Greene Rice FIG said:

Dylan Harper is exceeding my expectations as a college basketball player. With a really small knowledge of what it takes in the NBA i am going to guess his NBA draft stock falls.

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Dylan was always going to be an unbelievable college player. His maturity and feel for the game translate to instant success

My take was Dylan was more of a lock to be an excellent college player. Ace higher NBA ceiling. Dylan's game is just much more polished while Ace's ceiling is astronomical

Loved and appreciated myles more than most... Ace and Dylan are on a different planet. Ask myles and he would agree

We are having this argument waaaaaaaaay too early in the season . Certainly not enough data .

I think there is a few things that is obvious

1.) we are playing faster (more possesion) and scoring more …and with more possesion, going give up mkre

2.) it is very limited data …4 games , and I’m gonna go back to look at this after vegas wirb more data and better opponents mixed in but

-the offense feels choppy and yet in four games , we are newly shooting 50% from the floor and 36% from three . This is a very good start

-the defense , to the eye ball, needs a lot of work , mostly on team defensive concepts (rotations , switches anticipating screens et ), but yet still has manage to keep opponents under 40% from the floor in its first four game

The statitcal question on the season is really simples…and got to let it play out

1.) Will the offense improve as the competion moves up to the point we can still score in the high 70s, and shoot in the 37-38% range from three

2.) Will the defense pick it up as the competiton moves up and keep teams shooting at 40%

If the answer is no to both …we got problems

If the answer is yes to one and no to the other …or middling on both…we probably are on the bubble

If the answer is yes to both, we are probably going to like our chances in March on a game by game basis to win one at a time in a one or done scanairo ….

Let it play out and let the convo continue …because this one is going all the way until March 16th…..

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pish69 said:

LOL. What seed is McConagle protecting? Shawver is higher ranked.

Shawver looked good did what he should to backup
Olivera..solid match had a shot
Cetta..did best he could overmatched
Harer..not great, not bad. Hippolito an unorthodox wrestler, interested to see his future..fun kid to watch
Barbosa..nice comeback, finish it. Best option at the weight
Turley..great 1st period. Inexcusable getting pinned
Walsh..starter, next topic, I don’t care if Soldano beats him at Black Knight..he’s the best guy against other opponents
Poz..disappointing
Yara..good win. Gonna need to beat Mullin types to get to AA status again. Possible bloodround type match

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Mcgonagle shoulda went then idk..

Rewatched the Walsh match and he looked amazing.. he barely looked tired at all. Looks like rolling around w Labriola is paying dividends. Agreed, Walsh should be the new starter and if Soldano is unable or unwilling to make 174 then idk..

I think there is a lot of things that need to be reminded here

1.) with the portal and many new teams with lots of new faces , there is more parity than ever …

2.) and you don’t think the last point is true, take a good hard look at the scores around the country …and how things change from game to game

-examples …Notre dame loses to Elon
-examples …Nebraska beats Creighton
-examples …preseason top 10 Arizona gets hammered by Wisconsin and duke
-examples…that same Wisconsin twam, needs to hold on for dear life to best Unicersity Texas rio grande valley this week
-examples …seton hall loses to forfham and Hofstra

I could go on and on and on

Im glad we are 4-0 and won all four by double digits

And in the same breathe , it’s clear to say we are a work in progress and will have sone serious ups and downs in the process that as a fan, until you see a trend either in the negative or in the positive , you should not get too high after a great win or too low after a head scratching loss

Having said ALL of that …every game counts on the resume ….and we need not to sxrew
Up on Sunday and get a win ….and it would be good for the psyche to get a win against Notre damw so we are playing with house money against alabama and the game on Saturday .

Get me to 6-2 on the flight home …and let’s get in the gym, work that defense and the timing on the rotation , and let’s enter the first of the year 1-1 and 10-3

One at a time for sure ….and certainly that’s thinking waaaaaaay too far
Ahead ….enjoy the process …because I still really think we can put this together in the sexond half of February and scream
Into March and make a real run .

PhillyRU said:

With the preface that our defense has not played well, Merrimack was also in a brutal situation tonight. 8 p.m. ET tip in Jersey Wednesday night, then a bus ride to Indianapolis for a Friday game. Status quo for a lot of LMs, but I’m hardly surprised they fell apart late

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Their two best players, Clark and Trumper, played a combined 79 minutes against us, and only 55 minutes against Butler. They obviously went all in to try and beat us, and those minutes took their toll (along with the short rest and travel, as you pointed out) in the second half at Butler.

Rutgers 27 - Illinois 21

This game gets me a bit nervous.

I’m concerned because :

- Game will be like a Super bowl for Kennesaw State as I’m sure it’s rare for a Power conference team to play at their gym. Crowd will be amp’d

- Could be a perfect trap game for Rutgers if they’re looking ahead to the Vegas Tourney

- Need Ace and JMIke to play within themselves as I’m sure both will be revved up given all their family and friends in attendance

There was a time when I could have mined bitcoin and said.. nah.. I joined one of those genome mapping projects instead using my GPUs and CPUs for that.

Then there were threads on this board talking about bitcoin and crypto and I said.. nah.. its all gonna be manipulated, crash, get hacked.. and though partially correct.. I was obviously wrong... so wrong.

Then there was advising someone many years ago not to take bitcoin for payment for a couple thousand dollar bill for his services. "Get the cash or check, you have no idea what that crypto stuff will be with in a month or year.. you have bills to pay".

FWIW, $2000 in bitcoin in 2014 is worth over half a million today.

KidDagger said:

Wonder why Mcgonagle didn’t go.. If it was to protect seed that’s lame..

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LOL. What seed is McConagle protecting? Shawver is higher ranked.

Shawver looked good did what he should to backup
Olivera..solid match had a shot
Cetta..did best he could overmatched
Harer..not great, not bad. Hippolito an unorthodox wrestler, interested to see his future..fun kid to watch
Barbosa..nice comeback, finish it. Best option at the weight
Turley..great 1st period. Inexcusable getting pinned
Walsh..starter, next topic, I don’t care if Soldano beats him at Black Knight..he’s the best guy against other opponents
Poz..disappointing
Yara..good win. Gonna need to beat Mullin types to get to AA status again. Possible bloodround type match

FastMJ said:

That Merrimack score is a bad sign for our defense

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With the preface that our defense has not played well, Merrimack was also in a brutal situation tonight. 8 p.m. ET tip in Jersey Wednesday night, then a bus ride to Indianapolis for a Friday game. Status quo for a lot of LMs, but I’m hardly surprised they fell apart late

Shelby’s tailgate eating is always worth Shelby’s tailgate effort.

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RUAldo said:

I read the report - it wasn’t total crap. And Zeta seemed to acknowledge some of the unfavorable facts were true but claimed it was an insignificant percentage of their business. With that said, I’m not suggesting the whole report is legit. Now the short seller report on OKLO which did nothing but cause a dip for 2 hours before it started ripping 20% higher in the next couple of days was total crap.

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It was littered with massive mistakes, which were probably deliberate to the temporarily crash the stock for their own gain. Just a reverse pump and dump scheme that should be investigated by the SEC and DOJ.

SCNJ said:

No he didn’t. Shawver was getting too big for 125 and was struggling to keep his weight there. Having another highly recruited teammate at 125 certainly made the decision easier but Shawver was likely going up regardless.

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Fair point.

fluoxetine said:

Meh, I agree that is probably true that "the field" is more likely than exactly those three going 1-2-3. But they are probably the most likely specific combo.

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Agree

T2Kplus20 said:

Great buy the dip opportunity. Already heading upwards again (since the short report was total crap).

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I read the report - it wasn’t total crap. And Zeta seemed to acknowledge some of the unfavorable facts were true but claimed it was an insignificant percentage of their business. With that said, I’m not suggesting the whole report is legit. Now the short seller report on OKLO which did nothing but cause a dip for 2 hours before it started ripping 20% higher in the next couple of days was total crap.

RUfan1977 said:

I think Phil Sellers, Mike Dabney, Eddie Jordan, James Bailey, Hollis Copeland and Abdul Andersen might disagree with this team having the most individual talent. However, there’s no doubt that this team has real talent. Other than Ace and Dylan nothing suggests to me that any of the other players will see a minute of action in the NBA whereas that team had at least 5 that made it.

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Fair point. Should have said in the past 40 years. 🤨

Rutgers 102, Keenesaw St 75

365Poster24Seven said:

I predict you will once again waste 2-3 hours of your life on a recap of a game that you did not attend or possibly even watch.

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Did bac **** your wife or what?

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rurahrah000 said:

And you pounded the table on ZETA. No one could have predicted the short seller report.

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Great buy the dip opportunity. Already heading upwards again (since the short report was total crap).

AreYouNUTS said:

womp womp

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I did say, "I'd bet on it being completely dry for the tailgates and game" 33 minutes before your post. Just sayin'. 😉

In all seriousness, it's been tough to keep a couple of folks from our crew from bailing on this one because it's going to be chilly/windy. I get it, because they're more casual fans than most on this board, but it can get annoying. I'm sure a few will be sitting in 1 or 2 of our cars during the tailgate, lol.

Shelby65 said:

You are an odds guy. One or more of #4-10 pre-season ranked freshmen and/or anyone sophomore or older is likely to displace 1 of the top three based on performance or team need.

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Meh, I agree that is probably true that "the field" is more likely than exactly those three going 1-2-3. But they are probably the most likely specific combo.