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It’s certainly better to overspend than to underspend in this situation.

I guess you can spread the 14 million out or go all in 2-3 high end guys.

You won’t know if it was the right play until it’s all said and done.
 
superrific said:
I thought by generous estimate you were saying I was exaggerating. Now I think you meant the opposite, correct? I was underestimating.

Teams have been using unproven players since the beginning of college basketball. It's part of the game. I get that you think we spent too much, but we got several high potential players. If they work out, this team could be really fucking good. High upside, lower downside.
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No, you brought up wanting to be better than average

I meant assigning $1.5M per player as an estimated rate for a roster's top 7 players was generous

I don't think too many average teams will have over $10M invested in their roster (though some certainly will)

$10M could very well be average top 25 however. That's more in line with where I would've guessed UNC was
 
I wished we could've kept VAL, because he was on the upswing towards the end of the season. If Roy was still around I'd expect him to have taken a big leap between seasons, like most raw backline guys tended to do under him.

But if he was, as reported, asking big bucks, I wasn't willing to break the bank for him.
 
WBroylesH said:
I wished we could've kept VAL, because he was on the upswing towards the end of the season. If Roy was still around I'd expect him to have taken a big leap between seasons, like most raw backline guys tended to do under him.

But if he was, as reported, asking big bucks, I wasn't willing to break the bank for him.
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It may have come down to VAL or Luka.
 
Isn't he just another guy that doesn't play for us anymore? I thought he did a pretty decent job after a slow start and would have been glad to have him back. We don't. He'll matter again when we play them.
 
Now I know that the new coach for NCSU isn't very bright. There are so many things wrong with that analysis (including the factual premise, and the insincere limitation to 28 minutes) but does it really surprise anyone that a guy who doesn't play all that much might play more when he is having a good game -- perhaps because there's a highly favorable matchup? And thus his high-mpg games are going to be high quality, because they wouldn't be high mpg games otherwise.
 
hedge said:
He's bright enough to know that what State fans crave more than anything is UNC sass coming from their head coach. He's hitting the ground running...
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Yep. The best way to keep your coaching job at State is to beat UNC regularly and then talk trash about them when you beat them, or even when you don't. Dave Doeren is Exhibit A of this truth. By any metric he has been, at best, a mediocre coach who has consistently failed to take State beyond mediocrity. But he's beaten UNC several years in a row now, and talked shit about us afterwards and pulled stunts like having their cheerleaders plant the State flag on our logo, so he's still in their good graces over there. We'll see if Wade can consistently match Doeren's success against us; I seriously doubt it. Given that we only play them once this year, and at their place, I'm sure he will make beating us his top priority for the season. If he succeeds and then acts classless and talks shit about us afterwards they'll be in ecstasies over in Raleigh for the year, even if they post a losing record otherwise.
 
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donbosco said:
"You can watch Davis’ debut on the Los Angeles Lakers’ team against the Golden State Warriors at the California Classic Summer League in San Francisco’s Chase Center at 6:30 p.m. Saturday on ESPN2."

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How to watch RJ Davis’ Summer League debut; Ingram, Anthony also have Saturday games

RJ Davis makes his NBA Summer League debut on Saturday, when Harrison Ingram and Cole Anthony are also scheduled to play.
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Just glancing at the box score, not a great night for RJ. Or Harrison. Armando seemed to do well though.
 
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