How long will it take to nail a starting 5 down? No one on this team has done anything in high level college basketball. I’d say this is the most open roster Wake has had in years. There is a lot of indistinguishable, middling to fringe ACC level talent, frankly. Not one player has done enough to be supremely confident he will start night in, night out. One upside could be that the competition brings the most out of whoever ends up as the core later on in the season.
I think y'all are putting too much stock in one game.When Ody comes back i think our best lineup is Neath, Dubose , Antonio, Jalen and Ody.
I think y'all are putting too much stock in one game.
For months, I've been saying Massoud at C or for long periods of time at PF will harm his improvement and the team's. As we have seen in both games, playing those positions creates a lot of fouls for him and takes him out of position to best utilize his offensive skills. It's wasting one of top two or three offensive players. Also, it harms his rebounding as he has to go after big guys rather having clear paths from the wing. Lastly, by having him inside, it takes him away from running a wing on the break.
Massoud needs to be starting at SF.
Playing him as we have so far is like putting Ringo Starr as the lead guitarist or me as a lead singer (I am perfectly in tune in the key of L).
Finding time for Mucius and Massoud to play on the wing can be big if they can perform. Been disappointing so far but it's been two games and they spent one in foul trouble. It could be difficult to have them play together without one taking more of a big man role given the number of guards and wings on the roster, but maybe Forbes can figure out a lineup build around them on the wings. I just have a feeling the true 5 out style might not fit them as well as some of the smaller and quicker wings but hopefully I'm wrong.
Who is more overrated Rivers or Mooney?
From the time he came into the NBA, Doc Rivers has been universally lauded as one of the good guys in the league. He's a smart guy and very classy, but his coaching is grossly overrated. Yes, he won a championship, but even an average coach would have won with that crew. But he has underachieved many times and he's the only coach in NBA history to lose two 3-1 leads in the playoffs.
I hope he figures it out in Philly, but he isn't the great coach some thing he is.
RE: Chris Mooney
Why all the Chris Mooney fawning? He's coached at Richmond for fifteen years and made The Dane twice. He hasn't made The Dance since the 10-11 season.
He's never won the A-10. He's only finished second once in fifteen years. He only finished third three times. Seriously, if he's that good a coach, he would have gotten a few players and won the damn A-10 once. At least, he wouldn't have finished in the second division of the A-10 seven times in fifteen years.
This guy is a mediocre coach in a mid-major conference. He has had plenty of time to prove otherwise and hasn't.
This is a tough one. I'd say Mooney by a hair.