(10-29-2020 10:32 AM)JFlight21 Wrote: (10-29-2020 08:47 AM)bearcatmark Wrote: I think Houston could be top 5 to 10 good this year. After that I think UC's as good as anyone.
they lost a lot of what made them so good last year.
#7 in the country in block rate last year (had #24 2-pt point defense)
#2 in offensive rebounding percentage
#8 in 3 point defense
I'm sure you'll see big jumps from Mills, Sasser, Grimes (maybe more consistent), etc. but it will be a different stye of winning vs last year's version.
every year people say something of this nature, every year we still always end up top 15 in the kenpom. what's most interesting to me is this year is the year we've lost the least (compared to how much we regularly lose)
we are
--still going to be elite at rebound (as long as sampson is coach),
--still going to be elite at block rate (every big we have, new and old, are touted shot blocker, sans gorham)
--still going to have elite perimeter defense (dejon, sasser and grimes are elite perimeter defenders, i believe they are top 97%, 93%, and 86% in their synergy ratings for defense..shead is a 4star exclusively for defense, mark is an athletic 6'5)
- note: because of crazy foul trouble both harris and hinton didnt play much in one of our games vs uconn- we still outrebounded them by 10, had 5blocks, uconn finished with 35% fg% and 25% 3pt%
the weakness exposed by the losses is the lack of post scorer, gorham is a shooter.. non of the other bigs are known for offense..fabians post presence is gone
but you are right we are going to be a different style but by choice. People dont account when you lose players you dont just lose their strengths you lose their weakness aswell. Fabian had no ball skills and hinton was limited for a guard. the players replacing both have drastically better handles..sampson has noted this current team is too good in transition to be sending 5 to rebound like last year. we are going to push for transition points unlike last year, which he noted might weaken the rebounding numbers a bit. likely wont be #1 again, but probably still top 10