Sunday, October 23, 2005

Shit no

Wake won't be able to defend. It's no fun to play defense. It's not like Roy is the master of defenses either, although he is not as bad as Prosser and running the secondary break off a made basket is cool as hell. Plus, teams that average 80-90 points per game are never known for their defenses.

By efficient I mean the caliber of players given the number of scholarships available. Granted UNC's class is huge and they are all good players, but Kansas only had 5 scholarships to give and all went to 4 or 5 star freshmen (depending on the analyst) and a 5 star transfer. Wright can play SG, SF, and PF. Downs can play SG and SF. Rush can play SG and SF. What's the real difference between SG and SF anyway? They're all wings. Even McCants was originally listed at SF on one of the recruiting services. Kansas didn't need post players as they recruited 3 4 star post players or 1 5-star and 2 4-stars, depending on the service, last year, and Giles looks ready to put up All Big-12 numbers this year. And they had to replace a PG and 2 wing players in Miles, Langford, and Lee. I will give you the one and done comment: Downs, Chalmers, and Downs all considered going pro and most analysts consider Wright the best pro prospect of the bunch. So all potentially could be one and done, depending on how their seasons go, although I doubt they would lose more than 1. I hope none end up like Randolph Morris.

Kansas isn't that backlogged at PG yet. Robinson and Chalmers are there this year. Hawkins won't play a whole lot except as a defensive stopper. They have 3, same as last year (but no Miles with guaranted 30+ minutes). Collins will be in next year while they lose Hawkins, so there will be 3 next year also if Chalmers doesn't go pro. Self has always said he prefers playing with multiple PGs so the backcourt can make better decisions. It worked well for Weber and him at Illinois, and I have no doubt it will work fine at Kansas.

Gray was originally recruited as a PG and played a lot of minutes at the position his freshman year. Childress didn't have any trouble finding his shots when he ran the point his Senior year, and I'm sure Gray won't have a problem this year given how down the ACC is this year in the PG slot.

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