Oddly, I think we all anticipated a 18-20 loss season in year 1 under Shaka. Coming off a dumpster in Wojo's final season, along with incoming unknowns, and yet Shaka got MU to the dance. Year 5 a 20 L season I did not foresee.

Quote from: Juan Anderson's Mixtape on Today at 08:30:47 PMI wouldn't call them a package deal. They didn't link up until after both committed to Marquette. 

Royce didn't move to Western Reserve Academy until his senior year, while Damarius was there for sure as a junior, and I believe even earlier than that.

I think both will individually decide to do what they feel is best for themselves.

Fake news #lies 

Quote from: Viper on Today at 08:30:02 PMShaka will fill Zaide's scholly. Otherwise and unless Sean were to graduate and move on, this team... along with the RS's and incoming recruits, will be back. Thus, 1 transfer in, no more than 2.
Staff? Maybe Shaka makes a change. Whoever scouted this current junior class needs to move on. Ultimately it rests with Shaka. His seat is hot, as it should be. 26/27 is make the dance, or aloha means goodbye.

Cody Hatt recruited Tre Norman, but he also recruited Kolek and James, so I guess Shaka will keep him.

Quote from: GoldenEagles03 on Today at 08:28:05 PMMost of all of our 3s are open. That's how our offense operates. We are great at generating open looks. Making them was the issue. Again, Nigel had a good shooting year, but he's not primarily a shooter, Adrien very clearly is. Not sure what Sean has to do with any of it 🤣🤣🤣

You fail to see how a 37.5% three point shooter who was contested on a majority of his attempts is a better shooter then someone who shot mostly open uncontested 3s at a 39.4% clip?

K.

The saving grace to a first round exit is it gives the staff extra time in advance of the portal opening in a few weeks. 

I wouldn't be surprised if there was some assistant coach changes before that too.

Quote from: MuggsyB on Today at 08:22:06 PM1) Badass 5.
2) Badass 2-Way Sniper.
3) Badass Switchable.

If we hit this trifecta, we'll be in business. 

Again, as stated by others, Shaka needs a backup guard to help with the minutes of James and Stevens.  Both were gassed tonight and James makes some dumb turnovers/bad shots when tired.  Jones injury hurt the rotation, Norman not the answer, otherwise he would have received a lot more minutes during the season.  Owens not the answer and I have no clue about the redshirts, maybe Shaka does.

Quote from: MurphysTillClose on Today at 08:28:37 PMHe's playing out of his best utilized position. Can you read?

Ben got beat consistently off the high pick and roll by 5's. Why do you think he would have covered a faster 4 better? Dude was slowwwwwwww.

Quote from: panda on Today at 08:14:49 PMPeople are forgetting parham and Owens are tight and more or less came as a package deal. It would surprise me if one left and the other stayed.

I wouldn't call them a package deal. They didn't link up until after both committed to Marquette. 

Royce didn't move to Western Reserve Academy until his senior year, while Damarius was there for sure as a junior, and I believe even earlier than that.

I think both will individually decide to do what they feel is best for themselves.

Shaka will fill Zaide's scholly. Otherwise and unless Sean were to graduate and move on, this team... along with the RS's and incoming recruits, will be back. Thus, 1 transfer in, no more than 2.
Staff? Maybe Shaka makes a change. Whoever scouted this current junior class needs to move on. Ultimately it rests with Shaka. His seat is hot, as it should be. 26/27 is make the dance, or aloha means goodbye.

Quote from: mu_hilltopper on Today at 08:22:25 PMThis reminds me of my old softball teams, when the season would end. 

"If we could find a good shortstop and 3rd baseman, we could be good next year.  Ok, and a left fielder.  We need a good 2nd baseman too.   Throw in a good center fielder and yeah, we'd really be competitive."

Now now, this is pretty much what's going to happen every off-season now. Teams that were great last year might be awful, and teams that were awful might be great.

It's the wild west, and Marquette sat out. Then we got Ben as our center.