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Woof. Very bad for Ben. Unless he can pull a rabbit out of his hat, he has fewer than a year left on the job.

I have been expecting just one of Pride or Brown, with the likelihood being Pride based off the reports of mutual interest. Obviously would have loved to have them both. Realllllly hope we land Pride. Tin hat time. I think Ben never planned on taking both Brown and Pride, or at least knew he...

Ben has been slow playing Brown and Pride so he could land Dingle. He's playing chess while we are playing checkers. Do I need to add the /s?

Okay, we've had enough bickering. Let's see some action from the man himself. Not an easy task, as Wilson has only played 41 minutes of televised basketball in the last few years. He played an entire 10 minutes in the Cal game on March 8th, so I pulled up the highlights and there are actually a...

At Oregon State he was listed at 255 pounds as a true freshman. He played at 247 pounds at Idaho. I'm curious now that he is a 6th year guy and ostensibly in good shape, playing around 300 pounds, if he will have grown into his body and be a better rebounder than Treyton. We'll see. I am...

Frome howeda7 on the previous page of this thread:

The number of times I saw Thompson pushed around and not get a rebound when I thought for sure he would snag it.

Yeah I'm not trying to tear Cooper down. I just think his game didn't translate very well to the B10/our team for a variety of reasons. Yes that sounds like they should be able to co-exist.

I am curious to see how Wilson has remade his game/body. He was listed at 247 pounds at Idaho. I don't really take much of anything away from his play at Washington state, he had been playing OL and was not a part of the team until December. He is now a 6th year senior who was recently 337...

This worries me a lot more though if the reports are true about Fox. I figured that Payne would play 25-30 minutes as our post, with Fox playing the rest. Wilson only necessary to see a few minutes against the true bigs/if both guys are injured or in foul trouble. If Fox can't go next year, what...

I agree. In an interview from before he went to MSU, he describes himself as a "well balanced point guard". So I'm curious if he commits, how Ben would use him and Mitchell together. Him and Pride are both very intriguing. Talon Cooper's defensive issues were as problematic as his FT% and...

Bairstow shot 38.6% from 3PT this year, but 12.5% (!) the previous year, after shooting 38.5% his sophomore year. Weird blip, but on relatively low volume (32/83 this year, 6/48 last year). Wonder what happened there. He is also a very bad FT shooter, 55% this year (and has declined every year...

Well he didn't have any head coaching experience, and got caught with his pants down in back to back years with massive roster deficiencies (post then guard). So he clearly was not starting from a great space. I'm not defending his hire as I wanted Craig Smith. But he's the coach we have and I...

It feels like very publicly and loudly being put in the friendzone

My bad, thank you for the correction. I misremembered that. I'm going to charitably re-interpret my argument then. When Oturu showed up in the summer, Stockman saw the writing on the wall that Oturu would get big minutes as a freshman and decided to transfer somewhere he could get more PT...

This is a dose of reality. Payne looked great to close out the season and it is clear he will play a lot. The only obstacles are foul trouble/injury. And we haven't been a good team making tourney runs, so nobody is coming here for a promise of postseason glory. Good luck selling that picture to...

To add in case people didn't know -- he was originally a 4 star recruit out of HS and went to Oregon State. Transferred to Idaho before the spring semester of his freshman year. Played the 2nd half of his sophomore year, and 4 games of his junior year. Not sure why he quit. Then after playing...

What I want Jack Wilson to do: - bang with Payne in practice. I felt he sometimes struggled to get his shot off against the taller/more physical guys - give us 5 really hard fouls against Edey - be a positive locker room presence, as a 6th year guy who wants to be a strength/conditioning coach...

It's true, I would do a lot for a doner kebab

There definitely was some improvement, I was too harsh. Unfortunately he wasn't able to take advantage of all of those available minutes because of his multiple injuries. I'm still optimistic about his future.