Why did everyone expect us to be so good?

[hatfieldms]

We brought back the same team from last year minus depth at the Center position. This is a decent team, but no way is the team as good as some on here expected them to be

 

[HighPointDawg]

1- We signed Sidney
2- Expectations went through the roof (30 wins ...ha!)
3- Sidney has 0 minutes of playing time
4- People forgot what the original expectations were..

 

[8dog]

brings back all five starters, you expect to be better and be good, especially when a talent like Augustus is essentially a new player to the team.

As of now though, Augustus is irrelevant.

But it doesn't excuse losing to Rider, Richmond, and WKU.

We were certainly more talented than WKU tonight.

 

[hatfieldms]

It happens. We have no inside scoring, or inside depth, and it is and will continue to kill us throughout the season

 

[HighPointDawg]

these guys jump on here and talk about how we didn't deserve to win.. It's getting ridiculous.. We can't even ***** about the stuff that we do want to ***** about because we have idiots on here calling for heads after a game at midseason...

 

[8dog]

b/c we had no rhythm on offense. Just standing around letting them suffocate us.

No inside scoring? Our leading scorer was our center who they had trouble stopping.

 

[Columbus Dawg]

MS. Valley State, etc. etc? We haven't beaten anyone this year.

 

[HighPointDawg]

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[hatfieldms]

I meant no inside scoring overall. Up against more physical teams Varnado needs knocked around a good bit down there

 

[Columbus Dawg]

when you return your Top 6 players from a 20+ win, SEC tourney championship team, you expect to beat Rider, Richmond and WKU.

The biggest surprise to me is Dee Bost. I expected him to make a big jump from his freshmen to sophomore year, but it hasn't happend.

 

[8dog]

he's done fine in SEC play. He doesn't get banged around that much.

Im not sure what more you can ask for inside than a center that is your leading scorer with Augustus there to at least keep people honest.

Our talent is not the problem.

 

[Columbus Dawg]

I wouldn't be shocked if we win the SEC West. It's a horrible division other than Ole Miss and I'm not sold on Ole Miss. Our RPI is shot to hell though and there's not much we can do about that. </p>