i spoke on this earlier⊠there defense is bad for any non aac teams
they play zone, and cant defemd the 3 at all⊠the aac is a defensive league (in part from teams trying to build rosters that can compete with us and previously cincy), we arent a good shooting league âŠso they dont have to worry about teams raining 3s on themâŠbut out of conference most leagues are built arounf offense and shootingâŠ
thats why they look good in conference but always terrible out of conference
they had some touted players in the portal but every single one was a flop
what i expected from smu
6â3 nutall (southland POY, 2x all-league- ready to come out of davis shadow- in 1st team aac kinda way)
6â3 phelps- former mr basketball in texas - as a glue guy
6â7 williamson - former McDonalds all-american, to have grimes like impact
6â9 Efe Odigie- 1st team all sunbelt big
7â0 xavier forster- former top 100 4star that can shoot
bench
6â4 Ricardo Wright - 15pt transfer from marist
6â'8 Stefan TodoroviÄ - 4star sharp shooter
6â8 Keon Ambrose-Hylton - top 100 4star bama transfer pf
on paper that looks formidable, if they could have made it work
reality-
foster, wright and hylton get almost no real PT
6â3 nutall - doing 10 per on horriible efficiency
6â3 phelps - who account for 40-50% of their offense, as a driver- poor shooter (note he isnt fast)
6â4 jalen smith- zero offense, put up no stats, but supposed to be glue guy
6â7 willamson - only takes about 7 shots a game, despite 30+ minutes, mostly open layups - does what roberts does for us
6â9 Efe Odigie -35% fg% despite only trying to score in the post (horrific)
they the have one of the worst offensive rotation ive ever seen⊠they are reliant on a driver (who cant shoot) to score 25+ for them to win games âŠ
Memphis beat Ole Miss. Good win for them. Announcers talking about how itâs going to be good games when we play them. I hope we beat them 3 times this year!