hallstorm said:

Basketball isn’t a skills contest though. It’s about team play; the sum of its parts.

If Kadary’s individual stats get better from 2-3 players, I’d rather have that. (That includes season minutes played at PG and defense).

Asking what you need out of certain players to win is all that should matter. There’s only one basketball to go around.

I think what some maybe bitter about is that Sha couldn’t convince a better backup PG to come due to Kadary’s insistence on PT.

Whatever. I think we have a good chance to be better than last year. But who knows.

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Personally, I think the Kadary's insistence on minutes trope is misleading. That completely flies in the face of Sha's earn your playing time mantra.

Now, do I believe KR made it known he might not be thrilled with the arrival of certain players? Sure, I can see that. But I have a hard time believing that someone who often behaves in a my way or the highway fashion was going to let one of his players dictate roster moves.

I suspect some of the calculus was incoming players saying, where are my minutes if that guy is still here.

HallLine69 said:

I disagree with that. Davis earned it last year. Time after time created his own shots.

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Davis had a great year. Absolutely. My point is that Davis had a lot of room to operate with KR commanding a lot of attention and collapsing defenses getting into the paint.

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If they didn’t do this or something like it I think I would have lost my mind with the fundraising process

Good stuff everyone

And Schiano was one of the two reasons that Hobbs was angling for a new contract? Sheeez…

They need to go back to the A10. Maybe the NJAC will take them, then they can play against to other NJ state schools where they belong. At least then the losses wouldn’t cost the state as much.

Seton75 said:

But the always announce them lol. What player doesnt want to start. If you didnt start and then you do, its a promotion if you did and then you didnt, its a demotion and we wonder what they did wrong to lise tgeir starting gig

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I was going to say, it definitely matters to the kids who starts, and probably who finishes, and I think coaches emphasize the latter more than the former. Whether a player buys in, who knows.

With a true 8 man rotation I don’t see any issue. With 10 it can become trickier with these kids, because they all have different goals, egos and expectations. I once had a kid major assistant tell me that I would be shocked at how many of his kids thought they were pros - NBA or at worst that after a stint in the developmental league or top overseas league - despite obvious objective evidence indicating otherwise.

Starters won’t matter but against BE teams I expect:

-Manny
-Yancine
-Middleton
-Dylan
-Garwey

PROF Ed said:

Another somewhat embarrassing loss

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Bad loss against a winless B10 team in conference that flew across the country. Schiano comp per win is staggering, especially per B10 win.

Another somewhat embarrassing loss

silkcitypirate said:

If Sha really intends to play an 8 to 10 man rotation the starting 5 means very little .

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But the always announce them lol. What player doesnt want to start. If you didnt start and then you do, its a promotion if you did and then you didnt, its a demotion and we wonder what they did wrong to lise tgeir starting gig

HALL85 said:

Is Harris campaign making a mistake by by king full negative on Trump

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At this point, there are very few undecided voters. I’d tend to agree that negative messaging would be a mistake at this point. For whatever reason, that’s the messaging her campaign believes will be effective for getting fringe voters who don’t love Harris but hate Trump to turn out.

The polls haven’t shifted away from Harris, her support has been relatively consistent since before the debate. Trump went down after the debate but is showing a recent increase.

I think it will be close. If turnout is near 2020, I think Harris will win. I don’t think turnout will be as high though so I’d still give the edge to Trump.

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Unfortunately, I think it’s more likely we’re going to have two more crappy candidates in 2028.

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Of course that's true. You have to go further left or further right than any candidate should go just to win the primary. Somehow the guy who represents the middle 80% of the country never seems win the primary. Bernie could've won 2 democratic primaries if it wasn't rigged against him both times. Honestly wish we could get rid of the primaries because they're not working. At minimum fix them. The democrats have run 3 different candidates the last 3 presidential elections and they all suck. Republicans put the same guy up 3 straight times and he's not any better because if he was he'd be winning elections in a landslide.

PG - Harmon (20 mins) Dual (20 mins - starter)

SG - Wusu (18 minutes - starter) Jenkins - 22 minutes)

SF/PF (Wings)
Coleman - 25 mins
Middleton - 25 Mins
Aligbe - 15 minutes (at the 4)
Toumi - 10 minutes (at the 4)
Tubek - 5 minutes

C
Toumi - 15 minutes (at the 5)
Yalden - 15 minutes
Manny - 5 minutes
Aligbe - 5 minutes (at the 5)

JTSHU said:

Will we ever have another player who gives us 3 or 4 years and comes back to the program to be celebrated?

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It's probably going to be a mediocre freshman and sophomore who breaks out big time in his junior year and stays for his senior year.

JTSHU said:

Will we ever have another player who gives us 3 or 4 years and comes back to the program to be celebrated?

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Highly unlikely IMO. Individual career records will likely stand up in this free agency era.

Will we ever have another player who gives us 3 or 4 years and comes back to the program to be celebrated?

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SHUSA said:

this is basically an exercise of which coaches have been experienced living in the muck. wright, bennett, etc want nothing to do with it. Cal, pitino, etc thriving.

goes to show you who was respectable and who wasn't

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That theory doesn't work when you have guys like Coach K and Boeheim who walked away too.

silkcitypirate said:

If Sha really intends to play an 8 to 10 man rotation the starting 5 means very little .

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Would you prefer the question, who will get the most minutes at each one of those spots at the end of the season?

Went ahead and got the watch. Classic Pirate FTW.

I’m definitely doing one brick

KR is a great player that left us with some great memories, but he also had some flaws and less than stellar moments while here. Is that “vitriol” or just an honest appraisal?

I’m with 75; idgas….i care about this roster and what it does.

TheHall87 said:

IMHO, if we make the tournament this year and you see it as an indictment of Richmond, you have to look at Davis, Dawes, Bediako et al as well. If we're better off, it's because we're better off 1-13 (10) than we were last year.

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Basketball isn’t a skills contest though. It’s about team play; the sum of its parts.

If Kadary’s individual stats get better from 2-3 players, I’d rather have that. (That includes season minutes played at PG and defense).

Asking what you need out of certain players to win is all that should matter. There’s only one basketball to go around.

I think what some maybe bitter about is that Sha couldn’t convince a better backup PG to come due to Kadary’s insistence on PT.

Whatever. I think we have a good chance to be better than last year. But who knows.