Yeah. 930 in an empty gym. Could get weird. Iām optimistic going in. Not necessarily about winning, but I can see us defending well. The big thing Iāll look for is ball security and good ball movement in first 4 minutes. We havenāt faced defensive intensity like this.
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Louisville is similar though with 3 transfers being big steps up and all 5 starters being new transfers in their lineup. Whole new team, whole new coach/system that was playing in game 2. Louisville could be good but I wouldnāt call them undeniable competition in week 1 regardless of where the game is played haha.
Edit to add: how the heck has Louisville only played 2 games??
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Is Igor their best offensive player?
Letās just take 25-30 threes Thursday night and hit 56%+. Thatāll do it.
*Edit: and iMac needs a minimum of 8-10 of these (if not a minimum of 10)
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I think gym is going to be full of psychotic Tennessee fans. They travel, and they are untethered to reality.
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Be nice to my Tennessee people (although you are right)
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This game will have a secret scrimmage type of environment and we suck at those. Tennessee by about 50
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Why do you say that? I bet the atmosphere will be better than Baltimore. UT travels extremely well to these events.
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so am i crazy to think we can compete with tennessee or am i psycho
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Letās just say that Irish Whiskey will be making an appearance at my house around 10pm.
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yeahhhhh 
might be that type of game
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Will be interesting to see how well they travel with a home FB game Saturday
Itās sorta like his year at Charlotte last year. Does well vs lesser competition. Didnāt do much vs Louisville and their Indiana exhibition game.
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Why not both?
Baltimore is a low bar, but these are gonna take place in a hotel ballroom. Attendance is about 1800 or so. And itās not a HS gym. Itās a ballroom.
Pics from last year: there are like 8 rows behind the benches and then 5 or so behind one basket. Basically pretty antiseptic:
https://www.instagram.com/p/C3-SxYvuOGC/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
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Yep, which makes the lighting and shooting depth perceptionā¦weird
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This is making me mad I didnāt pony up to go.
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But Dai Dai has experience there!!
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Heās #4 in the first pic
Apparently attendance on Friday was 4868, and that was announced attendance for both games, which means each game was a bit lower. Of a capacity of 14k or so.
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The only good thing to come out of Tennessee IYKYK
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