We are NOT a top 5 team. Part of that was Hoiberg hype. Part of that was Diallo. Part of that was Williams. We've also lost Custer and GT. Long, Cooke, and Ernst are physical uncertainties. I think we will be around 15th - about like last year. On the plus side, I think McKay will be even better. Replacing BDJ ,Hogue, Edozie, with Cooke, Burton, Ernst is a push.
We are NOT a top 5 team. Part of that was Hoiberg hype. Part of that was Diallo. Part of that was Williams. We've also lost Custer and GT. Long, Cooke, and Ernst are physical uncertainties. I think we will be around 15th - about like last year. On the plus side, I think McKay will be even better. Replacing BDJ ,Hogue, Edozie, with Cooke, Burton, Ernst is a push.
Call me crazy but I like Nader better than I like Hogue.
We are NOT a top 5 team. Part of that was Hoiberg hype. Part of that was Diallo. Part of that was Williams. We've also lost Custer and GT. Long, Cooke, and Ernst are physical uncertainties. I think we will be around 15th - about like last year. On the plus side, I think McKay will be even better. Replacing BDJ ,Hogue, Edozie, with Cooke, Burton, Ernst is a push.
Y'all act like losing BDJ is a bad thing. He wasn't exactly a positive note for us last year...
Call me crazy but I like Nader better than I like Hogue.
BDJ was a decent player. But he was definitely not a DeAndre Kane. Kane was at another level.
Decent player maybe, but massive locker room cancer.
Just depends on where they are playing. Houge was great as an undersized 4 two years ago, but trying ot play the 3 last year didn't really work. He should never have been on the floor with McKay at the same time.
Nader is more of a 3 in how he plays. His improvement is key to how high this team can go. If he improves to an all-Big12 caliber this year, this team is a whole new kind of scary good.
So part of the reason we were a top 5 team before Fred left was Darien Williams? Wasn't he a "physical uncertainty" like Long and Cooke are now? Long and Cooke are both supposed to be ready when the season rolls around. Heck, Hallice is already playing Cap City-- four months before our first regular season game.We are NOT a top 5 team. Part of that was Hoiberg hype. Part of that was Diallo. Part of that was Williams. We've also lost Custer and GT. Long, Cooke, and Ernst are physical uncertainties. I think we will be around 15th - about like last year. On the plus side, I think McKay will be even better. Replacing BDJ ,Hogue, Edozie, with Cooke, Burton, Ernst is a push.
Yes the addition of another great big man would be welcomed by every single team in America with open arms. That would improve every single team significantly. ISU is a preason top 5 team by every single preseason meaningful publisher and Vegas has them as top 5 odds as national champs. I guess I'm not sure what your definition of elite is. Would Cheick Diallo had made us that much better? Absolutely I agree. Are we not an elite team because we missed out on him? I'd disagree.
He couldn't even stop partying after cops did everything they could to try and keep this guy from getting into trouble. There's a difference between the media overblowing things and just being an idiot. BDJ acted like a kid when he was with the team and didn't mesh well with a lot of the players. Losing him is a good thing, in my opinion. He was pretty much useless once conference play started and that's why his minutes suffered dramatically.From what I've heard after the season and seen on social media this is greatly overblown. He was used as a scapegoat towards to end of the year when in reality he was having little impact positive or negative to the team on and off the court.
I don't consider us a top 5 team. Being wrong would be wonderful.