Time you were most wrong

[stormspencer]

I thought freshman year Cousins was a head case and could not be relied on. Glad I missed on that one by a mile.

Count me in on this one. I wanted him no where near the court after his freshman season....he drove me crazy. But watching him grow has taught me a great lesson on patience and letting kids learn basketball IQ/mature.

And believe it or not, I was not in favor of tough non-conference schedules when Kruger took over and through his first couple of seasons. I wanted us to play one tough game OOC and then have a bunch of patsies....in order to work on team chemistry, build up confidence, and get to some type of postseason. That is how desperate I was. Looking back, I'm glad we played at Cincinnati, at Arkansas and drew some good teams in some tournaments (St. Louis, Gonzaga). I didn't have enough confidence in a young team's psyche, but even though they lost those games, then learned and grew in confidence.

 

[Laxtothemax12]

Count me in on this one. I wanted him no where near the court after his freshman season....he drove me crazy. But watching him grow has taught me a great lesson on patience and letting kids learn basketball IQ/mature.

And believe it or not, I was not in favor of tough non-conference schedules when Kruger took over and through his first couple of seasons. I wanted us to play one tough game OOC and then have a bunch of patsies....in order to work on team chemistry, build up confidence, and get to some type of postseason. That is how desperate I was. Looking back, I'm glad we played at Cincinnati, at Arkansas and drew some good teams in some tournaments (St. Louis, Gonzaga). I didn't have enough confidence in a young team's psyche, but even though they lost those games, then learned and grew in confidence.

Exactly. I've been waiting for a really good non-conference record since Kruger took over (the best start we had was his worst year because we only played a few decent teams). This year could be that year. But this is also as tough of a schedule as we've had, but Lonnie is one of the best at developing high character guys and gets the most out of underrated players.

He reminds me of Bill Snyder, anyone else?

 

[StatGeek]

Exactly. I've been waiting for a really good non-conference record since Kruger took over (the best start we had was his worst year because we only played a few decent teams). This year could be that year. But this is also as tough of a schedule as we've had, but Lonnie is one of the best at developing high character guys and gets the most out of underrated players.

He reminds me of Bill Snyder, anyone else?

Bill Snyder is an interesting comparison, not sure if I agree or disagree.

 

[StatGeek]

As for most wrong moment, it would have to be Nick Thompson. I convinced myself that he wasn't that bad after the exhibition games. I will never get rid of the god awful image of him going in for a layup. Surely someone still has that picture and can post it.

Edit: found the old thread that had the photo but it appears the link to the picture is no good.

http://ouhoops.com/forum/showthread.php?t=17528&highlight=nick+thompson

 

[TheGimper]

I thought Hornbeak would make the biggest impact at OU out of the 3 freshman guards.

 

[BoomSoon]

I'm with The Gimper. I thought Jelon would be better than Buddy and Isaiah.

 

[SoonerSunshine]

This thread is great. I thought the same about Cousins as a Freshman. Since then I haven't questioned anything the Kruger decides to do. Also thought Nick what's his face would be good. Holy hell what was anyone thinking on that!

 

[pnkranger]

Early in Frank Booker's career, I thought he could be as good as Buddy.

 

[NMSooner'80]

I thought the '09-10 team would turn out to be really good with the three "burger boys" on the roster. That bunch of dysfunctional clowns subjected a friend and me to basketball smack talk in El Paso after the Sun Bowl. We'd just had that embarrassing All College showing against UTEP (but at least the football team shut up the Longhorn-wannabes that day at the Sun Bowl....).

 

[SoonerBounce13]

I thought Hornbeak would make the biggest impact at OU out of the 3 freshman guards.

I remember a thread discussing Hornbeak, hield, and cousins. After one of the exhibition games in the field house, I was positive that hornbeak would be the best player of the bunch

 

[152219]

I thought the '09-10 team would at worst be a Sweet 16 team and that the future looked bright. And then it all imploded.

 

[WaymanFan]

I think we all deserve a pass on the expectations of the 2009-2010 team. Let's not forget the very first game that year, all four freshmen scored in double-figures. While it was against a low D1 program, anytime you have four freshmen and they all hit double-digits in their very first game, how can anyone not get excited about that?

I would like someone from ESPN 247/Sports to post on this thread about the mistakes they made in analyzing the ranking of Hield, Spangler, Cousins and Woodard following their senior year of high school. Not one of these guys made their top 100...I would say that qualifies as being wrong

 

[sperry]

I didn't think Kruger would turn this around so well. I expected Sweet 16 team competitors, not teams with legitimate championship aspirations.

 

[NickZepp]

I think we all deserve a pass on the expectations of the 2009-2010 team. Let's not forget the very first game that year, all four freshmen scored in double-figures. While it was against a low D1 program, anytime you have four freshmen and they all hit double-digits in their very first game, how can anyone not get excited about that?

I was one of the few with lower expectations for that team. And I still thought we would play in the post season.

 

[scrybe]

It's a miracle I wasn't murdered by Big Old Booger, who was furious over my undying devotion to Capel. I was slow to see the light, but I finally realized that BOB was right. I let go of Capel and embraced the hiring of CLKruger……and I've never regretted it.

 

[SoonerBounce13]

but I finally realized that BOB was right. .

 

[dubyac]

A number of times but mostly about Kruger only being an average coach who would bring average talent & we wouldn't do any better than getting out of the 1st round with him. ..

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[One More Rebound]

I had to look up his name, because I had forgotten, but I was wrong about Tony Neysmith. I thought he would turn into kind of a defensive specialist, but the truth is, he was just challenged offensively. He transferred to Auburn, and didn't do that much there either.

 

[thebigabd]

I had to look up his name, because I had forgotten, but I was wrong about Tony Neysmith. I thought he would turn into kind of a defensive specialist, but the truth is, he was just challenged offensively. He transferred to Auburn, and didn't do that much there either.

I am with you on that one.... He was 6'5'', played point guard, was athletic, etc. I thought he would be a nice mismatch at PG, play great defense, drive to the rim, get fouled a lot, etc. None of it happened. He just wasn't very good.

 

[zeptrey]

Was really up for a 2006 Kelvin Sampson year...that was the most wrong...no Kelvin, no Damion James...no Scotty Reynolds...no...no.nooooO!!!!!!!!:facepalm Instead Blake took Capel further than he'd ever make it with his own recruits, and made his tenure last longer than it ever should have at OU.