Kolek planning to go pro
Man, everyone has forgotten about sean.
Sean: healing
It also makes the recruiting needs clear. Need two guards and a forward in the 25 recruiting class.
Kam: 15% better ball handler and creator for others.Stevie: improved ballhandling, hits open 3s.Joplin: quicker release on jumper, more consistent.Ben: Henry, Joey, and Sam's skillset in a blender, with Oso's heartChase: Health and steady progress.Amadou: 6'9 230 lb BarroHamilton: TheoTre: Mayo's skill, Junior's brain and court visionZaide: more Kalkbrenner blocking. Steady improvementOwens: Claude's athleticism and Scheierman's 35% 3 pt shooting.Parham: Ben Gold path, with less length and more bulk.Sean: healing80% of the best case is a return to the sweet 16. (Match ups not withstanding) 90% is elite 8. 100% is the final four. If everything falls into place, all the pieces are such that next season could be even better. Yes, nearly everything has to go right. (cockeyed optimist that I am) It will be nice to see the full court pressure again. And I don't think Hamilton and Amadou can currently play at the same time in Nevada's offense.
IMO, Jop is the key for next year. He needs to take big strides on being more consistent as a scorer and take advantage of being the go to guy. All other items noted by Tower are important, but none bigger than Joplin. In a lot of ways Joplin is the poster child of Shaka’s philosophy on retaining players. A lot of expectations were thrown his way early on in his career and we will see if he is up to the task.
IMO, Jop is the key for next year. He needs to take big strides on being more consistent as a scorer and take advantage of being the go to guy. All other items noted by Tower are important, but none bigger than Joplin.In a lot of ways Joplin is the poster child of Shaka’s philosophy on retaining players. A lot of expectations were thrown his way early on in his career and we will see if he is up to the task.
COLE. Sad. Nice. I think Hamilton will be a bit better on offense than Theo.
The prognosis for next season is very uncertain. A starting 5 of Gold, Joplin, Ross, K. Jones, and Mitchell is certainly solid. But, which of those guys, other than Kam and maybe Chase, is likely to play major minutes on a top-10 team? And, behind that 5 is a lot of unknown, limited experience, no experience, and 2 freshmen. The best case scenario is that the two freshmen can actually contribute in a meaningful way, that Hamilton is actually a player who can provide good minutes at the post, and that Lowery and Norman make a big step forward. Otherwise, it may be a bit of a let-down season.
They ALL have played major minutes on a top-10 team already.
TAMUI do know, Newsie is right on you knowing ball.
Very similar to two years ago. Hopefully the same result.
Sean just needs to come into form in time for the BET.When you look at the turmoil and turnover in the other BEAST teams, it's hard to see how any of them will be better than MU. Of course, some of the new free agents will gel with their teams and perform well, and other coaches will somehow create a whole that's greater than the sum of the parts. I don't think any other team in the BEAST (the country???) has 8 guys returning and MU has 8 guys who got serious game minutes returning.