Know Thine Enemy: UT Matin

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Mascot: Skyhawks
Conference: Ohio Valley
13-14 Record: 8-23 (3-13)
13-14 RPI: 333
13-14 KenPom: 313
Coach: Heath Schroyer (1st year)

Departures:
Terence Smith: Starting SF, 14.6 ppg, 3.6 rpg, 2.8 apg, 1.0 spg, .438 3P%
Mike Liabo: Starting C, 12.3 ppg, 2.3 rpg, 2.1 apg, 0.1 bpg, .351 3P%
Justin Childs: 1st off the bench, 6.5 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 1.0 apg, 1.4 spg, .229 3P%
Tobias Dowdell: 4th off the bench, 1.8 ppg, 1.5 rpg, 0.1 apg, 0.3 bpg, .564 FG%
Bobby Jones: 5th off the bench, 3.7 ppg, 1.0 rpg, 0.1 apg, 0.4 spg, .338 3P%
Pierre Mopo: 6th off the bench, 0.5 ppg, 1.6 rpg, 0.0 apg, 0.1 bpg, .500 FG%
53% of scoring, 39% of rebounding, 41% of assists, 62% of 3P

Arrivals:
Deville Smith: Graduate transfer PG from UNLV
Richard Lee: 3 star SG
Terrence Durham: Unranked JUCO SG coming off redshirt
Alex Anderson: Unranked JUCO PG
Twymond Howard: Unranked JUCO SF
Arkeem Jospeh: Unranked JUCO C
C.J. Davis: 2 star SG
Fatodd Lewis: 2 star SF
Brandon Hitchman: 2 star PF
Nick Detlev: 2 star C

Probable Starters:
PG: Deville Smith: 6-0 180 SR, 9.7 ppg, 1.7 rpg, 2.7 apg, 1.0 spg, .338 3P% (for UNLV)
SG: Marshun Newell: 6-3 195 SR, 10.5 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 3.5 apg, 1.4 spg, .277 3P%
SF: Dee Oldham: 6-4 180 JR, 9.1 ppg, 3.3 rpg, 1.8 apg, 1.2 spg, .331 3P%
PF: Twymond Howard: 6-6 210 JR, 15.8 ppg, 9.7 rpg, 1.5 apg, 1.4 spg, .241 3P% (for SW Mississippi CC)
C: Myles Taylor: 6-7 250 SR, 14.6 ppg, 6.3 rpg, 0. apg, 1.0 bpg, .320 3P%

Probable Bench:
Alex Anderson: 5-11 180 JR PG
Richard Lee: 6-3 200 FR SG
Arkeem Joseph: 6-10 280 JR C
Javier Martinez: 6-7 210 SO PF
DeMarc Richardson: 6-2 170 JR SG

Probable Benchwarmers:
Terrence Durham: 6-3 190 RSJR SG
Kristian Taylor: 6-2 175 SR SG
Chandler Rowe: 6-7 205 SO SF
C.J Davis: 6-3 170 FR SG
Fatodd Lewis: 6-8 200 FR SF
Brandon Hitchman: 6-9 215 FR PF
Nick Detlev: 7-2 225 FR C

Best Case: UT Martin's large newcomers aren't ready for D1 competition. Facing a lineup as short as them, the Warriors abuse the Skyhawks both inside and out. Deville Smith shows everyone why he had to run from UNLV to ensure playing time this season and bricks on his 6 3P attempts. Deonte makes SportsCenter's top 10 three times on three different dunks. Warriors run away with a 25+ point victory.

Worst Nightmare: The Warriors resemble more of the first half of the WLC game than the 2nd half. Carlino makes 2 three pointers after shooting 11 of them. UT Martin's bigs aren't good but are large enough to push around the smaller Warriors. Deville Smith looks like the high major PG he was by dishing out 6 dimes and nailing 3 treys. Deonte only makes SportsCenter's top 10 once. Warriors limp into a 5-7 point victory, reminding Scoopers of the New Hampshire game from a year ago. Blame goes to (insert PG here) because (insert backup PG here) would have been so much better.

[LAMUfan]

Skyhawks is kind of a cool name.  Think we could be the Skychickens?

[Dawson Rental]

Know thy Enemy??  There is no need to cast the Skyhawks as an enemy.  We should embrace their starters.  Throw them a bar-b-que.  Give them a royal tour of campus.  And them hurry to be sure that they get to the BMO Center by halftime at the very latest.

[willie warrior]

Any well known Porn Stars?

[warriorchick]

Where did you get this info? I am not sure it's correct.

Do you honestly think I would leave a guy named Fatodd Lewis out of the cool names poll?
(It auto corrected to fat odd Lewis BTW) 

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Where did you get this info? I am not sure it's correct.

Do you honestly think I would leave a guy named Fatodd Lewis out of the cool names poll?
(It auto corrected to fat odd Lewis BTW) 

I noticed Fatodd wasn't on the official roster. I see plenty of articles about him committing and couldn't find anything about him leaving. I also checked his twitter and he's still tweeting about UT Martin bball so I decided to go with it

[warriorchick]

I noticed Fatodd wasn't on the official roster. I see plenty of articles about him committing and couldn't find anything about him leaving. I also checked his twitter and he's still tweeting about UT Martin bball so I decided to go with it

So you have have someone who's not on the roster listed as a benchwarmer.  Quite a bold prediction.  

[Galway Eagle]

They actually have a famous basketball record holder as one of their alums is the most recent (one of very few) basketball players in the NBA or NCAA to record a quadruple double.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

Bumpity bump

[Eldon]

I gotta say, Skyhawks is a pretty awesome name

[jficke13]

I'm very pleased that a thread that is ostensibly about knowing one's enemy is titled with a misspelling of that enemy's name. If this is trolling I applaud you as a next level meta-troll.

[TAMU, Knower of Ball]

I'm very pleased that a thread that is ostensibly about knowing one's enemy is titled with a misspelling of that enemy's name. If this is trolling I applaud you as a next level meta-troll.

Bahahaha, I didn't even notice.