We’re scrimmaging Maryland on the 28th
Don't you have some recruiting battle to influence against WF somewhere in the Twittersphere ?
We’re scrimmaging Maryland on the 28th
Don't you have some recruiting battle to influence against WF somewhere in the Twittersphere ?
My main role on Twitter is to do my best to keep our fan base informed and manage expectations based on the information I collect. The only thing I regret is accidentally including Ayo on the congrats reply tweet to our sister Illinois blog after it was obvious the Illinois coaching staff had known for at least a few days.
My main role on Twitter is to do my best to keep our fan base informed and manage expectations based on the information I collect. The only thing I regret is accidentally including Ayo on the congrats reply tweet to our sister Illinois blog after it was obvious the Illinois coaching staff had known for at least a few days.
Good work by Les yesterday, I thought. Appreciated reading all of Manning's comments and seeing a bit of the practice.
Pretty clear that Manning will play a lot of 4-guard "small ball" from those comments (and our personnel). That has me less concerned about our frontcourt depth, given it is easier to split ~60 minutes between Moore/SJM/Sarr/Thompson (and even Mitchell, it sounds like) than 80 minutes. I'm hoping Moore's improvement is as real as is being discussed. If he could play 20 minutes a game, that'd be huge. I'm super-excited about Sarr, but it sounds like Manning is going to bring him along slowly given he just showed up on campus this fall... Hopefully Sarr forces his hand a bit by playing well when given the opportunity.
You can pencil in Crawford and Woods at the 1-2... ~30mpg for both of them. Childress will get more run, too... Tough to keep him off of the floor if he plays as well as he did down the stretch last season. Wilbekin perhaps loses some minutes, but he has a clearly defined role on this team (and there will be nights when we need his shooting on the floor).
That leaves Brown at the 3 (and sometimes 4 when Woods plays the 3)... Big opportunity for Melo to get minutes if he's ready. I will say that Melo didn't look as tall as I expected (in that video, at least)... Could just be that he's thin and standing next to grown men (Woods & Brown).
Really looking forward to the exhibition game on 11/3... Can't wait to see what the freshmen (and sophomores) look like on the floor. Losing 3 starters means a lot of minutes up for grabs.
Preseason Kenpom rankings are out. Wake at 57 (11th in ACC) and the non-conference schedule doesn't actually look that bad. A lot of teams in the 150-200 range. Worst team is Drake at 223 and best team is Tennessee at 43.
Danny Manning did a tremendous job getting Wake to the NCAAs while fighting through arguably the toughest version of the ACC in that conference's history. But now the Deacs have lost John Collins to the NBA (and through camp and the start of the season, Collins looks tremendous). Fortunately, Bryant Crawford, Keyshawn Woods and Mitchell Wilbekin are back, but the ACC is going to be fairly deep again. Here's the problem: Wake's schedule, as its projects now, isn't that difficult. When you've got a non-con that's probably not going to be as good as at least half the teams from power conferences, it's going to put you at a further disadvantage. Entering the season, with Wake's OOC schedule as it is, it looks like this team will need to get to 22 or 23 wins to feel good about an at-large bid, and I don't see that happening.
I thought 22 wins was going to get us a 6 seed though?
In all seriousness, after seeing the Kenpom rankings (and assuming they hold somewhat accurate), I'll reverse course and say 22 gets us safely in, 21 has us on the right side of the bubble and 20 the wrong side. We probably won't have any marquee wins in the non conference but our non-conference schedule numbers (KP and RPI) should be fairly solid.
READING IS FUNDAMENTAL. Ego isn't.
What he was clearly saying is he didn't see Wake getting to 22-23 wins NOT that 22-23 wins would get Wake into The Dance.
He was clearly stating for Wake to feel good about going to the Dance they will need 22-23 wins & he doesn't see that happening.
That is hard to argue with as Wake could be 12-0 when they play UNC w/o a win worth mentioning on a tournament resume. If they go 12-0 & 9-9, they would probably need a win or two in the ACC tournament to be on right side of the bubble.