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Do we see another 12 - 13 more regular season wins on schedule? That’s a tough question

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Especially if today and the past few games are any indication.

IF we get guard play improvement
IF we get Big O ready to play good minutes
IF Cliff turns in big games against B1G .

If not, no room at the dance.
 
We just barely escaped losing from the sisters of the poor. Hard to see this team showing any significant improvement in the areas so in need to make it a winning program. We are seriously looking at the possibility of finishing last in the BIG.
 
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We’re in trouble. Our guard play is just not what it needs to be. Nor is our rebounding.
 
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Especially if today and the past few games are any indication.

IF we get guard play improvement
IF we get Big O ready to play good minutes
IF Cliff turns in big games against B1G .

If not, no room at the dance.
12 to 13? It's going be a rock fight to stay out of the basement.
 
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12 to 13 **MORE** wins???!!!

We will be lucky to win 12 to 13 in total. We are 8-4 right now (1-4 against top 100 teams), and I'm finding it difficult to find more than 4 or 5 Big Ten wins in the last 19 regular season games.
 
Kiss this season goodbye 👋
Pikes most disappointing team.
NO LEADERSHIP
NO CHEMISTRY

Too much talent to be playing like they just met.

Story behind the story? There's gotta be personality conflicts here.
 
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Be happy if we win 6-7 more …, can anyone make a pass inside or get to the rim?
 
If we manage to finish at .500 you would have to consider the season a success . Like Pete Bell said at the end in that movie Blue Chips: 'Last season we were 14-15. The players gave it everything they had-- but it wasn't good enough--wasn't good enough for you, wasn't good enough for me, wasn't good enough for anybody!!!'
 
Especially if today and the past few games are any indication.

IF we get guard play improvement
IF we get Big O ready to play good minutes
IF Cliff turns in big games against B1G .

If not, no room at the dance.
I'm assuming you meant do you see us having more than 12-13 regular season wins, not 12-13 more regular season wins, as that would have us as a 7/8 seed. I see us winning maybe 6-8 B1G games this year to get us to 14-16 wins in the regular season, probably fighting it out to stay out of the bottom 4 in the B1G and not making the NCAAs, whereas I thought we'd be a bubble team before the season assuming Mag was back and healthy. He's not enough to get us to that level - we need some other folks to step up big time who aren't playing well. The defense is poor and the shooting is poor - not a good combo.
 
I can see us any where between 4 and 10 more wins.

Unless we go in to utter tailspin mode we will win some games and play better for stretches
10 more?!?!?! Spoiler alert, we ARE in a tailspin. Bottom 3 B1G team, if we get the 4 you talk of it would be a miracle.
 
Kiss this season goodbye 👋
Pikes most disappointing team.
NO LEADERSHIP
NO CHEMISTRY

Too much talent to be playing like they just met.

Story behind the story? There's gotta be personality conflicts here.

Aside from SHU, these guys seem to have checked out once Dylan committed, starting with that clunker against Wake an hour or so later. Illinois is legit (or at least was), but every other game was winnable with effort.

LIU was troubling. But this is full on call the fire department, put out the dumpster fire. Every team we’ve fielded since 1991 would have won today by 15.

And this wasn’t like a Hofstra game where we were the superior team and they just hit insane shots. Stonehill shot poorly and we shot even worse. Barely out rebounded them. Fewer turnovers and more foul discipline and Stonehill wins this one handily.
 
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I'm assuming you meant do you see us having more than 12-13 regular season wins, not 12-13 more regular season wins, as that would have us as a 7/8 seed. I see us winning maybe 6-8 B1G games this year to get us to 14-16 wins in the regular season, probably fighting it out to stay out of the bottom 4 in the B1G and not making the NCAAs, whereas I thought we'd be a bubble team before the season assuming Mag was back and healthy. He's not enough to get us to that level - we need some other folks to step up big time who aren't playing well. The defense is poor and the shooting is poor - not a good combo.
We would need 20 wins for bubble. 18 won’t do it. 19 might. Thats why I asked.
 
They may get 6 conference wins and only because I expect them to play better in February. So they'll have 2-3 wins going into the last 3 weeks of February and pick up 3 more late.
 
I said this several days ago Gavin looks so unsure. This is a team which lost 3 starters with tons of confidence. Paul, Caleb and Spencer. One playing at Washington, UConn and pro that hasn’t been accounted for. We have not filled the void as one is stuck in limbo by the NCAA. One is coming off injury? One is not even close to this level. A nice fill in guy but not the level we need. I think Gavin needs to be more aggressive as he is a talented player. Simpson, J Mike need to grow up fast or we won’t win even 14-15 games.
 
Miss me yet?:

All he did was whine and yell at his teammates, never shoot and then throw it to Cliff when he wasn't looking.

We were an NIL team with Cam and Paul last season.

Anyhoo...I am setting the O/U at total wins including BTT at 13 for this Eddie Jordan level team.
 
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