In Reply to: I Agree..... posted by Mike8:47 on November 14, 2026 at 10:04:23
agree with all you wrote here, Mike, but I AM excited about this team. Missing a rim protector center we're going to have to spend much of the season covering and compensating for that so I worry about that and about wearing our guys down over the course of a long season, but this is just such an exciting team to watch.
It's kind of a reversal but the team is made up of guys who play to Mick Cronin's strengths as a coach and who actually put their HC in a position to win. With the women's team last season I thought it all started with "We have Lauren Betts and nobody else does" and that forced opponents to have to react to us and everything followed from that.
Well, this year's men's team has two absolutely amazing talents at the wing in Kusturica and Philon and nobody else does. And we have Stink Robinson popping off the bench and nobody else does. And as Perry and Dailey learn to take full advantage of these new teammates it will only get better and better. And best of all, all the pieces fit into a whole that's totally cohesive and play so much for one another that they make the whole better than its individual parts,
Year end, facing the best of the best in all or nothing game after game, who knows? It's absolutely right to keep reminding ourselves it's way too early and we've had only one test and that team was far from reaching its likely eventual peak. But I love this group and am really looking forward to every one of the games we get to see it play. Very fun season ahead I think