Yes.
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This lets opponents know who they are trailing . . . . .
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Shead and Sasser were not the same going into the conference tourneyâŠand they werenât the same when we lost to MiamiâŠnagging injuries killed us last year
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Yeah if you watch the replay Sasser was getting beat uncharacteristically. Itâs hard to slow down such a good offensive team with great guards like Miami when your two guards are slower on defense
John Newman is an elite defender. Wes loves his defense and so does the analytics. So they have a great wing defender. I think Vik is serviceable just not against a 4 man like Jarace Walker but very few players are.
Also some good reports on the intensity of Jizzle and Rayvon defensively. But yea Aziz will erase the mistakes of CJ Frederick & Sima, to me heâs a game changer for this roster.
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I agree somewhat with Kevin, I agree that last year team did not get better and was not playing its best basketball in March but other then Jarace everyone else were seasoned and it had more depth then the team that went to elite 8. The problem was it did not get better.
feel like we struggled in scoring bigly last year.
our offense this year should have many options and avenues to score.
TA and Sharp were freshman and the first guards off the bench.
Yes but they were bench and to repeat myself those kids didnât get better especially Arceneaux probably hurt us the most. I remember the ppl who picked us to win it all were high on Arceneaux on how he can be the difference maker.
2023
Shead
Sasser
Tramon
Jarace
Jâwan
Bench:
Chaney
Francis
Sharp
Arceneaux
Only one in the starting lineup is jarace but on the bench you have freshman in Sharp and Arceneaux and Francis as a sophomore in his first year playing.
2022:
Shead
Taze
Kyler
Fabian
Carlton
Bench:
Chaney
Roberts
Ramon
Everyone besides Shead was a senior and Kyler had championship experience from Tech. Fabian was a 5th year who averaged similar stats to jarace. Roberts hadnât played much in the past but had been with the team for like 2-3 years already. Ramon was a freshman but he gave us more then Arceneaux this past year. I remember him making some nice passes and shots against UAB and Arizona. And Wichita State is a classic culture moment
So less depth on the 2022 roster but only one freshman compared to pretty much 3. Sampson called Francis a freshman
the 2022 team would beat last years team probably by a lot⊠but i think carlton is the reason⊠you remove carlton and i think the 2023 team wins
2022 was a dominant rebounding team, and 2023 was one of our worst (not saying bad but for the houston standard)âŠwith carlton we are feasting on the boards vs 2023
offensively 2022 lacked great shot creators but were all good passers who knew how to take advantage of spacing and took the easy points⊠because carlton was a low post threat that could score 1 on 1, you had to put help on him (*vs non elite talent)⊠and that fabian could shoot at the 4 âŠthere was really good floor spreading and taze and edwards knew how to move without the ball as cutters ⊠you take carlton out for jwan who really isnt a scoring threat, our lack of shot creators would have been very obvious
and defensively⊠1 through 4 on both teams were dominant⊠again with the 5 being the difference as carlton could push players out of the lowpost where jwan cant
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2022 with the injuries or fully healthy?
injuries⊠i was comping the end of the year teamsâŠ
2022 fully healthy would have probably been our best team
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Last yearâs team was too young and the pieces never really fit. Roberts and Walker as a 4-5 combo was too small. Mark, Sasser and Shead didnât compliment each other as well as 2022 guard group did.
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I know weâre beating a dead horse but that 2022 team fully healthy wouldâve been awesome.
Shead
Sasser
Kyler
Fabian
Carlton
With the bench being
Taze
Tramon
Chaney
Roberts
We wouldâve had shot creators in Sasser and tramon. It wouldâve been so deep
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Thatâs why I think we could be better this year. I think Shead, Cryer, Sharp are a better fit together. Shead can penetrate and create for Sharp, Cryer. Whereas Tramon wasnât as big of a shooting threat and could be a black hole on offense sometimes. It worked against Auburn partly because their guards are so small but a lot of the times we could get stagnant
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Does Sharp even start though? I think Dunn might start
I donât know that was the starting lineup in Australia and Sampson hinted a couple times at Dunn coming off the bench.
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