Rasputin_Vol
"Slava Ukraina"
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I have absolutely no idea why, and I'm sure I will get ridiculed for this, but I have a strange feeling Howell will play awful until the Elite 8, (assuming they get there) and all of a sudden he will catch fire against a superior defensive team, and the whole board will wonder what the **** happened.
those backcourts are no better than TX's. In fact, offensively, TX has the best backcourt in the country.Do you guys remember DJ Augustin and AJ Abrams tearing us up? Kansas and UCLA's backcourt will do that times 100. The main thing right now is that Howell can't do anything right. He can't knock down FT's, he can't play defense, and can't shoot. Usually if someone is struggling they can help out in other areas, but Howell is struggling in every area. Saying that, he's the only option we have right now and we'll have to live with him, there's no backup plan
Hey, enough blame to go around (like Chism's dunk misses and Lofton missing two FT's down the stretch). Plus, Arkansas played a tremendous game. Smith and Howell have lead us to 29 W's, the most on school history so we play with what got us here.
We will be OK in the NCAA tourney until we run into a big inside offensive threat, like North Carolina's Tyler H. My prediction: Elite Eight or Final Four depending on the brackets.