Oh no, I get the math.
Or a very mediocre one. Mostly it looks pretty balanced. No evidence of quality except that once again Villanova is the cream of the crop. With Creighton and us potentially stepping back the battle to be Villanova’s maid of honor will be intense.
It's easy to pick and choose seasons to fit a narrative either way. I'd argue we've lost the best player from the team every year of Dan Hurley's tenure and yet we've improved every season too
Interesting point. Let's see how it translates as bouk is a far superior player to cv and Jalen.
In a normal year I'd be a lot more worried about losing Bouk, but we're going to have an incredibly experienced team (9th highest returning minutes for high major teams, though there's 4 BE teams in the top 10). I think in a year where there's been so much turnover that's going to be a big benefit, especially early in the season in the OOC games
Looking forward to it. Hurleys been talking a lot about overwhelming teams with our depth. I have a lot of faith in him as a program builder and his pieces are really starting to fall into place.
One thing that makes me have faith in the development of Andre Jackson is that he clearly showed in his freshman season that he is a confident player. From his first appearance to his last, he was one of the most mentally invested players on the squad despite not putting up great numbers. The value of confidence is very high, and will be important in making Jackson have a defined role on the court.
bazz had daniels and kemba had lamb
Coachspeak. It means we will have a very good defensive team but he like everyone else hopes to find a rotation that can score points. I don’t care how much “depth” we have, by January we will pretty much have a standard 7-8 man rotation. The only time you care about depth is to protect against injuries.
Yeah but a better value is having more points than fouls. Right now he is Syd Wilson without Syd’s shot.
I dont think there's a scenario where this team is going to stink. Worst case is they'll be where last year's team was in terms of RPI - based on seniority coming back, strength of defense, top tier BE point guard, BE DPOY candidate, impact freshmen who learned on the job and are now sophomores, a talented and healthy (but somewhat unproven) Akok, and a really nice infusion of incoming freshman talent who seem to be pushing themselves but at the same time are not going to be required to carry a huge load day-1 so can grow into their talents.
Yeah but there was also 2011 where we lost Dyson who averaged 17+ and Stanley Robinson who averaged 14+. They were our #1 and #2 (with Kemba) offensive threats. Granted Bouknight is better than either player but you’d have a hard time convincing me that he was more valuable than both combined.
I can see us being a veteran team again in 23 with rj coming back as many here are stating. Adama and Jackson are no sure things to leave after sophomore year either. You could be looking at a starting lineup with a 6th year player in Cole, a senior in gaff, a junior in Jackson, and a junior in adama. That doesn’t seem out of the realm of possibility.
Its a big year for Sanogo, hes our next draft pick after Bouk.
