Ok, How many wins on the Year?

[OrlandoCuse]

Funny, after the first two games I made posts stating we’re looking at 10 wins this season and got blasted. Seems like that’s the consensus and/or ceiling right now.

 

[CuseCactus]

Has basketball season started? Guess not. Back to the football board and hoping to see that McCord got his waiver.

 

[rhcuse]

I’ll call it at 11 wins.

Sooner or later 3 or 4 guys will band together and decide “forget Red, we’re gonna play how we want” and they’ll squeak out a couple unexpected wins. There will be no success until they themselves take charge of their destiny and realize they need to win it on the floor collectively and Red’s system is not the way.

 

[tptcuse]

I don’t see another win.

An argument could be made that this is the worst power conference team in history. Given that college basketball gets a little worse every year, the worst teams in any given year could be the worst team in history. So we’re watching, or passively following, a historic team.

Except even the really bad teams can squeak out a win on any given night.

 

[NKR1978]

Except even the really bad teams can squeak out a win on any given night.

BC and DePaul have both gone winless in conference play. It's doable.

 

[DilemaCuse]

Gtech just hammered BC so despite being at home this Gtech game does not look too promising yet ESPN analytics gives us 67% chance.

2 with BC, then the 2 interim coaches schools, @Miami and home against UVA are the best shots.

Went a little deeper and NC St is possible and even according to ESPN analytics were favored at Vtech. We'll see how things progress.

 

[Col. Bleep]

10 may be optimistic if this group doesnt learn to play at least a little defense.
Can't even properly call them a team because they play almost no team ball.

 

[jdubs30]

Gtech just hammered BC so despite being at home this Gtech game does not look too promising yet ESPN analytics gives us 67% chance.

2 with BC, then the 2 interim coaches schools, @Miami and home against UVA are the best shots.

Went a little deeper and NC St is possible and even according to ESPN analytics were favored at Vtech. We'll see how things progress.

KenPom predicts the final score of every game. They have us predicted for 4 ACC wins, 3 of them they have as a 1pt or 2pt win. They also have us with 3 1 or 2pt losses and 2 3pt losses. Our only “blowout win” is a projected 8pt win when BC comes to the Dome in February.

So we will have around 8 or 9 “toss up” games and the rest we will be pretty easily be underdogs.

 

[AlaskaSU]

As much as a Deadman.

 

[Marsh01]

We are a good pg away from being .500

im 50 pounds away from seeing my feet when i pee

 

[CardiacCuse]

i think 14

 

[RF2044]

Call me crazy, but I am going with 12.

Every additional second with Red at the helm is a travesty, but this conference is akin to the AAC if you eliminate Duke.

My guess, as well.

I think we'll also have a game or two where we unexpectedly punch above our weight, and catch teams looking past us or not playing well.

12 seems about right. Hope I'm completely wrong, and that we somehow gel [which seems highly unlikely].

 

[jdubs30]

My guess, as well.

I think we'll also have a game or two where we unexpectedly punch above our weight, and catch teams looking past us or not playing well.

12 seems about right. Hope I'm completely wrong, and that we somehow gel [which seems highly unlikely].

There is no doubt we will do enough offensively in some games to win; combined with an off shooting night for the other team. JJ is certainly capable having a big enough night offensively to win games. The turnovers really need to come down tho.

It’s hard to imagine the defense putting it together at this point - the pieces aren’t there and the coaching is bad.

But we are essentially hoping for an off shooting night (not because of our D either) for a shot at winning. If we played GaTech 10 times I’m not too confident in saying we’d win more than 5 games.

 

[grepal]

We are a good pg away from being .500

True

 

[23Zone]

We have more holes in our team than Swiss cheese. And stinky like it too

 

[SBU72]

I think the next two (GT and BC) are our last stand for Red holding onto the locker room.

That GT game is at home. If we lose that one… I hate to say it, but I think you’ll hear boos from the home crowd. We then lose against BC, aye. I dunno.

But I’m holding out hope we can nab those two and be closer to your top end result than the lower bound.

I believe he has already lost the locker room. The team is not on life support it is gone. How else do u account for the lack of hustle? How came the players NOT see you have to hustle back on D after 14 games?

 

[DilemaCuse]

Up to 7. Since Gtech looked awful and has wins over BC and ND, I can see wins over BC, a rematch against ND and then you got the Vtech, Miami's and NC States.

Im thinking now they can get to 10 and double digit wins.

 

[kingtidge]

I believe he has already lost the locker room. The team is not on life support it is gone. How else do u account for the lack of hustle? How came the players NOT see you have to hustle back on D after 14 games?

There was a lot more hustle yesterday and the boys were playing hard. I don't think the locker room is lost based on that performance - so both those things were encouraging.

There were still WAY too many turnovers, but effort was there and we competed for rebounds. P3tar is an absolute chaos agent. He will be a defensive headache for teams if he can reign in the fouling a bit.

There were some transition baskets where we were caught flat-footed, but not nearly as bad as in past games.

All-in-all, a positive, small step forward. Ga Tech is a poor team and we were marginally better yesterday.

Not gonna lie, I feared the worst with Donnie as a late scratch.

I was thinking 9 wins would be our high watermark before this game.

I am adjusting that to 11 wins high watermark (and we'll get into the ACC tournament and be just outside the bottom 3.)

Not impressive at all, but a slight improvement in my expectations.