Thatās my mindset as well. Always hopeful until proven otherwise. And always excited for college hoops to start
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Is it possible that Power just isnāt good? Not writing him off but itās not like thereās any evidence that heās a good high major player. Wouldnāt surprise me if he was just kind of a bust at this level but weāll see. Maybe Rohdeās terrible play last year has me overly pessimistic. I think weāre pretty screwed unless Dai Dai is randomly really good or if Bliss comes back and is really good. Playing a point guard who is a terrible shooter and free throw shooter is always going to jam up our offense especially because we have continued to lack a 5 who can score inside.
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2024 - 60.8
2023 - 62.3
2022 - 59.8
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Seems to me points are going to hard to come by.
Unless they hit on 35% (or better) from behind the arc / wins are going to be hard to come by
Iām always the pessimistic one- be interested in others thoughts on WIN total for the season
On a positive note Iām jacked for baseball season.
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I think heās a very good three or four year player (considering this as his first year because Duke).
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8 to 10
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I wonder if we could see:
Warley
iMac
Saunders
Cofie
Blake
Related: man we are missing a strong 3 wing who can shoot a bit. Also a PG playmaker who can shoot. Any one of those and our floor is much higher.
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Way too early to even entertain this imo. Need to see him in live games but he also didnāt get much development at Duke so heās coming in as essentially a RS-Freshman.
I think heāll be a good college player just maybe not as good as we need right off the bat. Hope we get to see it here, but who knows if his future is at UVA
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I think it would be wise to give them a few games before predicting W/Ls. A lot of variables right now, but yes, weāre going to need to hit a decen-% of 3s to be good. Kind of like last year.
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Have to get bets down before game 1 my friend. Becomes much easier to predict after the games start
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There are just so many unknowns right now so itās very hard to predict. Just off the top of my head youāve got Warleyās wrist and to what degree thatās limiting him in these scrimmages? Is bliss hurt or out of the rotation? Are we shooting this poorly in scrimmages because weāre struggling with the new offense and not getting good looks or because weāre just cold? Can Dai Dai or Bliss emerge enough to serve as another creator?
Could be as simple as the shots werenāt falling in scrimmages but we got good looks, Bliss is just being held out for precautionary reasons, and Warley will be full strength soon and our clear starting PG, or it could be Warley isnāt a great fit, bliss is out of the rotation, and we donāt have the guards to create looks so our poor shooting is a reflection of bad shots.
We just wonāt know until we have a sample size of a few games vs a couple of box scores of a scrimmage.
That all said, since you asked for a prediction regardless, Iāll say 19-20 wins
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I dont bet, so Iāll wait a few a games before āpredicting. I know if we hit 3 3s in our first two games itās going to be an ugly year. Iām hopeful come Thanksgiving things are trending in the right direction.
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Eh. Did we beat CT in a scrimmage last year?
This certainly isnāt good news, but I think people are overboard on the doom and gloom. I donāt think the team is going to be great this year, 15-18 wins, but the scrimmages arenāt why.
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No, that has taken a life of its own narrative. Think we lost in OT
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Eh. We kept it close against an utterly dominant team. Close enough.
FIFY
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Yea I get we donāt have anything else to go on but these scrimmages are hard to make sense of in the best of times. Borderline meaningless for a team in a period of turmoil. UConn struggled against us last year lol Georgetown was killing Maryland in their previous scrimmage. Anyone buying Georgetown will actually be better than the Terps?
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Yes. Possible
We can predict now and then predict again Dec 1 and again for Acc Dec 24
As of now Iāll say 15-15 reg season - the Acc aināt incredibly weak at the bottom anymoreā¦
By the way this is the first year ever that not all Acc teams get into the Acc Tournamentā¦
14-16 after going through the schedule quickly. We lose all the out of conference games against the bigger name opponents. Then just kind of plod along in ACC play
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