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Originally Posted by SithCeNtZ
I mean we beat a fringe tournament UNC team at home by 2, Michigan State who has a laughable big 10 to play in, and Duke in their first big game ever for their best players. Not exactly amazing.
At the end of the day, this game says what we are. You can't blame this on effort or being lazy. Yes Mayo didn't play well but Hunter Griffen KJ did. We dominated the boards and points in the paint. We didn't really have foul trouble impact us, while it hurt them fairly significantly. We even got a rare second chance at a blown call at the end. And yet we lost. They just made more plays and beat us.
Can we beat anyone? Sure. But so can any NCAA tournament team. You can't judge our season on 1-2 wins and say that's who we are. We have far more of these losses than big wins. It is what it is at this point. We are a 6-10 seed and who knows what will happen in the tournament, but there isn't anything to suggest we can go on a deep run.
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That's an understatement. If Diggy Coit takes all of his minutes (in which Zeke went 1 for 7 with 5 turnovers with horrific defense), they probably win that game with how good KJ/HD were.
They've showed as a team when they play well that their ceiling is quite a bit higher than what they'll be seeded (I don't see them dropping below a 6 btw, losses to Tech/Houston/Zona won't hurt their overall resume at all) but with their execution in late and close situations it is hard to imagine anything better than a 2nd round exit. They'll lose to the first team they play that's on their level or better.