Yes, our defense sucked. Farrell is a fantastic defender, but Idk if he's ready to play next year. Typically, when you have some key returning players, your team's defense will naturally improve. They had an entire year and will have this offseason to learn Archie's system. Landing a perimeter defender like Lawerence will help as well.Billyboy78 wrote: ↑1 month agoI was being kind at 8-12. Our big problem last year was defense. How has that improved? We blocked very few shots last year. Only 3 guys had double figures in blocks for the entire season. All 3 of them are gone. Of our returning players, the leaders from last year are tied......with 8! Fuchs and House. Just awful. We have zero defensive presence in the paint. We actually had one player last year who played hard on defense and was often assigned the other team's best player. He's gone too. So, if you look at our roster now and compare it to last year's, looking at it from what was our biggest problem, we might actually be worse.We'll see what they add at the 4 and 5 positions. They'd better be good. Yes, I know who Jamarques Lawrence is. Is his addition going to drastically change what we were last year, which was one of the worst defenses in the country?PeterRamTime wrote: ↑1 month ago8-12?Billyboy78 wrote: ↑1 month ago Even though I start almost every post about Bassy by saying I like Bassy, I get accused of bashing him because I don't think he gets is anywhere near where we want to be. So where do we finish with him as our PG? Somewhere between 8-12? We are happy about that in year 3 of Archie? I've heard things like the practice facility is a 'game changer' and that Rhody Excellence will get us much better recruits and get us back in contention for an A10 title. What happened? When does that start to happen? We're nowhere near that. So, we improve a little this year from last and now Bassy, House and Green at minimum are gone for year 4 and we start all over again. How is this good? Are we really setting the bar that low now?
Have you watched a second of him at Albany?
Do you know who Jamarques Lawrence is?
It wouldn't be "Bassy" getting us where we want us to go it would be the "Team"
I'm guessing if we land a wing player and a big it won't matter how good they are because no one will watch replays of their games or highlights and they'll just continue with their doom and gloom bs.
Archie is well aware that we need to land a defensive minded big and wing. I would be very surprised if he didn't land at least two more players that are good defenders. Even if those players are limited on offense. I like that Archie is taking his time and considering all options. Until we see the final roster, I'm going to have a positive outlook that he will build a good team. I think our current roster would be a middle-of-the-pack A10 team, which is an improvement. Yes I know we all want bids but I just want to see this team get out of the bottom of the A10.