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We have three bad free throw shooters on the roster: Edmunds, Frank Mitchell and Odukale are all in the 50% or worse range. It is pretty hard to have more than one of them on the court at a time. Betts, we have no data on so I would hope he can shoot FTs.... Maybe one or more of the three...

Hopefully, by next year we are ready for NIL at power conference level. I am of the opinion that it still pays to recruit a good compliment of HS kids and be prepared to pay them if they prove out well. Once they have their tent pitched here, I would think we have a better chance to compete for...

In games last year he looked athletic and had some tools but he was forcing up shots attempting to gain playing time. I think he has the ability.

In terms of revenue, yes it keeps rising. But attendance is on a gradual decline. 2018/19 saw 27 million attend D1 games whereas 2023 had attendance of about 24 million. Covid broke the positive momentum and changes since are not helping. Over time, keeping attendance up under the current rules...

I don't disagree, but man, it is going to be challenging to work with playing time. There are definitely 11-12 guys that are going to believe they are ready to see the court for 20+ minutes. The best of that is competition in practice will make them all better. The tough part is managing team...

Yep. This is now a bruising squad, physically. Almost like a West Virginia Huggins type team. Only Payne and Fox brought that last year. Now you have Patterson, Mitchell, Fox, Odukale, Cochran and Edmunds that are big dudes that will body you. The two teams are just night and day different. We...

ummm, not so sure on that anymore

Thanks for posting. He's a bull. He can post up the opponents' guards. Doesn't over dribble but is not shy of a crowd- causing a few TOs. I like him!

:ROFLMAO: Acquired is the correct terminology! Good post. The odd man out of your depth chart might have the highest "bucket maker" ability to anyone on the roster not name Garcia....so even Williams could be a surprise situational player or better. Practices will be interesting for sure...

To be fair to Gold, last summer I thought we had a chance to be pretty high end. I felt like Payne was going to be like year 2 Oturu, and I had higher expectations for Carrington, JOJ and Ihnen than their actual performance. Payne was very good but didn't develop offensively and the other guys...

There is no doubt that we had higher end players coming into last year- on paper. The hope this year is that depth, defense and physicality overcomes the losses.

Offensive skill no- defensive ability yes.

Ben has done a good job of assembling this roster. Now he has forced his own hand to become a different kind of coach or at least have a different identity than the team has had under him. The strength of this team is 12 guys that you could argue need decent playing time- assuming Grove is a...

Meechie Johnson and Bruce Thornton might feel like a higher hurdle to pass for PT though...

Good post! The one area I would differ with is that I think we will see more physicality-specifically at the PG and the 3G. We will lose some speed and athleticism with the loss of Hawkins and Payne and certainly some shooting, minus Christie. I would love to see us get one more guard-the kid...

Yes! Please! The key to this team has to be great defense. You can overcome the lack of some big time players with defense and we just have not done it. It is amazing that Ben has gone backwards from Pitino on that score. This is Ben's next level to be reached if he is going to be the long term...

I like Betts' potential. I'd like to make the team as good as possible. I think we have talent, but certainly not enough of it to stop improving it. Wing would be a great spot to work on. If Betts can be that guy- I'd love it. But we need a 12-15 point scorer there with size to finish and...

He asks a good question, one that a fan would ask. Considering that we are picked to be in the bottom third (and I say that generously) it is hardly out of order to ask that we keep digging for one more piece to the puzzle.

There will be tons of close games. Win more than your share of close games and the season will be successful.

Fantastic review of it SON! Thanks!