thatguy2016
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Talent is paramount in the upper echelons of college basketball today. Conventional wisdom is that it takes three NBA caliber players, with at least one a starter, plus a couple of Euro-league level talent guys to be a serious contender for the NCAA title.
Winning the ACC regular season requires about the same. Top half ACC finish requires at least two NBA quality players.
There are outcomes between those extremes that are possible. It is not a binary situation. There are also outlier scenarios that are better than the best case described. For instance, if Sarr has a John Collins 2.0 year, Hoard is as good as a 5 star should be, Craw returns and plays like he needs to for a good pre-NBA season, Chaundee and Melo makes a respectable frosh to soph improvement, the two grad transfers are able to contribute, and Wake could just squeeze into the top third of the ACC.
With some things going the other way, 2018-2019 could be worse than 2017-2018.
Most probably some things go well and other things not so well and Wake is somewhere in the middle third of the ACC.
I think you’re overstating what’s needed to be a top half team. If I had to choose coaching or talent, I choose coaching every time.
I think you’re overstating what’s needed to be a top half team. If I had to choose coaching or talent, I choose coaching every time.
So much nope on this.
You pick your coach, and a team of G leaguers.
I coach the NBA all star team.
Which team wins?
You’re assuming a gap in talent and experience that would not exist in college.
The best college talent isn’t just throw the ball on the court talent especially in the one and done era.
You’re assuming a gap in talent and experience that would not exist in college.
The best college talent isn’t just throw the ball on the court talent especially in the one and done era.
Switch Coach K and Manning this past year, who wins between Wake and Duke?
I think K would win at least 2 or 3 games in a best of 7 series.
How is blaming talent a defense of Manning? It's on Manning to recruit and retain the talent. The real issue is if we switched K and Manning, we'd have better coaching AND better talent.
I think K might win 1 out of 10 in that scenario - best case.
I don't know about anyone else but for me this has nothing to do with defending Manning. I think you just make a dumb statement when you said coaching was more important than talent for a college team. And you can't say a better coach would get better talent - that is a different question. If you have to choose one or the other, talent is clearly far more important - and a basic requirement for success.
Getting talent is part of coaching in college. You can't separate the jobs of a coach to make a point. That leads to utter ridiculous comparisons like G-League vs. NBA All-Stars.
Either way, the talent on our team last year wasn't keeping from being relevant. It's how that talent was used.
Charlotte, it's funny how you say you agree Manning isn't the guy, but you can't bring yourself to acknowledge that it puts you into the same category as me.
So if I offered you the choice between Brad Stevens as head coach for the next 4 years or the next 4 recruiting classes ranked the same as Duke's last 4 recruiting classes and Manning stays, people would take the latter?