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Piratz

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How do we get back to the excitement of March? Obviously NIL and player evaluation/roster building are the top priorities, but besides that how do we approach getting the juice back in this place? Why don’t we already do these things? Is there a reason?

***With the roster, I assume the dream is dead of trying to build and evenly balanced 10-man rotation on a $1.5M budget. If it’s not, someone needs to kill it.

***On the court, Sha needs to change what he’s doing to prepare these teams in the summer and fall. We have been atrocious for two non-conference seasons in a row. It cost us an NCAA Tournament berth last year and this year it was the worst in our program’s history with the horrific losses.

***They need to create a system that markets their program and players. My God, put a calendar together and run features. We’ve talked about this all year with the new practice facility that could’ve been promoted, but simple things like featuring program history or the current player’s stories to get them connected to the fanbase like a “Kook’s Korner” type, or “This Week In…” longer form shows. We. Must. Promote. SHU Basketball. This is the insane to me in this day and age.

**They need to dramatically change their approach to media availability. I don’t care if it’s on Zoom or in a dedicated place in the practice facility, but Sha needs to do more of this between games. Every major program does this, we do next-to-nothing unless it’s a game day and that’s a problem.
 
I would love to do a series like Vice that Ark and SJU are doing. Most cable outlets have this channel included in packages and you can watch the episodes on demand, like I have. I don’t know if someone would be interested but would explore.
 
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Well it all starts next Monday. The most important thing is to improve the roster. Too many chances on guys with extreme skill deficiencies or who are learning the game of basketball. It adds up to a zero sum game.
 
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I think it is ironic---- or just telling---- that Wisconsin and Louisville are in the tournament..... and we have Gus and Okorafor. Watching those teams this past weekend, and reflecting on our season, have to think those guys were pushed out.
Both guys play hard, but " Just the facts, mam."
 
Well it all starts next Monday. The most important thing is to improve the roster. Too many chances on guys with extreme skill deficiencies or who are learning the game of basketball. It adds up to a zero sum game.

I think it is ironic---- or just telling---- that Wisconsin and Louisville are in the tournament..... and we have Gus and Okorafor. Watching those teams this past weekend, and reflecting on our season, have to think those guys were pushed out.
Both guys play hard, but " Just the facts, mam."
Sha swing and missed badly. To such an extent it’s scary.
 
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Get some shooters in here, PG who can run the team and compete with Dual and a solid big that can man the D in the middle and score. That's all - lol.
 
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I think it is ironic---- or just telling---- that Wisconsin and Louisville are in the tournament..... and we have Gus and Okorafor. Watching those teams this past weekend, and reflecting on our season, have to think those guys were pushed out.
Both guys play hard, but " Just the facts, mam."
Pretty obvious Providence had zero issue with Dual moving on either.
 
I would love to do a series like Vice that Ark and SJU are doing. Most cable outlets have this channel included in packages and you can watch the episodes on demand, like I have. I don’t know if someone would be interested but would explore.
This was brought up the board and they laughed and crushed any dreams of it being an option almost 2 years ago.
 
This was brought up the board and they laughed and crushed any dreams of it being an option almost 2 years ago.
Lmaooo. That tracks with the entire operation right now. Pathetic.

It’s even more important now after 7-26, 2-18 and being branded a poverty program. We have the quietest new facility ever.
 
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I think it is ironic---- or just telling---- that Wisconsin and Louisville are in the tournament..... and we have Gus and Okorafor. Watching those teams this past weekend, and reflecting on our season, have to think those guys were pushed out.
Both guys play hard, but " Just the facts, mam."
Sha admitted he had to take a lot of guys sight unseen and didn’t have the $&$ / time to get guys early. One of these will not be an issue this offseason
 
Sha admitted he had to take a lot of guys sight unseen and didn’t have the $&$ / time to get guys early. One of these will not be an issue this offseason
One of the things to keep in mind with the impending portal mania, from a fan perspective, is patience. The "bird in the hand" theory is nice, and sometimes true. But plenty of top kids did not commit last year until the latter part of April, May etc.

Key dates to keep in mind -- the NBA combine, which I think is in the middle of May and mid June, which is the deadline for players to return to school. Plenty of good players to really good players will probably run up against one or both of those dates.
 
One of the things to keep in mind with the impending portal mania, from a fan perspective, is patience. The "bird in the hand" theory is nice, and sometimes true. But plenty of top kids did not commit last year until the latter part of April, May etc.

Key dates to keep in mind -- the NBA combine, which I think is in the middle of May and mid June, which is the deadline for players to return to school. Plenty of good players to really good players will probably run up against one or both of those dates.
I don't know. Feel like we likely overpaid for some of our late signings.
 
I don't know. Feel like we likely overpaid for some of our late signings.
Perhaps. Dual and Toumi are the names people have brought up in that regard. But doesn’t mean that’s true in all cases. Kadary left here in May. Lots of other good players signed later (some early too). There is a definite risk at taking the first thing one can get, but of course this is why the staff is paid. To make those decisions and evaluations.
 
Perhaps. Dual and Toumi are the names people have brought up in that regard. But doesn’t mean that’s true in all cases. Kadary left here in May. Lots of other good players signed later (some early too). There is a definite risk at taking the first thing one can get, but of course this is why the staff is paid. To make those decisions and evaluations.
A lot of kids committed late but we’re done deals much earlier. Key for Sha and crew is to actually have time to do research
 
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Perhaps. Dual and Toumi are the names people have brought up in that regard. But doesn’t mean that’s true in all cases. Kadary left here in May. Lots of other good players signed later (some early too). There is a definite risk at taking the first thing one can get, but of course this is why the staff is paid. To make those decisions and evaluations.

A lot of kids committed late but we’re done deals much earlier. Key for Sha and crew is to actually have time to do research
That’s the other thing about this year: The COVID 5th year players who have endless time as “grad students” are gone.

This staff has to walk and chew gum at the same time which is why you need to entrust scouting to someone.
 
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