I'm in. TJ is the WAY!
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Who is making him out to be a home run hire? Link?
The amount people that seem to be highlighting over and over and over and over and over at the beginning or end of their posts how much they think we’re gonna suck this year and how low expectations are and how the ceiling is 10 wins etc …..is really weird. We get it the program hit an all time low. It’s like several people adopted somebody’s else’s opinion of this team as their own and it’s become the thing to do on this forum. Nobody knows the ceiling…but I think it’s a little higher than people are giving credit for.
our big men are going to get abused in big 12 play is my biggest concern. Why do you think we doubled literally every post touch last night? Good teams are going to take advantage of us having to do that.
Agree, only a state of mind at this point. Physical Portland is gone. Burned to the ground two summers ago.
Unless you are talking Portland Maine.
If the 2021 football season has taught me anything... It's that I need to set healthy and realistic expectation and be pumped when/if they exceed them.
Look at the schedule.
Should be wins (7):
Kenn St, Ala St, Gram St, Ark PB, Jack St, SE LA, Chi St
Toss up games (6):
Ore St, @iowa, Missouri, home against TCU and K-state, @Creigton
Bart Torvik's site gives us a 16% chance of victory in Omaha and 26% in Iowa City. Let's say we win half of those toss up games at Hilton. That is 10 wins. The Big 12 is DAMN good again, we have no one proven at Iowa State to carry a team for the entire season. Statistically we have a mountain to climb.
But I'm as excited to watch this team as I've ever been. Partly because I don't expect much and I want to see what the future holds. Some fans don't quite get how bad a a state the program was left by Prohm. Add on Johnson transferring late, a building block is about to be arrested for sexual assault and a key role player quitting the team days before the first game... It's bad. But I'm pumped to see what it could become (just look at how good our signing class was today)
The passing and cutting around the perimeter was FAST, and a shock to the system after what we've seen. So fast, in fact, that I thought we'd turn one over when we did that, but surprisingly, most of the turnovers seemed to involve getting a little too excited in transition, or in driving the paint.
Are they good? Well, no, not really. But they aren't helpless and hopeless, which is what the last 2 years were.
No more losing to FAMU or Milwaukee Sheet Metal Academy. No more losing by 30 at home.
They will beat the punching bags in non-con. They will win some toss up games, and a handful in conference. Bad P5 teams win 10-15 games, and don't quite make the NIT. That's what I think we are looking at this season.
It's a good start. Hunter absolutely looked the part, he will be a good one. More talent is on the way. I saw a much better coached team than I have for a long time.
I was NOT happy the Clone Cones now come in much smaller little bowls, what kind of BS is that???
No more losing to FAMU or Milwaukee Sheet Metal Academy. No more losing by 30 at home.
They will beat the punching bags in non-con. They will win some toss up games, and a handful in conference. Bad P5 teams win 10-15 games, and don't quite make the NIT. That's what I think we are looking at this season.
It's a good start. Hunter absolutely looked the part, he will be a good one. More talent is on the way. I saw a much better coached team than I have for a long time.
I was NOT happy the Clone Cones now come in much smaller little bowls, what kind of BS is that???
I all about the positive vibes. I hope that TJ is the next Mayor or CMC. What I saw last night looked more like pickup basketball at LA Fitness. It does have to get better though.
Were we watching the same game? The team yesterday was sloppy, but there was at least something resembling an offense. Prohm’s offense was pickup ball. Pass it around the arc, dribble the shot clock out, and then play some 1v1 hero ball.
Were there some moments that were real sloppy? Yes, you’ll have that in most basketball games, especially first game of the year. We were actually running an offense though, and come to think of it I can only remember a few times running a ball screen, which was about all you got the last two years of Prohm’s “offense”.
Prohm's team would have lost last night. Last night was the defensive intensity we have been asking for since Fred. That is by far the biggest take away
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Well I am going to give it a couple of years years of rent free on the expectations stuff.
I will be happy if they are just hard to play against on a regular basis, like they were last night.
I will be happy if they are just hard to play against on a regular basis, like they were last night.
After the the preaching TJ has been doing about defense and toughness, I doubt "playing" Hoiberg defense is an option.
We might not have the depth from a practice standpoint, but based on what I saw last night depth isn't going to be an issue for games (unless we have a couple injuries). We will go 9 guys deep and all are guys that can play at Big12 level.
Not saying we will be great, but that is because we don't have All Big12 level players. But if guys like Enaruna, Kunc or Jackson are our 8 & 9th guys, they will get the job done.
Image quality on my TV was great. My TV is about 10 years old, but the picture was very clear.
I don’t think that was the point of my post…
In the most un-serious way I can, I’m simply saying not to get ahead of ourselves.
I want TJ to be great too…last year sucked, but it’s a silly to get jacked up over beating a small school at home.
TJ is a fantastic recruiter. And I think he’s a bright young basketball mind. I’m excited to see what happens over the next 5 years.
