What is even dumber than trying to objectively figure out who is better in the middle of a wild west transfer portal is thisā¦ in the middle of a wild west transfer portalā¦
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Lunardi is a numbers person who knows nothing about basketball. His bracketology is useless before late February. Even then there are many that are better. The only positive thing you can say about him is that he is better than the massively incompetent Jerry Palm.
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In @Raleigh_Hoo i trust for brackets
This is funny.
I think loading up on a fairly easy non-con is fine, especially with 0 returning minutes, but weāre really going to need the conference to pull its weight a little better in the non-con to compete for a bid. Hopefully a few of NCSt/ND/SMU/Miami/Cuse can take a big step forward.
cheer for the non-VT/Duke ACC teams
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Reflecting on Will Wadeās previous āstrong ass offerā, the man was just ahead of his time. NIL is nothing but strong ass offers these days.
As William Gibson said, āThe future is already here, itās just not evenly distributed.ā
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Maybe, but SMU last year is the cautionary tale. New coach and roster, had a cupcake non-con, which them cost them their Bubble fight in March when theyād otherwise had a solid ACC run.
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Another reason why itās a great idea to only have 18 conference games and save those two extra dates in the middle of the season for better games
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When the ACC did have 18 games, which coaches actually scheduled that way? Very few. If you want that to happen, the league has to mandate it, maybe even do the scheduling themselves like how the SEC-Big 12 challenge was in the middle of conference season.
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Anyone have a sense of ACC tiers with rosters as of today?
Assume Duke and Louisville are looking good from what little Iāve read.
UNC looking decent but not by their standards of talent?
Anyone else rising up into first tier or knocking on the door? Assume we would be if we get Malik Thomas.
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Mostly the same? Wildcards are us and NC State.
Clemson a bit worse. SMU still in the Enfield zone.
Wouldnāt surprise me if UNC is top 25 caliber.
Duke probably top 10 but not as good as last year.
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Honestly, I have questions about UNC. They are good in the frontcourt, but I think they are just short of what they need at guard. It will depend on whether Evans succeeds as an up transfer, I think, but I know UNC fans have the same concern. The Jayon Young addition is a little bit of a mystery to me. I donāt think they are better than we have the potential to be in the backcourt. I donāt think they are in a tier just below Duke and Louisville; they might be, but I am not certain that is a given going into the season, unless they make a really good addition.
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Completely disagree. I donāt think UNC is going to be that caliber of a team. Obviously, I donāt evaluate talent as well as you, but ā for whatever reason ā I watch a lot of UNC podcasts, and they are panicking over their backcourt.
We will see, and I am sure Dave will find this post to humiliate me if I am wrong.
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Not doing too much talent eval other than Trimble as a senior, Veesar decent, Powell froshā>soph jump, and seeing they have highly rated frosh (last year too, though, to be fair). Hubert seems to have an up year / down year pattern, too
Donāt know much about their transfers
Powell went pro. They have the other powell transfer from wvu
Testing. Might stay in / might come back
Is Powell good? Iāve never seen him play. But they have Trimble, Evans, and Powell as starters, I assume, which I donāt think is better than ours, but what is their depth?
Idk, the other issue is that I just donāt think Hubert is a good coach. I donāt think he gets the most out of the talent he has on his teams. Obviously, things are impossible to predict given the state of the sport, but I think Hubert is gone after this season.
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Believe his post declared 100% focused on staying in the NBA draft. could be wrong though.
(Anyone got the cheat sheet on how to embed IGās here?)
Also got a Combine invite this week, showing up consistently in Mocks.
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From what I can tell, heās been quiet on coming back. Which you could interpret either way.
Sam V had him at 36 yesterday. His stock is variable enough and heās at that ātough callā area with so much money in college now.
Now that Iāve actually looked into it, Iāll peg him at 40/60 stay/go.
My read on Powell is that for a lot of guys in his position, itās a 50/50 call. But Powell seems like he just really wants to play in the League, and doesnāt want to delay the move any more than he has to. Think about Reece electing not to take his available 5th year. The NBA is still the the Dream for a lot of these players.
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