Some cold hard facts...
1) 7 of our Out of Conference Opponents are either in the top 50 in the RPI, or they are in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in their conferences.
2) Cards went 4-3 against those opponents.
3) We are tied for 4th place in the ACC.
4) Keeping things in perspective.... we lost 3 top 40 players (Snider, Spalding, and Adel) plus Lance Thomas and one of the ACC's leading shot blockers in Mahmoud.
5) We basically lost 4 starters from last year's team.
6) We replaced them with 3x 2\3-star players (Sutton, Fore, Cunningham) and one former 4-star player (Agua) who doesn't even play much at all.
7) Despite the downgrade in talent and loss of personal, our defense, according to Ken Pom is ranked 15th in the entire country... against the toughest RPI schedule we have seen since the 2016/17 season.
8) This is the highest rated defense that our guy, Chris Mack has ever coached... which proves the point that if he could get better talent, he would have better results.
9) This team, in 3 games against UNC and Duke, has looked 1000x more competitive than it ever has against similar loaded Duke teams (2017/18, 2015) despite having less talent than those Cardinal teams, and those teams being coached by a Hall of Fame coach or one of his assistants.
10) Cards have been competitive in EVERY game... this year so far.
Thoughts?
1) 7 of our Out of Conference Opponents are either in the top 50 in the RPI, or they are in 1st, 2nd, or 3rd place in their conferences.
2) Cards went 4-3 against those opponents.
3) We are tied for 4th place in the ACC.
4) Keeping things in perspective.... we lost 3 top 40 players (Snider, Spalding, and Adel) plus Lance Thomas and one of the ACC's leading shot blockers in Mahmoud.
5) We basically lost 4 starters from last year's team.
6) We replaced them with 3x 2\3-star players (Sutton, Fore, Cunningham) and one former 4-star player (Agua) who doesn't even play much at all.
7) Despite the downgrade in talent and loss of personal, our defense, according to Ken Pom is ranked 15th in the entire country... against the toughest RPI schedule we have seen since the 2016/17 season.
8) This is the highest rated defense that our guy, Chris Mack has ever coached... which proves the point that if he could get better talent, he would have better results.
9) This team, in 3 games against UNC and Duke, has looked 1000x more competitive than it ever has against similar loaded Duke teams (2017/18, 2015) despite having less talent than those Cardinal teams, and those teams being coached by a Hall of Fame coach or one of his assistants.
10) Cards have been competitive in EVERY game... this year so far.
Thoughts?
