I have not been a prohm fan, but...
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Young broke his hand and missed most of the non-conference season. There wasn't much of an opportunity to let him get his feet wet against bad competition. We were left having to let him learn against Big 12 teams, which is very hard to do. It took Mckay and Burton a while to adjust, much less a true freshman.
I'm not going to address Hoiberg's recruiting miss 3-4 years, as it is irrelevant and more of the same ol' creating excuses for Prohm.
Prohm had more than a spring. He had all of last summer, last fall, and last spring. It was full recruiting cycle (while we were nationally ranked) he missed on and he thus far, has done the exact same this recruiting cycle. And no, its not early.
Well, I do believe the Sweet 16 is much more than the round Fred reached in Year 1.
Prohm was able to match Fred's pinnacle in his first go. Good luck, Bulls fans.
Crazy thing about Burton is how insanely good he can be on D when motivated.
28.5 MPG, 2 steals per game, 1.5 blocks per game
These come in huge bunches. He's not really a 2 steals, 1.5 blocks guy, he's either way above or way below that.
Yesterday...4 blocks
Game prior...6 steals
Game prior to that 6 steals
The guy has the skills to be a crazy elite defender at the college level.
In comparison, Niang career, a taller player we all love.
29.8 MPG, .7 steals per game, .5 blocks per game
He has a point. I mean, he should have gotten one of the other 24 impact posts that were out there, especially because no one is even looking for 5th year or JUCO posts because they've all filled up on that need with all the college ready HS posts that are out there.
I'm guessing you blame your plumber for your clogs, too.
So you won't address the problem Prohm inherited? Will you at least address your **** rational?
You started following college basketball in 13-14, didn't you?
I have continuously addressed the problem Prohm inherited. He needed to land a serviceable post player because ISU did not have one. He did not do that. Was it due to Hoiberg not having one in the pipeline? Yes. Was it Prohm and staff's job to go get one? Yes.
Has Prohm addressed that problem thus far in the recruiting cycle? No
I don't need to address your insults as your argument is now based on pure emotion.
Maybe he has, maybe he hasn't. If Young continues to improve, he can be more than serviceable. We don't know what we have in Lard and Kasongo at this point. But Prohm does. He still needs to find a JUCO that can hopefully play and probably another grad transfer, but no matter what, we're not going to have the hole at the 5 that we've seen for most of this year. Next year, expectations will be down and we are going to have to live with the ups and downs of Freshmen.
I still don't get what people think having a "serviceable post player" would do for this team. Do they think it would have us challenging for the league title? It's obviously not the difference between making the the tourney or not, which would be the scenario where I would get a little sand in my vajajay.
If we end up a 8 or 9 seed a decent big maybe gets us tona 7 or 6 because of a couple extra conference wins? Maybe? Lots of speculation from the "constantly crying about post players" crowd.
If we end up a 8 or 9 seed a decent big maybe gets us tona 7 or 6 because of a couple extra conference wins? Maybe? Lots of speculation from the "constantly crying about post players" crowd.
So I guess you didn't notice it was a different post player than has been in before, a freshman who is finally coming along.
Only, Lard did qualify and is on campus. I wouldn't expect more out of any freshman post than we have Young so it would be surprising if Lard would have been this years savior. If Lard is any good, I would say that is a pretty good percentage. 2 out of 3 players and 2 others that only occupied a scholarship for one year.
Not to mention this team with out a post presence beat KU in Lawrence and is alone in 4 place in the best conference in the nation. The team has some weakness much like many teams do. It is fine to point those out, but hard to predict one post presence would have us in first place. There is a lot of work to do to finish the month but the team has definitely set it self in good position to finish strong and make the tourney at a top 7 seed.
I shutter to think what this board would look like if ISU would be going through a similar season Oklahoma and Lon Kruger are suffering through after losing their AA/POY from last year. Imagine the recruiting questions fans are blaming Lon for at this point.
It could be way worse.
Plenty of pundits put us on the same boat as OU because of losing Niang/Hield.
In B12 play, he leads the league in Stl% and is 5th in Blk%. He has incredibly quick hands and long arms on defense. I think he gets a bad rap because he looks nonchalant out there, doesn't slap the floor, and can get caught flat-footed once in a while. I'm just not sure he's quick enough laterally to be a great perimeter defender.
excellent post. You sound like someone who really knows what you are talking about. thank you.
It seemed to me, but I have no stats to back this up, that when Solomon was in the game yesterday, he did a great job challenging shots off dribble penetration and I would bet that while he was in the game yesterday, OU's shooting percentage was significantly lower than when he was out. If he can add a few more rebounds and mirror yesterday's point production in our remaining games, we will be an even tougher out for the teams we will see the remainder of the year. From my lens, that's more than serviceable for a freshman big.
you probably just did. Not cool, unless you are a piece of perfection?
Young had actually sealed off his guy and was open. That's why he got the ball. If he does that again he will get the ball again.
