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This post is one season removed from hanging a banner and two consecutive upper tier finishes in the ACC for only the 4th time since joining the ACC. Unless you back up your rhetoric with your checkbook and putting your fanny in a seat, then you're just talking. People who resent the world...

People are free to expect what they want, but there is absolutely no historical precedence on which to base an expectation of a winning ACC record every year. None whatsoever. When Pastner's teams put together consecutive 11 win ACC seasons, that was only the 4th time that GT had two...

That team lost 78% of its scoring and 80% of minutes played. The most optimistic projection I saw was for 3 ACC wins. Many if not most projected that we wouldn't win an ACC game. Our starting back court was Heath and Heyward. Two guys who could not score at all.

I am a Pastner fan. I think he can coach and most of the problems with the program are above his pay grade. Last season was his worst coaching job, but I think he bounces back.

I agree that we had trouble at the 5, but my focus there was on defense and inconsistency on offense. I actually think that Howard was most comfortable at the elbow. he was effective setting screens at the top and distributing the ball from there. He was not a threat to shoot a jumper from...

I am not trying to be negative. I am trying to engage a discussion about how this team is going to function.

Let's assume the fault was Devoe's. But the question remains, who is going to move the defense this season? Ringing the perimeter with three point shooters is not going to be effective unless we can get the defense to leave one of them open. Sturdivant is steady, but can he create? Smith...

A frightening reality is that even though Devoe would frequently use the high screen and take 2 and 3 defender with him as he drove into the paint, the rest of our guys did not find scoring opportunities even when one or two guys were left unguarded (Usher's man stayed home). Almost always it...

Playing wings at the 4 spot only works if you have a legit post defender to protect the paint. Playing guys like Usher or Jalon Moore at the 4 when we are so deficient in the paint and on the boards creates mismatches in favor of the opposition. How often did we see Usher having to do heavly...

Losing pieces off of a team that didn't work well is not necessarily a bad thing. Time for a re-boot. Still, a lot of things have to be improved to move up in the standings.

The idea of scheme is to put guys in position to exploit what they do best and minimize the impact of their weaknesses. There is a limit to this, however. At the end of the day you need guys who can physically match-up and also you need guys with some skills. If you have guys on the floor who...

Some thoughts about the 4-spot: Franklin's film shows a guy who wants to get the ball down low. He is a threat down there. This will be a change from Jordan Usher, who was really a 3 in the Duane Ferrell mold. Even when Usher scored in the paint, it was after he swooped in from the perimeter...

Meka is a tweener. He has the body of a 4 but the skills of a 5. That puts a very low ceiling on him unless he can develop some skills. He could be a + defender at the 4 and maybe could be a situational defensive substitution, but last year, there was very little sign of even rudimentary...

I have no idea. This is a transition year for sure. Last season was supposed smooth the transition from the Alvarado-Wright-Devoe-Usher regime to a new era. But the pieces didn't come together in a productive way last year. So, that means the transition to this new regime will be abrupt...

The Barry Brothers for sure. Jon Barry was taken without Cremins having ever seen him play. Drew Barry was not highly ranked. Tony Akins I would put on this list. I don't remember his recruiting ranking. Jose Alvrado has got to be up there with Harpring. Luke Schenscher was a big one...

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This is what I am looking for in a player and the importance of this quality is enormous. We can call it many things: assertiveness, creativity, fluidity, basketball IQ, whatever. There is a lot of emphasis on guys not making mistakes. But the absence of bad is not a replacement for doing...

If you can't complain about the ground you stand on literally quaking in instability then I am not sure what one can complain about. A coach's success and failure, literally the players that he has to coach and compete with will be determined by capital collective agencies. The coach's are...

In a society where it is nearly a religion to believe in the righteousness of Capitalism and the self-regulatory nature of the Free Market, it absolutely floors me that I should be the one to give GT fans a pep talk to allow the market to run its magic! The NCAA's Amateur model became...

Well, if we want to get creative, a common strategy for small businesses to compete with big businesses is for the small businesses to merge with each other. For instance: As I understand it, the GTAA is it's own financial entity and is therefore distinct from the coffers of the Institute...