A fun night

[Newsdreams]

All positive comments belong only in positive thread please.

[MarquetteMike1977]

Agree it was a very fun night. Trying to be positive Marquette Basketball has had DOUBLE DIGIT WINS in EVERY SEASON SINCE 64-65 for over 60 Years and this Marquette team probably will too. But to stay positive aim for the post season NIT or Crown this year.

[Newsdreams]

Agree it was a very fun night. Trying to be positive Marquette Basketball has had DOUBLE DIGIT WINS in EVERY SEASON SINCE 64-65 for over 60 Years and this Marquette team probably will too. But to stay positive aim for the post season NIT or Crown this year.

Top teams from the conferences that don't go to NCAA have to go to Crown, so it is Crown or NIT

[Shooter McGavin]

Shaka doesn't develop players.  OMax, Kolek, Oso, and Kam were all on the fast track to the NBA from their freshman year of college on, and Jop never developed at Marquette.

Let's not start this trope again.  Have to have the talent to work with.  Need talent mentally and physically to develop into alphas.   All those players above had it in them before Shaka got his hands on them. TRGV.  Is Shaka a good coach?  Hell yeah!  But talent evaluation will make or break him or any coach.

[wadesworld]

Let's not start this trope again.  Have to have the talent to work with.  Need talent mentally and physically to develop into alphas.   All those players above had it in them before Shaka got his hands on them. TRGV.  Is Shaka a good coach?  Hell yeah!  But talent evaluation will make or break him or any coach.

Yeah, no kidding. But the idea that any coach would've gotten what Shaka got out of Oso, Kolek, Kam, or OMax is just crazy talk. Those guys were far from guaranteed NBA players.

[Jay Bee]

^^^ All fine, but I again go back to crazy personnel deployment and other in game decisions by the staff being eff'd this year. This hasn't been just a roster issue. That has been compounded by poor decisions, which is also a significant concern. #pray

[Shooter McGavin]

Yeah, no kidding. But the idea that any coach would've gotten what Shaka got out of Oso, Kolek, Kam, or OMax is just crazy talk. Those guys were far from guaranteed NBA players.

He lays a good foundation to develop the talent that the players have.  He nutures them in a positive way.  But that was a really good crop of talent he had to start with at MU.  He brought them in so it's a credit to him.  His talent evaluation was spot on.