Pre-season scrimmages (public & secret)
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I don't think so. You need to be in mid-season conditioning to play against Tennessee's system and UNC is probably still getting in that kind of shape. Honestly, any team playing Tennessee in a preseason game is a head scratcher. I don't think many teams will learn that much about themselves against that style of play.
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They return Shaw and Harrison in the backcourt and add in two nice additions to the front court in McCray and Wheeler!
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Also Tennessee has 8 new players this year. So a lot of adjustments for Tennessee. Including 5 freshman who are new to this style.
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I understand what you are alluding to but they've been conditioning all off-season for that pace because it's their style of play.
All in all, we the fans can't learn that much about any team just based on the box score with preseason games because every team approaches them differently. Winning isn't the main objective for many, if not most, teams.
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Yes when the actual games start. Is when we will learn about our teams.
I'm kinda high on Oklahoma. I know they lost some big pieces but I feel like they will have improved guard play. I'm interested to see how Baylor is. Scott is talented and they have some other good pieces. I like Iowa State a bit more than them but the big 12 seems wide open
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Terribly disappointing for UNC and makes Tennessee look scarier than I was thinking.
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It's a scrimmage...
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Yeah, and when you get beat by 25 points in three quarters that's not good.
Maybe UNC was missing players, but I'd be really worried if it were my team unless there was a really good explanation.
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Folks need to NOT put too much into these scrimmages. Especially closed ones. coaches can work out agreements to play different ways. For example they can play 1 quarter just in half court sets. I have seen scrimmages where a coach asked that on defense full court the opposing team play 6 on 5. i have seen some that were 4v4 and 3v3. i seen one that was just 3 minute mini games with different lineups. it all depends on what the coaches want and agree upon. Thats why it's a closed scrimmage. they are NOT always full games and infact are not most of the time.