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Dean Smith

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  1. 24 minutes ago, cornfed24-7 said:

    And a big old pffft to the notion that if Hoiberg has to play meaningful minutes we're in trouble. 

    Add Keisei and Gary and you’re at a 10 man rotation. I don’t think we’re going to play a 10 man rotation. Add those two and he’s not in the top 8. Minutes should be limited for Hoiberg and Rice. Both of them

    are ok players.  We simply have 8 better players then those two and that’s a good thing.

  2. 8 hours ago, Red Don said:

    IDK, but IIRC Derrick Walker missing a lot of games early last season was attributed to his own decision; unspecified personal reasons but I think part of it was put down to a lack of motivation to play on his part. 

    I must of missed that. I know a lot of people jumped to the conclusion of a failed drug test. And maybe it’s just the way you phrased it that seems so off putting. 

  3. 13 hours ago, Navin R. Johnson said:

     

    I remember watching one of his first NBA games and he was guarding my idol Magic Johnson.  Pretty cool to see a kid from Kearney State do that.  I believe he started his career at Hastings College before transferring to be a Loper.

    Coming back from playing in Hawaii for Hastings, Bart found himself throwing up on the plane for some reason and then had to transfer out. I did see him dunk at 12 feet on that hoop Doc Farrell had that could crank up and down. Down for me. 

  4. 8 hours ago, basketballjones said:

    Disagree. Purely conjecture - just my opinion there's a better chance Blaise doesn't play and isn't on our roster next year than him playing more minutes than Sam Hoiberg. Just my opinion, I have no "inside info" regarding that. Sam Hoiberg literally, not figuratively, won us multiple games last year. He's no longer a "coach's son walk-on" in my eyes. IMO he's a bonafide rotation piece. Again, no inside info here, I don't think Diop is as ready as people say and the clips show. 

    My opinion is if Sam is playing any meaningful minutes, something bad has happened. I also believe Jacobson can do everything Sam can and is twice the athlete. 

  5. 2 minutes ago, lang said:

    Dube could jump, but he couldn’t run well or shoot well and he wasn’t 6’ 10” with a 7’3” wingspan. 

    Diop? Dude ran well in the full court drills and I didn’t pull out a tape measure but if he’s  not 6’10 with a 7’3 wing span it wasn’t obvious. I have no reason to doubt those measurements. He did hit five threes in a row which is substantially better than what you or I could do. 

  6. On 6/16/2023 at 12:00 PM, hskr4life said:


    Hopefully it’s not gone were the days….

     

    Ive never seen an organization hire a hiring firm only to rehire the same coach.

    Apparently the metric they used to determine the coaching hire this time around was created by Gregg. Surprisingly it turns out he fits that metric the best. Craig Burley on ESPN FC said everyone involved in the decision were “a bunch of muppets.” We had to hire an outside firm because no one in USA soccer knows what they’re doing? And we end up where we started?

     

    Gio has shown he’s more important to the team than Gregg is. He needs to play in the middle from here on out. And Flo is the striker we’ve needed. A clinical finisher on top takes this team to a whole new level. 

  7. 4 hours ago, aphilso1 said:

     

    Ligue 1 is incredibly top heavy, and the bottom half of the league is not any better than your average MLS side.  Their scrubs really are bad by top flight league standards.  And that's not really a hot take when you look at salaries for the two leagues.  There's a bunch of dudes starting for Ligue 1 sides making $300k and less, just like in MLS. 

     

    I would contend that the average team from England's Championship is significantly better than the average Ligue 1 (or MLS) side.  Honestly I would put the Championship as the fifth best league in the world, and would probably put the Eredivisie above Ligue 1 too.  But I also look more at a league top to bottom when considering strength, while I realize most people look mostly at the strength of the top teams while mainly considering results in Champions League and Europa.  And from that point of view Ligue 1 is fifth rather than in that 7-10 range like I contend they should be.

     

    One other quibble -- Scottish Premiership better than MLS? Really?  We could send our best MLS teams to get smashed 7-1 in Champions League action just like Rangers does.  The difference is that the gap from top to bottom in MLS isn't nearly as large as the gap in Scottish Premiership.  Scotland has only two teams with a pulse many seasons.  I do agree we need promotion and relegation though.

    I said Scotland and Austria were maybes. I have not watched a lot of lower table French teams and I doubt too many people have. When I look at the statistical power rankings,  Ligue 1 is fifth (one listed them 6th behind Brazil) and the MLS was 15-17th. Behind leagues like Greek, Turks, and Ukrainian. I’m not a soccer snob. I watch the owls in USL 1 and even went to the high school state tournament. I’ll watch the MLS and have gone to quite a few games. The level of play is not good compared to other countries. Having admitted I’ve not watched a lot of lower level French football, I find it hard to believe any MLS team could stay up in that league. We have what the call potential. Hopefully one day we will live up to it. 

     

     

  8. 1 hour ago, aphilso1 said:

     

    I had to pause for a second when you called the French Ligue 1 "a top 5 league."  There's an obvious top 4 that is heads and shoulders above everyone else in the world.  I guess France could make the argument that their domestic league is #5, given the recent-ish success of PSG.  But it feels weird to call a league with one superpower and a bunch of scrubs as a top 5 league.  That's like calling the WCC a Top 5 college basketball league simply because Gonzaga happens to be a member.  

    I think most of the world sees Ligue 1 as the 5th of the top 5 leagues. Any of their "scrub" teams would run the MLS. There need to be many changes made before the MLS can actually be competitive on the world stage (time of season + relegation and promotion to begin with). I hope someday they make those changes but I'm not holding my breath. Leagues better than the MLS would include the Netherlands, Brazil, Portugal, Mexico, Russia, Belgium, Turkey, possibly Austria and Scotland and definately better is the Championship, England's second division.

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