| you've been a real value added to this board, fame, in spite of the scrapes you and xioxue have had. you really know your roundball, so much so that i'd bet you've played somewhere above the IM level.
i agree with almost everything you said. i admit i was one of those who reported luis not showing up in various games over the season--notably, for example, during the game when both he and billy did not score a single point--but he always was the kind of nasty defender that i remember vividly when hervey was an underclassman executing key stops so that jeff and david could go off on the other end.
billy was what he was, a journeyman, solid but never spectacular. and bias remains an unknown other than his heralded prep statistics.
seems to me that coach will be looking for an ivan johnson type D1 bounceback at guard unless he can nail a very high level juco player away from the yotes. we just can't depend upon the high school talent pool entirely with so many holes to fill. it's not coach k's style but if you want to win at this high level you must do what you must do.
larry's team? perhaps. in fact, i hope you're right in the fashion that it was jeff and david's team in their junior years--point guard j. williams' notwithstanding. i still say that was our best team since 1964 for it took a perfect game from a final four jumberjack five to put us away. if baby shaq can stay healthy it could be his team. he has the size and now the tools to put it all together in his senior season. i love his soft touch for such a wide body. he deserves a full year of being pain free.
i also remain concerned about how long we can expect coach k. to pull rabbits out of the bronco hat with inferior facilities and higher admission standards. he almost bit on the northern kentucky job a couple years back, and the nibbles will keep coming for a guy of his caliber.
finally, what of the future of the ladies program? while i can't forsee the huge decline over more than a decade like we've seen in bronco baseball i wonder what michelle's chances are to stay on and what we might see in the future. i remember a time when the ladies games would just about outdraw the mens, and those five national crowns throw a long shadow on the program. |