Kolek planning to go pro
I guess I don’t know what people were expecting this year.
Honestly, other than NoLonger's wildly negative attitude, and Goose and Bitcher's wildly optimistic attitude, I think most people have expectations about right.
Good point. The vast majority here are pragmatic and have realistic expectations. The outliers get all of the attention. Much like life in general. Rocky, you ought to pin the preseason victory total thread to the top to illustrate your point.
The Illinois win was great, but remember they played without a potential First Team All American. Since his return Cockburn has been a beast averaging 24 points and 11 rebounds a game. Remember what Tower has stated at least a hundred times, its a "Process". The process may not be what everyone wants at this point, but it is what it is. MU may lose the next five after what we observed today, against a very disciplined Wiskey team and the BE win totals may be very low. UCLA will absolutely destroy MU next week. MU will win or lose with Shaka's system of aggressive defense (led to too many layups on full court press today), run and gun offense/tempo. The personnel he has now, utilizes the system on occasions, but against better teams it is a let"s see approach. Markus and Rowsey are not here to make the threes required in his offensive sets. Cam Jones and Joplin are only ones seemed capable and it will take awhile for them settling in. Team will be sometimes good, sometimes bad, but may be a long season.Shaka's success will be based upon who comes in next year and as of now, his start is very, very slow. Morsell, Kuath, Elliott and in all likelihood Lewis will be gone. Throw in the usual player who transfers and all you got coming in are two recruits, one a 5ft 10 point guard, both of whom are not even ranked in the top 150 in their class. Maybe he will get some players from the transfer portal, but that is a way off. Lets hope for the best.
I'll stick with my opinion on Gold. He'll be in foul trouble within the first eight minutes.
Did I miss this? Has the team made reference to what/how he got injured?
I guess I don’t know what people were expecting this year. I think some people talked themselves into thinking that this team was going to be better than it is. We have too many true freshmen or players who are debuting with big minutes on the P6 level.
Spamming with this? And not really he is ok but lots of players ahead of him right now.
Wasn’t able to watch. Did we score 50?
Bucky did…in the second half.
First true road game of the year. Solid first half. Davison played above his usual game. Rough game for JLew. Kur in early foul trouble. Poor shooting day from 3. Oso a big bright spot. His chemistry with Kolek is really good. Need better shooting from Kolek and the staff thinks he's a better shooter than what he's shown so far.Takeaway for the day for me was Johnny Davis. Silky smooth player. He keeps playing at the level he did today, he might have lottery pick potential.Still think our team has nice potential, and can be an NCAA team. If you consider this team could have 3 more years of Kolek, Kam, Oso, Joplin, Mitchell (he's trying to do too much/play too fast right now), O-Max, Ellis - where that team could be in 3 years is special. I left Justin Lewis off of that list as he very well could go pro after next season (wouldn't think he'd try to go pro after this year despite being in some mock drafts/second rounds)
Please explain Morsell:First 4 games, 22.5 pts/gameLast 5 games, 8.6 pts/game