I tend to look at things through rose colored glasses too. But let's not get too far ahead of ourselves here. True, he hired two great recruiters, but they haven't, as of yet, yielded any blue chip talent that would elevate the team to last year's heights. When you look at what we lost from last year's team, it is almost all of the production. Sima is an imprtant piece, and I'm glad we got him, but he is not going to put up many points. Who is going to fill the production of Harrison, Greene, Pointer and Branch? As of right now, nobody. Williams is the only recruit that seems capable of scoring on a regular basis. I will be waiting and watching the recruitment of Sampson, Diallo, and a point guard (hopefully Ricky Tarrant). They still need two or three blue chippers to be competitive in conference next year. One has to realize all the things that Pointer did on the court inccluding guarding people taller then him or shorter, quicker guards. The rebounding, the shot blocking, and the point production, especially down the stretch.
Sensible post. Mullin & staff are building the foundation year one. I'm not allowing my excitement to distort the big picture.
People are excited for next year and years to come but I don't think anyone thinks with the team we hve right now that we will be very good next year. If we do land some of the big recruits then yes we can get excited but the staff inherited besides Obepka and Jordan a depleted roster. Anything these do in this spring period I consider a bonus. Can't expect them to work miracles but they are working there asses off to make us good starting next year.
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I'm very optimistic. I know ppl are like ugh when you mention Lavin but the team seems in much better shape for next year since Mullin came on.
Obekpa & Jordan might be used better, available more w/a wiser staff. It was bad basketball last year, for the most part. 5-7 minute stretches w/o scoring & I know that's CBB to an extent, but I'm confident that whatever guys we get will be smarter & will have a better plan.
We had talented guards but no real point guard. That will be addressed. We had no bigs, no real post presence, & Mullin seems to be addressing that also.
And I don't know if we'll be great, but we were considered good last year, and without doing projections on who will do what, it doesn't seem like being better than last year is unreachable.
OPTIMISM!!!!!!