The Sleepers guys had some good thoughts on the game, the roster, and especially DGL. Just watched it.
https://youtu.be/1CWseSZE1eA?si=gtTVCxAt1aVjVUZZ
Never saw these guys before. How do they have a show? LOL. It's like a couple of Loyalty board homers.
I think that because the BT is relatively weak again that we should easily go 12-8 and as high as 14-6 which would keep us solidly in
4 or 5 seed territory. Beat Purdue and win 15 games we might be a 3 seed. Would require going 5-5 on the road which is pretty hard in any year but there are a lot of pretty inconsistent teams.
It is doable.
This team will have a solid chance at the second weekend. They will be playing a 3/4/5/6 (no great teams and all beatable) to do so. I do not think we will fall to a 7 seed as weak as the BT is and have to play a 2.
Calling Illinois a great team is crazy.
Claiming UW should be coach of the year is a stretch at this point.
People expected us to be in Top tier of BT with the returnees and portal guys in a soft BT.
We needed one of the Marquette or Tennessee games (both who Purdue beat) to be in that conversation.
Purdue has four Top 10 wins and likely POY.
We have none.
If we win the BT regular season then that award is warranted.
Not out of the question. Purdue will still have guard ballhandling and shooting issues IMO, but it looks like Smith has made a major jump and the Jones kid helps a lot
in terms of athleticism.
We should improve on offense, however, as Domask and Guerrier and Hawkins revert to their mean. I really like that Hawkins did not take some bonehead early shot clock threes
that he would have taken last year and he had some more shots in the paint. He will never be an efficient or likely a 13/14 ppg scorer but he can be a 10 ppg guy for sure.
The thing that I do agree with is our defense as a unit is becoming pretty solid. Yeah we gave up 86 and 89 vs FAU and Tenn but they had to work for it. I think in the BT in halfcourt slugfests we will keep most teams in the 60's.
It is not flashy like last year with the focus on blocks but we then had constant breakdowns and
the drop coverage and help rotations were abysmal.
Much more solid this year likely due to having four guys starting who are all seniors or older who play better position defense.
TSj has been much improved on and off ball. We are not blocking shots or producing TOs but we are simply staying or getting in front of people better.
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