Not attacking you personally, but the wording that some program "leads" in recruiting a player is really inane. It's not a race, there's not some endpoint that can be reached first through superior effort. That's like saying, while rolling a 6-sided die, "well, currently 1 through 5 are in the lead, but 6 still has a chance to catch up."
One team that made the final four last year had rim protection (UConn). Kansas had a 6'7' guy playing center. Duke will have Filipowski at the 5, 6'11" perfectly adequate rim protector. Power and Stewart can block shots too. They also have Christian Reeves at 7' and Ryan Young, a 7' transfer from Northwestern. That team is loaded and finally has a little experience.
And Ollie recruited virtually all of Coach Calhoun's players. So Ollie was coaching his players.
Fillipowski is not an adequate rim protector. And I would wager that part of the reason UConn’s defense was so effective was because of the rim protection Clingan provided. They’re really good. I just don’t know if I’m ready to say they’re the best team.
You think he's going to wait until April to make his decision??
there's been news reports that he's waiting until Spring.
To be fair, we ended the year hot too. But unlike Duke, we actually won the whole damn thing!
Needs time to fit in the Providence visit
Does he really even need to visit there though? The Friars hat will be at the announcement ceremony regardless.
I can't believe we don't have any uncool people posting a "beating a dead horse" gif.
Followed by some "thank you's".It wouldn't make sense for him to cancel a Kansas visit now if he's not deciding/announcing for 6 months anyway. Why not just take the visit?
Huh?
I think Flip will be fine. He was playing a different role while Lively protected the rim. I expect the two 5* PFs to be the 4s and Flip to be the 5. He's not Lively as a rim protector, but almost nobody is. They have a sophomore and 5th year transfer backup center. We played most of our minutes with Sanogo at the 5, and yes, Andre and ball pressure help. I just don't see it as a glaring weakness to overcome for Duke.
Or check your deleted content. You might have ignored by mistake.
I think he can’t make first night because he has a tournament he’s playing in on the west coast. Ie it wasn’t the ku visit that was preventing it.
Being at less than 50-50 with Duke having the opportunity to close their first night weekend he's a little bit of an uphill climb for us. I'd suggest that, at this point, we probably need an unforced Duke era to be able to close.
Exactly
The Providence joke is the Secretariat of jokes lol. That horse has giddy up for years!I can't believe we don't have any uncool people posting a "beating a dead horse" gif.
OR the Duke visit might further highlight the special unique situation/opportunity at UConn. We just don’t know. It’s probably Duke. But that fact that it’s gotten to the point ofn”probably” instead of “definitely” is something
Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical.
