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I think the emphasis this year is creating match up problems. We can go big and small. We can play half court, and we can run with great athletes. But this year we can also press because we have that depth. You ask about PT? I say, good luck scouting us. Good luck figuring out who to stop. And which style we may employ against you.
 
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It appears to me that he can create many different combinations of players and platoon them like changing lines in hockey... That would present mindboggling and confusing problems for opposing defenses and offenses. I think it is a great problem to have.
 

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I’m thinking this may be the year we play a lot of full court press and utilize ten or eleven players who will be asked to play full out scrappy defense because of our depth.
 
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There are a lot of assumptions in here. Assuming Solo makes a big jump, assuming Ross is able to consistently perform after not playing, and assuming Nowell and Abraham are able to be productive players in year 1, then we have 10 guys.

Lot of assumptions that I’m sure Hurley won’t bank on. I think he’ll stick with a strong 8 of Diarra/Mahaney/Ball/McNeeley/Karaban/Stewart/Samson/Reed and then let 1 other guy get situational minutes

But hey, we’ve done well with bold assumptions the last few years. I guess we’ll see lol
 
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There are a lot of assumptions in here. Assuming Solo makes a big jump, assuming Ross is able to consistently perform after not playing, and assuming Nowell and Abraham are able to be productive players in year 1, then we have 10 guys.

Lot of assumptions that I’m sure Hurley won’t bank on. I think he’ll stick with a strong 8 of Diarra/Mahaney/Ball/McNeeley/Karaban/Stewart/Samson/Reed and then let 1 other guy get situational minutes

But hey, we’ve done well with bold assumptions the last few years. I guess we’ll see lol
And think about all the fun that the "pump the brakes" crowd deprived themselves of last year and the year before.
 
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Do we have too many good players and not enough pt? That’s the only prob I see. Enough pt for 11 worthy players
Well lets see. Playing time seems to be pretty locked in at 200 minutes per game, could try and force lot of OT games I guess. Having too many good players, can always hope some are not that good. Ask the girls team how bad luck with injuries can cut down on number of good players available.

Biggest problem is even if you are the best team it's hard to win the NCAA tournament.
 
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It’s all going to come down to our point guard and center play. We’re stacked at the 2-4 positions. I think Mahany and Diarra will split the pg duties, we’ll be fine with them, just need them both to stay healthy
 
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There are a lot of assumptions in here. Assuming Solo makes a big jump, assuming Ross is able to consistently perform after not playing, and assuming Nowell and Abraham are able to be productive players in year 1, then we have 10 guys.

Lot of assumptions that I’m sure Hurley won’t bank on. I think he’ll stick with a strong 8 of Diarra/Mahaney/Ball/McNeeley/Karaban/Stewart/Samson/Reed and then let 1 other guy get situational minutes

But hey, we’ve done well with bold assumptions the last few years. I guess we’ll see lol
I hear you but Abraham in particular does not look like hes going to be a situational minutes guy. In what little i seen of him in high school i was impressed. The practice video blew me away.
 
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There are a lot of assumptions in here. Assuming Solo makes a big jump, assuming Ross is able to consistently perform after not playing, and assuming Nowell and Abraham are able to be productive players in year 1, then we have 10 guys.

Lot of assumptions that I’m sure Hurley won’t bank on. I think he’ll stick with a strong 8 of Diarra/Mahaney/Ball/McNeeley/Karaban/Stewart/Samson/Reed and then let 1 other guy get situational minutes

But hey, we’ve done well with bold assumptions the last few years. I guess we’ll see lol
I am guessing Ross and Abraham are odd men out. And Singare has no chance for meaningful PT.
 

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I am guessing Ross and Abraham are odd men out. And Singare has no chance for meaningful PT.
Does odd man out get to go to Jayson Tatum's camp? It's a pretty select group.
 

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