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Official 2023-24 MBB Season Thread




Link to article - https://cubuffs.com/news/2023/9/20/...n-the-almanac-preseason-top-100-rankings.aspx

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BOULDER – The Almanac released its preseason awards and rankings on Wednesday, featuring three University of Colorado men's basketball players in its top 100 as well as a pair of all-conference selections.

Senior forward Tristan da Silva was listed as the No. 56 player in the nation, while junior KJ Simpson was No. 91 and freshman Cody Williams was No. 92. Da Silva was named to The Almanac's Preseason All-Pac-12 First Team while Simpson was an All-Pac-12 Second Team Selection.

Da Silva was a 2022-23 All-Pac-12 Conference First Team selection as a junior, leading Colorado at 15.9 points per game on just under 50 percent shooting. He led the Buffaloes with 54 3-point field goals and 44 steals while ranking second on the team in rebounding with 168. Da Silva was recently named to Blue Ribbon Yearbook's Preseason All-America Fourth Team.

Simpson was a 2022-23 All-Pac-12 Conference Second Team selection as a sophomore, leading Colorado in assists (111) and steals average (1.5 spg) and was second in scoring at 15.9 points per game – just a fraction behind da Silva – and in 3-point field goals (37). On the Pac-12 charts he was fifth in free throw percentage, six in steals and seventh in scoring and assists.

Williams is a Naismith and McDonald's All-American from Gilbert, Ariz., where he guided Perry High School to the 2023 Open Division State Championship. A five-star recruit, Williams played for USA Basketball's U19 Men's National Team at the 2023 FIBA U19 Men's World Cup Championship in Hungary this past summer.
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If you try and buy season tickets, the seating chart says there are none available. CU athletic dept says, 'yeah we're gonna fix that"
 
pmoney52 said:
Love that Tad is moving to a 5 out system. This will be great for this group
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Creates so many defensive matchup issues for an opponent with old school bigs. Forces them into zone and gives you wide open 3s. If they don't do that, we get those handoffs screens at the top of the key which destroyed Gtown in the Dance a few years ago.
 
Buffnik said:
Creates so many defensive matchup issues for an opponent with old school bigs. Forces them into zone and gives you wide open 3s. If they don't do that, we get those handoffs screens at the top of the key which destroyed Gtown in the Dance a few years ago.
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Yea. The flare screen actions and kick outs will lead to a bunch of 3s. Hopefully we don’t have shooting amnesia for the first half of the season this year

Tad mentioned being worried about rebounding but I’ve always thought that trying to box out 15 feet from the basket is a lot harder. I think we’ll see more opportunities for 2nd chance possessions. If we consistently crash the glass I’ll be curious to see what our offensive rebounding % is come January
 
pmoney52 said:
Yea. The flare screen actions and kick outs will lead to a bunch of 3s. Hopefully we don’t have shooting amnesia for the first half of the season this year

Tad mentioned being worried about rebounding but I’ve always thought that trying to box out 15 feet from the basket is a lot harder. I think we’ll see more opportunities for 2nd chance possessions. If we consistently crash the glass I’ll be curious to see what our offensive rebounding % is come January
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Practicing against it should help our DReb% against 3pt shooting teams.
 
pmoney52 said:
Yea. The flare screen actions and kick outs will lead to a bunch of 3s. Hopefully we don’t have shooting amnesia for the first half of the season this year

Tad mentioned being worried about rebounding but I’ve always thought that trying to box out 15 feet from the basket is a lot harder. I think we’ll see more opportunities for 2nd chance possessions. If we consistently crash the glass I’ll be curious to see what our offensive rebounding % is come January
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More 3's means more long rebounds, which means we hopefully won't have to compete at the basket for as many boards.

Also, I can't imagine Hurlburt and Lampkin will be blown over by a slight wind and have feet for hands...
 
MarkW said:
How will this impact Lampkin Jr? He looks like more of a traditional post player and doesn't seem to have a perimeter game.
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Screen game on the perimeter with him rolling to the hoop for easy looks off cut motion and post ups if it's not there. Gonna have to treat him and Hadley a bit differently & run some 4-out sets with them. Hopefully they have to be guarded closely out to 15 feet, though.
 
Buffnik said:
Screen game on the perimeter with him rolling to the hoop for easy looks off cut motion and post ups if it's not there. Gonna have to treat him and Hadley a bit differently & run some 4-out sets with them. Hopefully they have to be guarded closely out to 15 feet, though.
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I’m hoping this draws Hadley a little further out
 
pmoney52 said:
I’m hoping this draws Hadley a little further out
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He hit 3s well enough to keep defenses honest at juco, so maybe we just haven't see that & it's something he could do (college version of the AG Nuggets type game?).
 
MarkW said:
How will this impact Lampkin Jr? He looks like more of a traditional post player and doesn't seem to have a perimeter game.
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I thought Tad's quote was in response to Lampkin being out. I'd assume he'll play as a traditional post when he's in the game but I doubt he logs more than 25 minutes per game.
 
For subscribers to KenPom


The H.U.M.A.N. poll​

Ken Pomeroy | 08.25.23
Welcome to the H.U.M.A.N. poll. No longer do you have to wait years hoping the Associated Press will give you one of its 60-ish coveted spots to vote in a poll ranking the top 25. Now, with a kenpom.com subscription, you can participatein the world’s first human-based 1-362 preseason poll for college basketball. Instead of the elite voting in a poll honoring the elite, everyone can vote in a poll honoring every team.

Upon clicking this link you will be given 50 match-ups (subscribers only). In each match-up, your job is to pick the team that will be ranked higher in my ratings at the end of the season (post-tournaments). After polling closes at midnight (Mountain Time) on October 6, everyone’s selections will be aggregated into a 1-362 ranking using the Bradley-Terry algorithm.

Why would you do this? Well, it’s possible that humans can produce something useful for a 1-362 preseason poll. The snag is that it isn’t feasible to ask humans to rank all 362 teams. You could try and do it, and people have. But it’s impossible for humans to organize that much information in a coherent way. And I hear it’s ridiculously time-consuming.

However, humans can build something pretty useful if they just have to focus on a few matchups, especially if we can get a lot more people than vote in the AP poll. Maybe we can produce a poll that beats a computer’s preseason poll or at least informs a better version of a computer-created poll. At least that’s my theory.

This really should beat the pants off of the AP poll…
 
Scotch said:
The itch is growing.

#isitnovemberyet
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cu3x said:
If you try and buy season tickets, the seating chart says there are none available. CU athletic dept says, 'yeah we're gonna fix that"
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Same today, and they didn't return my call. Based on the AD site, there are no tickets left.
 
2023 Postseason:

No Giants, No Padres, No Cubs, No Cardinals, No Yankees, No Red Sox. I'm kinda diggin' it (other than the Dodgers, of course).
 
Ugh, and turning the CU basketball calendar over to October, I now have to look at Lawson Lovering till November.
 
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