Way too early bracketology

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All said, we make the tourney this year. And if not then lets get a move on.
 
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Texas A&M was garbage last year, don't think they'll take that much of a jump. Alabama might make it. Lol @ Missouri making it. 2 or 3 great players doesn't make up for the rest of the roster especially knowing how much Martin can limit someone's potential. Vandy, Florida, and Kentucky should make it barring catastrophe, and we should make it. Sec shouldn't be too good this year, we should finish 4th or 5th.
 
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Texas A&M was garbage last year, don't think they'll take that much of a jump. Alabama might make it. Lol @ Missouri making it. 2 or 3 great players doesn't make up for the rest of the roster especially knowing how much Martin can limit someone's potential. Vandy, Florida, and Kentucky should make it barring catastrophe, and we should make it. Sec shouldn't be too good this year, we should finish 4th or 5th.

Two or three great players in basketball will take you to the top of the mountain. That's bigtime if they all stay healthy. Better watch Missouri this year.
 
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Two or three great players in basketball will take you to the top of the mountain. That's bigtime if they all stay healthy. Better watch Missouri this year.

Missouri is a sitting duck with CM as their coach. Never seen a coach do so less with more.
 
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Remember that time we had 3 NBA players on the team and barely made the tournament?

No because that never happened. Stokes is not an NBA player. McRae isn't an NBA player. J Rich was not heading to draft after that year and was still developing. People need to stop with this 3 NBA player nonsense.
 
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No because that never happened. Stokes is not an NBA player. McRae isn't an NBA player. J Rich was not heading to draft after that year and was still developing. People need to stop with this 3 NBA player nonsense.

I agree. 4 future professional basketball players rings more true. Ouch tho, after thinking about it that way makes the start to that season sting even worse.
 
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I agree. 4 future professional basketball players rings more true. Ouch tho, after thinking about it that way makes the start to that season sting even worse.

If you go by those standards Michigan had 10 future pro players that year. About the same for all the other top teams that year. We didn't have some huge amount of pro talent like some of you think.

In that case Tyndall had 4 pros and couldn't even make the NIT. I could see Williams and a couple other guys from last year make a pro league. So Barnes had a few pro players and couldn't make the NIT also huh? I guess Pearl should have made a few Final Fours because he always had 6 or 7 pro players using your criteria. :crazy:
 
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Number of players drafted off Michigan 2013-14 roster: 4
Number of players drafted off Tennessee 2013-14 roster: 3
 
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Number of players drafted off Michigan 2013-14 roster: 4
Number of players drafted off Tennessee 2013-14 roster: 3

So once again you are counting people that weren't drafted that year. So I guess Tyndall had an NBA player and an another All SEC player then?

Drafted in 14
Michigan.
#8- Started 27 games last year avg 9.5 points.
#21- Waived- failed drug test. Stuck a few years on the roster.
#40- Started 27 games also. May start next year for Pacers.


UT
#35- D league player. 28 total NBA games appeared in. Not an NBA player.
#58- D league player. 59 NBA appearances.

Looks like Michigan clearly had better talent. Keep acting like Stokes and McRae are real NBA players though. And if you want to add in players that were nowhere near NBA players then but were on rosters all the other teams still pretty much had more talent. We did great for the amount of talent we had. Some of you just had over inflated expectations for a couple of 6'7 bigs and skinny 2nd round caliber guards.
 
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We've been thru this before in another thread KTK where you went completely off your rocker.

The "facts about Barnes" thread if you want to see your last thread of nonsensical posting on this topic.
 
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We've been thru this before in another thread KTK where you went completely off your rocker.

The "facts about Barnes" thread if you want to see your last thread of nonsensical posting on this topic.

But my facts are right.

We weren't ranked preseason. We beat expectations. that team didn't have top 10 oe even 15 talent like some of you act.

The Zo underachieved each year narrative is the only nonsense. Barnes or Tyndall barely beat or meet media expectations and yall think they did a good job. Martin beat media expectations each year and failed though. That is just stupid.
 
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But my facts are right.

We weren't ranked preseason. We beat expectations. that team didn't have top 10 oe even 15 talent like some of you act.

The Zo underachieved each year narrative is the only nonsense. Barnes or Tyndall barely beat or meet media expectations and yall think they did a good job. Martin beat media expectations each year and failed though. That is just stupid.

We weren't ranked in the preseason because they knew who our coach was.
 
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But my facts are right.

We weren't ranked preseason. We beat expectations. that team didn't have top 10 oe even 15 talent like some of you act.

The Zo underachieved each year narrative is the only nonsense. Barnes or Tyndall barely beat or meet media expectations and yall think they did a good job. Martin beat media expectations each year and failed though. That is just stupid.

Stokes was on the radio last week and he mentioned that they underachieved until the end of Cuonzo's last year at UT. Sweet 16 was about what was expected. Barely getting into the NCAAT was a fail. That was a pretty good roster.
 
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If you go by those standards Michigan had 10 future pro players that year. About the same for all the other top teams that year. We didn't have some huge amount of pro talent like some of you think.

In that case Tyndall had 4 pros and couldn't even make the NIT. I could see Williams and a couple other guys from last year make a pro league. So Barnes had a few pro players and couldn't make the NIT also huh? I guess Pearl should have made a few Final Fours because he always had 6 or 7 pro players using your criteria. :crazy:

Comparing CCMs 4 to Swyndalls is crazy. Imo
 
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But my facts are right.

We weren't ranked preseason. We beat expectations. that team didn't have top 10 oe even 15 talent like some of you act.

The Zo underachieved each year narrative is the only nonsense. Barnes or Tyndall barely beat or meet media expectations and yall think they did a good job. Martin beat media expectations each year and failed though. That is just stupid.

Except folks with an IQ have never said he underachieved each year.
 
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No because that never happened. Stokes is not an NBA player. McRae isn't an NBA player. J Rich was not heading to draft after that year and was still developing. People need to stop with this 3 NBA player nonsense.

60 players taken in the NBA draft. Only two teams had more players drafted than Tennessee. Michigan and UCLA with 3 each. That means kentucky, Syracuse, Duke, Arizona, Kansas all had 2 or less selected just like Tennessee had two players selected.

Then the Vols had another player drafted the next year.

Anyone who wants to act like Tennessee wasn't one of the 15 most talented teams in the country needs a reality check. That team showed what it could be with a little motivation and the reigns taken off them where they were allowed to play some basketball.
 
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60 players taken in the NBA draft. Only two teams had more players drafted than Tennessee. Michigan and UCLA with 3 each. That means kentucky, Syracuse, Duke, Arizona, Kansas all had 2 or less selected just like Tennessee had two players selected.

Then the Vols had another player drafted the next year.

Anyone who wants to act like Tennessee wasn't one of the 15 most talented teams in the country needs a reality check. That team showed what it could be with a little motivation and the reigns taken off them where they were allowed to play some basketball.

Dude stop reaching. Those other teams had multiple first round picks and or lottery picks that actually came out after that season. If you count all players on the rosters at least 20 teams at the very minimum had more players drafted with first round picks. Second round picks without guaranteed contracts who don't even play a seasons with of games in their NBA career aren't exactly NBA players.

Teams from that year with more NBA talent and higher draft picks.

UF, Kansas, SU, UNC, Stanford, Az, Wis, Ok State, Gonzaga, Baylor, Oklahoma, UVA, Nova, Iowa State, MSU, UCONN, UM, St Joes, WSU, Michigan, Duke, UL, NC State, UK, Memphis, ND, Indiana.


Pitt, Creighton, UC, Texas, Oregon, Marquette all about even. There are a few more with about the same amount of talent that year.

We were ranked were we should have been. Around 30. We almost made the Elite Eight with top 25-35 talent.

You can't underachieve in a basketball season until its over or you are eliminated from the postseason. There have been NCAA champs with a bunch of head scratchers during the season. No one cares. Basketball is about the postseason.

Now stop lying about us having top 15 talent. I named over 15 teams that have multiple players that are active NBA players. We have one from that year that wasn't even developed yet.
 

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