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Gonna be another long season.

Is proofreading becoming a lost art?

Maybe a lost job.

(10-06-2014 09:49 PM)tibber Wrote:  Gonna be another long season.

Can't complain about football this week so you have to knock basketball?

We are going to be young, but we have a lot of talent. Getting another d1 experienced player eligible was huge. We may struggle early, but it feels like with the experience we have mixed with the youth we are adding we should be alright. We may struggle, but we aren't going to be forced to keep guys on the court who can't hit an open shot to save their life anymore. Two seasons from now could be something special.

+1

Young teams are still capable of winning plenty of games.

Who really knows what's going to happen. With the amount of young players starting across the country, anything is possible. Let's just hope for the best. I can say I bet they will be fun to watch.

With the emergence of cokley and Madison in Spain, couple wth the facts that it looks like norton is a legit player and that Baxter is eligible immediately, my hopes for the season have gone up considerably. We may not be very good starting off, but this team could be pretty darn good by the end of the year

I have read a lot of articles saying lee may come in and be among the best players in the league. If that is anywhere near true, the team changes immediately in my opinion. I Actually think the team will be better than last year's by a good bit, I'm just not sure the record will indicate that.

(10-07-2014 09:12 AM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(10-06-2014 09:49 PM)tibber Wrote:  Gonna be another long season.

Can't complain about football this week so you have to knock basketball?

We are going to be young, but we have a lot of talent. Getting another d1 experienced player eligible was huge. We may struggle early, but it feels like with the experience we have mixed with the youth we are adding we should be alright. We may struggle, but we aren't going to be forced to keep guys on the court who can't hit an open shot to save their life anymore. Two seasons from now could be something special.

With no roster changes and the current commitments, we will have 10 upperclassmen in 2016, plus third-year walk-on Lionel Love.

With so many freshmen, there are bound to be transfers out at the end of the season. Haase seems to encourage it. Thaddeus Rideau, Quincy Taylor, Isiah Jones, Herb Harrison etc.

I don't know that he encourages it.

Rideau didn't fit here. He did everything right, but he just wasn't good enough. I'm sure there was a fairly mutual agreement to part ways there though.

QT was good but not great. He may have seen the newcomers as a threat to his pt.

I doubt Haase ran Herb off. I think he had a foot out the door before Haase got here.

Hoppy didn't do what was asked of him. I think he picked his ball up and went home more than Haase encouraged him to leave.

I'm with you though, there just isn't room for all of the young guys. competetion and depyh should be good for the guys who do stay.

Only Riddeau was one of Haase's recruits, for what it's worth.

(10-07-2014 04:12 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  I don't know that he encourages it.

Rideau didn't fit here. He did everything right, but he just wasn't good enough. I'm sure there was a fairly mutual agreement to part ways there though.

QT was good but not great. He may have seen the newcomers as a threat to his pt.

I doubt Haase ran Herb off. I think he had a foot out the door before Haase got here.

Hoppy didn't do what was asked of him. I think he picked his ball up and went home more than Haase encouraged him to leave.

I'm with you though, there just isn't room for all of the young guys. competetion and depyh should be good for the guys who do stay.

I think we have different definitions of encouragement. I did not mean to imply he ran anyone off.

(10-06-2014 09:49 PM)tibber Wrote:  Gonna be another long season.

Someone needs to council tibber before he takes the ole gas pipe in the garage.