OU All Decade Team

[Max Power]

the OU Barstool account posted asking who was on everyone's All Decade Team. Since most of their twitter followers couldn't name 5 basketball players i thought it would be a fun topic for the end of the year. So what Say you OU Hoops.

Since we rarely have a traditional 3 or 5 i say list your 3 guards and 2 posts/forwards

 

[thebigabd]

G: Isaiah Cousins
G: Buddy Hield
G: Trae Young
F: Ryan Spangler
F: Romero Osby

 

[BCSooners]

G: Isaiah Cousins
G: Buddy Hield
G: Trae Young
F: Ryan Spangler
F: Romero Osby

Same, Doolittle might replace Osby for me depending on this year.

 

[thebigabd]

Same, Doolittle might replace Osby for me depending on this year.

This thread made me discover something obvious... Lon doesn't recruit well at the 4/5 positions, at all. If Spangler is potentially your best player at the position in 10 years, you have a problem. I love Spangler, and he is a good player, but best post player in a decade? That is a problem.

 

[NickZepp]

This thread made me discover something obvious... Lon doesn't recruit well at the 4/5 positions, at all. If Spangler is potentially your best player at the position in 10 years, you have a problem. I love Spangler, and he is a good player, but best post player in a decade? That is a problem.

We really haven't had great post players since the 80s really. Blake was in the 2000s and his brother was probably our 2nd best post player that era. Maybe early 00s you can say Taj Gray and Ace McGee were really good but they were JUCO guys and Ace McGee was real inconsistent till like later on his senior year.

 

[MJSooner]

G: Isaiah Cousins
G: Buddy Hield
G: Trae Young
F: Ryan Spangler
F: Romero Osby

Nice List and a team that could win some games, but I might make a couple of changes. I had a tough time deciding between Cousins and Pledge.

G: Buddy Hield
G: Trae Young
G: Stephen Pledger
F: Cameron Clark
F: Romero Osby

 

[DSMok1]

Here's some statistical background, pulled from Bart Torvik's site:
http://www.barttorvik.com/playersta...0501&bpmSelect=-1&obpmSelect=-1&dbpmSelect=-1

Buddy Hield is a no-brainer at SG.
Beyond that, do you go for peak or overall contribution? Jordan Woodard or Trae Young at PG?
Romero Osby had the best season besides Hield and Trae. I probably take him over Manek for the "scoring forward" position.
I'll include Spangler for his rebounding/dirty work and efficient scoring.
Lattin is the only rim protector on the list. I dunno, though...
I guess I'll take Pledger for the 5th position. Could go a number of ways.

Final decision--Trae or Woodard? I think I'll say Trae.

1. Trae
2. Hield
3. Pledger??
4. Osby
5. Spangler

After looking at this team... I think I'll take out Pledger and put in Lattin. Fits better on the team as a whole, adds some rim protection. Don't need any more scoring.

1. Trae
2. Hield
3. Osby
4. Spangler
5. Lattin

A team like that, with each at their peaks, would be a national title team for sure.

Summing up the OBPM and DBPM:
Offense = +31.6 (but usage of 121.7, so having to share ball)… this would be a GOAT offensive team.
Defense = +10.3 Definitely not an elite defensive team, but ok

If we shifted to Woodard over Trae it would balance out the O vs. D a bit better.

Here's the full table:

 

[hoopsaustin]

Nice List and a team that could win some games, but I might make a couple of changes. I had a tough time deciding between Cousins and Pledge.

G: Buddy Hield
G: Trae Young
G: Stephen Pledger
F: Cameron Clark
F: Romero Osby

Interesting. Im not a pledger or clark guy

Mine would be (without looking at stats, just memory):

G: Trae Young
G: Jordan Woodard
G: Buddy Hield
F: Ryan Spangler
F: Tayshawn Thomas

 

[TheMont]

G: Trae Young, duh
G: Jordan Woodard (playing off the ball like his junior year)
G: Buddy Hield, duh
F: Ryan Spangler
F: Kristian Doolittle over Clark or Osby, which could be due to recency bias

 

[WichitaSooner]

I think Cousins has to be on this team. Second best/most important player on that team. Add in the fact that he and Buddy were the building blocks of the program, and to me it is a no-brainer.

 

[Darwin]

This thread made me discover something obvious... Lon doesn't recruit well at the 4/5 positions, at all. If Spangler is potentially your best player at the position in 10 years, you have a problem. I love Spangler, and he is a good player, but best post player in a decade? That is a problem.

Excellent point and he was a local kid transferring close to home. Many good things Lon is but for this position he is way below average.

 

[Max Power]

Mine would be

Trae
Buddy
Isaiah
Spangler
Doolittle

I was torn between doo and ro

 

[MJSooner]

Interesting. Im not a pledger or clark guy

Mine would be (without looking at stats, just memory):

G: Trae Young
G: Jordan Woodard
G: Buddy Hield
F: Ryan Spangler
F: Tayshawn Thomas

Man, I forgot about Tayshawn Thomas. Great pick. I would have to put him on my list for Clark. Love Jordan, shot the ball great, hard-nosed, drove the ball well (especially his freshman year), but he wasn't a great defender to add to this list and his height made him a liability at times for guards posting him up.

Revised list.
G: Trae
G: Buddy
G: Pledge (still having a tough time with him or Cousins)
F: Ro
F: Tayshawn Thomas

 

[DSMok1]

Tashawn Thomas was the next guy below Odomes on the list I posted above. He had a +6.0 BPM, +2.9 OBPM, +3.1 DBPM single season. Very good, and would have fit well with an offensively-minded all-decade team.

The full list (I don't want to add another image to this thread) is on Google sheets at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1u8DkUx3tzGzGDkqAiaN7TBKlN-vrT9_WXeDk1twmdxw/edit?usp=sharing

 

[WaymanFan]

G: Isaiah Cousins
G: Buddy Hield
G: Trae Young
F: Ryan Spangler
F: Romero Osby

This is mine as well FOR NOW. Depending on how this year plays out, I may swap out either Spangler or Osby for Doolittle. While I think Ro was overall better than Ryan, I generally put a little extra emphasis on team success. Ryan was a huge part of both a Final Four and a Sweet 16 team.