The next wave needs to take it to the next level.

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Bigtenchamp

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This will likely tell us where Fran's legacy his headed.

Mike G, Woodbur, and co... they were good enough to get us to the NCAA 3 straight years... which is nothing to scoff at.

But they didn't have the talent... especially offensively to take it beyond that.

Hopefully the next wave can.
 
When I look at the really good teams in the tournament I see great guard play. Really worried about our lack of recruiting at the point guard position.
 
DJL said:
When I look at the really good teams in the tournament I see great guard play. Really worried about our lack of recruiting at the point guard position.
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imagine if this team had Tyler Ulis... but yes we need to get guards that can shoot and penetrate.

Gessell and Clemmons are avg drivers... poor shooters.
 
Someone said in the game thread that it's Fran's 6th year like it's too late for the next wave. He needs to look at how the classes fell into place. We only have 1 junior and 1 sophomore on this team. Next year we will have 11 freshmen and sophomores and 1 juco that has played in a handfull of games. That is why you can still be waiting for the next wave in a coach's 6th year.
 
DJL said:
When I look at the really good teams in the tournament I see great guard play. Really worried about our lack of recruiting at the point guard position.
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It's a fine line on going for the big fish and taking what you can realistically get. Fran went for big fish and barely missed leaving him with nothing the last couple years. That hurt us but Gesell losing all confidence in his offense hurt worse.
 
linus19 said:
This is the top of the mountain with Fran. There is no next level.
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This can't be the peak. 5 years from now I want to look at this group of Seniors as the building blocks that got us to the "next level". That's what I hope anyway.


edit: I hate the phrase "next level" but it is short and concise, easy to use.
 
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DJL said:
When I look at the really good teams in the tournament I see great guard play. Really worried about our lack of recruiting at the point guard position.
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I'm so tired of this fall-back cliche ... basketball is a game of movement, positioning and, ultimately, size. It's always a cute story when that team of hard-working, hot-shooting 6'6" guys wins a couple games but they are always called "Cinderella" for a reason. You do not need 'great' guard play, you need merely competent / don't lose it guard play that can take care of / distribute (move) the ball and be a coach on the floor in terms of positioning and spacing. It's far more important to have a strong, tough, athletic, skilled 4 or 5.

Purdue lost the 1st round because their guards got dumb again and didn't even look at their NBA center or try to exploit their size advantage.

Iowa, which does NOT have a strong, tough, athletic, skilled 4 or 5 lost lots of games because they also did not have consistently competent guard play. They also do not have a coach that understands how to utilize any size advantage, nor incorporate some basic inside-out strategy.

Guards play further from the basket. The further from the basket you shoot the ball the higher the margin of error. It's really not that complicated.
 
Bigtenchamp said:
imagine if this team had Tyler Ulis... but yes we need to get guards that can shoot and penetrate.

Gessell and Clemmons are avg drivers... poor shooters.
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I will say though I thought Sapp became a pretty good at driving and improved his shooting. But I agree, more of a scoring threat at the 1 and 2 would have helped a ton.
 
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