Who will have a better Gophers career: Bakary Konate or Gaston Diedhiou?

Who will have a better Gophers career: Bakary Konate or Gaston Diedhiou?

  • Bakary Konate

    Votes: 46 83.6%

  • Gaston Diedhiou

    Votes: 9 16.4%
  • Total voters
    55
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Obviously Bakary got more PT this year, in large part because he had the full season with the team, but I'm curious which player Gopher fans think will end up having the better career at Minnesota.
 

Who knows. Went Konate though. I think he'll be a decent starter for us next year.
 

Bakary is going to be a high end center in the Big Ten. He has the size, the ability and the attitude. Gaston- who knows? If he ends up being anything comparable to Konate- then we had a real steal of a recruiting class last year. Time will tell.
 

bga1 said:
Bakary is going to be a high end center in the Big Ten. He has the size, the ability and the attitude. Gaston- who knows? If he ends up being anything comparable to Konate- then we had a real steal of a recruiting class last year. Time will tell.
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My only concern is hoping they don't take the Nnanna Eqwu route to their NCAA career and not really improve(stat wise) over the course of their 4 years.

Edit: I guess this is true for any player and not just these two. But who would have predicted that result from Egwu after his sophomore year?
 




El Amin Fan said:
Obviously Bakary got more PT this year, in large part because he had the full season with the team, but I'm curious which player Gopher fans think will end up having the better career at Minnesota.
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This is a toss up. Both need time with the weights and some one on one working on footwork and low post game. You need more than a garbage man in the front court in the Big Ten. Who ever improves to the point to where they can be the go to guy when the jumpers aren't falling. Right now neither one is that guy. Konate looks like he can be some day. Lets see how they perform when hopefully no one is expecting anything from them or the team.
 


I went with Bakary but I'm shocked the poll is in his favor 26-0. Nobody thinks Diedhiou will be better?
 




Hurt at SF hopefully fills the most glaring hole for the Class of 2016, with a banger at PF the other big need. Gaston has the look, but is simply too raw not to address this need with another top recruit. I know many would prefer the proverbial stretch 4, but if a player can rebound and play good interior defense, someone can teach them how to stretch. You can't run if you can't rebound.
 

Honestly, neither player impressed me that much during the past season. I think Konate is slightly ahead, due to playing a full season, but they both have a long way to go to be productive players while playing major minutes. And that is my concern - if you have a really strong program with a lot of quality players, I can see taking a flyer on a raw recruit with potential. But, given the Gopher's situation, this was a heck of a gamble by Pitino. The Gophs are going into next season (barring any late recruiting moves) with one of the youngest and least productive C/PF combinations I can remember in nearly 50 yrs of watching Gopher BB. If Gaston and Konate do not take some major steps forward in the off-season, next year has the potential to be really ugly.

I hope I'm wrong, but that's my honest opinion.
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Honestly, neither player impressed me that much during the past season. I think Konate is slightly ahead, due to playing a full season, but they both have a long way to go to be productive players while playing major minutes. And that is my concern - if you have a really strong program with a lot of quality players, I can see taking a flyer on a raw recruit with potential. But, given the Gopher's situation, this was a heck of a gamble by Pitino. The Gophs are going into next season (barring any late recruiting moves) with one of the youngest and least productive C/PF combinations I can remember in nearly 50 yrs of watching Gopher BB. If Gaston and Konate do not take some major steps forward in the off-season, next year has the potential to be really ugly.

I hope I'm wrong, but that's my honest opinion.
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Since I get real tired of your complaining, let me give you the bad news right now. If we get all the calls and all the right bounces, we have a chance of finishing 10th in the B1G. Since that's never happened before, 11th or 12th is a safer bet.

Why not share your brand of wisdom with our friends on the football side of the house, and get back to us a year from now?
 




short ornery norwegian said:
Honestly, neither player impressed me that much during the past season. I think Konate is slightly ahead, due to playing a full season, but they both have a long way to go to be productive players while playing major minutes. And that is my concern - if you have a really strong program with a lot of quality players, I can see taking a flyer on a raw recruit with potential. But, given the Gopher's situation, this was a heck of a gamble by Pitino. The Gophs are going into next season (barring any late recruiting moves) with one of the youngest and least productive C/PF combinations I can remember in nearly 50 yrs of watching Gopher BB. If Gaston and Konate do not take some major steps forward in the off-season, next year has the potential to be really ugly.

I hope I'm wrong, but that's my honest opinion.
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Yo we're seven months and three scholarships available away from next season...
 

short ornery norwegian said:
Honestly, neither player impressed me that much during the past season. I think Konate is slightly ahead, due to playing a full season, but they both have a long way to go to be productive players while playing major minutes. And that is my concern - if you have a really strong program with a lot of quality players, I can see taking a flyer on a raw recruit with potential. But, given the Gopher's situation, this was a heck of a gamble by Pitino. The Gophs are going into next season (barring any late recruiting moves) with one of the youngest and least productive C/PF combinations I can remember in nearly 50 yrs of watching Gopher BB. If Gaston and Konate do not take some major steps forward in the off-season, next year has the potential to be really ugly.

I hope I'm wrong, but that's my honest opinion.
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I agree! Very well said!
 

short ornery norwegian said:
The Gophs are going into next season (barring any late recruiting moves) with one of the youngest and least productive C/PF combinations I can remember in nearly 50 yrs of watching Gopher BB.
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Worst post I've seen in some time.

King and Kontae. Far from the youngest and least productive C/PF combinations.

short ornery norwegian said:
both have a long way to go to be productive players while playing major minutes..
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Kontae was more productive than EE, a 5th year senior and earned his minutes.
 

We will need a ton of minutes from Konate next year. Love of question marks with him, Nwankwo, gaston. Should be interesting stuff
 

XMan said:
We will need a ton of minutes from Konate next year. Love of question marks with him, Nwankwo, gaston. Should be interesting stuff
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So hard to tell with bigs. We are going to need 10 fouls at the 5, so I expect Nwankwo will be in the rotation from day one. Both he and Gaston appear to have B1G ready bodies, so that's one big box checked. Wish I knew more.
 

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