Recent content by trant

Yes, imagine if instead of getting the top two targets by far this offseason to stay, we didn't. The narrative that this offseason was a disaster necessarily ignores a ridiculous amount of evidence.

Yeah I mean, right now pretty much every team is losing kids every year. Are there some programs having success by keeping their kids around and not dealing with transfers? Maybe a few but I can't come up with any off the top of my head. Izzo got all high and mighty about transfers last...

It seems like decisions are being made to try to win games this year and not have a down year in the name of 'program building', which would probably be the end for Underwood. I don't know how you do 'long term program building' in the portal era though. Doesn't matter how much you play a guy...

Nah, I had a ton of problems with our team's chemistry last year that weren't at all related to having a point guard. I think fixing those problems is going to go quite a bit further than a "pure point guard" would. No guarantee they're fixed, obviously, but having the team dislike each other...

Only two of these occurred in the last 30 years. What worked in the 1984 is a pretty poor blueprint for what's going to work in 2023. I'll take an elite point guard of course, but it doesn't take more than looking at the rosters of the teams who have made deep tournament runs lately to see...

I just think it's funny when people say "well no team's ever had success without a great point guard!" It would've taken five seconds to go look at last year's Final Four rosters and see that isn't really true. I'd like to get a great point guard, for sure, but in fact most of the teams who...

There was one team in the F4 last year that had a player average as many assists as Jeremiah Williams.

I think you're overselling a bit how much of our offensive issues were about lacking a pure PG. We got a top PG last year. Our offense wasn't good with him either. If we had a top-30 PG coming in you wouldn't be saying this, but we'd be in the same spot we were a year ago. I think last...

It's wild, I read the last 25 pages of this thread and assumed we had missed on all three of our targets. Then I discovered, nope, we got the two most important targets and we're melting down because we lost the third guy. It's really hard to believe Brad wouldn't have gotten hammered if he'd...

My guess is Brad's been around basketball enough to know that looking at this current roster's and last year's roster and saying "they're in the same exact spot" is absurd.