I don’t know if this team will be any good, but I’m confident Davis is going to average 18+ ppg. His midrange jumper is so good and being the #1 option is really going to help his rhythm. He struggled playing off the ball with Lee but now he’s getting his shot to be The Man.
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DD better be nails this year. He’s the only real end-of-shot-clock bailout option this season, or at least the only proven one. I think we might see some growth out of Hicke and Stanton in that department, though.
I watched the Princeton and the Yale interviews today.
I think the interviewers were a bit burned out by the time they got to Princeton. They spent an inordinate of time talking to MItch, about Mitch, and talking to Dalen about video gaming.
Jones spent more time talking about all of his players and his roles.
I wish Mitch could have spent more time talking about some of the returning players and their potential roles, especially Huggins.
Just my 2 cents.
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Not much to go on right now, but come January, I expect the rotation to settle on:
PG: Davis / Stanton
SG: Stanton / Seals / Whitfield
SF: Hicke / Clark / Whitfield
PF: Abdullahi / Clark
C: Happy / Huggins
That would be a 9-man rotation in a typical game. Unfortunately, I expect a fair amount of blowout losses this season, so other players will surely get 10-15m stints on a regular basis.
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I would love to see some of the scrambling, pressing lineup from last season (when the starters were benched and the team far behind) for one- to two-minute intervals this season. All of those players are still on the roster and I think they had the best plus/minus in that mode of any other combinations. Just to shake up the oppo and maybe get a spurt or a run before returning to our regular programming.