Eh, I’d rather have an undersized guy in there with some skill rather than a true big who has no idea how to play. This is all theoretical because we know nothing about Higgs, Samba, or Giorgi. Black is also not a 5 but he played it quite a bit. If Higgs is clearly more talented than Samba and Giorgi then I would hope BU plays him at the 5 and figures out how to make it work.
I was told (on here) we backed off on him. I really wanted him, but he wasn't really the big we were looking for. Then again, we took Higgs who isn't really a big either. Oh well. It all really depends on how we do in this next class whether it was the right call or not.It's interesting that the recruit that "replaced" Higgs at Mississippi, Blake Hinson, has received rave reviews so far and Coach Davis says he will contribute immediately and might just start. We were a finalist in the Hinson recruitment.
Moving a conference game doesn't require you to give away any return games, you're able to pick the right opponents to bring some but not too many opposing fans (I bet you a million internet points it will be Ohio State this year, and Maryland at some point in the future), and with the 20 game schedule you aren't cannibalizing the slate for your Central Illinois core audience and leaving them with nothing but cupcakes until January.
And the new combo of the B1G/ACC and Gavitt Games gives you something resembling one marquee SFC non-conference game a year, so you don't need to go around finding power conference home-and-homes.
Whitman is really good at this you guys.
Didn't Underwood say that in his 30+ years of coaching that no one improved from one year to the next as much as DMW has. I'm interested to see what that all means.
Hard to keep a guy who can stroke it like that on the bench. AG will get shots this year. If he can show some D, I can see him getting 10 to 15 out of the 200 player minutes per game.Such a Smooove stroke...
BTW, that NMSU game (Saturday, Dec. 16th) was not bad at all. It was sort of the Trent Frazier coming out game.
Trent retweeted a real nice video of DMW today. There's probably a way to add it here but I don't know how.I think only Jason Kidd developed more...
Trent retweeted a real nice video of DMW today. There's probably a way to add it here but I don't know how.
Alan is what we have been missing, a shooter. He might be a year or so away but hope he is a big contributor
Watching some of those shots, looks just like Frank.
If AG and DW can be 40% 3p shooters, coupled with AJ and TF,...we may be in upper tier in B10 3p %.Alan is what we have been missing, a shooter. He might be a year or so away but hope he is a big contributor
You forgot the orange font. I'd be shocked if more than 2 out of those 4 shot that well.If AG and DW can be 40% 3p shooters, coupled with AJ and TF,...we may be in upper tier in B10 3p %.
You forgot the orange font and the /s.I think if we scored 90 points a game, we would be in the top 10 in the B1G in scoring.