Dexter Dennis shot 29% from the three last season and while he had previous seasons at a higher percentage, the trend was down over his four years at Wichita State. Nnot sure we need another guy who can't shoot the three. Maybe another Evan Fitzner? Kopp also had a three point percentage trend down.
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Both of those last two guys are defensive players first and foremost. Fitzner was a shooter, before he got here. Those guys were never shooters/scorers.
I'm not slamming Woodson..
But I'll stand by.. He's shown me so far to be just slightly above avge..
I'm giving him another yr...To either go all in.
Or look elsewhere soon...
5 yrs for him would be long to me..
What you talking about Willis?
You truly have no idea what we have in Woody do you?
Dead period until today. So I think a kid could transfer in I don't think he could visit until now. I think you should see a lot of kids pick next week. Pack and Llewellyn are up in WL for example.
Yeah, X was terrible and we would have won more games if Phinisee or Lander started, right?
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This is a poor take. Proof all over the place of transfers being very successful.
Michigan State is trying to take your route. I think Izzo is trying to go against the grain of building from within in hopes that it translates to better teams. So far....results for them have been meh.
With players now staying in college longer, the game is going to have better quality based on consistently having more veteran teams. The portal is becoming more vital than high school recruits.
Oh boy. Won’t he be excited that you are giving him another year since he only took a team that hadn’t made the tourney in any recent year until the first year he took over…
That must be a big part of it. Plus, consider how many other schools have kids in the same situation as TJD. Other dominoes then may fall as well. Is a player like JG waiting to see what TJD does before deciding to enter portal? Hope not in his case, but point is a lot of chips are still left to fall. I would think most of the top kids in the portal would want to wait until the deadline to withdraw from the draft passes (June 1st). Seems the teams would prefer to wait until then as well, unless a really big-time player wants to commit.
Agreed. Team certainly had its flaws, but he got them playing much better defense (never understood the pack-line) and the O looked good at times but had some ill-fitting parts. Has to be tough for a first-year coach to implement his system with players the last coach recruited and (in this case) whatever he can scrounge late from the portal. Great sign to hear how well he's spoken of by NBA players and coaches. Recruits have to be impacted by that.
Good times ahead
There is no way this team sniffs the final four with race as post.
Race can guard the post if he’s fronting. Just not for extended minutes. Like a few minutes in situations. He did ok against Purdue.
The Pack line is the perfect B1G ten defense. Wisconsin and Michigan state play versions of it. Grind you and beat you up. It’s hard to win the NCAA tournament with it. Leaves perimeter shots open. I hate it. Hate watching it too.
We kept hearing how great the pack line was, and Viriginia has seemed to play a heckuva version of it. Our version always looked to me like the "dare you to hit open 3s" defense.
Virginia has always needed to have elite perimeter defenders to make their pack line work. Without those defenders, Virginia's defense was nothing special. And even when they had those defenders, they were still susceptible to getting torched from 3 from time to time (*cough* UMBC)
They all allow 3s. It’s the close outs we struggled with. Wisconsins version extends out a little more. Virginia is the classic version. So yes it is a percentage game playing the packline.
Wisconsin lost in the finals because of that. I seriously doubt another team wins the tournament playing a classic pack defense. Especially with where the 3 point line is.
Did I miss something? I wasn’t implying he could start as a main post player. I must’ve missed an earlier comment.
It sure seems so. Better than the last coach already. So at least there’s that…
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