Absolutely he will. None of the bigs have been taught the skills to play around the rim. I don’t understand how people put all the blame on the players. You do drills in practice to gain the skill and muscle memory to instinctively react in a game. That’s called coaching.
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If you only have 3 returners and no impact freshman then the team will not be a contender.
If you have 3 returnees, let’s say:
PG -
SG - Chandler
SF -
PF -
C - Moreno
6th - Williams
^ You’re saying you’d have to have an impact freshman. I’d say that is untrue. Since most of us are unfamiliar with with most of the portal guys from this year, I’ll replace those three spots with Michigan’s portal guys from last year.
PG - Cadeau
SG - Chandler
SF - Lendeborg
PF - Johnson
C - Moreno
6th - Williams
^ This theoretical roster was built using only portal guys from a national contender this season. If you don’t think that would be a contender, I don’t know what to tell you.
No, I don’t think you NEED a freshman.
(For those who are going to misunderstand, no, I don’t think Yaxel’s grow on trees and no, I’m not saying I know for a fact Pope would land this type of portal haul. The point is that you can supplement your returnees with excellent portal transfers and be a contender.)
True. Watch the skill set of the.big men in the final 4 and then watch ours......it's depressing how undeveloped our players are.
I’m waiting to see what powerhouse is going to be knocking down the door for BG. And I doubt he will be a starter anywhere he goes, he couldn’t start over a freshman this year.
Continuity/ Roster retention is a double edged sword I'd argue that you don't want much continuity on a team as dysfunctional as last year.
Can't have continuity on a bad team and expect that continuity to be a great team just because they have another shot at it.
Individual players can grow but the general basis of the team was a extremely offensively challenged on offense and pretty bad on defense as well can't return that and just expect it to get better.
He failed with the program he ruined it. Well, he ruined. What was left of it after Barney blew it to hell.
Could you do worse than BG? Sure. Are you winning a national championship relying on a significant contribution from BG? No. So I’ll roll the dice with somebody new.