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Like Goose and some others, I'm an optimist about our future, including next season.Having said that, I'm a little surprised Shaka hasn't added a big-impact transfer for the upcoming season, especially given Lewis' situation. But there are still a few good ones available, and Justin hasn't officially left yet, so maybe Shaka still has some tricks up his sleeve.
I am extremely optimistic about the upcoming season and beyond. Not having a traditional transfer out this season says a lot about Shaka and the program he is building. I fully expected that we would lose a guy or two, simply because that is the nature of college basketball today, and keeping the core is victory in itself.As for Omax, I have been high on him since the first time I saw him play and got higher on him every step of last season. He is high motor guy, an athlete and has some real basketball skills. There were several times he took a defensive rebound and went coast to coast and he looked like an NBA guy already. I am going to enjoy him this season because I think it will be his last one at MU.Lastly, as I stated in another thread, I have complete confidence that Shaka can flat out recruit and knows what he is doing. He did not bring in one player last year that made me wonder if he knew what he is doing. I have expectations for the new guys, but am counting a big uptick in performance with the returning guys. Will say it again, OMax is going to have a major breakout season and looking forward to watching him play.
I mean nearly every single Tom Crean and Buzz Williams teams were worse at defensive rebounding than last years team. It's an issue offensively. Not defensively.
Who knows what to expect at that point?Ben Gold and Sean Jones could turn out to be superstars. For me, the best part about college hoops is seeing players make a jump from the previous season or being surprised by players you didn't know much about.
Not true Re: Buzz, and with Crean you need to understand the game has changed. MU’s def rebounding ranked #314 in the nation. Crean never was in the 300’s, and Buzz was only once (2011-12, #302) when we had no size (Otule played in only 8 games), but other than d-boards the defense was great. In 2021-22, the avg def reb % was 71.9%. In Crean’s last season as well as Buzz’s first, it was only 65.5%
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Not sure why you guys are arguing.We'll know how good next year's team will be just as soon as KenPom tells us.
More often when i bring this up, its to articulate that it really isn't a priority.
Is this code for, “you’re correct, my statements were not facts”?
You got your panties in a bunch over me using % of rebounds taken down over the ranking of % of rebounds relative to other D1 teams in the middle of May. Find someone other than a Scoop poster to stroke your ego.
Add me to the group that thinks O-Max is going to break out. I'm super bullish on his future.
Add me to the group that thinks O-Max is going to break out.
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You are lost. He brought in 4 starters on an 8 seed. That's not even including the 1st Team All Big East player and 1st Team All Freshman player he retained.Get outta here.
I would take the Rick SLU program right now.
Yeah, I am lost in watching a program not win a tournament game since I was 22. I turn 32 next month.
Yeah, I am lost in watching a program not win a tournament game since I was 22. I turn 32 next month. I've watched a lot of crapty basketball since I graduated from MU; sorry I had higher hopes on quick turn around with Shaka than you did. The team sucked for most of the season outside of catching fire for a few weeks and then going back to sucking immediately thereafter, then limping into March and getting our doors blown off in the first round. Like I said....Shaka deserves plenty of rope and he'll get it. I just don't think the team next season is going to be better than last year's team when you subtract its best player and replace him with a guy who wasn't even playing D1 last year. Apologies that hurts your feelings.
H: SIUE: WH: New Hampshire: WH: Illinois: LN:Ole Miss (Charleston): LN:Charleston game 2: W (Elon)N: Charleston game 3: W (Temple)H: Northern Illinois: WH: Jackson St: WA: UW-Madison Extension: LA: Kansas St: LH: UCLA: L—BE CONF GAMES—A: Xavier: LH: UConn: LA: St John’s: LH: Creighton: WH: providence: WA: Georgetown LH: DePaul: WH: Seton Hall: LA: Nova LH: Xavier LA: Seton hall LA: providence LH: Nova: LA: UConn: LA: butler: LH: Georgetown: WA: Creighton: LH: butler: WA: DePaul: LH: St. John’s: LTotal W-L: 6-5 non-conf; 5-15 Big East - OVERALL: 11-20 (tied 10th in Big East)Biggest impact player: Justin Lewis Big East Honorable Mention.
You spent all last offseason whining about how bad this team was going to be and after wildly exceeding your expectations you're still whining. Yawn indeed.