Ricky and KFree keep your head up

[boog204]

Part of the problem is that the team had no real "3" -- but it was clear that Freeman could not fill that role.

Doug Wrenn should have been an absolute stud here... JC once said (pre-Sticks, but he wasn't a Big East caliber athlete) that he was the most athletic player he ever had.

You are right, but it should have been apparent early on that KFree was barely serviceable and him on the wing was detrimental from a perimeter shooting and ballhandling perspective. That year just never clicked.

 

[Excalibur]

Doug Wrenn should have been an absolute stud here... JC once said (pre-Sticks, but he wasn't a Big East caliber athlete) that he was the most athletic player he ever had.

You are right, but it should have been apparent early on that KFree was barely serviceable and him on the wing was detrimental from a perimeter shooting and ballhandling perspective. That year just never clicked.

They seemed to figure it out by the end, winning their last 3 games and making a run to the Big East finals. Absent Khalid's injury, I think they would have had a shot to get back to the Final Four as the bracket had really opened up for them.

 

[RMoore1999]

Agree that Ricky could defend the 1/2 better than anybody I have seen, but Lyman did a really good job on Dana Barros. In fact he pretty much shut him down and Barros went on to have a decent NBA career. Ricky, Lyman and Emeka were, in MHO, the best defensive players we ever produced.

Yep. Then Thabeet and Boat. And Nadav was the ultimate assassin...

 

[Jaker]

Ricky will end up on Calhouns staff

 

[Deadrody]

Yet you can make the argument that Edmund was a decent 4 and we had nobody who could play the 3. This way we had serviceable 3 in KFREE and an up and coming 4 in Edmund on the floor together. It just never worked out as expected.

Come on. Who was going to play the 3 that year??!?! They did as well as could be expected and who knows how far they go in the tournament if KEA doesn't hurt his ankle.