The Ryan Conwell investment.

Conwell was far and away Coach Miller's prized 2024 signing in the wake of his stellar Indiana St. sophomore season. Not only that, he was not a "rental"....he arrived with TWO years of eligibility remaining. It could be argued that Miller was extremely confident that Ryan would be the "tip of the spear" for program success in those 2 seasons.....basically ALL IN.

It appears that something has gone terribly wrong.

His last 4 games, the 3 loses especially, are nothing close statistically to his previous FIFTY (4/4/24?).

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...7/ryan-conwell
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ball/year/2024

This is not a "slump"....Injury? Not even rumors of any.

Obviously there is a lot of season left and any ball he plays for that duration will be for X, although reduced PT or injury is always possible. OR, he could do a quick 180° and perform to Miller's high expectations. However, if this continues to be reality....his return for next season has to be in question.

I don't see how you can say this is not a slump? I think it’s simply a shooting slump and he’s probably pressing quite a bit.

He’s not athletic enough at this level to breakdown a defense so shooting is his weapon. That weapon has failed him in 3 of the last 4 games. Hopefully he snaps out of it quickly.

Because I suspect something else is going on.

It's a tough stretch. Call it a slump if you will, but his track record leads me to believe he will bounce back.

Last night was brutal and he won't shoot 1-10 very often.

RC is one of our most important players. He is not the reason we lost to St. Johns.

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Originally Posted by nuts4xu

It's a tough stretch. Call it a slump if you will, but his track record leads me to believe he will bounce back.

Last night was brutal and he won't shoot 1-10 very often.

RC is one of our most important players. He is not the reason we lost to St. Johns.

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Agreed. We lost because we can’t rebound and we don’t do the fundamentals like box out. We have zero inside toughness. Free tries very hard but hes limited defensively and gets pushed around because of his size

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Originally Posted by Xuperman

Because I suspect something else is going on.

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PLEASE enlighten us on what you think is going on.

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Originally Posted by Xuperman

Conwell was far and away Coach Miller's prized 2024 signing in the wake of his stellar Indiana St. sophomore season. Not only that, he was not a "rental"....he arrived with TWO years of eligibility remaining. It could be argued that Miller was extremely confident that Ryan would be the "tip of the spear" for program success in those 2 seasons.....basically ALL IN.

It appears that something has gone terribly wrong.

His last 4 games, the 3 loses especially, are nothing close statistically to his previous FIFTY (4/4/24?).

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...7/ryan-conwell
https://www.espn.com/mens-college-ba...ball/year/2024

This is not a "slump"....Injury? Not even rumors of any.

Obviously there is a lot of season left and any ball he plays for that duration will be for X, although reduced PT or injury is always possible. OR, he could do a quick 180° and perform to Miller's high expectations. However, if this continues to be reality....his return for next season has to be in question.

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He’s facing a lot different levels of talent in the Big East than he would have faced in ISUs conference. And they had a couple other offensive stars to allow him to NOT be the focus of the defense.

I don’t think it’s a slump. I think this is how successful he’s gonna be at this level. Unfortunately

This team needs Ryan Conwell. I'll take his body of work over a few bad games. He will bounce back.

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Originally Posted by MHettel

He’s facing a lot different levels of talent in the Big East than he would have faced in ISUs conference. And they had a couple other offensive stars to allow him to NOT be the focus of the defense.

I don’t think it’s a slump. I think this is how successful he’s gonna be at this level. Unfortunately

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If you think that, then explain Michigan, TCU, UC, Seton Hall, Wake and UCONN games.

He is a great weapon for a team that can win it all. A team that has 3-4 really good options (including low post options). I’m not sure he’s great when he’s the leader of a team that doesn’t have many other options. It’s really hard to be a good offense when no one on the team can consistently beat there man and help open it up.

He can be the best player on a really good roster and it’s fine, he’s not a guy that will absolutely carry a bad team.