why are we not going after shooters
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Not sure why this isn’t happening already. Pope needs more transparency! How can we audit him without all the details? 😉
No matter who Pope would sign the next post would be that that player sucks and that UL is doing so much better or some SEC team. It really gets old. I trust Pope and the coaching staff to do the best they can to make the team the best it can be. Remember, we are just fans, its his job and he understands that. As he says, he knows the assignment.
Preaching to the choir on that one. I’m as pro-Pope as anyone on here. I trust Pope
God the Braves are killing me. Worst off-season in baseball and now they can’t win a game.
Seems to me we could pluck Berea's best shooters easy enough. I don't think they even offer scholarships much less an NIL package.
Oops..... I don't know man I heard Berea College have some loyal players. Not sure Pope can get those guys from the portal with the way things are looking.
And we were somehow the second favorite pick to win it all. I....just don't know anymore man.
The Roster was loaded but we lost a ton of a pitching and our signing was Profar and he did PEDs and is now gone for 80 games and the postseason. We didn’t replace the pitching and now we can’t hit.
I’ve felt more postseason pain than the reds could ever dream of!
Our postseason pain is every year being in pain about missing the postseason
I don’t think we’re not going after shooters.
I do think we’re not offering competitive NIL packages to many of the players we’re going after.
But let’s put that aside for the moment and let’s assume we’re not going after shooters.
We’re not going after blind old women. So obviously this would only mean we’re not going after the very highest caliber shooters in the nation.
Which we certainly had last year, both in Brea and in Almonor, who was leading the SEC in perimeter shooting for a good chunk of the conference schedule if you were paying attention.
But both those guys, especially Brea, spent a lot of time towards the end of the season running around, not being able to get open.
Both were amazing shooters. Neither were stellar at creating open shots for themselves.
So what if we get a guy who is 10% worse at putting the ball through the basket from beyond the arc when he’s wide open, but is 20% better at getting wide open? Or what if we get a guy who is 10% worse at putting the ball through the basket from beyond the arc when he’s wide open, but is 10% better at putting the ball through the basket from beyond the arc when he’s got a man in his face? Or what if we bring in three guys who are all exactly 10% worse than Brea at putting the ball through the basket from beyond the arc when they’re wide open, and then since we have so many of them we’ll be able to have them spend a lot more of their time on the court actually wide open, with defenders guarding the other ones, actually putting the ball in the basket from beyond the arc, the same way Brea shot better before Robinson went down.
I think there is a decent amount of room to bring in guys who shoot better even if they are worse shooters.
I do think we’re not offering competitive NIL packages to many of the players we’re going after.
But let’s put that aside for the moment and let’s assume we’re not going after shooters.
We’re not going after blind old women. So obviously this would only mean we’re not going after the very highest caliber shooters in the nation.
Which we certainly had last year, both in Brea and in Almonor, who was leading the SEC in perimeter shooting for a good chunk of the conference schedule if you were paying attention.
But both those guys, especially Brea, spent a lot of time towards the end of the season running around, not being able to get open.
Both were amazing shooters. Neither were stellar at creating open shots for themselves.
So what if we get a guy who is 10% worse at putting the ball through the basket from beyond the arc when he’s wide open, but is 20% better at getting wide open? Or what if we get a guy who is 10% worse at putting the ball through the basket from beyond the arc when he’s wide open, but is 10% better at putting the ball through the basket from beyond the arc when he’s got a man in his face? Or what if we bring in three guys who are all exactly 10% worse than Brea at putting the ball through the basket from beyond the arc when they’re wide open, and then since we have so many of them we’ll be able to have them spend a lot more of their time on the court actually wide open, with defenders guarding the other ones, actually putting the ball in the basket from beyond the arc, the same way Brea shot better before Robinson went down.
I think there is a decent amount of room to bring in guys who shoot better even if they are worse shooters.
Man if Trent and Travis are top seven I'm worried we are not where we want to be . meaning FF contenders . Maybr you were just tallking 3 pt shooting. But that alone doesnt win , esp if you cant get your shooters open with someone to draw a double team . or be a super drive-dish-finisher type .
I hear you but we have 9 scholarship players and Perry and Noah probably aren’t top 7 as we speak. I love BBN but we get mad about the cake before the batter gets finished.
I'm not mad nor impatient , it will come together . At least I think it will and I'd be shocked if it didnt .. if I were Pope and I didnt get the players I wanted because of $$ I'd consider stating it " I wanted some guys that got away". of course he can use language that doesnt insult his employer .. but if we are not getting the players how can we expect to win ??
I’m kind of hoping that Pope will be more forthright about just telling us things like that if it’s true. I know we have money so the Louisville excuses don’t work but do we have Duke, Arkansas or BYU money? No. To me, that is not acceptable. We need to go all in on basketball with revenue sharing or we will become Indiana.
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Either Pope doesn’t think they are a great fit for what he’s trying to build or he isn’t willing to pay what they are getting from other schools. Pretty simple answer.
And saying Pope isn’t going after any shooters is pretty freaking stupid after seeing his offensive style this past year.
Isaac McNeely from Virginia (transferring to Louisville) is likely NBA Draft-bound? Are you confusing him with Liam McNeely from UConn?
