2023 Team Outlook

[Its DJOver]

To be fair, that was one poster who seems to have a personal vendetta against Smith.

The same way that there's one poster who seems to have a personal vendetta against Kenpom and trashes him every chance he can.

[cheebs09]

But Scoopers told me Todd Smith is not doing his job...

Did Stevie put on too much muscle and Todd ruined him?

[PointWarrior]

But Kenpom analytics do not take into account the quality of the strength and conditioning coach in year to year ratings - clearly a weakness...

To be fair, that was one poster who seems to have a personal vendetta against Smith.

The same way that there's one poster who seems to have a personal vendetta against Kenpom and trashes him every chance he can.

[Its DJOver]

Yep, you've got your three drums.  Kenpom, COLE, and 50 pts. Just keep repeating them enough and people might start to take you seriously.

[wadesworld]

To be fair, Stevie was built like a tank already last year. Guy was a hound as an on ball defender.

[PointWarrior]

You forgot the fourth - SilverWarrior's posts - I don't like them...

And the fifth - NCAA projections and discussing potential tourney matchups in pre-season, and prior to February...

Yep, you've got your three drums.  Kenpom, COLE, and 50 pts. Just keep repeating them enough and people might start to take you seriously.

[Newsdreams]

You forgot the fourth - SilverWarrior's posts - I don't like them...

And the fifth - NCAA projections and discussing potential tourney matchups in pre-season, and prior to February...

Crapshoot

[Dr. Blackheart]

To be fair, that was one poster who seems to have a personal vendetta against Smith.

The same way that there's one poster who seems to have a personal vendetta against Kenpom and trashes him every chance he can.

[GoldenEagles03]

Some Marquette health updates from Shaka Smart today.

- Grad transfer Zach Wrightsil
had a knee scope soon after arriving but should be good in July.

- Tyler Kolek had an emergency appendectomy in May (but he wanted to play the next day). #mubb

Per Ben Steele

[GoldenEagles03]

Sounds like Oso had an incredible Spring and is going to be a focal point of the offense.

"He's going to handle the ball more than anyone that plays that position." Goes onto say "For bigs that want to have the ball in their hands, want to attack, want to make decisions, want to be playmakers, our style's great for that."

BIG things ahead for Oso!

https://twitter.com/DariusJoshuaTV/status/1537170281743233024?t=vSYH7zxgVma-Dskzc9jubg&s=19

[nyg]

Sounds like Oso had an incredible Spring and is going to be a focal point of the offense.

"He's going to handle the ball more than anyone that plays that position." Goes onto say "For bigs that want to have the ball in their hands, want to attack, want to make decisions, want to be playmakers, our style's great for that."

BIG things ahead for Oso!

https://twitter.com/DariusJoshuaTV/status/1537170281743233024?t=vSYH7zxgVma-Dskzc9jubg&s=19

Big man bringing the ball up court.  Just like Giannis, Luka, Jokic, Durant, Lebron and others do.

Next on Scoop, Oso getting drafted in 2023.  Should be interesting concept, but hope he gets in and around basket after, this team will need the big man getting some rebounds.

[WolfganghisKhan]

Are we going to pretend we didn't watch Oso play last year?

[tower912]

He improved greatly over his first year.  If he fills out and continues to improve at the same pace, why not?

[GoldenEagles03]

Are we going to pretend we didn't watch Oso play last year?

You can pretend whatever you want. Shaka said he's going to handle the ball more than any Center in the country. That's news whether you think so or not.

[panda]

He improved greatly over his first year.  If he fills out and continues to improve at the same pace, why not?

I mean he never played his freshman year so it's not really a reasonable benchmark to compare the two seasons.

[tower912]

I would say going from 38 minutes for the season to 20-ish minutes per game is a great benchmark for comparison.

[panda]

I would say going from 38 minutes for the season to 20-ish minutes per game is a great benchmark for comparison.

How can you say he improved if he never played year 1 ? Last year was his first season of real game time.

[tower912]

How can you say that going from non-contributor to contributor isn't improvement?

[ATL MU Warrior]

How can you say that going from non-contributor to contributor isn't improvement?

This has all the makings of a classic 'scoop argument

[tower912]

Yes.  Going from non-contributor to contributor is ipso facto proof of improvement.

[ATL MU Warrior]

Yes.  Going from non-contributor to contributor is ipso facto proof of improvement.

I'm with you.

[panda]

How can you say that going from non-contributor to contributor isn't improvement?

Justin Lewis improved greatly from freshman to sophomore year. Oso just never played his freshman year and this last season was his first season of game action.

Lots of promise and I'm sure he'll be greatly improved after last season and this off season.

[Vander Blue Man Group]

How can you say he improved if he never played year 1 ? Last year was his first season of real game time.

Seriously?

[panda]

Seriously?

It's not a knock on Oso. Just thought it was odd to say he greatly improved between years one and two when we saw nothing from him year one for various reasons.

[brewcity77]

It's not a knock on Oso. Just thought it was odd to say he greatly improved between years one and two when we saw nothing from him year one for various reasons.

With the obvious one being if he was good enough for significant minutes, he would've played. Especially on a team with a losing record that didn't have another center to spell Theo John.

What's odd to say is a guy going from virtually not playing to nearly 20 mpg not being an indicator of improvement.