Metrics don't auto mean wins and losses. As by the close games you stated. They shouldn't have been even in those games, yet they were. So yeah......if you are an analytical nut you could make that argument with "metrics". Or, you can throw all those numbers out the window and make the same argument with just a healthy Foster and Hinson. From all accounts I see most everyone agreeing both will play a large roll in this years team. So to think they would have helped win 6+ games more last season isn't that far fetched. Especially with how close many games were.
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Metrics don't auto mean wins and losses. As by the close games you stated. They shouldn't have been even in those games, yet they were. So yeah......if you are an analytical nut you could make that argument with "metrics". Or, you can throw all those numbers out the window and make the same argument with just a healthy Foster and Hinson. From all accounts I see most everyone agreeing both will play a large roll in this years team. So to think they would have helped win 6+ games more last season isn't that far fetched. Especially with how close many games were.
247 just released their final 2021 rankings and Nunn is #136 in them too. I don’t have a problem with TJ not wanting Nunn, especially after landing Lipsey and King. But to act like he is some bum is disingenuous.
Long leash, probably. But I really feel like with these regime changes you have to get early momentum or it rarely goes anywhere. Off the top of my head I can't think of many new coaches within the last 10 years who had a rough first 2-3 years and then got it going. You almost always see a sizable turnaround within a couple years.
Yeah, I agree, selling hope and ample playing time is something you only get to do the first year or two. After that, you have to sell progress or winning, otherwise you might never get things going correctly.
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He's from Flint Michigan, his dad played with Jeff Grayer as I recall. Flint Michigan has been a great pipeline continuing with Monte, we don't need bad word of mouth there.
Some won’t want to hear it, but this off-season recruiting reminds me of Hoibergs first season of recruiting. And guess who was heading it up? TJ.
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Agreed, add to the fact that with all the new players there was no practice time. I'll watch the Clones through good times and bad times.
At this point last year is completely irrelevant, and not just because it was the Covid year. Whole new coaching staff, whole new top 8 players in the rotation. On paper it’s a much better team and maybe even NCAA team. BUT the paper doesn’t factor in the chemistry and knowing the system. I’m hoping for the best obviously, but it’s a lot of stars to align. I have no doubt this same team would make the tournament year two with all of that experience together and under the new staff, not to mention who we add and probably another guy or two at least we currently don’t know about.
I hope college recruits and their parents don’t get as butthurt about the business of CBB as posters on CF do.
The team last year was bad. They weren’t close to 6-12 or 8-10 or 9-9. They would have to have won every game decided by 9 points or less last year in order to finish 9-9. As an example of you flip every game decided by 9 points or less in 2018 we would have finished 16-2 in conference. We were no closer to 9-9 last year then we were 16-2 in 2018.
We were in 4 games late last year. Both TCU games, West Virginia on the road and Baylor on the road. Every other game was multiple possessions in the last three minutes.
This is a new team and the talent added should help. But the team last year was historically bad. We weren’t close to anything and that is before you factor in that nobody actually “got up” to play us.
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We were in exactly 4 games late in the 2H. The fact that we went on a late run in the last 3 minutes to turn a double digit game to a five point game against Oklahoma, Texas or South Dakota State doesn’t mean we were in the game.
I found this nice photoshopped picture posted on Izaiah Brockington's step-father Noisette St. Jean Jr.'s Twitter account (@SaintManBeats). By the way, his mother Jennifer St. Jean was a Philadelphia Eagles cheerleader in the 2005-2006 NFL season.
Here's a family photo.
Here's a family photo.
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One thing I noticed watching his highlights that nobody else has pointed out yet is how good he seems to be at being the set up man running the pick and roll. That should help a guy like Conditt out a bunch. Conditt played his best basketball when Haliburton was still around. He was also very good at running the pick and roll.
No, I don’t. Not at all.
I clearly remember, however, people being mad at how T.J. apparently chose not to recruit the kid—by (according to the kid) not having the simple courtesy of calling to say he was pulling the offer.
To be fair, apparently you aren’t the only person who...misremembers that.
Did we ever get an explanation on that from T.J.’s side, BTW?
