25-26 Season

Notanalum said:
Lefty and Prey are going to play and play decent minutes next year. You bring in Jackson and a PG to start

Our bench is very solid w sellers, Ayo lefty Prey and Vince

I can’t believe people doubt Pitino
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Gentlemen and Ladies:
This has been an ongoing theme, of which I have been guilty of participating in. The bottom line is Rick Pitino is possibly the best head coach we have ever had although of course we’ve had Joe Lapchik, Louie C and some good ones. (I am not familiar with the coaches before Coach Lapchik).
But in 2025 who could we hire that would be any better with recruiting, with developing and with winning! So let’s please get off the critique bandwagon.
Rickie P, why he’s not perfect, of course, has some baggage, yes, but he has that special God-given touch - the “ it” factor that enables him to attract quality players, create positive publicity and bring us quality wins. There is so much more to him above and below the visibility factor.
We are of course, very fortunate to have him and I believe at this stage in his life he is grateful to have us. Its a Win-Win.
Rick Pitino is eager, driven, determined to go out of his college career with a
“basketball bang” and we are just as eager and determined to have success which has alluded us for most of the last 25 years.
That’s the bottom line.
Happy Easter for those who celebrate.
SS&G

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Notanalum said:
Lefty and Prey are going to play and play decent minutes next year. You bring in Jackson and a PG to start

Our bench is very solid w sellers, Ayo lefty Prey and Vince

I can’t believe people doubt Pitino
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That is not the bench of a final four team, which I thought was the goal. Whose our backup pg?
 
MainMan said:
This is why I wanted someone to post Rick’s email, so we can make sure he knows about these guys in the portal.
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I’m sure he is aware of the rankings. And would really appreciate you sharing this intel.
Maybe the biggest leap from a guard next year
MainMan said:
This is why I wanted someone to post Rick’s email, so we can make sure he knows about these guys in the portal.
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mattc said:
Lefty, Sellers, Ayo, Prey, Vince and prob 1-2 more coming is a good bench to me.
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I like it too. Prey, Lefty and Ayo are all going to take a step forward from last year. The baseline spin dunk against Arkansas was a preview of Prey’s capabilities.
Need a a point guard and another forward.
 
Notanalum said:
Lefty. If not why is he on the team?

I’m counting on this kids to improve like we’ve seen time after time in Pitino year 2.
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I like lefty but haven’t seen any ball handling or play making skills that make me think he would be a serviceable backup pg. I think he’s a combo guard suited to play an undersized two right now.
 
Just curious. Let's assume we had a starting 4 of Jackson,Sanon,Hopkins,Zuby forget about pg for a second and bench. Just those 4

What teams do people see a better starting 2-5 ?
 
lawmanfan said:
Versus Wilcher/Smith, Luis, Scott and Zuby? 25/26 is much better offensively and nowhere near as good defensively
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Very fair. I'm thinking our new 4 vs current other teams.

I had no clue we'd be this good defensively this past year during over the summer so I think it's fair to say this current team as constructed can potentially grow into a top tier defensive team with Rick teaching
 
kranmars said:
Although we had no idea they would be as good defensively as they were.
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With Kadary taking the lead. His communication skills and court vision on defense were unmatched.
He saw things like Pythagoras. He will be the most difficult person to replace.
If he could just shoot, he would have a long NBA career. And for recruits, CRP brought out the best in him.
 
Ralph318! said:
With Kadary taking the lead. His communication skills and court vision on defense were unmatched.
He saw things like Pythagoras. He will be the most difficult person to replace.
If he could just shoot, he would have a long NBA career. And for recruits, CRP brought out the best in him.
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Except he promised to fix Kadary’s jump shot to get him to the NBA 😜
 
Ralph318! said:
Kadary’s midrange was excellent until the thumb injury. And as CRP said in Vice, that Kadary was taught the mechanics, but he had to practice on his own.
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Kadary injured his thumb the last game of the season. I love him and he had an incredible year but he shot less than 50 percent from the line and was horrific from three. His jump shot was arguably worse this year than in any point in his careeer.
 
kranmars said:
Although we had no idea they would be as good defensively as they were.
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Eh - you knew Zuby was a rim protector and rebounder. His offensive rebounding blossomed, no question. You knew what RJ could do defensively, though the minutes certainly expanded. Scott was brought in for defense. And Smith was not awesome defensively although Wilcher took a big step forward - but those who had watched knew that Kadary was an outstanding team defender.

No question that nobody projected that to be a top 3 defense in the country but the material was there and once Pitino gave up on that group scoring points beyond give the ball to RJ and hope for the best that was the focus.

I think there will be a focus on getting offensive players to play defense next year but odds are that will be more difficult than working with guys like Kadary and Aaron who had defensive DNA to begin with
 
Boo Harvey said:
Kadary injured his thumb the last game of the season. I love him and he had an incredible year but he shot less than 50 percent from the line and was horrific from three. His jump shot was arguably worse this year than in any point in his careeer.
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He had his thumb wrapped last 10 games of the year
 
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