I think that Silas shouldn’t be spending 40 min on ball, but NO PG instincts? You think he has zero? Definite stretch
HW611 can't help but push his agenda because he wants to relive Kemba and Shabazz even though it's 15 years later. I'll give him consistency, that is for sure.
Well not none, sorry, too much. He really doesn't appear to be a natural PG - those guys are natural fascilitators, savvy. He's good enough for the college game, don't see a lot of NBA stuff. Silas plays the position without much of the art that you like to see, more a one gear guy, has very little on the footwork end in terms of the stop/go accelerate/decelerate. You don't really find him making the clever pass, mainly the status quo stuff. A lot of his big assist were at the sacrifice of providing any offense himself. Haven't really found him to provide much in terms of dribble penetration and dish or bucket. Our offense really became almost all off actions 3s or dumps into Tarris.
What other freshman stars were unheralded like Wagler? I thought that was what made him stand out. He's not like most of the stars.
Not many. There were a couple kids out of the top 50 that had really nice years though.
That's what I thought. Not familiar with other conferences but thought about Nigel, also Jamier James and Stefan Vaaks. International players are not ranked the same so harder to say how "unheralded" they were.
They don’t want him. He received 500k last year. Total team was 3.5. He will be playing for peanuts this year
I would say Wagler, Allen Graves, Nigel James & Jamier Jones, all had very good seasons -- just off the top of my head. There may be more.
That was Hurley's mistake this year sticking with Ball as a starter and not recruiting a good shooter. He would be a good bench player not a starter. His defense is very questionable too.
He was a great shooter the year before and zero reason to believe he wouldn’t be again. Also, he started all year and we made the Final Four
We are going to have plenty of Centers over the years who are neither Donovan Clingan nor Tarris Reed.
No
You can add Sanogo to that short list.
I hope we are not counting on Stewart and Ross as starters or next year !
$$$$$$ primarily.
Yeah ummm, he led the league in assists. Do you think before you speak?
There a ton of great international freshman much better than Vaaks; was not thinking of them. Main guy is Graves, but Jones and Nigel James looked good too.
Speaks volumes about how little ESPN knows about college hoops
Ok but I was referring to Reed and Samson. I think 24-25 is the template for next year. Samson was returning but we still brought in Reed to compete with him. Samson won the starting spot but it was a platoon with Reed.
I honestly don't think Hurley will ever recruit over his guys in the portal - it's not how he builds his culture of trust, and honestly I cannot doubt him. This is what gets his guys playing harder than anyone else. I tend to think he'd rather lose with his guys than win with mercenaries, and again cannot blame him. I know I'm sometimes the first one to fall victim to wishing we had this or that, but after this run, I'm going to just dump my trust into what he's doing and let it ride. After watching Arizona fold like a cheap tent, full of talent, and us take UM down to the wire, I tend to prefer what he's doing over any of these other programs turning their roster over annually.
