jblaze

November 21st, 2015 at 12:00 AM ^

How many multi-year NBA starters has coach B produced? Is he just getting the best of very average recruits? What's his track record with 5* guys?

blahblahblahh

November 21st, 2015 at 12:22 AM ^

Multi-year NBA starters? ~0.5. Trey started most games his first year, then about half his second year. He has come off the bench every game this year.

Is he just getting the best of very average recruits? Well, he's gotten a lot of different results from a lot of different levels of recruits. Trey was obviously way better than his ranking. Stauskas was rated too highly to just be called "average," but he also ended up being elite at the college level. On the flip side Chatman has not played like a 4* and it's not clear if he will ever reach that level.

What's his track record with 5* guys? Bad. Aside from McGary it's been misses and a decommit. 

If I've made obvious mistakes here someone please feel free to correct me.

uminks

November 21st, 2015 at 12:07 AM ^

satisfied with trying to finish in the middle of the B1G and sneak into the Big Dance. Then may be a few years down the road we can get some surprise players and make runs to the final four once again. Hard to tell who will be the new superstars on our team and they may not be the highest recruits! I can't figure out why we did not get a bigger bump in recruiting after making the finals 3 years ago and the final 4.

JOHNNAVARREISMYHERO

November 21st, 2015 at 1:02 AM ^

The fans will bail on basketball in a heartbeat.

The goodwill isn't built up.  Remember we didn't give a shit for 10 years about basketball and let our facilities rot.

Then whenever we have a good player (s), they leave the first sign of success and leave us scrambling to replace them.

And when we don't replace them with guys that are ready from Day 1, you get a complete shit show that was last year.

We hail our strength and condition guy, yet our top guys are hurt every season.  Last year our go supposed go to guys sat out half the fucking season.

People have a right to be fed up with this garbage and I don't blame people for not showing up to the game.

When the team looks like they don't give a shit, why should the fans?

freejs

November 21st, 2015 at 1:28 AM ^

this staff has earned a shit load more than bailing after one crazy year. The students/fans had better back this team or they are weak beyond belief. 

Tonight is deeply disheartening, but I'd be willing to bet on these guys surprising. 

Sanderson is a genius. 

Whether or not they can get something out of Doyle/Wilson/Donnal will be on this staff, whether you place that on recruiting/development/or pure ability to fucking get inside a dude's head. 

 

 

 

 

JOHNNAVARREISMYHERO

November 21st, 2015 at 1:41 AM ^

I am not necessarily saying its right, but I don't think people are willing to put up with this shit regarding basketball.

In order to sell out games and have that hostile environment, you need those fans that are more fickle and fairweather.

The diehard fans will be there win or lose, but in order to sell out and make the house rock, you need the lesser guys making noise and on your side.

With a performance like last night, those people aren't going to show up.  That wasn't a loss, that was a letting a team run a train on you on your home court.

Towards the end, I was saying, let's make the margin respectable and we couldn't even do that (MAAR made sure to miss two easy wide open layups).

To lay this massive of an egg this early is very disheartening.

You lose those fans after a season like last year.    That's the effect that our athletic department not caring about basketball for 10 years has.

 

blahblahblahh

November 21st, 2015 at 4:12 AM ^

I'd like to hear the reasoning behind Sanderson being a genius. Putting muscle on on healthy 18-20 year old kids who haven't dedicated much, if any, time to lifting? Easiest job in the world. Lift heavy stuff. Put it down. Eat a surplus and make sure you get lots of protein. Also get a decent amount of sleep. There you go.

Keeping kids injury free? That's much more difficult. It doesn't look like he has done a good job with that recently, although it's impossible to say if he is to blame or if there is more he could have done. I will say I am skeptical of some powerlifting/Olympic movements and techniques, especially for basketball players because they are generally so long/tall.

Moonlight Graham

November 21st, 2015 at 8:27 AM ^

I know this: I may not see much more of Xavier this season but when I fill out my bracket in March I'll have them doing well against just about anybody. They played out of control a lot but man were they fast and athletic. Made us look really slow, soft and -- worst of all -- lazy.




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