We're in as a #9 seed....would you take it?

[SoonerBounce13]

Sorry, but "Nobody on this team is an NBA prospect" is a pronouncement that rules out the kind of success that Buddy (and plenty of other athletes) have achieved. I don't understand the impulse, seen so often on this board. to nail down -- in advance, before we've seen most of these players play even a single minute as a Sooner -- how good these players will be.

Few, if any, would have predicted that Buddy's freshman class would go to the Final Four or that Buddy would be Player of the Year or that he and Isaiah would be drafted or that Buddy would become a rising star and one of the best shooters in the NBA.

Well then don't do it. There is a whole business that deals with projecting players potentials. Should they stop as well?

There isn't anything wrong with it. If you don't like partaking in it, don't.

 

[CoachTalk]

I've thought about this a lot.

I think we are 5-6 seed. I havent seen practice but reports are these dudes compete and have the talent to do that. I think top 5 in the conference is fair. We will win some games we aren't supposed to and likely lose a couple of head shakers.

This group will get better all year long, lot of new parts but more than enough talent.

 

[skyvue]

Well then don't do it. There is a whole business that deals with projecting players potentials. Should they stop as well?

They don't post on this board. And one assumes that those businesses are staffed by professionals who have actually seen the athletes in question play. If they're not, anyone would be a fool to pay them for their uninformed opinions and assessments.

If posters have the right to make pronouncements about the future of players that have yet to take the court in a Sooner uniform, then other posters have every right to call those pronouncements out as premature and even unfounded and to cite former players who have FAR exceeded the expectations of the "experts," both professional and amateur.

abd's a tough guy; he can take it.