Outside of Cliff, no contribution from our freshmen. Outside of Rieber for like five minutes there hasn’t been any all year. Too early to call them a bust but certainly haven’t lived up to the hype - we kept hearing great stuff about Palmquist in January/February 2020 but hasn’t translated to the court
Negative from today (and all year)
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No 10-12 game OOC schedule for development. Biggest factor
How about you just try to enjoy a much needed W. Geez.
What a stupid d!ckhead post on a day we break a long losing streak.
They’ve made contributions. Right now with everyone healthy they don’t have a role which is just fine.
edit - didn’t mean to say that they have no role. Just not on the court necessarily right now. Their role in practice and supporting the team is important
edit - didn’t mean to say that they have no role. Just not on the court necessarily right now. Their role in practice and supporting the team is important
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This lol . If you can’t enjoy this win that keeps our season alive ,I don’t know what to say.
This is how the majority of good teams are. They have maybe one or two freshman contribute unless you're Kentucky, Duke or UNC who gets multiple 5 star one and dones.
You count on your experienced upper classmen to win. In years past we didn't have the talent to not have our freshman play a lot.
You count on your experienced upper classmen to win. In years past we didn't have the talent to not have our freshman play a lot.
We just broke a losing streak. Why the need to go negative?
We had freshman contributions in previous years because most of our upperclassman weren’t very good.
Now we don’t have that issue.
It’s pretty hard to have freshman contributions when you have an experienced team up and down the roster who are better than your freshman and almost no OOC games.
Relax.
Freshman make impacts all over college basketball. We aren’t writing them off, but you can’t be happy that only 1 is making an impact.
ron played 20 2nd half minutes
Paul 17
Geo 17
there was an opportunity for PT today. Paul is a nice glue player. When I see him playing the minutes he played that is a bad sign for the 3 freshman.
sorry
Look at the top 3 teams in the country and count how many freshman are playing significant minutes.
The one thing I will say is this has been a real messed up season for the frosh without OOC games and an anything but normal introduction to major college basketball and college/campus life
pike said he was very high on this class ...and that’s not counting JJ and Jaden miller
they get this year back ...and next year...we have 6 frosh. Cliff, Jaden, jalen, Oskar, Magot ans mag.
let’s see what those six give us next year with a more normal off season and 11 out of confrence game schedule
pike said he was very high on this class ...and that’s not counting JJ and Jaden miller
they get this year back ...and next year...we have 6 frosh. Cliff, Jaden, jalen, Oskar, Magot ans mag.
let’s see what those six give us next year with a more normal off season and 11 out of confrence game schedule
we won our first game since December 29, I really am not concerned about the freshmen right now
Other than Cliff, we don’t need our freshman to make an impact this year.
When healthy Cliff has made an impact.
We have a deep team filled with veterans. There’s almost no opportunity for our freshman (other than Cliff) to make an impact when basically just playing a conference schedule.
Now if you want to argue that it’s concerning our freshman haven’t gotten much experience or might not be ready to step up when needed next year and beyond, that’s a whole bother argument.
Wrong again.
Pikiell’s strategy today was to shorten the bench and play the kids that would bring home a W.
There was no need or reason to play freshman other than Cliff, and Cliff played pretty well.
Only negative which almost cost us again was free throw shooting at game end; Harper missed 1 out of 2; Jacob Young missed the front end of a 1 and 1 and then Geo missed his first and thank fully made the second; til that point in the game we were shooting our best percentage of the year from the line
Pretty obvious to me. Myles redshirted and I don’t think he’s a bust lol.