How many wins would a healthy Lamonte have added this season?

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ClockworkOrange

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I say 5, and these are the 5 Ws:

Florida State (LT scored 20 against FSU, BUT he shot 4-14, including going 1-4 from 3. And we lost by only 3.)
Memphis
Georgia (My biggest reach - they handled us by 17, but with a healthy LT we would have been much calmer and maybe Bowden (0-5 from 3) would've never slumped so bad)
Texas A&M
South Carolina 2

Other candidates to get that 5th win:

Kansas, (6 point game)
AU (7 point game, mostly due to fouling late)

So right now we would be sitting at 20-8 with 3 games to go, comfortably in the tournament, and basically playing for a higher seed with these last 3 games (and we might be favored in the 2 home games).

Now that we know what we know, where do you see us stacking up if LT had been totally good to go all season?
 
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It's getting tiresome following NCAA basketball anymore with so much turnover. Injuries are going to happen, but I wish the one and two-and-dones weren't part of it. It's only going to get worse with unrestricted transfers. I wish the game was truly played by actual student athletes again. Now get off of my lawn!

It's unbelievable that TN's team had 2 seniors last year, but 8 out of 12 players are gone.
 
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I'd really liked to have had Burns and especially Walker, Jr. this year. The way the SEC officials are allowing players to beat the crap out of each other we could have used their size.

I have no idea what happened to the freedom of movement by offensive players initiative being a point of emphasis before the 2018-19 season. I guess the SEC failed to get the memo. It's beyond frustrating to constantly have our players in early foul trouble over ticky tack touch fouls only to watch every game turn into boxing matches down the stretch.
 
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At least 3, but another huge problem is just the turnovers. I don't see many more wins without this team causing less turnovers as a whole, Lamonte or not.
 
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I'd say we'd be 18-10 (SC, A&M, and Memphis). We'd still be a bubble team but would be on the right side of the bubble. Coming into the season, I thought this would be a bubble team that would eventually get in and this record is right in line with those thoughts.
 
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vols 30 said:
Imagine where we would be with Turner and if Bone had stayed . 20 wins easily
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Next year, Hopefully one of our three highly touted guys and/or the transfer from Oregon will have the alpha dog mentality...we have some good role players but really need some guys who want the ball and have ability to fill up the basket.
 
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VolArmy74 said:
No one can possibly know. We may have won games we lost or lost games we won. You can't automatically assume that every outcome would have been positive.
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That's true. We could have lost another game but won 3 more.
But the odds of this team losing more or even being the same with a more experienced player running the offense by comparison to a guy that got the starting job a few hours after he got off the plane are pretty low.

Given that idea, you could technically say we wouldn't know how many wins Grant and Bone would have been worth either for a fact. But the odds are we're not 15-13 and 7-8.
 
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