Kolek planning to go pro
The real shame is had ODB stayed at MU, we probably win the title in 2003.
Wait a minute, all these people are saying that during his red shirt year NBA scouts were in the Old Gym watching Wade play. Chicos paints a different picture. Wade wasn't highly recruited, wasn't ranked highly in the recruit rankings, and frankly wouldn't be nearly the player he was without Tom Crean's incredible skill at developing his players. Wade owes it all to Coach Crean. Just ask Wade himself, Chicos will tell you. Wade could not have possibly been as good as you all are saying he was while he was redshirting, he hadn't even had time for Crean to develop him, and he wasn't that good coming into Marquette.Or is Tom Crean that good that you can give him 2 months with a guy and he goes from 10th best player in IL to 10th best player in college basketball?
We lost to Kansas by 33 points...
Macro, not micro. I didn't say "throw Blankson on the roster for the one game where Kansas smoked us and we would have won." I think he would have been a large enough additional piece to improve the team enough over the season to win the title.They would have been measurably better with him on the team for a full season. In 01-02, he was the 3rd leading scorer and 2nd leading rebounder. He probably would have improved his numbers incrementally as well. If they beat #2 UL at home or manage not to blow those stupid games in Dayton or ECU that probably moves them up a seed line. Maybe they wind up out of UK and KU's bracket and they wind up playing Texas in the National Semifinal and UK for the title. I ultimately think a bad day doomed the guys against Kansas. It's a single elimination tournament, that will happen. But I do believe that he would have been a big enough piece over a full season to have put them over the top.
Not so sure on this, to be honest. Townsend and Novak gave that team some sorely needed outside shooting that really balanced out the offense. If ODB had stayed, their minutes would have been limited.
When did you know he'd be a special college player?When did you know he'd be a special NBA player?
More wade highlightshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4ntRWbqOhM
Townsend couldn't shoot!
Novak was a bench player that season anyways. Townsend's minutes would have been limited, true. But the one year they were on the team together, Blankson started ahead of Townsend.Honestly, I don't think the added depth at the forward position would have hurt. A lineup with Merritt, Jackson, Blankson, Diener and Wade would have been quite formidable on both ends of the court.