A smart ass would say Mobile, but I'm obviously referring to the season.
We have some tough teams we're going to have to play within conference. Arlington has to be the biggest surprise. Ga State is to be expected. I'm sure Monroe and Lafayette will be tough once conference play begins. So where does that leave us?
Texas Tech put a spotlight on some of our potential problems. You can't win every game with just two guys doing most of the scoring and the others practically none. You can't get your only really big man in foul trouble early every game. Lis has to begin to learn to play without fouling. We're in trouble against good teams when he's not on the court.
Losing Daniel Green is a bigger loss that we might have thought. I will say Mareik is doing an admiral job playing in the middle on defense, but we needed another big man inside and need Mareik to give us another scoring threat, and he's not really doing it right now. We're having a difficult time getting our shooters open for clean perimeter shot.
We're a good, not great team. We can't change this season, but I would think to reach the level of a national team, we'll have to find a way to recruit more big inside players who can play. And that's difficult for a program like ours, but I have confidence that if anyone can do it, Coach Beard can.
Also, it was interesting to me that the guy that really hurt us yesterday, both his mother and his father played here at Little Rock.
Why wouldn't he even consider coming here to play? Did anyone really know about him? And Aaron Ross is a kid from right here in Little Rock. As I've said in the past, when we starting signing good players from Little Rock and Pulaski County, we'll know we're starting to become a really good program. Until then, we'll still be the unattractive stepsister!
