Hey props to him admitting he was wrong. I do think it’s a little wrong to rank a national champion so low preseason based on the guys we retained and had coming in especially in the transfer era, but it’s not outrageous given we arguably lost our 3 biggest stars.
Honestly I think this team has at least outperformed my preseason expectations. Karaban has been probably our best player so far, which to be honest I’m not surprised given how underrated and consistent he was as a freshman last year. But did not see the play out of samson and diarra especially. I was always high on Samson since he was a freshman, just didn’t expect him to play at such a high level and make such a big impact after two injury riddled seasons and looking lost last year. Diarra has been the biggest surprise to me, guy can actually run the offense well after I figured he’d just be a defensive specialist / energy guy like last year.
Compared to last year I still have doubts about our bench, as we have 8 players we can play in close games right now and that’s including castle, versus last year where we ran 9-10 deep at this stage and that wasn’t including Samson. Definitely see opportunity for Stewart, Ross and even romouglou to step into that calcaterra role where they’re not expected to perform game to game consistently but they could win a few games for us.
One last thought, how ridiculous was it that ESPN was comparing Spencer to Calcaterra at one point this last game? I think we all can guess why they said that, but they should be comparing Spencer to Hawkins, not the guy that was 9th or 10th off the bench…
