Terrence Lewis transferring
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If you think anyone in the state is going to be as good as Iowa, or even close, you're nuts.
I would like to see that game. Too bad Iowa won't play them. Iowa might start the season top 10, but they won't finish it top 10.
One could make a case Stalin or Mao (or even Tamerlane or Genghis Khan) had a higher body count. Guys like Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar probably had a higher % impact relative to pre-invasion populations, if that counts. Probably the worst were the Spanish conquistadors in the New World, but they had smallpox helping.
CycloneErik
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Since someone is apparently challenging you on years watching, I'll add that I've been watching for a couple decades more, and we bottom 5 teams were total trash.
In a normal Big 12, we're a 6-8 win team.
I think you're getting lost in the trees in your (well-supported) anger over the forest... Despite the legend that TL seems to have become to some (not necessarily to you), he really did have holes in his game. And, if you step back, do you really think Prohm purposely held him out while we stunk up the season?
In the bigger picture, I tired of Prohm constantly stressing the need for D & toughness and then not doing anything about it in re: to playing time --> when guys don't walk the walk, sit them. Instead, he rarely backed it up, and, there were plenty of opportunities to sit guys for lack of D/toughness/effort. I don't know if Prohm became prisoner of his recruiting misses, but he got himself in a box where he wouldn't require guys to do on the court what he was saying was needed. That's a recipe for failure. You could argue that TL was one of the few who he held to such a standard, and I'd probably agree with that. As to why, maybe he gave less effort in practice, I don't know. If Prohm doesn't get his PT approach straightened out going forward, I don't know how he thinks things will change. Obviously, more talent will help, but it'll take more than that.
My opinion is that TL is a very talented player that our coaches did a very poor job of coaching him.
6 wins?? Lol you're assuming in a regular Big 12 we would probably lose every game??
The 2017-2018 season the Big 12 was really good, we were not good, and yet we still won 4 games In the conference.
I think in the Big 12 two years ago we would have gone 2-16 with this team. Yes, I this years team was noticeably worse.
Neither you, I, or anyone else here, has the power to do that, so other than that, what would you like to see this offseason, and next basketball season?
CycloneErik
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The Prohm part is obvious, but watching Lewis out there made it really obvious that he didn't know what to do.
Beat player? No way.
Just curious .... has anybody heard anything on this guy? Will he be a done deal for iowa now?
Sorry if discussed elsewhere.
With or without Halliburton? Or also without Bolton for that matter? I mean without either of them I would agree with that but I still think we're getting 4 wins with those two healthy.
If true, that is only a testament to how good the Big 12 was then.
Not how bad it is now.
Coming down from the mountaintop can still leave you in some high places.
You can say this is the worst the conference has been in the past five years and be within a reasonable range. But you said this was the worst it has been "ever" or at least in the past 18 years or so since you started watching it, which is a comically bad take.
You really do not understand how these rankings work, do you?
You're really struggling this morning. Plenty of things to be upset about without arguing against logic and facts
