There are different ways to play basketball than just having your short guys as guards and your tall guys as forwards and centers. It's like Hoiball wasn't the best thing ever and never happened around here.
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There are different ways to play basketball than just having your short guys as guards and your tall guys as forwards and centers. It's like Hoiball wasn't the best thing ever and never happened around here.
Find another Niang or Royce and I'll be the first to say we can start Hogue at the post
Probably our best team since Hoiberg was here was the Kane, Niang, Ejim year. That team could beat anyone in the country that year. Ejim played our 5 spot.
So does height help? Yeah but it isn't the end all of what makes a good post player.
I won't argue that Hoiberg's recruiting of post players outside of McKay on the later half of his time here was laughable in how bad it was and how it has really hampered the team since his departure.
So does height help? Yeah but it isn't the end all of what makes a good post player.
I won't argue that Hoiberg's recruiting of post players outside of McKay on the later half of his time here was laughable in how bad it was and how it has really hampered the team since his departure.
You are your false dilemma.
I don't fault Prohm too much, but we must do better in recruiting and developing big men if we want to be a consistent threat at more than just making the tournament.
No, Ejim played the 3, Hogue the 4 and Niang the 5.
Or he wasn't just going to take a plodder that couldn't do anything to help his offense. Why waste a scholly on a plodder that can't shoot or get down the court fast enough to catch a lob in transition? Hoiberg got the TYPE of player he wanted, just didn't get THE player that he wanted every time.
McKay also had to earn minutes on a much better team. We still had Georges, Nader, Hogue, and Edozie.
McKay and Burton both played a half year at Marquette and were allowed to finish that year of eligibility by playing a year a year and a half at ISU. Does that mean Lard would be able to play half a season in 4 years if he played now? Also would we be able to pick which semester he played?
No Niang played the 5, Ejim played the 4 and Hogue played the 3.
I'd agree there. I wouldn't take a kid who is just gonna take up a seat on the bench.
But he gave up recruiting HS kids. We were rolling after the Kane year and our first Sweet 16. And what did we do after? We missed on Reid Travis, Abdul Malik Abu, then stopped contacting Marvin Clark. Then he went all in on Diallo and whiffed it.
I certainly think there were guys out to get but Fred was playing with fire not making a better effort on getting long term solutions in the post. My 2 cents.
Isn't Prohm known for having/developing really good guards at Murray State?
Agree that at this stage it's find one or two things and ride that. I hold the same philosophy with ISU football--be really good on the line and have everything else be functional.
The only ISU team at the level of being successful from being good at many things was 99-00 IIRC. Everyone could handle, everyone was a legit threat from many spots, and everyone could defend.
The '13-14 team was certainly capable of playing with/beating anyone, but the Sweet Sixteen field that year was made up of teams that could say the same thing.
I watched Louisville-Kentucky a bit last night. Just eyeballing it, there's a clear cut difference between a team like ISU and them at pretty much every position.
Ejim was also an NBA caliber player if he was 3 inches taller. We don't have any NBA caliber posts
Interesting. I wasn't aware a question could be correct or incorrect.
Welcome to every program not named Duke, UNC, Kentucky or Kansas. I really don't consider our lack of true "big men" over the last several years a problem. We haven't had many/any good 6'10" or bigger guys because they are extremely rare.
There are very few players I would have rather had than Ejim and pretty much no one I would have rather had than Niang.
Not that it really matters because they're both similar players... big wings/ undersized 4's, but I remember it being discussed that Ejim was moving to the 3 to make room for Hogue and because he played the 3 on the Canadian team.
Then it was also discussed that moving out to the 3 was the reason for Hogue's drop off in rebounding. He moved out to accommodate McKay into the line up (the year after Ejim).
Think we just lack rim protection and rebounding this year. Considering how many points in the paint mvsu put on us.
I was just joking around. I don't think the positions really mattered on that team, at least not on offense.