I listen to a podcast called Screen the Screen thats pretty good and they are doing team previews with local writers from each team and I requested he hook up Chad on it and they made it happen.
Turned out to be a really good Podcast!
http://www.blogtalkradio.com/sthespodcast
Let me just say that was a fantastic job from Chad! Easily one of the most knowledgeable and authoritative pieces I have listened to in quite some time about our team and players. Chad is able to say things that the coach cannot/will not and he knows more than most other sports analysts do about our team and players.
Kudos to Chad...I enjoyed it very much! I can't say I disagreed with him on one thing in almost 30 minutes and I picked up some useful information that I may not have been aware of. Spot on!
Let me just say that was a fantastic job from Chad! Easily one of the most knowledgeable and authoritative pieces I have listened to in quite some time about our team and players. Chad is able to say things that the coach cannot/will not and he knows more than most other sports analysts do about our team and players.
Kudos to Chad...I enjoyed it very much! I can't say I disagreed with him on one thing in almost 30 minutes and I picked up some useful information that I may not have been aware of. Spot on!
Thank you...
No problem...well deserved.
I hope you are right on Cumberland. I have the same gut feel about him. Evans and Clark have their work cut out for them to get top points if they are not going to be more assertive. I think we can safely assume Gary will not be top point guy. Pretty sure Washington, Cumberland and Broome will not be AS shy about shooting the ball or creating shots for themselves. I am not even sure that has to mean they are "hogging the ball"...just more aggressive with their touches. We will see with Evans. He can score 13 ppg just by choosing his spots...but if he can make a small transformation in aggressiveness he can retain the title.
What I like about this team is UC has all 5 starters who are capable on any given night of dropping 20+ points. Cronin has not had that ever.
What I like about this team is UC has all 5 starters who are capable on any given night of dropping 20+ points. Cronin has not had that ever.
What I like about this team is UC has all 5 starters who are capable on any given night of dropping 20+ points. Cronin has not had that ever.
I fully expect to have 5 guys in double figures and potentially 5 guys averaging over 11 ppg. It is conceivable we could even have 5 guys over 12 ppg without using too much imagination. Gary was at 10.8 last year. If we increase pace he could get to 12 ppg with a little more aggressiveness with his touches. Broome can get there...but it's hard to tell at this point how Cronin is going to use him.
I don't see much problem with Washington, Evans, and Cumberland getting to 12 ppg.
I agree about 5 in double digits but I'm not sure Clark gets to 12ppg. I think Broome has a shot of leading the team in scoring, as do the other 3 !
As near as I can tell (according to sports reference) Huggins had 1 team that had 5 players in double digits (2004-2005) and 3 of those were between 10.2 and 10.4. Kenyon's So year he was at 9.9 which was 5th on the team and we had 4 guys over 13.4 that year. Most other years we would have 3 or so above 10 ppg although we also had some guys hitting 15 plus in many years.
So we haven't had 5 players over 10.3 ppg in the last 25 years or so. To be clear, I am not comparing this team in terms of how great they will be to other teams in the past, just in terms of how versatile we are 1-5. We may or may not have an All American on this squad...but we are just SOOO solid.
I predict we will have 5 guys over 10.3 this year making us one of the most well rounded teams in a quarter century at UC. Depth is also solid. Experience is also there as Chad eluded to we are one of the older teams in CBB in terms of probable starters.
Have the stars aligned for a deep run? Man I hope so!!