Oso planning to go pro
This program's consistent inability to find a 250lb, 6'8- 6'10 beef boy is maddening. Not even an Edy or Bacot - but a Tolu Smith/Norchad Omier or even Dwight Wilson III type. Maybe that doesn't fit Shaka's style/plan but it certainly seems that consistent major-conference and NCAA success runs through having a presence in the front court.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
My guess is that Shaka will never recruit one of these.This board has a weird obsession with heavy centers. You don't have to recruit aircraft carriers to win in today's NCAA.
they are sentenced to spend the rest of this season hanging out with Murff on Dodds' Board where they can discuss such nonsense.
And just watch like five minutes of Marquette basketball and tell me where an "aircraft carrier" is going to fit on the offensive end. And if anyone uses "wide post" in response, they are sentenced to spend the rest of this season hanging out with Murff on Dodds' Board where they can discuss such nonsense.
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
Shaka needs to recruit more rebounders. Not sure the style he used at VCU is as sustainable in the Big East without better rebounding. I mean, the boys couldn’t even out rebound Chicago State. It was a problem last year and has been a major problem against the better teams we’ve played this year. Our bigs are not good rebounders and that needs to change.
Rebounding hasn't even been an issue with this team. They outrebounded Purdue 39 to 35 including 15 to 6 on the Offensive glass.They have outrebounded their opponents 259 to 257 on the year. A lot of that has to do with the amount of shots we miss. Our tempo is fast and we take a lot of shots with a lot of misses so our opponents will always have a lot of rebounds. Just have to start making shots.On the bright side we are 7th in the country in total assists and 41st in steals.The biggest issue to me is the 3 point %. I love the idea of 3's and dunks/layups, but you have to knock down 3's to truly maximize that potential of that theory. Currently this team ranks 253rd in America with a 31% 3point.Where we've hung around is holding our opponents to 30.1% 3point which is good for 102nd in the country.
I disagree on the rebounding. We got killed on the boards against Miss State and is a huge reason we lost. I am not too concerned about overall rebounding margin when 4/7 games are against awful teams, but its definitely concerning when Chicago State can out rebound a team like Marquette in a half. Neither Oso nor Omax are great rebounders for their size. Gold is more of perimeter player than a true big. When Oso is off the floor, there is really no one to grab boards. I think rebounding will be a big issue this year, and there aren't really reinforcements coming next year in that regard. But yah, shooting is a huge issue too. I just brought up the rebounding due to the conversation about us needing a center. Marquette really could have used a transfer big like Javon Franklin on GT to back up Oso. Maybe Wrightsil was supposed to be that guy and still can be if he ever gets healthy enough to contribute.
Love all the people saying “Marquette needs this” or “we have to get XYZ” despite it being totally contrary to the very public, transparent philosophy our current coach has laid out time after time. It seriously makes me wonder if half the posters here even pay attention to the team.
At the highest level? I'm not so sure.2022 Kansas: 6'10" 250 lb David McCormack2021 Baylor: 6'8" 245 lb Jonathan Tchamwa Tchatchoua2019 Virginia: 6'9" 228 lb Mamadi Diakite2018 Villanova: 6'9" 245 lb Omari Spellman2017 North Carolina: 6'10" 260 Kennedy Meeks2016 Villanova: 6'10" 245 lb Daniel Ochefu2015 Duke: 6'11" 270 lb Jahlil Okafor2014 UConn: 6'10" 210 lb Philip Nolan2013 Louisville: 6'11" 245 lb Gorgui Dieng2012 Kentucky: 6'9" 252 lb Terrence Jones2011 UConn: 6'9" 240 lb Alex Oriakhi2010 Duke: 6'10" 260 lb Brian ZoubekOther than that fluke UConn team, all of these teams had someone that was somewhat in that aircraft carrier mode. 2019 Virginia also had 6'10" 250 lb Jack Salt. UConn with Nolan and 7'0" Amida Brimah were really the only team with primary bigs that were the lanky athletes that Shaka seems to be preferring here. For a guy that's sent Jarrett Allen, Mo Bamba, Jaxson Hayes, and Jericho Sims to the league and also had bigs like Dylan Osetkowski and Will Baker, I'll admit I'm surprised we haven't made getting bigger bigs a priority.
If Mamadi Diakite is an aircraft carrier then we have three on our team. I wouldn't put half the guys you mentioned in that category. A lot of these guys are athletic, mobile and can face the basket and Shaka would absolutely recruit those guys.
As already stated, Spellman was a forward who liked to shoot 3s and Ochefu barely played half of most games -- if Ochefu was an "aircraft carrier," so was Otule.
When I think of "aircraft carrier," I think of Shaq or Sampson or at least Mo Lucas. That list includes few anywhere within light years of those.
But sure, we definitely could use another big body, and I'm both surprised and disappointed that Shaka didn't bring in a transfer to help Oso -- even a Jayce Johnson type would have been nice.
And I noted that Virginia team also had Jack Salt. I don't think posters on this site are looking for one-dimensional, back to the basket Shaq types, or old fashioned aircraft carrier players.