RECRUITING: Wheeler impressed by Iowa State visit, eyes May 6 decision
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Thanks for your opinion, Chris. I’d say tweet this opinion to me but you already did!
Why aren’t we allowed to include them? Their college careers are done and we know what kind of players they were. Why do we have to pretend like we don’t know if they were Big 12 players or not?
Lewis showed flashes when he got extended minutes. I trust him on offense. Hopefully he can keep improving on defense. I’m excited to see what he can do in a bigger role.
Guarded Zion at Lied Gym a month ago and he needs to keep getting his shot more consistent because he does not lack the athleticism to be a good player at this level. He’s extremely explosive.
Tre Jackson is really smooth. He could fill a huge need in perimeter scoring.
I think Leech is close to getting back to his old self. Of the group of players that were listed, Leech is the best at creating his own shot.
If we could add Rayjon Tucker or get Wigginton back to go with these 4 + Nixon and Haliburton, I think we have a more than capable backcourt.
We don't have to...it's just odd to act like you knew they were, but then complain about guys not having seeing the floor.
For all we know the incoming guys are Big 12 caliber AND good teammates. Win win.
What's your point here?
My point is that we weren't as talented as people think and we certainly didn't underperform to the level people think but those are pointless arguments to have with people because those people will refuse to look at the actual facts.
Next year was likely going to be a struggle no matter what the second Wigginton, THT and Lard all left. None of these high school kids were going to change that. There was/is a slim possibility of a grad transfer or two that could have maybe pushed us to a tournament team. That was always extremely unlikely though. There just aren't very many of those guys, and EVERYBODY is trying to get them. I still hope we get Grill and one good sit out transfer. I'd be pretty happy with that. Next year might be a little rough. We lost 5 of our top 7 players. Not many teams recover from that in one year. I don't see the point in b****ing about it or trying to convince other fans that we are going to be bad. What's the point in that? I'm looking forward to watching Haliburton, Conditt, Lewis and Griffin improve and am excited to see Solomon Young back. If we somehow make the tournament, that'll be a bonus.
I am not sure how to read you sometimes.
You were pushing the "next year is going to be a letdown" narrative for a long time there.
Then you write an articulate post about ways the roster could improve (e.g., defense and rebounding ability) and of the unseen potential of some of the bench guys and incoming freshman and the bonus of having a healthy Solomon back.
Not even mad at all, when you already knew a month ago they weren't getting any of these guys it makes it alot easier to accept.
I just said I'm not even mad. Why set yourself up for disappointment when we've seen this play out time and time again?
It's not the end of the world, the only problem is the way the roster looks right now doesn't look like a tourney team.
If you add up all the losses combined with the 9th ranked recruting class and constant swing and misses this spring, it will take an overacheiving season to make the tourney next year. That isn't something we've seen yet with this program under Prohm.
If you add up all the losses combined with the 9th ranked recruting class and constant swing and misses this spring, it will take an overacheiving season to make the tourney next year. That isn't something we've seen yet with this program under Prohm.
If we don't get Grill you will be mad. If we get Grill you will complain about his rankings
For me, it just comes down to if we can get 1 high level impact guy like Wigginton or Tucker. If we do that, I like the pieces around those guys. If the pieces around those guys have to be the main guys, that’s where I get a little concerned. I don’t think we’re miles off from being a good team, I just think we are currently missing the most important thing you need and that’s a proven bucket getter.
Interesting that you knew that. In my time on here the one thing I've learned is that you don't know anything.
When bad stuff happens, "I knew."
When good stuff happens, "Sweet Sixteen? Should have won the natty."
Some people.
Because it’s disingenuous, and contradicts your pretending to not be just another anti coach guy
I can see being disappointed missing on the HS guys we missed on. However none of them were going to be big impact guys next year. But I wouldn’t go as far as saying that we aren’t a tourney team next year with the players we do have.
I know you are generally reasonable on this stuff.
Passions are just hot about the program right now -- last year was divisive, to say the least, and things seem to always be like this with spring recruiting cycles.
