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Old 01-08-2018, 09:02 AM
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Originally Posted by steve View Post
...LOL at the amount of people on this site that minimize the fact that 4 starters are lost from a year ago, not to mention injuries, etc...they're dealing with a new system and a bunch of new and young players..
Yes, of the 6 guys who saw the most minutes for us last year, 4 graduated and 1 is out for the season following surgery on both hips. That leaves 1, and he (X) has had a bad back, and missed 1/3 of our games to-date. At our level, you don’t replace that much experience with a bunch of 4- and 5-star recruits. You replace it with guys who’ve seen enough court time in previous years to make a contribution in the current year. And with Mikesell out, and Miller suspended, that means our returning experience consisted of X, DD, and JC times 2 (since Landers only saw 53 minutes of action in 2016-17). That’s not much of a starting point.

And as steve also said, I’m not trying to excuse-away questionable coaching decisions (like leaving Jordan on the bench down the stretch on Saturday), but until Anthony gets more time with these players (and a few more of his own), I’m going to withhold judgment based purely on wins and losses. When people were calling for Archie’s head 6 games into the conference season back in 2013-14, I was pi$$ed about effort and focus, but I was willing to at least give him until the end of the season (his 3rd). And unless the wheels fall completely off (a-la Jim Crews @ SLU), I’m willing to give Anthony 3 full years to show what he can do.
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