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Tough to pick best vs. favorite for some of these. Guys like Andy Rautins, CJ Fair, Kris Joseph aren't necessarily the best, but deserve some extra credit for being solid 4 year guys who improved each and every year. But if I'm picking best single seasons from 2009-2010 season to now: best...

We've been going 4 on 5 on the offensive end every year since Rakeem Christmas's senior season. Couple that with barely any movement from our players without the ball and very little dribble penetration from our guards who seem to be OK with settling for long jumpers and it's really no wonder...

Back a month or two ago when Chukwu was having his minutes cut back and Dolezaj was getting the starts at center, I said it may be the right move in the short term, but the only chance this team has to compete in the long run is if Chukwu steps up and gets the lionshare of minutes at center...

Pitts non conference SOS currently sits at 342 out of 353 on KenPom. They are obviously better now than they were with Kevin Stallings, but Capel needs to show he can win in the ACC before he starts getting credit for turning things around.

Haven’t the announcers been saying he’s either 6 credits or 6 courses short of graduating this semester? If that’s the case, he wouldn’t be grad transferring elsewhere unless he takes those credits over the summer, which I doubt he would since he’ll be testing the NBA draft waters again (plus I...

This was my favorite play too. OB was content to just sit on the perimeter and it looked like the fast break wasn't going to materialize into anything. MD threw the bounce pass anyway to the flat footed and unprepared OB and look what happened... an easy two. If only we had more players who...

From the start of the 2009-10 season to the 25-0 run in 2013-14, we played 172 games and went 146-26 (84.88% winning percentage). Even if you take out those 25 games and look at the 2009-10 to the start of the 2013-14 season before our 25-0 run, we still won 82% of our games in that time frame...

I've seen Quincy listed as a guard elsewhere online and this thread lists him as such too. But am I correct in assuming we are recruiting him as strictly a 3? JC, HoWash, JGIII, and BG are all definitely guards. Buddy and Eli are already SG/SF like Quincy, but they are listed an inch or two...

We already have Goodine in 2019 and it sounds like he was recruited to play PG (plus Guerrier is a wing from what I can tell). Goodine could play the 2 if we land Quade, and then we'd just need to focus on forwards and bigs to fill out the class. If Quade wants to come, I say let him. He's only...

Not sure Luther is a good fit. As I've mentioned before, I'm a senior at Pitt, so I've seen Luther his whole career here. He's gone from a fringe P5 player his freshman year to a key 6th man on the team last year. I liked getting AW and JG last season because we needed some plug and play grad...

Of the 16 team's on Lunardi's bubble today, Syracuse has the 5th highest RPI, 2nd highest SOS, and 2nd highest NON-CONF SOS. The one drawback appears to be the 2 sub-150 losses to GT and WF. The only other bubble team with 2 sub-150 losses is Penn State. Louisville should absolutely not be...

TB shot 29.4% of our total shots this season, FH shot 25.3%, and OB shot 22.3% for a total of 77% of our team's shot attempts. For comparison's sake, Andrew White shot 23.1%, Lydon shot 16.4%, and Battle shot 15% of our field goal attempts last season for a total of 54.5%. Boeheim played the...

Battle played within the offense last season. I don't know who you expected him to pass it to this season. If he came back, I don't think there'd be any issues with him hogging the ball.

Soon-to-be Pitt grad, so I've had to put up with Stallings these last two seasons. I may have went to Syracuse had my acceptance not gone to my spam folder that I didn't check until it was too late. Regardless, I bleed orange basketball and rep my Tyler Ennis jersey in the zoo when Syracuse...

I don't think playing for JB is the reason MCW, Ennis, Grant, McCullough, Malachi, and Lydon left. MCW went to the final four and didn't have much more to prove. Ennis led us to a 25-0 start and wasn't expected to be a one-and-done player, but performed well enough to get drafted in the first...

The defense has been great this year. However, the only time we've run any semblance of an offense is when we have a shooter like Rautins/Cooney/Southerland who can stretch a defense. We don't have that luxury this year, and the lack of depth definitely has hurt us down the stretch in a few...

It's not just the fact that we'd potentially be under .500, but also the fact that our marquee wins are Miami, Virginia Tech, and Louisville. Three good wins, no doubt, but we are missing that marquee win. Clemson could be that win for us to solidify us, in which case we could conceivably go...

I feel like we have to beat BC and Clemson to have a chance. If that doesn't happen, the selection committee will just point to our 8-10 or 7-11 record and just dismiss us by saying we are under .500 (rightfully so, at least for this season). If we do manage to win both, we probably need 1...

The only games we had no chance down the stretch were the Virginia and Kansas games. And even the game @Virginia, we were down 14 points with a 1:44 left and came back down five (66-61) with sixteen seconds left. Had we pressed a little sooner, we may have even had a chance that game too. All...

Just going off this list, Miller has 50 players listed who played college basketball. Of those 50, nine schools have two or more players who chose Miller as their agent: Alabama, Cincinnati, Clemson, Colorado, Florida, Pitt, Syracuse, Texas, and Villanova. That doesn't really mean much in...

Good point. Those blocks came right after the student section started chanting and calling him "Noodle." I was especially glad to see it since I was sitting in the Oakland zoo, but regardless, they were very timely plays. Really hope he sticks around for four years. He's going to be real good by...

Hey Pitt, You only have to put up with me wearing my Tyler Ennis jersey in the Zoo for one more game.

Thanks for the clarification. Always look forward to these updates each week.

So if Marek got in foul trouble, Bayer and Autry would help us out in a 3 guard lineup? I think JB must have forgot someone again.

In the event we don't add another big between now and the start of next season, what are the chances Bazley could play some center in a pinch? I haven't seen him play much outside of highlights, but he looks like he's mobile, tall, and long and could be similar to what we had in Lydon on defense...

Syracuse can get 1 more recruit if Battle stays, but it would require JB not giving Buddy a scholarship. If Battle or anyone else leaves, Syracuse would have room for 2 more recruits. Never heard of Valdir Manuel today, but from his 1 dunk from iommi's twitter post, it looks like he's got the...

12-6 looks like we are underachieving on paper, but we were in it to the very end in each of our losses except for the Kansas game. This is a team playing five freshman and a starting center with only 400 minutes played in college prior to this season. There is a ton of inexperience on this...

Brissett is shooting 30% from the field and 31.8% from three on 70 FG attempts and 22 3PT attempts in ACC play. Obviously I'd like to see the 3PT% higher, but I can live with that. However, I can't stand it watching him automatically shoot every time he puts the ball on the floor or catches it...

As someone who sat in the Zoo last night through a 35-point loss, I can tell you the name isn't going to stick much longer the way things are going down here in Pittsburgh.

We need 4 more ACC wins by February 5 (so within our next 7 games). We have Wake, NC State, and @BC on the back half of the schedule which should hopefully get us to 8 ACC wins if we have 5 total wins by Feb. 5. Then we'd hopefully be able to grab one @Miami, vs UNC, @Duke, or vs. Clemson of the...

Kansas was the only real blowout. Virginia was getting close to a blowout but we fought back late in the game to get it within 2 possessions under a minute. Plus, KU was #2 (now #12) and UVA is #3, so they won't be too significant of setbacks come Selection Sunday. The St. Bonnies and Notre...

OB is shooting 3.3% better from the field and 8.6% better from 3PT than Ron Patterson in the 2014-15 season. I don't follow the rumors at all, but I'd be shocked to see him declare for the draft with his current shooting percentages. He shot better from deep tonight, but he also misses wide a...

Looks like Yuat Alok, Jethro Tshisumpa, and Antun Maricevic would be the best remaining players in terms of bringing in a center. From quickly glancing at the LSU board it sounds like they are already after Alok and may get him depending on how the Emmitt Williams situation plays out, so it...

The offense is too stationary, and the fact we only have one player with >2apg highlights this fact. I'd like to see us work the ball into the high post to Dolezaj or Brissett more often. I think that would open up Frank and Tyus to do more off the ball rather than relying on them to create for...

Love the back-to-back double team by Marek along with the hustle plays so far.

With the way Frank and Tyus have carried the team, Geno was only looking at 8-10mpg come ACC play. Now it's up to HW to give us a good 8-10mpg as a backup. Assuming no injuries to our guards, I don't see this as necessarily being a bad thing for the program. It'll be good to see what we have in...

Probably just wishful thinking on my part, but is it really a foregone conclusion that Battle leaves? He's not getting a ton of national publicity (yet) and this is a really deep draft class. This draft is going to have Mikal Bridges, Lonnie Walker, Gary Trent Jr., Troy Brown, Lagerald Vick...

Duke just landed Joey Baker, though he's more of a 3 than a pure 4 like Stewart. They'll probably be in the mix for other top power forwards in 2019 like Matthew Hurt and James Wiseman. The way I see it, Duke could just as easily land Isaiah Stewart as they could take themselves out of the...

1) Regular season record 20-11 2) ACC season record 10-8 3) ACC Tournament record 2-1 4) Post-season record NCAA 1-1 5) Leading scorer Battle 16.5 6) Leading rebounder Brisset 6.5 7) Player with most minutes per game Battle 34 8) TIEBREAKER - Leader in 3 pointers Battle 70

Defensively it doesn't really matter in our system. It's all a matter of who is best suited for SF vs. PF on offense. I'm not really as concerned over who plays the 4 so much as who plays the 3. Who is going to replace Andrew White's shooting production at the position these next two seasons...

Williams has said before that Syracuse is his dream school and the fact that he is willing to commit early probably indicates he's looking to commit here. I, for one, would love to lock him down early in the process. At least from what I can tell, I believe he's a Syracuse-caliber recruit. Not...

I hope Frank Howard turns a new page in his SU career and Paschal Chukwu is a legit 7'2 monster anchoring our zone. But if both players don't progress as they need to, you have to wonder if they'd look to potentially grad transfer elsewhere. Since Chukwu already sat out a year to transfer, I'd...

Frank Howard averaged 16.2 mpg last season. Out-of-conference he averaged 21.3 mpg. In-conference he averaged 11.3 mpg. If you label his "minor role" based on his playing time against legitimate competition, then I think it's fairly accurate.

My guess is the starting front court is Moyer-Thompson-Chukwu. Chukwu gets the start for the first handful of games in the non-conference as a test run. During the test run he needs to show Boeheim three things. 1) He can be a shot blocker/alterer. 2) He can bang down low for rebounds on both...

I realize this post is extremely premature, but just for hypothetical sake, let's say we land Marek Dolezaj and Eric Ayala to round out the class in 2017. That would give us seven players (Dolezaj, Ayala, Moyer, Hughes, Brissett, Sidibe, Washington) who would graduate after the 2020-21 season...

Your wish is Kevin Stallings command. Nix transferred earlier today. I believe that's five Pitt transfers this offseason now (Cam Johnson, Damon Wilson, Rozelle Nix, Crisshawn Clark, and Corey Manigault). Pitt has eight players on it's roster right now and they return three players from this...

We need a wing that can play at least 20-25 mpg next season. To me, Carter would seem to fit much better at the top of the zone, at least until he fills out more in order to bang down low for rebounds in the ACC. His shooting is my biggest concern and if that never comes around he's going to get...

I'm not suggesting we defer the scholarship completely. By going after grad transfers, we solve the issue of needing immediate contributors in 2017-18 while still being able to get wings in 2018 from a broader selection of recruits. This late in the game it just feels like we'd be settling for...

The kid is a 3-star recruit. Not a knock on him at all, but I don't see anyone suggesting he'll be a one and done type player. He has good athleticism, but he needs a lot of improvement on his shooting range and his frame before he can even consider professional basketball. And just because we...