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CF All-Decade Basketball Team
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Good times looking back some great Cyclones this past decade. Pretty crazy that 3 players who are having a cup of coffee in the NBA right now (Nader, Lindell and THT) weren’t on the 1st or 2nd team. Really showcases the level of talent Hoiberg and Prohm brought in to Ames.
Would love to have McGee, or Thomas or Naz on today's team. Those guys could hit clutch shots from everywhere. Really the biggest thing missing from this team.
Agreed.
And one could make a case that Nader is more than a cup coffee with it being his 3rd season with over $4 million in career earnings after this year.
Which of you fools didn't have Ejim first team?
It's an interesting concept. I wonder how this plays out with other schools. Shooting is very important in today's college game, but the shooters often aren't thought as the best players on the team.
But if you add in the second team, you have plenty of shooting. Take the first 15 guys on that list and you have put together a hell of a team with all of the pieces. In that case you definitely are playing a lot of small ball, though, since Royce is the closest thing to a center that you have.
I did a thought experiment with a friend once about the NBA.
Imagine an all-star draft. Who you should pick first should obviously be the best player in the league, who is invariably a ball-dominant scorer.
But who should you pick second? The next best star...?
No. Pick the best complementary piece that you can to go along with that star. Somebody who does not need to be the ball to be productive.
The obvious one before he got hurt was Klay Thompson. He plays excellent defense and spaces the floor for the star without needing the ball. And, if and when it comes to him, you know he is going to knock down that needed jumper.
If you do the same thing with our all-decade roster, I am picking like Niang or White first, but then I am immediately going to Naz, Matt, or Tyrus.
Now that's an All Star team. Loaded with talent and those guys won a ton of games and championships.
I didn't feel quite the same way after seeing the All Star football team
I didn't feel quite the same way after seeing the All Star football team
Hoiberg gets credit for all of the good seasons we've had since he left. Prohm gets the blame for all the bad ones. That's how this works.
The main reason I think we didn't maximize our "potential" last year despite having really good talent. Too much of that talent didn't complement each other. Shayock, THT and Wigginton were arguably our "best" players, but they all essentially had the same role and just never fit together very well.
Niang first, Morris second for ball-handling and play-making, then Naz/Matt/Tyrus/Shayok third.
And to continue your thought experiment, you also need a dominating rebounder (Ejim/Hogue) and a rim protector (McKay/Conditt). Now, that is a team to go to battle with.
Bingo -- you draft for a star first then start filling out roles.
Which roles you go for comes down to (1.) which roles you value the most and (2.) how plentiful are guys to fill those roles later in the draft.
Grabbing Monté second and a center/rim-protector type third makes sense when you have so many options for shooters. Then again, shooting is just so important in the game nowadays that waiting on the best of them is risky.
Agreed -- I am keeping Shayok no matter what, but if somebody offers me a trade straight up for Wigginton or Horton-Tucker for...
Christopherson... a good player who only really did one thing well with shooting, but man oh man he did that one well...
Chris Babb... a true defense stopper on the perimeter...
...I take that trade in a heartbeat.
Stacking a roster with ball-dominant scorers means your team will be less than the sum of its parts. We needed less iso scoring and more everything else last year.
This year is ironically the opposite -- we need somebody who can stress a defense by themselves. I think we have role players; we just lack a THT type.
