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i agree...i forgot about the game until late last night and when i looked it up i wished i hadn't remembered it.

what happened this time?

I posted this last night

Agree 100%. Any coach who doesn't zone us should be fired on the spot. Golden keeps saying the right stuff about attacking a zone and then the game starts and he doesn't do it. Stokes has taken a grand total of 10 shots in the last two games. That has to be fixed and fixed now.

I just want to know how we still have Trae Golden playing PG when he really isn't one. We need a real point guard.

Also, we seem to recruit primarily 6-4 to 6-7 guys who can't shoot. We have a real glut of them. We need some shooters.

true that..this coaching search is disguising a hugely disappointing start to the basketball season.. need Maymon back soon, unless we can figure out a way for Hubbs to play for us this year..

According to kenpom.com, Georgetown's adjusted D is 6th in the nation. Virginia's is 16th. Keep that in mind when complaining about all this scoring. Is the offense bad? Sure. But we still had a chance to win both of those games, and with Maymon we likely do win them. Tennessee has a great defense. They have a meh offense which has looked terrible against other great defenses on the road. Aside from that, Tennessee is nowhere close to playing themselves out of contention for an NCAA tournament bid. Give them time. Frankly, this is the record we should have expected with Maymon out.

Actually, I'm not sure YOU understand RPI. Road losses and neutral court losses carry significantly less weight than home losses. At the end of the day road losses are given a weight of 0.6, neutral losses 1, and home losses 1.4. That's why the Austin Peay loss killed us last year, because they were sub-300 and it was at home. Every team Tennessee has lost to will likely end up in the top 50 in the RPI. Considering the way the RPI works e.g a significant amount of weight is put on your opponent's results and your opponent's opponents' results, the net effect of the losses we have currently will not be very damaging. Plus, the selection committee considers injuries, and Maymon is an important injury.

I get that we just played two teams who play excellent defense. But against Virginia we had a bunch of wide open looks and either passed up the shot or clanked it. If we hit those then the middle opens up for Stokes, who was double and triple teamed. I think we have no confidence shooting the ball right now and I'm not sure why.

We aren't out of contention yet but if we can't figure out a way to be more effective against a zone (a lot more effective) then the NCAA will be a distant memory by the end of January.

You made my point for me losing to these teams will not help us come tourney time if we had WON they would but we didn't and in no way does losing help us get into the tourney. We are 122nd in the RPI right now with our best win against the 78th ranked RPI team. We just do not have the games we can realistically expect to win against high ranked RPI teams to improve enough to get into the tourney. We finished 2nd in the SEC last year and missed the tourney and the SEC's RPI was a lot better then.

Once again losing to them doesn't help us one bit. Where we are ranked in the RPI is what is going to hurt as we will not have enough chances to improve our rating to get into the tourney. The SEC is horrible this year and that is why I say we are going to have a very hard time getting in as wins in the SEC are not going to help as much as they did in the past.