I'm pretty convinced that the up and down will continue long term with HD, but the team has met my requirements for what he needed to continue. So I give him credit, especially with how well they've done post-CW injury. Next year is going to tell us a ton.
Mingo's highlights just look incredibly surprising for a top 10 player. He doesn't have burst or bounce. Didn't the scouting report article also say he only dunked once in like 70+ rim opportunities in AAU, along with shooting sub 30% from 3? It's just weird to not be fast, not be an explosive...
But imagine instead of sinking all the money we did into Evans and Bogavac, that we had 2 good consistent guards. Do we win last night? Doubtful. But we are a hell of a lot better team. As it seems to be every year, the team is really imbalanced and that limits our ability to play with any...
There were some really strangely constructed rosters in the late Roy era too - but it seems like we cannot field a balanced team at all. We either have no size at all, or no guards. Last year we were tiny at basically every position, this year we got 2 good bigs but the guards are a total mess...
Brutal news for Caleb and the team.
Now we REALLY are going to regret dropping all 4 to SMU/Cal/Stanford/Miami...because the amount of losses on our upcoming schedule just went way up.
The games against the mid teams matter too. Recent history tells us that we will lose at least one, and probably at least two, games that we don't think we should the rest of the way.
Yes it matters. The problem is the season is cumulative and the fact that we lost to all 3 of SMU, Cal and Stanford meant that we really couldn't lose to Miami. And now this loss means we really really can't afford to lose to State or Louisville.