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Matrim55 said:
Rebounds per is so dependent upon pace. It's often a misleading stat.

There are two other mitigating factors. First is that our main center (Brimah) sells out to block almost everything, and that's shown in our block % (which was once again among the country's best). Teams that play like - that put a premium on rim protection - need their guards to rebound.

The other is that Seton Hall's starting center (Delgado) was a rebounding machine, like a bigger version of Adrien.
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Your post fleshes out my suspicion.
 
Matrim55 said:
Yeah, but they lost ALL of their interior defense. Teams are going to feast on them in the paint.

1) Cincinnati
2) UConn
3) Memphis
4) Tulsa
5) SMU
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That was my opinion for the slight step back. They get Shake Milton and can make our opinions less of an issue if they get Thon Maker. Of course they have some NCAA investigation problems so who know how this impacts them.

My list would put Cinci at 3 with UConn and Memphis jumping ahead. But it should be close among the first four.
 
fleudslipcon said:
That was my opinion for the slight step back. They get Shake Milton and can make our opinions less of an issue if they get Thon Maker. Of course they have some NCAA investigation problems so who know how this impacts them.

My list would put Cinci at 3 with UConn and Memphis jumping ahead. But it should be close among the first four.
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Yup - all of that is fair. I do like the fact that the AAC will be a bloodbath next year - hopefully everybody can do work in the OOC schedule.
 
Matrim55 said:
Yup - all of that is fair. I do like the fact that the AAC will be a bloodbath next year - hopefully everybody can do work in the OOC schedule.
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I'm hoping SMU, Temple and two of this years dregs make a great middle. That's as important as the top being good. I actually liked ECU at the end of last season. I feel Houston is another year away. So hopefully one of Tulane and Central Florida can gain traction over last season.

Tough to write this as opposed to we need Georgetown, Nova, Cuse, Ville, WV, ND, Pitt............
 
Matrim55 said:
Yeah, but they lost ALL of their interior defense. Teams are going to feast on them in the paint.

1) Cincinnati
2) UConn
3) Memphis
4) Tulsa
5) SMU
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If you gave Larry Brown the Memphis roster and Pastner the SMU roster, I would agree with you. But although Morreira and Cunningham are big losses that could bite them against teams like, say, UNC or Gonzaga, I have enough faith in Larry Brown as a coach to navigate an AAC schedule with smart positioning defense, and even if they go small up front with Kennedy and Moore, there is still a decent amount of rim protection there.

On the other end, they should be a title wave - that offense that they run is so much more motion-based than 99% of the college offenses out there that another year of reps with the same core should vault them into the top 20 in offensive efficiency, IMO.

I would go:

1) UConn (this assuming Gibbs commits)
2) Cincinnati
3) SMU
4) Memphis
5) Tulsa
 
champs99and04 said:
If you gave Larry Brown the Memphis roster and Pastner the SMU roster, I would agree with you. But although Morreira and Cunningham are big losses that could bite them against teams like, say, UNC or Gonzaga, I have enough faith in Larry Brown as a coach to navigate an AAC schedule with smart positioning defense, and even if they go small up front with Kennedy and Moore, there is still a decent amount of rim protection there.

On the other end, they should be a title wave - that offense that they run is so much more motion-based than 99% of the college offenses out there that another year of reps with the same core should vault them into the top 20 in offensive efficiency, IMO.

I would go:

1) UConn (this assuming Gibbs commits)
2) Cincinnati
3) SMU
4) Memphis
5) Tulsa
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If you gave Brown the Memphis roster they'd be preseason No. 1.

But yeah, you make a good point about SMU winning games with offense. Frazier is supposed to be back next year, right? Him, Moore & Kennedy on the floor together could/should be terrifying.
 
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champs99and04 said:
If you gave Larry Brown the Memphis roster and Pastner the SMU roster, I would agree with you. But although Morreira and Cunningham are big losses that could bite them against teams like, say, UNC or Gonzaga, I have enough faith in Larry Brown as a coach to navigate an AAC schedule with smart positioning defense, and even if they go small up front with Kennedy and Moore, there is still a decent amount of rim protection there.

On the other end, they should be a title wave - that offense that they run is so much more motion-based than 99% of the college offenses out there that another year of reps with the same core should vault them into the top 20 in offensive efficiency, IMO.

I would go:

1) UConn (this assuming Gibbs commits)
2) Cincinnati
3) SMU
4) Memphis
5) Tulsa
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I think you meant "tidal wave" here.

The "title wave" is the phrase used to describe the last 20 years of UConn basketball.
 
fleudslipcon said:
I'm hoping SMU, Temple and two of this years dregs make a great middle. That's as important as the top being good. I actually liked ECU at the end of last season. I feel Houston is another year away. So hopefully one of Tulane and Central Florida can gain traction over last season.

Tough to write this as opposed to we need Georgetown, Nova, Cuse, Ville, WV, ND, Pitt..
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SMU brings a lot of players back. Middle?
 
upstater said:
SMU brings a lot of players back. Middle?
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SMU lost their two rim protectors and best perimeter defender. Kennedy's the biggest guy on their team and he scares no one in the lane.
 
Brochacho said:
Kennedy vs UConn last season: 24 MPG, 15.3 PPG 7.6 RPG 1 BPG. Scares me.
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Offensively. Defensively he's a sieve - there's a reason Brown didn't start him and was hesitant to play him in crunch time.
 
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Nichols along with the two highly touted Lawson brothers will be quite the stacked frontcourt.. will Goodwin be back as well? and memphis always has serviceable guard play. The top four of the AAC; UConn, Memphis, Cinci, SMU should all be very good. Hopefully Tusla can do what they did in conference play during their OOC schedule. If everyone takes care of their OOC schedules I could easily see the AAC getting 4 automatic bids. Will be great to see
 
I wouldn't count on 4 auto bids unless the AAC kicks major butt in OOC. They don't respect us much.
 
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A buddy of mine at Pitt tells me Sterling Gibbs is visiting them at some point this week.
 
David 76 said:
greatly increasing the ability of our first guard off the bench.
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Good call. What David 76 said above is the most important upside of getting Gibbs.

If Gibbs doesn't sign, then a starting backcourt of Adams and Purvis would still be really, really good. But, when either of them comes out of the game, there'll be a significant drop-off in talent at one of the guard spots on the floor

The great thing about getting Gibbs is there'll be a rotation of three equally talented guards, with no drop-off when one comes out of the game.
 
I was at the "Born to Lead" documentary presentation in Ridgefield tonight. Someone asked Calhoun about today's college game, and he mentioned that he doesn't like grad transfers, but said Ollie is doing the right thing by bringing them in because of all the one and dones. He said a few times that UConn is bringing in two grad transfers for next year. He said they have a kid coming in from Cornell, and then stopped himself when he was about to mention the other player. Thought that was interesting...
 
BFieldHusky said:
I was at the "Born to Lead" documentary presentation in Ridgefield tonight. Someone asked Calhoun about today's college game, and he mentioned that he doesn't like grad transfers, but said Ollie is doing the right thing by bringing them in because of all the one and dones. He said a few times that UConn is bringing in two grad transfers for next year. He said they have a kid coming in from Cornell, and then stopped himself when he was about to mention the other player. Thought that was interesting...
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Pshhh.... Tyler Harris obviously.
 
BFieldHusky said:
I was at the "Born to Lead" documentary presentation in Ridgefield tonight. Someone asked Calhoun about today's college game, and he mentioned that he doesn't like grad transfers, but said Ollie is doing the right thing by bringing them in because of all the one and dones. He said a few times that UConn is bringing in two grad transfers for next year. He said they have a kid coming in from Cornell, and then stopped himself when he was about to mention the other player. Thought that was interesting...
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I was about to post the same thing. JC said it twice and corrected himself mid-sentence both times. My guess is that everyone needs to lay low until Seton Hall grants the kid his release.
 
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johnhuskies95 said:
Pitt's rivals guy just tweeted that. He also said that he doesn't think Pitt has a great shot.
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Even if it's true that Pitt doesn't have much of a shot, the mere fact that he is visiting other schools makes me a little nervous, if for no other reason than that many on this board seem to believe it's a done deal.
 
The fact alone that he is visiting other schools scares me. I honestly thought we had him. But now, I'm not so sure. Just have to remain hopeful.
 
No disrespect to our "insiders" - I enjoy the info that you guys bring to the board - but I think we all need to take this stuff with a grain of salt. As you guys have admitted, sometimes you're 100% spot on, and sometimes not. I don't think what's posted here should be taken as the law, even if it comes from people who have certain connections with the program. Believe nothing until the kid signs on the dotted line.

Again, Zionn, 99 and others: keep doing what you do, I enjoy your insight very much. But the whole "so and so posted something, obviously it's 100% a done deal and set in stone" motif isn't good for the psyche.
 
Stairmaster said:
No disrespect to our "insiders" - I enjoy the info that you guys bring to the board - but I think we all need to take this stuff with a grain of salt. As you guys have admitted, sometimes you're 100% spot on, and sometimes not. I don't think what's posted here should be taken as the law, even if it comes from people who have certain connections with the program. Believe nothing until the kid signs on the dotted line. Again, Zionn, 99 and others: keep doing what you do, I enjoy your insight very much. But the whole "so and so posted something, obviously it's 100% a done deal and set in stone" motif isn't good for the psyche.
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Jim Calhoun and staff once popped the cork on champagne bottles when they found out Bill Curley was coming.

Even the most inside of insiders are wrong sometimes.
 
Stairmaster said:
No disrespect to our "insiders" - I enjoy the info that you guys bring to the board - but I think we all need to take this stuff with a grain of salt. As you guys have admitted, sometimes you're 100% spot on, and sometimes not. I don't think what's posted here should be taken as the law, even if it comes from people who have certain connections with the program. Believe nothing until the kid signs on the dotted line.

Again, Zionn, 99 and others: keep doing what you do, I enjoy your insight very much. But the whole "so and so posted something, obviously it's 100% a done deal and set in stone" motif isn't good for the psyche.
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Well, this was posted on NBC, so it isn't as if this is exclusively message board gossip. I can't imagine that the reports of Slater, Meyer, etc. are correct if he is visiting other schools.
 
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