Definite on Dow....Most Likely on Wheeler...Who'knows on Morton might be a redshirt..but everyones getting a free season next year..we can agree to disagree but can't see how Hunter won't start..he's our best defender hard to think Edey will only get 5...we would have to play "small" alot for Furst to chew up that many minutes...IF WILLIAMS STAYS...i actually think he'll go..not much else to prove
I hope he wants to win a championship. This season isn't over, so he may want to stay and win TWO championships.
I was conflicted on whether or not to insert Ivey in the lineup for Hunter or Sasha. I ended up sticking with Sasha as I think he is such a hard player for teams to game plan for. I could see Hunter in the lineup instead of Sasha though.
If we are winning there'll be no whining. For reference see teams like Duke, Kansas and UK that recruit only 4 and 5 stars each year but as long as they're winning players accept their roles.
I agree. You have players on this team who will have at least one year of going through the wars in the toughest, most physical league in the nation. The incoming freshmen, as big and talented as they are, will need time to adjust to how much faster the game is and how big and strong the players are. And they will have to adjust to how hard they will have to work in practice to get significant minutes from Coach Painter.
Duke, UK, and Kansas get transfers all the time. Those schools also hardly use more than 10 scholarships in a given year.
The problem is that in some folk’s minds, the kid at the end of the bench, or the new recruits we haven’t seen play a college game, are always better than kids we have seen playing in the toughest conference in the world. We have seen the existing starters play, fail, miss shots, turn the ball over, and make defensive mistakes. We haven’t seen the same for those unknowns, so in the poster’s minds, those untested players MUST be better than whatever players they’ve seen.
This^^^ Wheeler was a few seconds from playing in a final four. I think he would want to be along for the ride next year since it is his last and see what happens.
Still no reason to redshirt him, he can use this season as a redshirt if he wants to play 5 years, he'll suit up even if that means he only plays 10 minutes a game. I think next year is it with Williams, he won't take the extra year, Edey his Jr year will get plenty of minutes.
Guessing Dow calls it a career or leaves if he wants to play, Wheeler probably leaves and goes to a lower level school in hopes of getting 25-30 minutes a game. Guessing the Boilers sport an 11 player roster next year, Morton will have to really improve to break into the rotation, it's possible. This year is sort of a redshirt for everyone, I doubt anyone redshirts next year, Morton would be the only possibility.
Wheeler could still transfer after next year lol. This year doesn't count as eligibility if a player doesn't want it to, he could come back except limited minutes and go somewhere where he could play a ton his 6th year.
I said this earlier about Williams leaving, however, since he's probably not a NBA draftee I'm guessing he returns for 1 final year.
Purdue2018, your spot on here. There are 200 minutes. We all love our players but if someone plays morethen someone else plays less. It’s a zero some game.
I generally agree with this but this year may be different. We see talk on these boards about all of our new recruits being better than their ranking. When guys are ranked 100-150 that’s sometime true sometimes it’s not. We could all pick individual players that appear to have been over or under rated. But this year our recruits are rated 30th an 42nd on rivals. That’s everyone else telling us their good. So this year our expectations align with others outside the program and aren’t just based on hope and gold and black colored glasses.
Furst has a little more range than TJD, but isn’t a stretch 4 by any means. He is more of a 5 in college. Kaufman will be the 4 next to Williams, unless Gillis holds him off. There is no way of telling who is correct until next November, so not really anything to get too worked up about.
Edey hasn’t been good in conference play. There really is no questioning that. Shooting only 42% for someone his size is not great. I will say that he is still miles ahead of where most thought he would be.
I understand Gillis redshirted and had some time in the program prior to this year. But he was starting in front of Wheeler prior to the start of the Big Ten season. So if your point is that they won't start that soon because they're freshmen, then I would disagree with you. If your point is that it's doubtful they'll start in front of Gillis or Sasha, then maybe I could agree with it.
Wheeler probably won't be around next year, my guess is he drops down a level to an Indiana State/Valpo type of school with the hope of playing 25-30 minutes a game, he won't get that in West Lafayette. I really hope he returns and is a team player, however, not sure he'll have a huge role considering this is his 4th yr with the program.
I haven't seen Kaufman personally, so I can't say.
I just see what Furst has and what this team needs/will need and it's a pretty tight fit.
If you think Kaufman will start because he's better offensively, I'd say I think you're wrong. Not that he's not better offensively, but that Furst will do all the other things too well to ignore.
Hunter is a much better defender than Sasha though. They’ll both play plenty. IT could get squeezed, especially if Kaufman gets some minutes at the 3, pushing Newman, Ivey and Sasha down to the 1 and 2 spots more.
We’ll see about Morton. Seems to me like a player who will be more effective as the talent around him improves...
