When I say "ok" I mean that we are a fringe top 25 team. At this point I would be really surprised if we didn't make the tournament. The Pac 12 is weak so that should help us stay in the top 25 even though our RPI will be relatively low compared to teams in better conferences. Our out of conference schedule was was good so that should help. Not having good forwards isn't a problem until it is. If I remember correctly we struggled against Utah last year in large part because our bigs couldn't defend theirs and weren't scoring. Part of being just an "ok" team versus and good team is that you have holes and our bigs are a hole for us. There will be games where Nowell or Carter will be hurt or will struggle to score and their points will need to come from somewhere else. Timmins and Dickerson haven't shown that they can be consistent scorers or defenders. Dickerson in particular is foul prone. Our? Current RPI is 28, which is higher than I would have guessed. Our? best win is San Diego (#81). Real Time RPI projected our win/loss at 22-8 (13-4). RPI at 33 and SOS at 84 in this scenario. That looks like a team squarely on the bubble most years so we can probably only have 2-3 PAC losses at most to feel comfortably in.We? need to sweep the Oregon schools (UO #90, OSU #79) on the road and hope a few Pac-12 teams separate themselves from the rest and raise their RPI. There aren’t any other PAC-12 teams in the top 50 RPI so getting a marquee win is going to be tough. Unless we? pretty much just roll through the conference I think we’ll always be a bubble team since there is a decent chance we’ll? have 0 wins to hang our? hat on. Not getting a W against Minnesota or Gonzaga really hurt with how shitty the conference is this year. RPI is dead Forgot that isn’t used anymore. Probably hurts us honestly. “Notable wins” is still a thing and right now we? don’t have much. No bad losses. Need to improve our? road record and hope 3 or so teams emerge in the PAC so we? can get some okay wins.It’s hard to tell how good we? are. Lost to every team with a pulse, though two games were close. Beat everyone we? should, but we’ve also played the bottom 5 teams in conference. We are #40 in the NET rankings. Would have been nice to not get screwed in the Minnesota and Gonzaga games on fucking horrible calls. Oh my gosh stop the dooging blame the refs for any close loss shit. Gonzaga we choked. Minnesota he clearly fucking travelled. Better?
The team is ok. Guard play is way ahead of what our bigs are bringing. Timmins wouldn't start on any top 25 team and Dickerson is inconsistent and at a physical disadvantage against elite bigs. It will be another couple of years but I like they way we play and we are seeing young talent develop. Hopkins has definitely got the team playing much more disciplined basketball than under Romar.... Whether timmins would start for a top 25 team is irrelevant. Whether he's making positive contributions to the team is what matters. We have enough scoring on the wings and dont' need some dominate center. I don't agree dickerson is at a huge disadvantage against most teams. Sure, if you're talking the top 5 teams in teh nation than of course, but the other 20 in the top 25 all have their warts. The biggest fallacy is that there are a lot of posts in basketball at any level. There aren't a shit ton of good bigs in the NBA, let alone D1 basketball. At the college level the vast majority are developed. That's where Romar was such a joke. He couldn't develop anyone and yet would bring in projects. I guess I should qualify my use of the word "ok" to describe this team. When I say "ok" I mean that we are a fringe top 25 team. At this point I would be really surprised if we didn't make the tournament. The Pac 12 is weak so that should help us stay in the top 25 even though our RPI will be relatively low compared to teams in better conferences. Our out of conference schedule was was good so that should help. Not having good forwards isn't a problem until it is. If I remember correctly we struggled against Utah last year in large part because our bigs couldn't defend theirs and weren't scoring. Part of being just an "ok" team versus and good team is that you have holes and our bigs are a hole for us. There will be games where Nowell or Carter will be hurt or will struggle to score and their points will need to come from somewhere else. Timmins and Dickerson haven't shown that they can be consistent scorers or defenders. Dickerson in particular is foul prone. Our? Current RPI is 28, which is higher than I would have guessed. Our? best win is San Diego (#81). Real Time RPI projected our win/loss at 22-8 (13-4). RPI at 33 and SOS at 84 in this scenario. That looks like a team squarely on the bubble most years so we can probably only have 2-3 PAC losses at most to feel comfortably in.We? need to sweep the Oregon schools (UO #90, OSU #79) on the road and hope a few Pac-12 teams separate themselves from the rest and raise their RPI. There aren’t any other PAC-12 teams in the top 50 RPI so getting a marquee win is going to be tough. Unless we? pretty much just roll through the conference I think we’ll always be a bubble team since there is a decent chance we’ll? have 0 wins to hang our? hat on. Not getting a W against Minnesota or Gonzaga really hurt with how shitty the conference is this year. RPI is dead Forgot that isn’t used anymore. Probably hurts us honestly. “Notable wins” is still a thing and right now we? don’t have much. No bad losses. Need to improve our? road record and hope 3 or so teams emerge in the PAC so we? can get some okay wins.It’s hard to tell how good we? are. Lost to every team with a pulse, though two games were close. Beat everyone we? should, but we’ve also played the bottom 5 teams in conference. We are #40 in the NET rankings. Would have been nice to not get screwed in the Minnesota and Gonzaga games on fucking horrible calls. Right behind Murray St. And just ahead of Utah St and Lipscomb.
The team is ok. Guard play is way ahead of what our bigs are bringing. Timmins wouldn't start on any top 25 team and Dickerson is inconsistent and at a physical disadvantage against elite bigs. It will be another couple of years but I like they way we play and we are seeing young talent develop. Hopkins has definitely got the team playing much more disciplined basketball than under Romar.... Whether timmins would start for a top 25 team is irrelevant. Whether he's making positive contributions to the team is what matters. We have enough scoring on the wings and dont' need some dominate center. I don't agree dickerson is at a huge disadvantage against most teams. Sure, if you're talking the top 5 teams in teh nation than of course, but the other 20 in the top 25 all have their warts. The biggest fallacy is that there are a lot of posts in basketball at any level. There aren't a shit ton of good bigs in the NBA, let alone D1 basketball. At the college level the vast majority are developed. That's where Romar was such a joke. He couldn't develop anyone and yet would bring in projects. I guess I should qualify my use of the word "ok" to describe this team. When I say "ok" I mean that we are a fringe top 25 team. At this point I would be really surprised if we didn't make the tournament. The Pac 12 is weak so that should help us stay in the top 25 even though our RPI will be relatively low compared to teams in better conferences. Our out of conference schedule was was good so that should help. Not having good forwards isn't a problem until it is. If I remember correctly we struggled against Utah last year in large part because our bigs couldn't defend theirs and weren't scoring. Part of being just an "ok" team versus and good team is that you have holes and our bigs are a hole for us. There will be games where Nowell or Carter will be hurt or will struggle to score and their points will need to come from somewhere else. Timmins and Dickerson haven't shown that they can be consistent scorers or defenders. Dickerson in particular is foul prone. Our? Current RPI is 28, which is higher than I would have guessed. Our? best win is San Diego (#81). Real Time RPI projected our win/loss at 22-8 (13-4). RPI at 33 and SOS at 84 in this scenario. That looks like a team squarely on the bubble most years so we can probably only have 2-3 PAC losses at most to feel comfortably in.We? need to sweep the Oregon schools (UO #90, OSU #79) on the road and hope a few Pac-12 teams separate themselves from the rest and raise their RPI. There aren’t any other PAC-12 teams in the top 50 RPI so getting a marquee win is going to be tough. Unless we? pretty much just roll through the conference I think we’ll always be a bubble team since there is a decent chance we’ll? have 0 wins to hang our? hat on. Not getting a W against Minnesota or Gonzaga really hurt with how shitty the conference is this year. RPI is dead Forgot that isn’t used anymore. Probably hurts us honestly. “Notable wins” is still a thing and right now we? don’t have much. No bad losses. Need to improve our? road record and hope 3 or so teams emerge in the PAC so we? can get some okay wins.It’s hard to tell how good we? are. Lost to every team with a pulse, though two games were close. Beat everyone we? should, but we’ve also played the bottom 5 teams in conference. We are #40 in the NET rankings. Would have been nice to not get screwed in the Minnesota and Gonzaga games on fucking horrible calls. Right behind Murray St. And just ahead of Utah St and Lipscomb. doogitup.gif?
The team is ok. Guard play is way ahead of what our bigs are bringing. Timmins wouldn't start on any top 25 team and Dickerson is inconsistent and at a physical disadvantage against elite bigs. It will be another couple of years but I like they way we play and we are seeing young talent develop. Hopkins has definitely got the team playing much more disciplined basketball than under Romar.... Whether timmins would start for a top 25 team is irrelevant. Whether he's making positive contributions to the team is what matters. We have enough scoring on the wings and dont' need some dominate center. I don't agree dickerson is at a huge disadvantage against most teams. Sure, if you're talking the top 5 teams in teh nation than of course, but the other 20 in the top 25 all have their warts. The biggest fallacy is that there are a lot of posts in basketball at any level. There aren't a shit ton of good bigs in the NBA, let alone D1 basketball. At the college level the vast majority are developed. That's where Romar was such a joke. He couldn't develop anyone and yet would bring in projects. I guess I should qualify my use of the word "ok" to describe this team. When I say "ok" I mean that we are a fringe top 25 team. At this point I would be really surprised if we didn't make the tournament. The Pac 12 is weak so that should help us stay in the top 25 even though our RPI will be relatively low compared to teams in better conferences. Our out of conference schedule was was good so that should help. Not having good forwards isn't a problem until it is. If I remember correctly we struggled against Utah last year in large part because our bigs couldn't defend theirs and weren't scoring. Part of being just an "ok" team versus and good team is that you have holes and our bigs are a hole for us. There will be games where Nowell or Carter will be hurt or will struggle to score and their points will need to come from somewhere else. Timmins and Dickerson haven't shown that they can be consistent scorers or defenders. Dickerson in particular is foul prone. Our? Current RPI is 28, which is higher than I would have guessed. Our? best win is San Diego (#81). Real Time RPI projected our win/loss at 22-8 (13-4). RPI at 33 and SOS at 84 in this scenario. That looks like a team squarely on the bubble most years so we can probably only have 2-3 PAC losses at most to feel comfortably in.We? need to sweep the Oregon schools (UO #90, OSU #79) on the road and hope a few Pac-12 teams separate themselves from the rest and raise their RPI. There aren’t any other PAC-12 teams in the top 50 RPI so getting a marquee win is going to be tough. Unless we? pretty much just roll through the conference I think we’ll always be a bubble team since there is a decent chance we’ll? have 0 wins to hang our? hat on. Not getting a W against Minnesota or Gonzaga really hurt with how shitty the conference is this year. RPI is dead Forgot that isn’t used anymore. Probably hurts us honestly. “Notable wins” is still a thing and right now we? don’t have much. No bad losses. Need to improve our? road record and hope 3 or so teams emerge in the PAC so we? can get some okay wins.It’s hard to tell how good we? are. Lost to every team with a pulse, though two games were close. Beat everyone we? should, but we’ve also played the bottom 5 teams in conference. We are #40 in the NET rankings. Would have been nice to not get screwed in the Minnesota and Gonzaga games on fucking horrible calls. Right behind Murray St. And just ahead of Utah St and Lipscomb. doogitup.gif? BTP leads the charge in basketball Doogin. MentionIng next year is a title team and our “good” depth while naming a bunch of guys that haven’t played college basketball outside of Timmins and Wright. Agree with BTP that next year could be fun, but easy young blood.
