This could be one of the worse teams we have seen in many years. The players do not seem to care, and Major is learning as he goes. How many wins do you think we will have this year. I have not even gone through the schedule, and I think it will be hard to get to 10 wins this year. I was hoping at the beginning of the year that we might be a bubble team, but I was say wrong.
we will win more than 10 games. Not an NCAA team and probably not an NIT team, but we will win more than 10 games.
we will win more this year. How many more? I’m not going to guess, but we will win more this year.
I hope.
Maybe.
Our schedule is weak, so we will string together some wins. Those road games at Mercer, Davidson, and ECU aren’t looking as winnable all of a sudden, though. Long ways to go and plenty of adjustments that can be made, but we aren’t going to see 19 wins this season.
I am guessing 9 wins based on what I see so far.
While I haven’t seen any evidence of it yet, this was the first game with no suspensions and you have to figure we are hurting with the loss of the other three guys (dew, KJ, Luka). For a first year coach, it may be hard to plan for contingencies when you are getting started. I wonder if we will see improvement through the year. That is my hope at this point. We could be that team we always hate that sucks in OOC and then cruises through conference play.
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Right now I think we are going to get completely tooled in conference play. And I dont expect us to have any big wins.
May not win much but I think there is a good chance the team will have some really cool uniforms for the Tennessee game at Charlotte Bobcats Arena.
If you take a 30,000 ft view of our program (not as a fan) and you look at our stat sheet from last year, one would think we will be just fine this year. Obviously Harris gone is big, but we ad Briscoe. Everyone is pointing to KJ returning but he only got 8 mpg last yr. Is Dew at the 2 the missing link?
I see players getting worse on paper. Green and Braz are killing us. JB is averaging more mins than Braz!!! OMG did not know this until looking at statsheet. That has got to change, and Braz has got to stay out of foul trouble and be on the floor. Derrio - needs to dislodge head from rectum.
16 wins
I think we’ll win 10-12 but probably not much more depending on how much guys improve.
I say 10-12 as well. That is with a horrible schedule as well.
We’ll have a losing record in conference with the conference being mediocre this year. Only way for us to make any noise is in the conference tournament.
Just seems like Major is in over his head. The first sign of a coach that is making an impact is if they guys are playing hard and buying in…doesn’t seem to be the case. Remember this is a team that won 19 games last year and was two wins away from dancing.
Let’s not forget that Lutz didn’t have Coleman last year, too. So, I don’t think the injury excuse is fair. Major said in an interview, “it’s not like coach Lutz left the cupboard bare” So, even Major is saying that this is on him.
I hope Major tears it up and wins out, but early results suggest that it’s going to be a long season.
Hope the players start jumping on board.
[quote=“Int’l 49er, post:13, topic:24363”]I say 10-12 as well. That is with a horrible schedule as well.
We’ll have a losing record in conference with the conference being mediocre this year. Only way for us to make any noise is in the conference tournament.
Just seems like Major is in over his head. The first sign of a coach that is making an impact is if they guys are playing hard and buying in…doesn’t seem to be the case. Remember this is a team that won 19 games last year and was two wins away from dancing.
Let’s not forget that Lutz didn’t have Coleman last year, too. So, I don’t think the injury excuse is fair. Major said in an interview, “it’s not like coach Lutz left the cupboard bare” So, even Major is saying that this is on him.
I hope Major tears it up and wins out, but early results suggest that it’s going to be a long season.
Hope the players start jumping on board.[/quote]
What two games that we lost were going to take us to the dance???
This looks like the same team as last year. We pulled alot of games out by luck, and I expect us to do the same this year. Maybe 15 or so wins.
Regardless of how bad we might turn out to be this year, no way am I going to blame Major for much of it. We already know we have/had a mutiny situation going on with Shamari, and maybe some others. If they choose not to give a damn and buy into Major’s system, then that’s on the players. We should win more games than we did last year, period. I don’t want to hear about Major’s system “not being right for the players here now”. Lutz’s system was “terrible” according to the majority of posters here. If that’s the case, then Major’s should not be any worse. Sure he does not have his players yet, but this bunch won 19 games against a tougher schedule than what we have this season and we now have a PG that can score. Bottom line is that the players need to get over their mourning of Lutz being gone and get their new coach’s back. Doesn’t look like they care about that in the three games I’ve seen. I was as big a Lutz supporter as there was, but the decision was made to fire him and now everyone has to move on. I know the talent level of the players that were here last year has not fallen, but it sure looks like it to watch us in any of the first three games. There are lots of excuses to blame the poor play on: suspensions, injuries, etc., but if you watched that game last night you know it was a matter of simply getting outplayed and outhustled. The average white guy that scored 18 on us last night would not even start for us, yet he dominated us in the 2nd half. I can live with getting beat, but not being outhustled. I think I was more disappointed after last night’s game than I was at halftime of the Mississippi State game where we only scored 9 points.
I’m struggling with a revised prediction. I thought there would be some bumps (I was worried about SC State, but not Gardner-Webb). But after 3 games, I don’t think ANYTHING can be taken for granted. I can take losing (with effort) all the time, it’s a L if you lose by one at the buzzer or get beat by 20. But I felt there was no desire on the court last night. Let’s hope there is some fire tonight and the rest of this season.
We went through the exact same problems at the start and end of last year. This is a team that is built to score a lot, and when they don’t, they fall apart.
I am actually impressed that we got blown out late against GMU. Our defense kept us in that game for a long time while our shots weren’t falling. But eventually our team gassed out, or quit, or whatever. But, I still think we can win around 20 games. We have a soft schedule, and the shots will fall from some of these guys on nights when we need them against better opponents.
12
I never thought you would be more optimistic than me about our season, but you definitely are on this one. The turnovers, poor passing, no picks, etc., have me backing way off pre-season hopes. I think it’s mental more than anything, but unless the player’s come together and back their coach it’s going to be a long disgruntling season.
I never thought you would be more optimistic than me about our season, but you definitely are on this one. The turnovers, poor passing, no picks, etc., have me backing way off pre-season hopes. I think it’s mental more than anything, but unless the player’s come together and back their coach it’s going to be a long disgruntling season.[/quote]
We have a weak schedule. It helps a lot. I think we’re a borderline NIT team. Yeah, we got dusted by GMU. It happens. To us, it happens regularly. We’re not a very good program right now, regardless of what anyone wants us to be. We did win 19 games last year and failed to make the NIT. We ran up wins against scrubs, beat two teams that were missing players and then stole a win against Richmond. How we won that game, I have no idea. I have a feeling we do something similar. Maybe we only win 18. Maybe we do only win 12. I think we come out of this weekend 3-2.