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<blockquote data-quote="slugboy" data-source="post: 837951" data-attributes="member: 282"><p>The good news is that teams like Miami, Notre Dame, and possibly some schools like VT are weaker than they were three years ago. They aren’t sure wins, but at least we have a good shot to be favored. I won’t know until I see how the players other than Usher and Devoe play. </p><p>With just 5 starters in basketball, there are so many years where you’ll lose key players—maybe even more years than not. We got hit hard and lost a ton of production. Moses and Jose scored 32.6 points/game out of the team’s 71.8 (nearly 46%). They had 4.3 steals/game out of 9 for the team (GT was 1st in the conference, and again they’re nearly half of that). We had 3.6 blocks/game, and Moses was 1.6 of that. They were 6.4 assists/game out of our 15.9 (thanks Devoe and Usher there). We had 6.6 offensive rebounds per game (really low) and Moses and Jose were 3.9 of that. </p><p>We leaned heavily on four players for our offense last year, and half are gone. Even if Jose and Moses had come back, we’d still have wanted a 5th player to step up to make us a strong contender and balance the load. Also, Bubba is out for an indeterminate amount of time. Just to backfill, we need three players to step up, and we could use four or more to elevate their games this year, or have the three freshmen and one transfer come in hot. We have a lot of players that we could get game from, but we have a lot of holes to fill. It’s kind of like a poker hand where you have a pair of kings and have to draw cards—something good could happen, but if it doesn’t then you probably don’t have enough. I think that’s one of the reasons why Pastner is talking about playing a deep bench this year. </p><p>I’ll also be happy if we can notch 17 or 18 wins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="slugboy, post: 837951, member: 282"] The good news is that teams like Miami, Notre Dame, and possibly some schools like VT are weaker than they were three years ago. They aren’t sure wins, but at least we have a good shot to be favored. I won’t know until I see how the players other than Usher and Devoe play. With just 5 starters in basketball, there are so many years where you’ll lose key players—maybe even more years than not. We got hit hard and lost a ton of production. Moses and Jose scored 32.6 points/game out of the team’s 71.8 (nearly 46%). They had 4.3 steals/game out of 9 for the team (GT was 1st in the conference, and again they’re nearly half of that). We had 3.6 blocks/game, and Moses was 1.6 of that. They were 6.4 assists/game out of our 15.9 (thanks Devoe and Usher there). We had 6.6 offensive rebounds per game (really low) and Moses and Jose were 3.9 of that. We leaned heavily on four players for our offense last year, and half are gone. Even if Jose and Moses had come back, we’d still have wanted a 5th player to step up to make us a strong contender and balance the load. Also, Bubba is out for an indeterminate amount of time. Just to backfill, we need three players to step up, and we could use four or more to elevate their games this year, or have the three freshmen and one transfer come in hot. We have a lot of players that we could get game from, but we have a lot of holes to fill. It’s kind of like a poker hand where you have a pair of kings and have to draw cards—something good could happen, but if it doesn’t then you probably don’t have enough. I think that’s one of the reasons why Pastner is talking about playing a deep bench this year. I’ll also be happy if we can notch 17 or 18 wins. [/QUOTE]
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