Thoughts on the remaining season

Portal roulette may give us lightning in a bottle every so often, but who on earth wants to do that every year? There's no chance the staff can re-work the roster every year. They will be burnt out by 2026.

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Originally Posted by drudy23

And from what I've seen, he would have broken into some playing time at X.

This is part of the "changes" that this program needs to start thinking about. You have to have a developmental plan with these incoming freshman now. Are they going to struggle and make mistakes - yes, likely most of them. But if you believe in their development and impact, you have to find a way to get them involved early.

If you don't play them and you recruit over them, of course they're going to leave. Why wouldn't they? I don't blame the kid for that.

This old-school get off my lawn approach of "they have to get in line" doesn't work anymore.

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Well then, we need to have a 9 man rotation where every one plays at least 10 minutes.

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Originally Posted by JTG

Well then, we need to have a 9 man rotation where every one plays at least 10 minutes.

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Or the alternative - filling 5-6 holes every year? Which has come to fruition, and we may find ourselves there again this off-season.

The freshman coming in deserve a plan for their development.

Conwell is the better player overall. It's close, but Conwell gets after it on D too.

EDIT: please delete, posted in wrong thread. Where's the damn delete button?

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Originally Posted by drudy23

And from what I've seen, he would have broken into some playing time at X.

This is part of the "changes" that this program needs to start thinking about. You have to have a developmental plan with these incoming freshman now. Are they going to struggle and make mistakes - yes, likely most of them. But if you believe in their development and impact, you have to find a way to get them involved early.

If you don't play them and you recruit over them, of course they're going to leave. Why wouldn't they? I don't blame the kid for that.

This old-school get off my lawn approach of "they have to get in line" doesn't work anymore.

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Originally Posted by Xville

Yeah. Frankly, this was a huge loss and a bad decision by miller and staff. I like Conwell and Foster, but there was no need to have both of them with Powell in the mix. X could have just given Powell the time, and probably had more money in the bank for an impact forward. Losing a 6'6 guard who looks really legit, basically out of your own neighborhood is really bad.

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Right now Powell is not as good as Foster, Conwell or Swain. He's better than Maddox from 3 by a small margin, but Maddox has gotten only about half the attempts. Powell doesn't rebound or assist or get to the line.

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Originally Posted by waggy

Right now Powell is not as good as Foster, Conwell or Swain. He's better than Maddox from 3 by a small margin, but Maddox has gotten only about half the attempts. Powell doesn't rebound or assist or get to the line.

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He shouldn't be better than those guys who have more experience.

But the point is, he's making an impact as a freshman, and that's one of the ways you have to retain your preferred HS recruits. It's also great development for Powell.

If we continue to not play preferred freshman because they're "not as good" or "aren't as good defensively" (which is obvious), they will never stick around. Again, these guys DESERVE a developmental path. If the plan is to recruit less high school talent, that's fine, but those kids have to be invested in just as heavily as the portal guys (with either money or developmental time, or both).

You cannot afford to lose those HS guys if you're only brining in a couple a year. But those kids are likely also very well thought of as potential impact players for the future.

IMO, it's an area where Miller has to shift his world view a little bit. Coaches have to evolve too.

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Originally Posted by drudy23

He shouldn't be better than those guys who have more experience.

But the point is, he's making an impact as a freshman, and that's one of the ways you have to retain your preferred HS recruits.

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Correct, especially a hs recruit that is basically in your backyard. He's more important than getting Foster for a year that's for sure.

If we had him, Swain and then the two recruits next year, at the least you are building your roster back..eventually getting to a place where you don't have to go portal fishing your whole roster every year.

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Originally Posted by Xville

Correct, especially a hs recruit that is basically in your backyard. He's more important than getting Foster for a year that's for sure.

If we had him, Swain and then the two recruits next year, at the least you are building your roster back..eventually getting to a place where you don't have to go portal fishing your whole roster every year.

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This seems pretty obvious to me.

Do people really think the way forward is to just re-load a new roster every year? It will never work long-term. We will go through coaching staffs every 3 years.

I think he went hard for experience/age. Last time to get old fast with covid years behind us now. I also will give him leeway figuring the new age out. Some good freshman coming in next year, they’ve offered a 7 footer for class of 26. Guessing they know the path isn’t sustainable.

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Originally Posted by drudy23

This seems pretty obvious to me.

Do people really think the way forward is to just re-load a new roster every year? It will never work long-term. We will go through coaching staffs every 3 years.

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I've been banging this drum for the better part of a month.