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2013-2014 Team vs 2014-2015

Postby SMUstang07 » Fri Mar 13, 2015 2:54 pm

I felt like last year that we could hang with anyone but lose to anyone. This year I am a bit worried that we haven't beaten any good teams - so not sure how good we are. We are more experienced and have avoided bad losses - but was last year's team better suited for a run in the tourney?

Our RPI is much better this year but KenPom is very similar.
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Re: 2013-2014 Team vs 2014-2015

Postby Pony81 » Fri Mar 13, 2015 3:22 pm

I know that we are a tougher team that can withstand adversity better than last year.
Nic Moore has developed into such a mature, floor leader that brings a calming influence when a team gets hot. He is unflappable unlike last year where he sometimes let his emotions get the best of him.
He is truly the POY. Showed it today.

We have got to shut Cummings down - if we get Temple. He is the key. Rotate fresh guys on him and wear him out.
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Re: 2013-2014 Team vs 2014-2015

Postby Terry Webster » Fri Mar 13, 2015 4:57 pm

It is a whole lot different being the hunted rather than the hunter.
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Re: 2013-2014 Team vs 2014-2015

Postby SMULaxer » Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:20 pm

Teams are playing their best game against us. If we make teams shoot the 2 instead of the 3, we'll be just fine.
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Re: 2013-2014 Team vs 2014-2015

Postby ojaipony » Fri Mar 13, 2015 5:40 pm

Honestly, I thought this team would be not as good as last year's team (hard to replace Russell and Shawn leadership/experience/maturity).

But this team is, of course, more experienced and both YM and MK are at full strength at the same time unlike last year and Nic is better (and I think Ryan is better). So I'll take this team but it's close.
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Re: 2013-2014 Team vs 2014-2015

Postby Pony_Law » Fri Mar 13, 2015 11:00 pm

People prepare better and focus more against us this year. And we have played a lot of good teams. Many of our non conference games were against teams expected to compete for their conference's autobids. At the end of the day we will have lost one game to a non tournament team and many of our losses occured when MK was not playing.
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Re: 2013-2014 Team vs 2014-2015

Postby GiddyUp » Sat Mar 14, 2015 10:40 am

Last yr we werent focused and folded under pressure
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