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For sure, he’s done a great job recruiting so far. Now, you don’t need to actually compete this year, but you do need to do enough that you can sell a 2024 recruit on the idea that by the time they get here in 2024, the team will be close enough that they’ll be the missing piece that pushes them...

Yeah that’s an interesting point. It feels like a lot of the main recruiting points are generally: 1. This is a winning program and if you come here you will compete for the big ten/national titles 2. You can come here and get immediate playing time 3. You can come here and we can develop you...

To be fair, he didn’t say it would be good basketball. Just better.

There were two possible ways to respond to my post there: the way 60’s Guy did, with well-thought out points and valid critiques of Cooper, along with specific areas our offense struggles in. Those types of posts are why I enjoy this website. And then there’s the way you did, which makes me...

Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but I believe that when a former walk-on is granted a scholarship, it only needs to be granted for 1 year at a time, as opposed to standard freshman scholarships which must be honored for 4 years.

So in other words, you don’t actually have any examples of things that point guards do that make their teammates better, and you’re gonna go with the “go do your own research” to deflect it. All you did was list point guards on good teams, as if that’s somehow supposed to show that they “made...

Totally agree that his defense has hurt, and it sets a bad tone for the team when your veteran point guard is not a great defender both in terms of skill and effort. Effort can definitely be taught though, and hoping that Thorson can build the skill at least a little bit.

That’s an interesting point. Maybe the issue is not that Cooper is slow, but that none of our players are particularly fast, and generally the point guard is the one who is. If he was paired with a better shot-creating shooting guard, maybe someone like a Dupree McBrayer, or Payton Willis at...

I also just have no idea what this tangibly means. What specifically does he not do, that a good point guard would do, that would make other players on the team better? This feels like a catch all “I don’t like him cause the offense is bad and I’m gonna blame the point guard cause I have no...

Maybe the people around him are just bad? Not much he can do if guys don’t make shots.

I see a lot of comments around how we need to address the point guard position, and how Cooper isn’t a big ten level point guard. I’m really surprised by this, as my takeaway from watching the games is that Cooper (at least offensively) is probably the least of our problems. What are people’s...

Agreed. I think battle is good enough that he’ll have at least one game where he goes for 30 and wills us to a win.

I think he must have edited the caption, since the post I see in the link on the original posting contains that same caption from the tweet. Regardless, miscommunication, and we were talking about two different things.

Not that I was ever a pro athlete, but I know the feeling that your success in a field is what determines your value in life. That can lead to a lot of mental health issues. In a perfect world, he would be able to continue playing basketball while also coming to terms with the issues he is...

And a lot of the time, places need to filter from thousands of applicants to the small group of people they’ll actually interview. Choosing the more prestigious school is one way to filter a bunch of otherwise similar resumes. I don’t think that once people get into the interview phase the...

I think we actually read different posts. I was referring to his Instagram post, which I assumed you were as well. This tweet here has the caption I had read, which doesn’t include anything about being on a rock floating through nothingness. Where did you read the post you are referring to?

I really really don’t get where you’re getting that message from. I didn’t see any sort of the nihilistic “nothing matters” message and honestly thought it was really well written. I just got that he had spent his entire life being defined by basketball and wanted something more than that. Which...

Also, nobody else on the team has been able to shoot this year. It’s real tough to be a pass-first point guard and lead a good offense when guys can’t hit open shots.

Wait, what?? Cooper has flaws for sure, in particular on defense, but he’s 7th in the country at 6.7 assists a game, and a lot of the times when our offense stalls, the only way we finally get something going is because Cooper made a play on a pick and roll. Carrington has shown nothing to me...

Also, 44% from 3 and 77% from FT are great to see. Obviously, the competition is lacking a bit, but things like having a mindset to share the ball, and having guys knock down shoots are things that can hopefully translate.