I would argue last year our #1 target once it wasn’t clear they were first rounders was convincing TSJ and Coleman to come back to school and not be second round picks or two-way undrafted guys.They had like 5 of them.
Thankfully "Team of the Decade" is not the bar we have to hit in order to achieve success.
Nonetheless, it's not fun to be sitting here staring down the barrel of yet another offseason going by where the absolute core #1 thing we were targeting to add ends up a total miss (I hope we're not there yet, but the idea we're standing hat-in-hand outside the NBA combine doesn't inspire much confidence).
We don't have the horses as things stand, in addition to the big positional hole on the team.
I believe it's pronounced Shart-ma-pantsWho?
Sadly, I don’t have an in-house Mongolian to provide a pronunciation video.Yeah...he'll be Just Mike here at Loyalty...where getting names right ranks somewhere between actually reading the thread, and asking Insiders the same question 372 times.
Well, a true big only became a hole because of our portal losses. Fair enough on the PG point, though that was an empty slot last year.
But it's not hindsight bias here, we need a big scoring guard/wing, that's been the focus from day 1. Storr, then various plans B.
So now all the players who were just upside bench pieces when it was "positive" to still be in the Church of Denzel are being reimagined into stars now that that's what being "positive" requires. The ret-conning gets so tiresome.
We need a big time perimeter bucket-getter, as we have the whole time.
Mongolian Mike, baby. Put some respect on his name!!Who?
I believe it's pronounced Shart-ma-pants
yet to be determined on bubble team, talent wise I personally think we are better than a bubble team.. but saying this is a massive failure is a massive overstatement:Understand people want to be positive but anyone thinking this offseason was anything but a massive failure is delusional. This is a bubble team
Now that's funny, I don't care who you are.I believe it's pronounced Shart-ma-pants
Mongolian Mike, baby. Put some respect on his name!!Who?
I believe it's pronounced Shart-ma-pants
BYUSo Egor chills on us, per Twitter rumors. Which large school swooped in with a bigger bag?
What we can say clearly at this stage is that we have been completely bamboozled by the market price of talent in this market. We've done a creative but still incomplete job of finding value in sneakier ways, but we've been unable or unwilling to pay the revealed market value of a host of players where we thought we'd elbowed out other suitors.saying this is a massive failure is a massive overstatement
Just bizarre on so many levels. Honest to god, does Egor Demin know what a Mormon is?
Eh? But he didn't invent it, and that's not who it was named for. A Lithuanian "invented"/popularized it in like the 80s or 90s; I forget the name.
1. We’re done adding guys? News to me.Understand people want to be positive but anyone thinking this offseason was anything but a massive failure is delusional. This is a bubble team
While I'm not super excited about missing out on our top guys, we have put together a solid roster. The quality of our Wing will determine our ceiling for the season.1. We’re done adding guys? News to me.
2. We’re a tournament team with the guys we have right now.
I'm nervous looking at some of the other rosters that have been assembled around us in the B1G. But..... none of those rosters have Daddy Brad and the side kicks either.... lolWhile I'm not super excited about missing out on our top guys, we have put together a solid roster. The quality of our Wing will determine our ceiling for the season.
Understand people want to be positive but anyone thinking this offseason was anything but a massive failure is delusional. This is a bubble team