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[mvossman]

mvossman  "I came away from that preseason with very different impression than you. (1) Dlo was not great, but he was better than the alternatives. (2) I saw nothing to suggest it would be a good idea to play Flagg at PG. (3) Brandon Williams was a two way last season with a small sample of quality play, and we got to see all of 3 minutes of garbage time in the preseason.  It will be a huge win if he turns into a quality rotational player, but its asking an awful lot for him to be starting.... (4) I'm not sure where this confidence that they will get great shots all the time comes from? ... There was little to no evidence of this "flow" offense generating a lot of good looks in the preseason."  

Yes, we saw different things, obviously. I don't endorse any of your 4 points above, fyi, but you probably knew that. The stats were bad in some areas, no question, but I think there was a lot of really good stuff that got lost in the quick takeaways.

But it doesn't matter, right? We start getting real answers tomorrow, rather than trying to read the future from what happened in 4 practice games. By the end of Nov, we should have a great read on whether they have answers that simply look different than we're used to, or whether this roster is going to be clueless and struggling to compete. 

Thanks for your opinion. You may be 1000% right on all of it, we'll see.

Agreed.  Its silly to read too much into preseason and there will probably be massive overreactions to the first couple of games in the regular season.  We will have a lot better idea of where we are at with a decent (maybe 20 game) sample when it counts.