Bobinator, spreading the good news of facts and research before posting.

Once again it's a season there are ups and downs it's a war in this conference. No one was here for awhile then we won a few games and now we've lost a few games and people will hopefully stay. The job Bucky and the team has done is nothing short of amazing. This just makes us better when we're in the tourney as we've been in a bunch of close games at home and on the road.

Any 4 wins and we are in. 3 is bubble depending on who we beat.

Going chalk is gonna be close depending on how some of these lines move @OU and @LSU

Also just note for the doomsdayers, 3 of our 4 SEC losses were in OT or by 1 score

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Ozamataz Buckshank 01 said:

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I'm starting to have doubts that the Ags will win 10.

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I think we beat Ole Miss, OU, and LSU at a minimum. That would be 10.

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We didn't have the easiest time against OU, at home no less. Don't think I'd be putting that one in the bag just yet. Two weeks ago I might've

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Yeah, and ou won at vandy

OU has given teams fits even when they have lost

At this point no games are in the bag

That was a tough blow to take last night. We really needed that one

If we don't pull off any upsets, we'll need to sweep the 4 remaining games we should be favored in (ole miss, tu, at ou, at lsu) but with 2 of those on the road and a Texas team that seems capable of rising up and beating anyone in this league, it's no guarantee

At vandy just became a monster game for us

Hopefully those 2 injured players are still out on Saturday

There are roster holes, but we aren't really that far away with the success our scheme brings. We are experiencing the pain of not having an alpha right now. It's that simple.

We have an alpha, we're just short on across the board athleticism.

I went into the season thinking we'd be average at best based on all the roster turnover. Then they were sitting in 1st place midway through SEC play and I bought in. Now we're on a losing streak. I should have known better. I apologize, the losing streak is on me.

We have very little margin for error at this point. Our non-conference performance will net us nothing. We had no good wins whatsoever. Our only shots (UCF, SMU, Oklahoma State) we lost. Our road wins at AU and UGA are becoming less appealing each week, as they both are nosediving. We absolutely need to steal one on the road somewhere and hold serve at home. Pig is too big and athletic AND they can score. Vandy will be a shootout, but we'll probably be 7-point dogs in that one. The rest of them, we need to get. Beating UK at home would likely seal it, barring we don't stumble at home against an Ole Miss or tu.

And that's with getting killed on the boards and being way undersized. I know a bunch of people are doomsday but I see a lot to be happy about.

Roman Empire said:

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Football season all over again.

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It is what it is. Except for UF the Ags have lost two very close games but **** happens. This is only Bucky's first year. Better than some recent BB coaches here.
Get over it man or find anetter pastime.

Roman Empire said:

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Football season all over again.

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Yep. Any team we play with a pulse = L

This thread is great in gathering all the negative defeated Aggies. We lose a game we feel we should win and now we drop out of the tourney. Haha such defeatist.

Some of you are ridiculous.

"We have little margin for error"

This isn't a Buzz team. We can score in a myriad of ways. The issue is when you have 7 foot tall centers whose arms are bigger than our guy's torso. Teams with legit, tall, skilled big men are going to make us struggle. Against THOSE teams, we have little margin for error. But we've also won some games against teams with a tall front court.

The issue last night was a defensive breakdown. I think if Bucky could have it back he would have come out of that timeout with a different lineup and/or different player positioning. Learning experience.

We also played lazy on defense. The usual smart trapping turned into us being flat footed and reaching. One move by the ball handler and we're turned around forcing teammates to scramble to cover. All they need then is one pass and its wide open to the basket. That should get fixed. We weren't pressing that lazily 4-5 games ago. That's something that's been creeping up lately.

But even still, we are one shot away from beating a team that on paper should have destroyed us. They dominated the boards and could still barely beat us. There's a reason they were celebrating like the just won the final four at the end. That was a stolen game by them. A fumble by us. Just like SMU and Tennessee. It happens.

But to say we have a small margin for error.. it's the SEC. We've had exactly one game in conference that was a decisive loss. ONE. We will have more losses. But we will also have some more shocker wins. You can bet on that.

Exactly

We now have no big wins and running out of time. Bucky better turn this skid around.

Muy said:

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We now have no big wins and running out of time. Bucky better turn this skid around.

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This is silly. Bucky has done great considering the cards he had to play. We are way better than anyone that knows anything about basketball predicted. We may or may not make the tournament (we probably will) but making the tournament for our first year coach shouldn't be the measuring stick.
We probably will not beat a really good team with the talent we have. Be happy and enjoy the wins this year.

I think we can beat a really good team, it just needs to be the right kind of team. We're not going to beat any of these teams that look like the Monstars out there but I think we're a really skilled team and we do a good job of bothering smaller guards.

Texas and Georgia are big wins. No they are not Arizona or Florida but are very good teams that can make run in the tourney.

Auburn, Georgia and Texas ALL on the road collectively make up a huge win, even if each of them is only a moderately good win

Bucky stated in his press conference that every defense strategy we tried was ineffective. These posters should actually watch the postgame press conferences. Bucky is acutely aware of our issues and has done everything he can to mitigate it.

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I think 10 wins will be iffy. We need 4 more wins to feel good about getting in.

I'm mostly concerned whether we can hold it together with this losing streak. Lots of bad body language and bad play tonight. We needed to figure out how to win that one.

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I think we get 4 more wins. Win 2 of 3 at home and split the 4 road games. It's doable.