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Looking at the conference schedule, what do you figure the W/L will be?

We have 5 guys with proven P5 production in the role they'll play here 2 back of the rotation P5 guys who will play bigger roles this season 3 freshmen 3 practice players / break the glass types

Okay well good for you haha. Just calling it like I see it as things stand today.

We will see. In the past 10 years we have had one season with a conference record as good as 12-8, so huge disappointment seems relative IMO. Would also depend a bit on how we do in non conference IMO. Michigan and Illinois seem likely to be favorites over us at least I'd think.

First glance gut reaction 4-3 in home only 4-3 in away only 4-2 in home & away Would be a 12-8 conference record. Could see anywhere from 10-10 to 14-6. Looking forward to seeing them in Peru. Bummer Yig won't play though

Looks very favorable, nice

7'2 Dorin Buca to Rutgers from Kansas State / Italy

Interesting info. We'll see how things translate. For as much as people knock Dorn's shooting outside of his hot streak, he was 38% from 3 on the year, good for 2 makes a game out there on 5.3 attempts. I think we need Harris to be at least as good of a shooter as Dorn was. Harris really didn't play enough at Duke to read much into his stats. I'm not feeling super great about that but I applaud the staff's conviction in locking up a guy they clearly wanted. Suppose they see something that makes them confident they can get production from him. I feel better about Mustaf's role than Harris. IMO Sisley will be a pretty low volume 3 point shooter regardless of how efficient he is. And I don't think he's going to be much better than 35% or so from out there but would love to be surprised. Sisley and Sherrell may shoot a couple 3s a game trailing in transition or taking advantage of the defense getting lost. I like a lot of the sets we ran this year on offense... but outside of Lindsay, right now we don't have a ton of options to knock them down consistently IMO. We will create open looks, which will help. But if we take ~28 3s per game like we did this year we won't really be playing to our strengths IMO with Burton and Mustaf on the court as often as they will be

With the stipulation that we still need to be able to hit 3s and there's not much proven volume shooting on this roster

Yeah definitely seems like a lateral move from Andrej for this coming year. Granted, I've only seen a short highlight reel on IG but it looks like he moves a good bit better and in one clip he hits a 3. Skinny and just 18... maybe we can develop him for down the road. Maybe not. Minimally at least he is a 7' practice body.

We largely agree on everything here... especially no more mulligans. I'm just saying, until they produce results on the court, it's hard for me to say with any real conviction that the program is objectively moving in the right direction. The portal approach was much better this time around but I don't think that necessarily means the program itself is trending up. We should have a pretty good to very good starting 5. Beyond that, a ton of questions and need to see how the puzzle pieces fit together. We could finish a fringe T25 team. Or we could get nothing out of our bench again, lose Sherrell to the NBA, have a few guys transfer out (Harris, Sisley, Manhertz, the last 3 guys we get this year) and wind up needing to fill a lot of gaps again for next year. That's a worst case type of scenario, but it's just as much a possibility as the best case IMO. The reality will probably end up somewhere in between IMO

Looking forward to hearing about our non conference schedule at some point. UConn has games vs Kansas, vs Ohio State, @ Arizona, vs Illinois (in Chicago), vs Duke (Vegas), and vs Michigan (Boston). Also finalizing a game vs UVA at MSG and rumors they're trying to add Arkansas to the schedule.

@Pagoda and @str8baller have made some really good posts explaining it more eloquently than I could.

I think that's presumptuous. We improved the talent level, which we had to. This is not some obvious T25 team at the end of the year to me. We very well could achieve that, but it's not a given.

Meh. I don't think he was downplaying Carr's contribution as much as reframing the question to share the credit with the entire staff