Royce, Nigel, and Adrien

[DoctorV]

My instinct wanted to start a "what if" thread and ask what if our senior and jr class was actually playing good basketball?

The point of it is that, all things considered, Marquettes frosh of Nigel and Adrien are what we would want from a freshman class.
Royce is coming on strong too- you'd be surprised to find that he's played 35+ minutes in 3 of his last 4 BE games, and he's been pretty good.

Nigel showed stardom today, and even though he's not going to be THAT 3P shooter at Marquette, even if he's average from outside he's going to be a star at Marquette. I don't want to over-talk the kid so early so we will leave him at that, but he's got the heart of champion and I can't wait to see the twists/turns/rise of his 4 year career.

One of the silver linings of this putrid season is the above 3 getting heavy minutes and experience in meaningful BE play- 37/37/31 in minutes today.

So...
Question is- what type of Marquette career will Royce, Nigel, and Adrien have?

I don't know yet, but it gives us something exciting to follow during this dark stretch

[BM1090]

Agree. The younger two classes are just fine (save maybe DO). If we were getting any offensive production from upperclassmen this team could be solid.

[Jay Bee]

RGV IS BACK, baby!!

[panda]

The trick with rgv is to recruit bad players, keep them around for a couple of years and then everyone coming into the program will look better than said players. GROWTH!

[Jay Bee]

The trick with rgv is to recruit bad players, keep them around for a couple of years and then everyone coming into the program will look better than said players. GROWTH!

"Started from the bottom now we here! (6-11!!)"

[panda]

"Started from the bottom now we here! (6-11!!)"

Hang the banner

*competed, battled but ultimately lost to Villanova at home

[tower912]

My instinct wanted to start a "what if" thread and ask what if our senior and jr class was actually playing good basketball?

The point of it is that, all things considered, Marquettes frosh of Nigel and Adrien are what we would want from a freshman class.
Royce is coming on strong too- you'd be surprised to find that he's played 35+ minutes in 3 of his last 4 BE games, and he's been pretty good.

Nigel showed stardom today, and even though he's not going to be THAT 3P shooter at Marquette, even if he's average from outside he's going to be a star at Marquette. I don't want to over-talk the kid so early so we will leave him at that, but he's got the heart of champion and I can't wait to see the twists/turns/rise of his 4 year career.

One of the silver linings of this putrid season is the above 3 getting heavy minutes and experience in meaningful BE play- 37/37/31 in minutes today.

So...
Question is- what type of Marquette career will Royce, Nigel, and Adrien have?

I don't know yet, but it gives us something exciting to follow during this dark stretch

Hopefully, they all stick around and we get to find out.

[DoctorV]

Hopefully, they all stick around and we get to find out.

Nice.

The first response on Royce, Nigel, and Adrien after several RGV attacks

[tower912]

It is scoop.

[Shooter McGavin]

Hopefully, they all stick around and we get to find out.

That's the key.  All will get good offers.  All will need to be paid more than they would normally in the MU system.  All parents will need to be reassured that Shaka will hit the portal. 

[rocky_warrior]

Nice.

The first response on Royce, Nigel, and Adrien after several RGV attacks

I hope Nigel sticks around.  He played like a guy that thought he deserved SOTG.

[Vander Blue Man Group]

That's the key.  All will get good offers.  All will need to be paid more than they would normally in the MU system.  All parents will need to be reassured that Shaka will hit the portal. 

You actually have no clue if any of this is true in regard to Stevens and Parham.

[Shooter McGavin]

You actually have no clue if any of this is true in regard to Stevens and Parham.

Absolutely not.  Huge assumption.  But that is the natural progression of this.  They just need to keep those three however they can with Nigel being the most important and then supplement the team. 

If everything thing is still hunky dory in Marquette land and Nigel and the boys are under a magic Shaka spell, I'm ok with that too. 

[Scoop Snoop]

Absolutely not.  Huge assumption.  But that is the natural progression of this.  They just need to keep those three however they can with Nigel being the most important and then supplement the team. 

If everything thing is still hunky dory in Marquette land and Nigel and the boys are under a magic Shaka spell, I'm ok with that too. 

Wow! I am familiar with the bolded, being an admitted old fart, but some of the under 50, maybe even under 60, scoopers probably never heard that term. 

It's going to be really interesting after this horrendous season is over and decisions are made.