Love this quote by Dan Hurley

[nomar]

Agreed. It does mean that he was a practice player at his former school.

Maybe he will be more somewhere else.

By your definition, Ross was dead weight.

There are always players who can't crack the rotation. If you want to call them dead weight, OK.

 

[Umami Zen]

By your definition, Ross was dead weight.

There are always players who can't crack the rotation. If you want to call them dead weight, OK.

Ross can play. NBA scouts think so. He just needs PT. He'll be fine.

 

[JungleLobo]

By your definition, Ross was dead weight.

There are always players who can't crack the rotation. If you want to call them dead weight, OK.

Yes.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

It doesn't mean he was garbage.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

It doesn't mean he was garbage.

 

[UofCT]

Yes. If Karaban comes back we have a depth chart of:

Diarra/Nowell
Mahaney/Ball
McNeeley/Stewart
Karaban/Stewart
Reed/Johnson

That's 9 guys who should get at least 15 mpg.

Then behind them: Ross, Abraham, Singare, at least two of which would probably be worthy of minutes, but might not get any.

Samson is starting

 

[TheChamps990411]

Clingan prevented teams from taking the ball to the hole, and neutralized opposing big men. Add Castle's shutdown of their top scorer, and it was our defense that will be tough to replace.

Our defense is the reason we`ve gone back to back. It wasnt appreciated in `23 and overlooked a bit in `24 because the offense was so good.

 

[TheChamps990411]

He's our most slept on player.

Ross is super athletic so hes going to draw attention but he needs to get much stronger. Itll be interesting to see how he develops.

 

[TheChamps990411]

Don’t get me wrong, I’m deliriously happy.
But to top the last 2 years team, I need to question Dan’s sanity.

J/K, given his track record, I’m not betting against him. He is definitely seeing something we don’t. But if he is right, did he just confirm that Huskies are supposed to 3-peat!

This team may not have a dominant big man but it could get contributions from 10 guys at a high level. It could be like that 97 Kentucky team that wasnt big but was two deep at every position with guys who could start anywhere else. Even without a dominant shot which we didnt have in `23 this team could still be really good defensively and simply wear teams down.