A good omen for NCAA tournament Cowboys,

[cali2wyo]

Why? Because most of Schroyers players jumped ship during the coaching change, add in attrition each year and you have a young unknown team on the court.

Except last year's seniors were all Shyatt recruits... schroyer should be blamed for a lot of things, but he had no part to play in the lack of upperclassmen this year. That's on attrition and shyatt, but the difference is that shyatt has been a proven winner and I have complete confidence in him to get the job done regardless of how old the kids are.

 

[Cowboy Junky]

Haha you people are funny. Were going to grill Bohl because he wants "Cowboy Tough" and that means he should be winning games today, theres no excuse for losing and rebuilding. Even though he has no track record of success, he should be winning every game and as fans were not going to give him a break.
THEN, with Shyatt and basketball, after our most successful season in a decade, and its all, well, were gonna take it slow and temper expectations. Lets shoot for 14 wins and that will be good enough. This team is young and inexperienced and needs time to grow and meld (sounds a lot like the football team....) and that won't be this season. 14 WINS!!! That is worse than an 0-12 season in football. Any step back lower than 3rd is a wasted season and a huge disappointment. The people on this board sometimes really blow my mind.

I'm not grilling Bohl. I realize he's transitioning from a team that was small, slow, and not all that strong to a big, strong, and fast smash mouth football team. I realize that until we have guys that are big, strong and fast our smash mouth football team is going to get ass hammered by FCS teams. That's just reality.

Shyatt won 20 games every year he's been back, but he's had veterans to do it with. His first year back he had Adam, Jaydee, and Paco.....This year he's got ONE senior, although that one senior is a bad ass, I'm guessing he's going to be double teamed all year long.

I don't think anyone is shooting for 14 wins. We're just tempering our expectations to fit the roster we have. Right now we have one of, if not the youngest team in college basketball. There are 12 freshmen or sophomores on a roster of 15. That tells me that we might not have the time in the developmental program necessary to win 25 games.

I really do believe our roster is capable of winning NCAA tournament games, or I wouldn't have posted this thread. The last two teams we've had with talent and big physical post players won games in the big dance. I just think it would close to a miracle if it happens this year. Hopefully, I'm wrong, but I'm not going to scream and cry and insult Larry Shyatt if it doesn't happen. I believe in his system and that system is "developmental" with 12 players that have had very little of Shy's development to date. That's not anyones fault. It's just the situation we're in.

Even the Dembo team had to wait until they we're sophomores until they experienced post-season success and that success wasn't in the NCAA. It started in the NIT. Their junior and senior years was in the NCAA tourney. The same can be said with the Bailey/Davis/Uche squad. They didn't have post-season success until the majority of the roster was upper-classmen and Steve McClain wasn't a developmental coach: he was a quick fix, j.c. transfer, out-talent the other team type of coach.

Hopefully the players will prove me wrong, but I'm not going to stop supporting them or blow up social media when my 25 win, unrealistic expectations aren't met.

Cant it be said that this is, hands down, the best roster (on paper) that Shyatt has had in his second stint here? Seniors or not? Outside of Nance, did we not add players at the skill level or higher at each position lost? I understand that we cannot replace "game experience" but shooting is shooting is shooting. These kids have been shooting the basketball their entire lives. Now its just finding their place in the flow of the game. I look at this roster and say for the first time since Shyatt came back, were not looking at a roster of guys that COULD be good in time and will have to adjust to the game but a roster that has GREAT basketball players who's only challenge will be adjusting to the speed at his level. :twocents:

I just don't see as big as a drop off as others do. I guess we'll just have to see in the next couple months.

I agree that shooting is shooting is shooting and that our staff has focused on recruiting guys in the recent classes that can shoot in high school. That didn't stop AKA Gorski and Liebermann from struggling last year although they we're great shooters in high school.

Help side defense isn't something you're just good at. It's something you learn by having it beaten into you over four or five years in college. Proper spacing and floor positioning isn't something you just know either. If you look at Cooke when he first got here, he didn't know where to go on the court. Last year he was all over ESPN and shot 80 percent from the field because he learned(from game and practice experience) where he needed to be take advantage of defenders and get easy dunks. Free throw shooting takes practice. Rebounding takes practice. Everything takes practice to get better. This team has had ONE practice together with coaches there since we won the tourney.

There's a reason why we won last year and the main reason was because of the experience in that senior class. I think people take for granted just what we had with Hank, Nance, Cooke, Grabau, and even Bentz. That experience was the reason why we made the tourney. Bentz looked like a scrub for three years. Last year during crunch time, he was money and a big reason we won the tourney.

We definitely have more talent than Shy's first class back. I don't think that talent is going to make up for very little game experience. Only hard work and experience will change that. Hell, if talent we're everything, UNLV would be 15 year defending champions in the MWC. Instead, they're a blue chip NBA basketball factory that finishes seventh out of 11 teams in the MWC.

 

[ItSucksToBeACSURam]

Haha you people are funny. Were going to grill Bohl because he wants "Cowboy Tough" and that means he should be winning games today, theres no excuse for losing and rebuilding. Even though he has no track record of success, he should be winning every game and as fans were not going to give him a break.
THEN, with Shyatt and basketball, after our most successful season in a decade, and its all, well, were gonna take it slow and temper expectations. Lets shoot for 14 wins and that will be good enough. This team is young and inexperienced and needs time to grow and meld (sounds a lot like the football team....) and that won't be this season. 14 WINS!!! That is worse than an 0-12 season in football. Any step back lower than 3rd is a wasted season and a huge disappointment. The people on this board sometimes really blow my mind.

I view this years bball team very similar to this years fball team. A LOT of young raw talent that has the potential to grow into another winning effort in both sports.
Translation: ratio between upperclassmen to lower in football... There is a Gap

Translation: ratio. Between upperclassmen to lower in basketball... There is a Gap.

Why? Because most of Schroyers players jumped ship during the coaching change, add in attrition each year and you have a young unknown team on the court.

Why? Because a lot of key players under DC jumped ship during the coaching change, add in attrition the last two years and you have a young unknown team on the field.

Really people, it's not hard to add 1+1 and equal 2...

I would agree completely that there is a huge gap between Adams/Mac/Herndon and everyone else in terms of game experience but not in skill. The only gap I see skill wise between Adams and the rest of the MWC. Honestly, is there another guard in the MWC on Adams level? I don't think so.

I think this is the most talented group we've had here in years, maybe in my lifetime. The skill level is there to be very good. It is all going to come down to how well and how fast the youngsters can adapt.

Lets not forget either, Morris Marshall is coming who sounds like an absolute beast and Lieberman played competitive basketball all summer. I look for both of them to step up and fill the shoes left by Grabau and Hankerson.

 

[ItSucksToBeACSURam]

Haha you people are funny. Were going to grill Bohl because he wants "Cowboy Tough" and that means he should be winning games today, theres no excuse for losing and rebuilding. Even though he has no track record of success, he should be winning every game and as fans were not going to give him a break.
THEN, with Shyatt and basketball, after our most successful season in a decade, and its all, well, were gonna take it slow and temper expectations. Lets shoot for 14 wins and that will be good enough. This team is young and inexperienced and needs time to grow and meld (sounds a lot like the football team....) and that won't be this season. 14 WINS!!! That is worse than an 0-12 season in football. Any step back lower than 3rd is a wasted season and a huge disappointment. The people on this board sometimes really blow my mind.

I'm not grilling Bohl. I realize he's transitioning from a team that was small, slow, and not all that strong to a big, strong, and fast smash mouth football team. I realize that until we have guys that are big, strong and fast our smash mouth football team is going to get ass hammered by FCS teams. That's just reality.

Shyatt won 20 games every year he's been back, but he's had veterans to do it with. His first year back he had Adam, Jaydee, and Paco.....This year he's got ONE senior, although that one senior is a bad ass, I'm guessing he's going to be double teamed all year long.

I don't think anyone is shooting for 14 wins. We're just tempering our expectations to fit the roster we have. Right now we have one of, if not the youngest team in college basketball. There are 12 freshmen or sophomores on a roster of 15. That tells me that we might not have the time in the developmental program necessary to win 25 games.

I really do believe our roster is capable of winning NCAA tournament games, or I wouldn't have posted this thread. The last two teams we've had with talent and big physical post players won games in the big dance. I just think it would close to a miracle if it happens this year. Hopefully, I'm wrong, but I'm not going to scream and cry and insult Larry Shyatt if it doesn't happen. I believe in his system and that system is "developmental" with 12 players that have had very little of Shy's development to date. That's not anyones fault. It's just the situation we're in.

Even the Dembo team had to wait until they we're sophomores until they experienced post-season success and that success wasn't in the NCAA. It started in the NIT. Their junior and senior years was in the NCAA tourney. The same can be said with the Bailey/Davis/Uche squad. They didn't have post-season success until the majority of the roster was upper-classmen and Steve McClain wasn't a developmental coach: he was a quick fix, j.c. transfer, out-talent the other team type of coach.

Hopefully the players will prove me wrong, but I'm not going to stop supporting them or blow up social media when my 25 win, unrealistic expectations aren't met.

Cant it be said that this is, hands down, the best roster (on paper) that Shyatt has had in his second stint here? Seniors or not? Outside of Nance, did we not add players at the skill level or higher at each position lost? I understand that we cannot replace "game experience" but shooting is shooting is shooting. These kids have been shooting the basketball their entire lives. Now its just finding their place in the flow of the game. I look at this roster and say for the first time since Shyatt came back, were not looking at a roster of guys that COULD be good in time and will have to adjust to the game but a roster that has GREAT basketball players who's only challenge will be adjusting to the speed at his level. :twocents:

I just don't see as big as a drop off as others do. I guess we'll just have to see in the next couple months.

I agree that shooting is shooting is shooting and that our staff has focused on recruiting guys in the recent classes that can shoot in high school. That didn't stop AKA Gorski and Liebermann from struggling last year although they we're great shooters in high school.

Help side defense isn't something you're just good at. It's something you learn by having it beaten into you over four or five years in college. Proper spacing and floor positioning isn't something you just know either. If you look at Cooke when he first got here, he didn't know where to go on the court. Last year he was all over ESPN and shot 80 percent from the field because he learned(from game and practice experience) where he needed to be take advantage of defenders and get easy dunks. Free throw shooting takes practice. Rebounding takes practice. Everything takes practice to get better. This team has had ONE practice together with coaches there since we won the tourney.

There's a reason why we won last year and the main reason was because of the experience in that senior class. I think people take for granted just what we had with Hank, Nance, Cooke, Grabau, and even Bentz. That experience was the reason why we made the tourney. Bentz looked like a scrub for three years. Last year during crunch time, he was money and a big reason we won the tourney.

We definitely have more talent than Shy's first class back. I don't think that talent is going to make up for very little game experience. Only hard work and experience will change that. Hell, if talent we're everything, UNLV would be 15 year defending champions in the MWC. Instead, they're a blue chip NBA basketball factory that finishes seventh out of 11 teams in the MWC.

I agree. But are we really assuming guys like James, Moemeka, and Naughton are as unpolished as DC was coming in? Or Herndon? Herndon last year was well ahead of where DC was his first year. I am in no way bagging on DC but i think our new guys are well ahead of the curve compared to freshmen classes before this. James was the POY in Florida. You don't earn that honor, against the players he went up against, if you're not a well rounded and good basketball player already.

And on a side note, if UNLV had the coaching staff we do, they would be winning the MWC every year and making runs in the Tourney because there is something to be said about having high skill guys....

 

[Cowboy Junky]

Haha you people are funny. Were going to grill Bohl because he wants "Cowboy Tough" and that means he should be winning games today, theres no excuse for losing and rebuilding. Even though he has no track record of success, he should be winning every game and as fans were not going to give him a break.
THEN, with Shyatt and basketball, after our most successful season in a decade, and its all, well, were gonna take it slow and temper expectations. Lets shoot for 14 wins and that will be good enough. This team is young and inexperienced and needs time to grow and meld (sounds a lot like the football team....) and that won't be this season. 14 WINS!!! That is worse than an 0-12 season in football. Any step back lower than 3rd is a wasted season and a huge disappointment. The people on this board sometimes really blow my mind.

I'm not grilling Bohl. I realize he's transitioning from a team that was small, slow, and not all that strong to a big, strong, and fast smash mouth football team. I realize that until we have guys that are big, strong and fast our smash mouth football team is going to get ass hammered by FCS teams. That's just reality.

Shyatt won 20 games every year he's been back, but he's had veterans to do it with. His first year back he had Adam, Jaydee, and Paco.....This year he's got ONE senior, although that one senior is a bad ass, I'm guessing he's going to be double teamed all year long.

I don't think anyone is shooting for 14 wins. We're just tempering our expectations to fit the roster we have. Right now we have one of, if not the youngest team in college basketball. There are 12 freshmen or sophomores on a roster of 15. That tells me that we might not have the time in the developmental program necessary to win 25 games.

I really do believe our roster is capable of winning NCAA tournament games, or I wouldn't have posted this thread. The last two teams we've had with talent and big physical post players won games in the big dance. I just think it would close to a miracle if it happens this year. Hopefully, I'm wrong, but I'm not going to scream and cry and insult Larry Shyatt if it doesn't happen. I believe in his system and that system is "developmental" with 12 players that have had very little of Shy's development to date. That's not anyones fault. It's just the situation we're in.

Even the Dembo team had to wait until they we're sophomores until they experienced post-season success and that success wasn't in the NCAA. It started in the NIT. Their junior and senior years was in the NCAA tourney. The same can be said with the Bailey/Davis/Uche squad. They didn't have post-season success until the majority of the roster was upper-classmen and Steve McClain wasn't a developmental coach: he was a quick fix, j.c. transfer, out-talent the other team type of coach.

Hopefully the players will prove me wrong, but I'm not going to stop supporting them or blow up social media when my 25 win, unrealistic expectations aren't met.

Cant it be said that this is, hands down, the best roster (on paper) that Shyatt has had in his second stint here? Seniors or not? Outside of Nance, did we not add players at the skill level or higher at each position lost? I understand that we cannot replace "game experience" but shooting is shooting is shooting. These kids have been shooting the basketball their entire lives. Now its just finding their place in the flow of the game. I look at this roster and say for the first time since Shyatt came back, were not looking at a roster of guys that COULD be good in time and will have to adjust to the game but a roster that has GREAT basketball players who's only challenge will be adjusting to the speed at his level. :twocents:

I just don't see as big as a drop off as others do. I guess we'll just have to see in the next couple months.

I agree that shooting is shooting is shooting and that our staff has focused on recruiting guys in the recent classes that can shoot in high school. That didn't stop AKA Gorski and Liebermann from struggling last year although they we're great shooters in high school.

Help side defense isn't something you're just good at. It's something you learn by having it beaten into you over four or five years in college. Proper spacing and floor positioning isn't something you just know either. If you look at Cooke when he first got here, he didn't know where to go on the court. Last year he was all over ESPN and shot 80 percent from the field because he learned(from game and practice experience) where he needed to be take advantage of defenders and get easy dunks. Free throw shooting takes practice. Rebounding takes practice. Everything takes practice to get better. This team has had ONE practice together with coaches there since we won the tourney.

There's a reason why we won last year and the main reason was because of the experience in that senior class. I think people take for granted just what we had with Hank, Nance, Cooke, Grabau, and even Bentz. That experience was the reason why we made the tourney. Bentz looked like a scrub for three years. Last year during crunch time, he was money and a big reason we won the tourney.

We definitely have more talent than Shy's first class back. I don't think that talent is going to make up for very little game experience. Only hard work and experience will change that. Hell, if talent we're everything, UNLV would be 15 year defending champions in the MWC. Instead, they're a blue chip NBA basketball factory that finishes seventh out of 11 teams in the MWC.

And on a side note, if UNLV had the coaching staff we do, they would be winning the MWC every year and making runs in the Tourney because there is something to be said about having high skill guys....

So what's the difference between our staff and Rice's collection of ace recruiters and x and o morons? I think it's the things our guys learn in practice and through experience.

Adams worked his ass off as a freshman and totally bought in, but you can see how much better he is than he was as a freshman. Now he knows the right time to push the pace, when to shoot, drive, or pull it back out. His sophomore year he learned how to attack the rim and absorb the blow, while still finishing the shot(a definite improvement from his freshman campaign). He's way better on defense. He's became a clutch shooter, although he's still streaky.

He's probably the most athletic/talented player on the team. He was average as a freshman. He's a player of the year candidate as a senior.

 

[LanderPoke]

Haha you people are funny. Were going to grill Bohl because he wants "Cowboy Tough" and that means he should be winning games today, theres no excuse for losing and rebuilding. Even though he has no track record of success, he should be winning every game and as fans were not going to give him a break.
THEN, with Shyatt and basketball, after our most successful season in a decade, and its all, well, were gonna take it slow and temper expectations. Lets shoot for 14 wins and that will be good enough. This team is young and inexperienced and needs time to grow and meld (sounds a lot like the football team....) and that won't be this season. 14 WINS!!! That is worse than an 0-12 season in football. Any step back lower than 3rd is a wasted season and a huge disappointment. The people on this board sometimes really blow my mind.

I'm not grilling Bohl. I realize he's transitioning from a team that was small, slow, and not all that strong to a big, strong, and fast smash mouth football team. I realize that until we have guys that are big, strong and fast our smash mouth football team is going to get ass hammered by FCS teams. That's just reality.

Shyatt won 20 games every year he's been back, but he's had veterans to do it with. His first year back he had Adam, Jaydee, and Paco.....This year he's got ONE senior, although that one senior is a bad ass, I'm guessing he's going to be double teamed all year long.

I don't think anyone is shooting for 14 wins. We're just tempering our expectations to fit the roster we have. Right now we have one of, if not the youngest team in college basketball. There are 12 freshmen or sophomores on a roster of 15. That tells me that we might not have the time in the developmental program necessary to win 25 games.

I really do believe our roster is capable of winning NCAA tournament games, or I wouldn't have posted this thread. The last two teams we've had with talent and big physical post players won games in the big dance. I just think it would close to a miracle if it happens this year. Hopefully, I'm wrong, but I'm not going to scream and cry and insult Larry Shyatt if it doesn't happen. I believe in his system and that system is "developmental" with 12 players that have had very little of Shy's development to date. That's not anyones fault. It's just the situation we're in.

Even the Dembo team had to wait until they we're sophomores until they experienced post-season success and that success wasn't in the NCAA. It started in the NIT. Their junior and senior years was in the NCAA tourney. The same can be said with the Bailey/Davis/Uche squad. They didn't have post-season success until the majority of the roster was upper-classmen and Steve McClain wasn't a developmental coach: he was a quick fix, j.c. transfer, out-talent the other team type of coach.

Hopefully the players will prove me wrong, but I'm not going to stop supporting them or blow up social media when my 25 win, unrealistic expectations aren't met.

Cant it be said that this is, hands down, the best roster (on paper) that Shyatt has had in his second stint here? Seniors or not? Outside of Nance, did we not add players at the skill level or higher at each position lost? I understand that we cannot replace "game experience" but shooting is shooting is shooting. These kids have been shooting the basketball their entire lives. Now its just finding their place in the flow of the game. I look at this roster and say for the first time since Shyatt came back, were not looking at a roster of guys that COULD be good in time and will have to adjust to the game but a roster that has GREAT basketball players who's only challenge will be adjusting to the speed at his level. :twocents:

I just don't see as big as a drop off as others do. I guess we'll just have to see in the next couple months.

No way man! We had LArry Nance last year.! Who knows if the freshmen are actually talented, I think they are, but until I see them play, last year's team is much better on paper. Can't discount DC, either. He was very, very good.

 

[stymeman]

at least we have a coaching staff that gets it....

 

[WestWYOPoke]

No way man! We had LArry Nance last year.! Who knows if the freshmen are actually talented, I think they are, but until I see them play, last year's team is much better on paper. Can't discount DC, either. He was very, very good.

Absolutely agree. Saying we signed a bunch of talent is one thing, but actually seeing that talent develop on the court AND work together as a cohesive unit is another. I certainly hope they are all they have been billed as and more, but being a great high school senior doesn't mean jack when you are now going against guys 2,3,4 years older than you.

 

[WestWYOPoke]

The only gap I see skill wise between Adams and the rest of the MWC. Honestly, is there another guard in the MWC on Adams level? I don't think so.

I'm not saying that he is better, BUT Marvelle Harris for Fresno is a pretty darn good player too. Last year he beat Adams in almost every statistical category (points, rebounds, assists, steals) AND he led the conference in minutes per game last year.

I think Adams certainly is more flashy and has that IT factor, but Harris is right up there too.

 

[LanderPoke]

The only gap I see skill wise between Adams and the rest of the MWC. Honestly, is there another guard in the MWC on Adams level? I don't think so.

I'm not saying that he is better, BUT Marvelle Harris for Fresno is a pretty darn good player too. Last year he beat Adams in almost every statistical category (points, rebounds, assists, steals) AND he led the conference in minutes per game last year.

I think Adams certainly is more flashy and has that IT factor, but Harris is right up there too.

Marvelle is good. Moore and Collette are good on USU. And effing Winston Shepard (is this his 29th year?) is very good. It's going to be one of these guys I mentioned or Adams who will win POY.

edit: Forgot about AJ West of Nevada. If they have a big year he could win it too. Oh and forgot about Drimic of Boise. I hate him

 

[ItSucksToBeACSURam]

The only gap I see skill wise between Adams and the rest of the MWC. Honestly, is there another guard in the MWC on Adams level? I don't think so.

I'm not saying that he is better, BUT Marvelle Harris for Fresno is a pretty darn good player too. Last year he beat Adams in almost every statistical category (points, rebounds, assists, steals) AND he led the conference in minutes per game last year.

I think Adams certainly is more flashy and has that IT factor, but Harris is right up there too.

I think this year will be a better indication of Adams skill. He was second (sometimes third) fiddle last season. This season he will be the man. He doesn't have to answer to Nance or DC or any of the other seniors. Look for his stats to take a bump

 

[Cowboy Junky]

The only gap I see skill wise between Adams and the rest of the MWC. Honestly, is there another guard in the MWC on Adams level? I don't think so.

I'm not saying that he is better, BUT Marvelle Harris for Fresno is a pretty darn good player too. Last year he beat Adams in almost every statistical category (points, rebounds, assists, steals) AND he led the conference in minutes per game last year.

I think Adams certainly is more flashy and has that IT factor, but Harris is right up there too.

I think this year will be a better indication of Adams skill. He was second (sometimes third) fiddle last season. This season he will be the man. He doesn't have to answer to Nance or DC or any of the other seniors. Look for his stats to take a bump

He's improved by leaps and bounds since his freshman year. That's my point. Players develop in our system. I don't expect a lot from 12 freshman and sophomores that haven't had much(if any) time to develop.

This year I want to see Adams come out of the gates flying. The last three years he starts the season kind of so/so. In fact, the last three season, he's made a lot of mentally lazy passes(I'm completely fine with his aggressive turnovers) during the early part of the season and then eliminates that by the time the tournament starts. This year, we're going to need him to be locked in when the season starts. If he wants to make it to the NBA, he's going to need to be locked in when the season starts.

We'll need guys to grow up in a hurry and pick up what the staff is teaching them just to be competitive. I wouldn't be surprised if we win 20 games, but I'm not expecting it. We're too green.

 

[Cosmic Cowboy]

I LOVE this thread!!! Everyone making excellent points and just a lot of pumped up Pokes fans. Our spirits are already so high on this board. Expectations are rising as our threads increase from our own fans. That's a helluva thing!!!!!! opcorn: opcorn: opcorn: opcorn: opcorn:

 

[Cosmic Cowboy]

Yo Junky your a great go to hoopshead for us! Here I respect your opinions man. I'm more in your corner of style of thinking on this one. StillSUCKS you got the right kind of fire in your belly with your line of thinking. We did just lose an NBA first round pick off our team. That dude was HUGE for our program. Adams might be an NBA player, who knows? These freshmen are coming from major hoops areas. They could surprise and we aren't even being asked to do Fab 5 level shit ya know? Which can happen. I mean UK is fielding freshmen championship run teams. Why can't we field a team with a MASSIVE veteran leader with freshmen maybe not even having to carry the most heavy lifting. Hell if one of those freshmen can be in our top 4 scorers we'd be dangerous. That doesn't seem too out there.

We'll see :woo: :woo: :woo:

 

[joshvanklomp]

I've mentioned it before, but one reason the Pokes could exceed the tempered expectations is because of Shyatt's system.

It was heavily scrutinized at times because it didn't give the ball to our best player in his best spots. Well now, this is Adams' team, and he has a perimeter-oriented system to work in. Even Herndon is more comfortable on the perimeter than Nance. And the overall perimeter talent is much higher than a year ago.

I'm not ready to say tournament or bust, but I do think our system will be more of a benefit than a deterrent this year.

 

[JimmyDimes]

I've mentioned it before, but one reason the Pokes could exceed the tempered expectations is because of Shyatt's system.

It was heavily scrutinized at times because it didn't give the ball to our best player in his best spots. Well now, this is Adams' team, and he has a perimeter-oriented system to work in. Even Herndon is more comfortable on the perimeter than Nance. And the overall perimeter talent is much higher than a year ago.

I'm not ready to say tournament or bust, but I do think our system will be more of a benefit than a deterrent this year.

The reason why we might not fall off that far from last year is defense. If nothing else, Shyatt will have this team playing solid D and solid D will keep them in most games.

 

[Cosmic Cowboy]

The reason why we might not fall off that far from last year is defense. If nothing else, Shyatt will have this team playing solid D and solid D will keep them in most games.

Another great point Jimmy! With this many guards youth and speed could be on our side. We might be able to crank up some half court defense intensity. Hell maybe even press. We all know you don't see the court for Shyball unless you D up! If the youngsters crank that up we might be able to gas teams at home all year.