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Have not seen them play but I know they have been a solid team over the years. Anyone have a current scouting report on them?

Looks like they lost to a rated UNC on the road by 18. They beat I think 3 nobodies so hard to judge.

ESPN power rankings say 75.1% win chance.

Sagarin says we are tied with TCU at #33 vs UNI #80

Think somebody mentioned they were down 33 to the University of Academic Fraud at one point in the game.

Nevertheless, I expect this game to be close throughout. Hope we can close out in crunch time.

Watching their Chicago State game now.... random observations:

Lots of Senior leadership
6’10 and 6’7 dudes like to go inside.
5’10 soph point guard very capable hit his first outside shot then drive the lane nicely
First guy off the bench guns threes at a nice clip
Depth

Conclusion:
This won’t be easy
Keep our bigs out of foul trouble
We need agoi... wish he had some court time.
We need to rebound
ATLANTIS is a very strange and different court environment. The team that adapts first will have a nice edge. Veteran play/leadership will be a key. We need Shake, Gu, Jarrey and Whitt on right from the get-go.

Big game! This is not Bumflook Jr high.

All I know about UNI is they were one of our biggest wins in the Coach Doh era.

New Sagarin rating list us ahead of TCU #32 SMU vs #33 TCU

sadderbudweiser wrote:Watching their Chicago State game now.... random observations:

Lots of Senior leadership
6’10 and 6’7 dudes like to go inside.
5’10 soph point guard very capable hit his first outside shot then drive the lane nicely
First guy off the bench guns threes at a nice clip
Depth

Conclusion:
This won’t be easy
Keep our bigs out of foul trouble
We need agoi... wish he had some court time.
We need to rebound
ATLANTIS is a very strange and different court environment. The team that adapts first will have a nice edge. Veteran play/leadership will be a key. We need Shake, Gu, Jarrey and Whitt on right from the get-go.

Big game! This is not Bumflook Jr high.

Thanks for the observation.

Also.... we ned to make our free throws. Other than Shake and Douglass we stink.

sadderbudweiser wrote:Also.... we ned to make our free throws. Other than Shake and Douglass we stink.

Chargois has shown a nice touch but you are right...we need to guys who might be getting touches late in games (Whitt, Gu & Foster for sure) to improve on their current percentages

sadderbudweiser wrote:Also.... we ned to make our free throws. Other than Shake and Douglass we stink.

our FT % is horrendous this year. It will eventually bite us

What is our FT%?

I should have included Chargois in the OK column for free throws...free throw % is next to last column.


SMU Mustangs Stats - 2017-18

Year:

GAME STATISTICS
Player GP MIN PPG RPG APG SPG BPG TPG FG% FT% 3P%
Shake Milton 4 36.0 21.3 3.3 2.8 1.8 1.0 1.8 .444 .917 .441
Jarrey Foster 4 32.5 14.5 5.8 3.3 0.3 1.8 1.0 .489 .588 .267
Ethan Chargois 4 20.5 13.0 7.0 0.5 0.5 0.8 1.0 .654 .706 .500
Ben Emelogu II 4 25.3 10.8 7.0 2.3 0.3 0.0 0.5 .519 .500 .600
Jimmy Whitt 4 28.8 7.5 5.8 6.5 1.3 0.5 3.0 .524 .571 .000
Everett Ray 4 16.8 5.3 5.0 0.8 0.5 0.3 1.0 .800 .400 1.000
William Douglas 4 17.3 3.8 1.5 1.5 0.5 0.5 1.5 .300 1.000 .600
Elijah Landrum 4 19.8 2.0 1.3 1.3 0.8 0.0 0.3 .150 .333 .083
James Pyle 4 2.3 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 .500 .000 .000
Luke Wilfong 3 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 .000 .000 .000
Totals 4 -- 79 40 19 6 5 11 .479 .680 .420

A few interesting comments from their forum about us...

BTW - Haldeman is one of their top 3 point snipers (had 4 vs UNC) and is the one referenced as injured - in a Boot at the football game this weekend.

They believe they are going to work us down low with their size advantage (Koch) and get our frosh C to foul out and kick out a lot of threes...

https://www.panthernation.com/forum/specific-sports-topic-forums/panther-men-s-basketball/674181-up-next-smu

Remember when we were keeping Tim Jankovich and the Redbirds out of the NCAA tournament, good times.

From browsing some fourms, it sounds like SMU has some shoddy 3-pt defense, so if we shoot like we did against Alcorn or UNC, we can cruise to victory. Really hope Haldeman is okay by Wednesday, unlikely as it is.

Like I said, if the three ball falls, we'll win by 20. If not, it'll be rough to watch.

sadderbudweiser wrote:I should have included Chargois in the OK column for free throws...free throw % is next to last column.


SMU Mustangs Stats - 2017-18

Year:

GAME STATISTICS
Player GP MIN PPG RPG APG SPG BPG TPG FG% FT% 3P%
Shake Milton 4 36.0 21.3 3.3 2.8 1.8 1.0 1.8 .444 .917 .441
Jarrey Foster 4 32.5 14.5 5.8 3.3 0.3 1.8 1.0 .489 .588 .267
Ethan Chargois 4 20.5 13.0 7.0 0.5 0.5 0.8 1.0 .654 .706 .500
Ben Emelogu II 4 25.3 10.8 7.0 2.3 0.3 0.0 0.5 .519 .500 .600
Jimmy Whitt 4 28.8 7.5 5.8 6.5 1.3 0.5 3.0 .524 .571 .000
Everett Ray 4 16.8 5.3 5.0 0.8 0.5 0.3 1.0 .800 .400 1.000
William Douglas 4 17.3 3.8 1.5 1.5 0.5 0.5 1.5 .300 1.000 .600
Elijah Landrum 4 19.8 2.0 1.3 1.3 0.8 0.0 0.3 .150 .333 .083
James Pyle 4 2.3 0.5 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.3 .500 .000 .000
Luke Wilfong 3 1.3 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 0.0 .000 .000 .000
Totals 4 -- 79 40 19 6 5 11 .479 .680 .420

If I am reading this correctly the team is shooting 68% for free throws. Generally I believe 70 to 75 percent is about average for a team so they are not too far off as a team.

Quite the range - win by 20 or rough to watch...

I like our chances in this one, I think the guys will show up energized and ready to go and Shake and Jarrey will carry us. Now the next two down there after UNI are a different story.