Concerns about the 23-24 team

[Dr. Blackheart]

If you spend all your time worrying about the bees, you're never going to get a taste of honey.

TMI

[1SE]

I see COLE season is early this year. Must be climate change.

[Jay Bee]

I see COLE season is early this year. Must be climate change.

Everything negative is due to global warming

[rocket surgeon]

glancing at jops fg% & 3pt%, he needs consistency.  if you look at them, his numbers range from wtf?? to wtf!!  overall he's pretty good at around 40%, but if you put them on a graph, they look like a needle bouncing around on bubba's lie detector test. 

   jop levels it off a little bit

   ben comes out confident
 
   sean get's a little more pt

   depth, rebounding, injuries

[Jay Bee]

eFG% declines as does our record. Oh well. We'll still make the tourney.

BINGO!

It's amazing how well we shot in Conf play a year ago. 56.8% eFG%?! Can that be real?

[Dr. Blackheart]

BINGO!

It's amazing how well we shot in Conf play at ear ago. 56.8% eFG%?! Can that be real?

Year not ear

[Jay Bee]

Year not ear

Autocorrect is not my friend

[Elonsmusk]

BINGO!

It's amazing how well we shot in Conf play a year ago. 56.8% eFG%?! Can that be real?

We are a whopping 2% lower in eFG at present (54.6%) while playing the 15th most difficult opposition D SOS, and with Stevie shooting 13% for the year from 3 down from his 32.5% average during his first two seasons.

Solid pat on your own back though.  Well done.

[Dr. Blackheart]

Autocorrect is not my friend

Truly

[Jay Bee]

We are a whopping 2% lower in eFG at present (54.6%) while playing the 15th most difficult opposition D SOS, and with Stevie shooting 13% for the year from 3 down from his 32.5% average during his first two seasons.

Solid pat on your own back though.  Well done.

Happy to place a wager. $100 donation funded loser to winner's charity of choice (winner gets tax deduction). If we match or beat last year's eFG% then you win. Lmk

[DoctorV]

BINGO!

It's amazing how well we shot in Conf play a year ago. 56.8% eFG%?! Can that be real?

Tyler on the ball.

When Tyler the maestro is on the ball more the eFG% goes way up. So many easy looks and easy baskets.

When he's not Tyler the Creator as much the entire team suffers, as does the stat.

The drop in transition offense success doesn't help either.
It just seems like baskets are a bit harder to come by early this season.

Itll come around some as Shaka puts TyKo back on the ball more.

[TSmith34, Inc.]

We are a whopping 2% lower in eFG at present (54.6%) while playing the 15th most difficult opposition D SOS, and with Stevie shooting 13% for the year from 3 down from his 32.5% average during his first two seasons.

Solid pat on your own back though.  Well done.

I find myself on Team Ners surprisingly often lately.

[Newsdreams]

I find myself on Team Ners surprisingly often lately.

2% efg is very different from 2% fg %

[TSmith34, Inc.]

2% efg is very different from 2% fg %

The winning formula is 2e%^fg/blk%

[Newsdreams]

The winning formula is 2e%^fg/blk%

That formula suxs

[GoldenEagles03]

I think this team is great at its peak. I just have a feeling they are going to drop a handful of games starting with Creighton.

Could see them starting league play like UConn did last year at like 4-5 or 5-6 if they keep playing poorly. They just seem off to me...not as crisp or consistent.

Whatever happens, I just hope they stay healthy and peak at the right time.

[Goose]

Doctor V

The ball has to be in Kolek's hands as much as possible. The amount of open looks created when he is running the show is extremely high.

[MU82]

I think this team is great at its peak. I just have a feeling they are going to drop a handful of games starting with Creighton.

Do you think Creighton is playing at its peak?

Which convinces you more of Creighton's at-peak play - its 15-point loss to a .500 UNLV squad or its home loss to a Nova team that was playing without its leader?

[DoctorV]

Doctor V

The ball has to be in Kolek's hands as much as possible. The amount of open looks created when he is running the show is extremely high.

Yup, I started an entire thread about it.

And in a foreshadow thread a few weeks prior, while the squad was cooking, I asked if we should be concerned about how much lower than last year assist average.

He's a maestro, a wizard, and makes everyone around him better.
The looks become plentiful when he's in control.

[DoctorV]

I think this team is great at its peak. I just have a feeling they are going to drop a handful of games starting with Creighton.

Could see them starting league play like UConn did last year at like 4-5 or 5-6 if they keep playing poorly. They just seem off to me...not as crisp or consistent.

Whatever happens, I just hope they stay healthy and peak at the right time.

That's a stretch, a huge one. Sure, they might lose to Creighton, a very good team, but I'd be pretty surprised because they are cooking at home.

After that, they should win 5 of the next 6- even with roadies at very tough defensively (and inept offensively) SH and StJ.

7-0 or 6-1 in the next 7 (overall 8-1 or 7-2) is much more likely than 4-5 imo.

Btw, I agree that they seem a bit "off" and not as "crisp" as they have been in the past but I still think the above is true.

[PGsHeroes32]

That's a stretch, a huge one. Sure, they might lose to Creighton, a very good team, but I'd be pretty surprised because they are cooking at home.

After that, they should win 5 of the next 6- even with roadies at very tough defensively (and inept offensively) SH and StJ.

7-0 or 6-1 in the next 7 (overall 8-1 or 7-2) is much more likely than 4-5 imo.

Btw, I agree that they seem a bit "off" and not as "crisp" as they have been in the past but I still think the above is true.

SJU is definitely more of an offensive team than defensive

[DoctorV]

SJU is definitely more of an offensive team than defensive

Oh yea, I forget the Rick hasn't taken into effect yet.

Give it a bit of time. They held their last two opponents to 55 and 66 (X).
Will probably give up 85 to a hungry after a loss UConn next time out but they will be tough defensively by mid to late Jan imo.

Currently 46O and 69D (alright alright) on KenPom.

[brewcity77]

I think this team is great at its peak. I just have a feeling they are going to drop a handful of games starting with Creighton.

Could see them starting league play like UConn did last year at like 4-5 or 5-6 if they keep playing poorly. They just seem off to me...not as crisp or consistent.

Whatever happens, I just hope they stay healthy and peak at the right time.

If we're setting the win total on the first 9 Big East games at 4.5 or 11 games at 5.5 I'm taking the over and I'll bet the house on it. Have you even looked at our schedule through 11? We still have DePaul and Georgetown in there. My money is on 2-3 or 3-4 at worst in the other games during those stretches (especially with 4 at home).

[DoctorV]

If we're setting the win total on the first 9 Big East games at 4.5 or 11 games at 5.5 I'm taking the over and I'll bet the house on it. Have you even looked at our schedule through 11? We still have DePaul and Georgetown in there. My money is on 2-3 or 3-4 at worst in the other games during those stretches (especially with 4 at home).

3-4 in those other games would be insane.

Marquette should be favored in every single game. I know you've got to tip the ball and go out and play, but that would be mathematically absurd.

Would have to lose all 3 on the road at SH, StJ, and Nova- all of which Marquette is better than and have softer home court advantages than Providence- and lose to Creighton, Butler, Nova at home.

I guess it's not out of the realm of possibility, and you did say 'at worst,'
but that would be a wild bad stretch for this quality of a team.

I stand by 0-1 losses being a much more likely outcome in the next 9 than 3-4.
I know winning all 9 would be very very hard, but losing only 1 would seem more likely to me than losing 4.

[GoldenEagles03]

If we're setting the win total on the first 9 Big East games at 4.5 or 11 games at 5.5 I'm taking the over and I'll bet the house on it. Have you even looked at our schedule through 11? We still have DePaul and Georgetown in there. My money is on 2-3 or 3-4 at worst in the other games during those stretches (especially with 4 at home).

Just a lot less gimme games it seems. Seton Hall and Butler are suddenly decent teams. Bound to slip up at some point.

Not worried about the end goal.