thebigabd
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Kelvin always said you needed 3 good players, and then people filling roles around those 3 good players.
I think with McGusty and Doolittle represent "good" players that he is referring to. Not that these other guys aren't good basketball players, but you don't build around them.
Once you have your 3 good players, you need a couple of shooters, a couple of slashers, some rebounders, etc. That is the general makeup of a good, solid basketball team. Are you going to win a national championship? Only if you catch a few All-Americans like Hollis Price, Ace Mcghee, Blake Griffin, Buddy Hield, etc which OU tends to nab every so often. Then you have a CHANCE at it.
Winning the Big 12 is a more attainable goal. But back to the team.
Good Players
Kameron McGusty (6'5'' 195 guard - FRESHMAN)
Kristian Doolittle (6'7'' 240 forward - FRESHMAN)
High Level Shooters
None
High Level Slashers
Rashard Odomes--- Odomes is 0-4 on the season from 3. He is the very definition of a slasher
High Level Rebounders
None
Reliable point guard
None
Depth Players
Christian James
Darrion Strong-Moore
Khadeem Lattin
Dante Buford
Matt Freeman
It's obvious what this team needs then... a reliable point guard, a high level rebounder, and a high level shooter. It's missing several ingredients in the makeup of your typical good team, especially like the ones OU has had in the past.
James, Lattin, Buford, Freeman could improve and move into these needed categories, but right now they are depth guys.
They need to address point guard, shooting, and rebounding in the next class. He doesn't need to go the Capel route and try to take the best player available, he needs to fill out the team. OU doesn't recruit enough SUPER talent like Kentucky to just take the best player available. OU needs to fill out a team.
Take the Sampson final four team for example:
Good Players
Ace Mcghee
Hollis Price
Ebie Ere
High Level Shooters
Quannas White
Hollis Price
Ebi Ere
High Level Slashers
Jason Detrick
Quannas White
High Level Rebounders
Ace Mcghee
Jabarhi Brown
Reliable point guard
Quannas White
Overall Hustle Guy
Daryan Selvy
That team had all the pieces, experience, etc. Not gonna have that all the time, but the basic makeup is there.
I think with McGusty and Doolittle represent "good" players that he is referring to. Not that these other guys aren't good basketball players, but you don't build around them.
Once you have your 3 good players, you need a couple of shooters, a couple of slashers, some rebounders, etc. That is the general makeup of a good, solid basketball team. Are you going to win a national championship? Only if you catch a few All-Americans like Hollis Price, Ace Mcghee, Blake Griffin, Buddy Hield, etc which OU tends to nab every so often. Then you have a CHANCE at it.
Winning the Big 12 is a more attainable goal. But back to the team.
Good Players
Kameron McGusty (6'5'' 195 guard - FRESHMAN)
Kristian Doolittle (6'7'' 240 forward - FRESHMAN)
High Level Shooters
None
High Level Slashers
Rashard Odomes--- Odomes is 0-4 on the season from 3. He is the very definition of a slasher
High Level Rebounders
None
Reliable point guard
None
Depth Players
Christian James
Darrion Strong-Moore
Khadeem Lattin
Dante Buford
Matt Freeman
It's obvious what this team needs then... a reliable point guard, a high level rebounder, and a high level shooter. It's missing several ingredients in the makeup of your typical good team, especially like the ones OU has had in the past.
James, Lattin, Buford, Freeman could improve and move into these needed categories, but right now they are depth guys.
They need to address point guard, shooting, and rebounding in the next class. He doesn't need to go the Capel route and try to take the best player available, he needs to fill out the team. OU doesn't recruit enough SUPER talent like Kentucky to just take the best player available. OU needs to fill out a team.
Take the Sampson final four team for example:
Good Players
Ace Mcghee
Hollis Price
Ebie Ere
High Level Shooters
Quannas White
Hollis Price
Ebi Ere
High Level Slashers
Jason Detrick
Quannas White
High Level Rebounders
Ace Mcghee
Jabarhi Brown
Reliable point guard
Quannas White
Overall Hustle Guy
Daryan Selvy
That team had all the pieces, experience, etc. Not gonna have that all the time, but the basic makeup is there.