Next 6 games - We might lose them all.

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#102
jeff1vol said:
I agree 100%. This team is simply bad offensively. Yes... I said it... BAD offensively. We got fooled early on with the weak schedule. From now on, we should all wait to make season predictions, etc until SEC play starts. We'll make the tourney and exit early. In other words, a typical UT basketball season.
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What do you consider an early exit in the NCAA?

Simple, straightforward question
 
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#106
BernardKingGOAT said:
What do you consider an early exit in the NCAA?

Simple, straightforward question
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I'm not him, but I'll answer. An early exit is anything short of the Sweet 16.

In my opinion, using a golf analogy for our program, making the Sweet 16 should be considered shooting par. Making the Elite Eight is a birdie and losing 1st or 2nd round is a bogey. Making the Final Four would be an eagle. Not making the tournament at all is a double bogey or worse and should be considered unacceptable.
 
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87Vol said:
I'm not him, but I'll answer. An early exit is anything short of the Sweet 16.

In my opinion, using a golf analogy for our program, making the Sweet 16 should be considered shooting par. Making the Elite Eight is a birdie and losing 1st or 2nd round is a bogey. Making the Final Four would be an eagle. Not making the tournament at all is a double bogey or worse and should be considered unacceptable.
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🤣 Not sure that golf analogy works, but I do agree anything less than a Sweet 16 is an early exit.

You can make an eagle in a round and shoot 75. That score isn't going to move you on to the next round

He said "typical", but the last two years have seen a S16 and EE, plus a SEC reg season championship
 
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#108
BigOrangeFanatic said:
The way we are SHOOTING right now, which of those 6 does anyone think we have a better than 50% chance of winning? Every one of those teams can absolutely beat us. Don't think we lose all 6 but I do think any of those 6 teams can beat us, even on our floor.
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fyp.... in the games we lost we lost because our shooting went AWOL. Our defense has been fine all season with the exception of the Vandy game.. Bad shooting nights can make it look like your defense failed.

Vandy we outshot them and lost. that's on the D.
The other 3 losses we shot a combined 54-182 ,29.7% from the field and 19-96, 19.8% from 3. We averaged 32 3-pointers in those games. We shot 72 shots and 45 threes vs Kentucky along with 17 free throw attempts. how do you come out under 100 points putting up that many shots? The crazy part is that's the best shooting game in those 3 losses bay far.

Arguments can be made about the outcome of the Auburn game. Valid ones. But if we had shot the ball badly in the Auburn or Kentucky games we win those easily. 2-3 shots fall and those games are different. Instead, our 2 leading scorers go 6-33. We have to consistently get double digits from more than 2 guys.

Hopefully guys get locked in and we make a run here. UK and A&M on the road are the tough games there. If we can get some getback on Florida Saturday we are in a position to make a run and go 4-2 at worst.
 
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#109
I love good defense, but you have to have scorers as well. If we can’t get shooters to step up we’re not going to go very far. It’s obvious Barnes is going to have to find some shooters to go with our defense in the future. We are also letting people get too deep in the paint on us. Okpara needs to stay on the floor as much as possible. We need a big man that can score and have his way inside as well. Estrella being out is hurting our depth inside. Our rebounding has overall inside play has been weak lately. It’s basketball, things can change we can get hot. But right now today we aren’t playing well on either side of the court. Our team is going to have to do some soul searching. We getting our lunch eaten inside too much and we forgot that the ball goes inside the basket. We have to play smarter, we have to get it together if we don’t want to get embarrassed. GBO
 
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