Next Year

[DownGoesKansas]

Lets have some fun and talk about next years team.

My predictions

Starters:

G: Moran (I feel like he has to play within himself more next year, some times I feel like he is forcing it this year. Sometimes it feels like he wants to be Ali and force shots that are not part of his game. That being said look for him to have a good year and be a great leader)

G: James

G: Sonnen (I think he will have a very good year. He is a physical player and will go the basket like Kwadzo)

F: Koch (Hopefully his post game develops a little more)

F: ?

Bench

Morrison ( I expect his role to be about the same)
Bohannon (Sharpshooter off the bench but I also think his game is fairly well rounded)

Tuttle/Rank /Pehl (One of these 3 will start. I would guess Tuttle or Pehl. Rank might be the best of the 3 but I think we need some resemblance of a true post player. I think this will be the main off season question)

Buss(?)
Mitchell(I would guess his role would be a true pg off the bench)
Lyle(RS)
Singleton(RS)

What do you think? This is just my opinion.

We a still missing a true post player, IMO.

[BCPanther]

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Singleton ain't redshirting. He already weighs 230 and is built like a truck. I think he steps into Kerwin's role day one.

Starters:
Moran (28-32)
James (28-32)
Sonnen (25-28)
Koch (25-28)
Pehl (12-15)

Bench:
Rank (18-22)
Tuttle (15-18)
Singleton (15-18)
Buss (12-15)
Mitchell (12-15)
Morrison/Lange (limited)
Lyle- definite redshirt
Bohanon- wildcard- depends on whether or not Jake wants his shooting ability on the floor.

[ProwlingPanther]

Re: Next Year

Lets have some fun and talk about next years team.

My predictions

Starters:

G: Moran (I feel like he has to play within himself more next year, some times I feel like he is forcing it this year. Sometimes it feels like he wants to be Ali and force shots that are not part of his game. That being said look for him to have a good year and be a great leader)

G: James

G: Sonnen (I think he will have a very good year. He is a physical player and will go the basket like Kwadzo)

F: Koch (Hopefully his post game develops a little more)

F: ?

Bench

Morrison ( I expect his role to be about the same)
Bohannon (Sharpshooter off the bench but I also think his game is fairly well rounded)

Tuttle/Rank /Pehl (One of these 3 will start. I would guess Tuttle or Pehl. Rank might be the best of the 3 but I think we need some resemblance of a true post player. I think this will be the main off season question)

Buss(?)
Mitchell(I would guess his role would be a true pg off the bench)
Lyle(RS)
Singleton(RS)

What do you think? This is just my opinion.

We a still missing a true post player, IMO.

I don't think that Singleton redshirts.

[Hail Our Panthers]

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Agree with Singleton..hes not redshirting. I think Mitchell's minutes will be closer to 18 than 15, but around there. I really think we're going to want to redshirt two from this class. That way we can avoid some of the turnover problems with graduation as we're already redshirting a few this year and we only have one scholarship for 2012. That way the classes will be more balanced which makes it easier to have sustained success. That leaves Bohannon being redshirted by my logic, which bumps Morrison's minutes up a little. I think he will be capable of giving us 5-10 minutes a game

[DownGoesKansas]

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Agree with Singleton..hes not redshirting. I think Mitchell's minutes will be closer to 18 than 15, but around there. I really think we're going to want to redshirt two from this class. That way we can avoid some of the turnover problems with graduation as we're already redshirting a few this year and we only have one scholarship for 2012. That way the classes will be more balanced which makes it easier to have sustained success. That leaves Bohannon being redshirted by my logic, which bumps Morrison's minutes up a little. I think he will be capable of giving us 5-10 minutes a game

I guess I didn't know people were that high on Singleton. I agree with you about redshirting 2 players though. Thats why I predicted him to RS. I thought Buss might play the 3 some too. I do not really want Bohannon to redshirt though. I have seen him play multiple times and have been very impressed. He looks like a complete basketball player. He is also a little bigger guard too so that would help.

[ProwlingPanther]

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Singleton is already more physically mature than some of our sophmore's and Juniors. Add to that the fact that he has a great basketball IQ and good fundamentals, I think he adds more to the team right away than any other player. Mitchell might argue with that. Bottom line, I think Singleton can give us valuable minutes at the 3 and 4. Something we will need.

Just my opinion..

[DownGoesKansas]

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Marvin Snigleton is more physically mature than a lot of our sophmore and Juniors. Add into the fact that he already has a high basketball i

You guys are probably right. My only thought is that Bohannon is a 3 star recruit according to Yahoo/rivals. So I really do not think he came here to red shirt. And if they both play minutes will be limited for quite a few guys. But who knows, I was not part of the recruiting process....

[Moose39]

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I'll copy and paste what I wrote from the Jared thread

You might be on to something here. Think about next year for a moment.

Koch will be a junior RS, standing at 6'9" 255 lbs (Which i expect him to put on more muscle weight),

Chip Rank will be a 6'6" sophomore who's currenly at 222 lbs. I know it might not seem like it now, but he could possibly fill the roll of O'Rear in the coming years. I watched a little bit of Luke's high school days on youtube, and I'd have to say that Rank is bigger in size than luke was. Rank has the minutes, and the experience of playing down low. Just get him in the weight room and bulk him up, and he could be bigger than Luke (size wise)

Throw in Buss in the mix at 6'9, as well as Tuttle next year (6'8") and dare i say it... Pehl at 6'10 (I hope hope hope he greatly improves) and you'll have five guys who can play the post positions. It'd make us wonder how we were ever short in that area in what would be "this season".

I don't mean to take this off the topic of Jarod, but that last post made me really think about what we could possibly have next season. Throw in all the guards that we'll have, and we could have playing (assuming Coach doesn't redshirt any of the new five guys, which I doubt is the case): (And please correct me if i'm wrong on any of this, or you have a differing opinion)

Bohanan, Matt; Grade 88 Guard
Buss, Nate; Grade 86 Forward (See Article)
Humpal, James Walk On,
James, Anthony Starter
Koch, Jake Starter
Lange, Tyler Averages 3.7 min/g with the recruits coming in, i dont think that'll change much.
Lyle, Jevon Grade 84 Guard
Martino, Max Grade 83 Guard
Mitchell, Deon Grade 87 Guard
Moran, Johnny Starter
Morrison, Matt Averages 5.2 min/g (see Lange)
Pehl, Austin Possible Starter
Rank, Chip Starter
Sonnen, Marc Possible Starter
Singleton, Marvin Grade 86 Forward
Syndergaard, Jarod Walk on
Tuttle, Seth Grade 88 Forward

Minus the walk ons, that's 15 players who could see time. Take out the 5 recruits, and we're still 10 deep with three guys at 6'8" or above. I don't want to be too overly optimistic, but we could be pretty dangerous come next season.

[06panther10]

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Singleton ain't redshirting. He already weighs 230 and is built like a truck. I think he steps into Kerwin's role day one.

Starters:
Moran (28-32)
James (28-32)
Sonnen (25-28)
Koch (25-28)
Pehl (12-15)

Bench:
Rank (18-22)
Tuttle (15-18)
Singleton (15-18)
Buss (12-15)
Mitchell (12-15)
Morrison/Lange (limited)
Lyle- definite redshirt
Bohanon- wildcard- depends on whether or not Jake wants his shooting ability on the floor.

+1

I agree with most of your predictions with the lineup.

IMO, next year will be a true "rebuilding" year for us. I see it being very similar to this year, being very up and down. We will still be a tough team though.

It two years, though, we could be very very good. Could be another "special" year.

[jnutt]

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i don't think the recruits will come in right away and be the post guy. look at this year, as soon as we lost O'Rear we went from giving up 55 points to 70 points. Rank/Pehl/Tuttle/Buss have to really really step up and we've seen a few glimpses of it but no real consistency. Maybe it can come in the offseason but I'm not holding my breath. Especially with the officiating calling crap in the Valley. We got the guards, we always do. It's the big men that we need to establish again

[ceaser150]

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We saw how big of an impact the loss of ORear had. The loss of KA will be 2 or 3x as bad. But if James, Rank and Sonnen can continue to improve and the Mitchell kid, along with Buss and Tuttle, can contribute, I think we could be a middle to upper MVC team with a shot to contend.

[DownGoesKansas]

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+1

I agree with most of your predictions with the lineup.

IMO, next year will be a true "rebuilding" year for us. I see it being very similar to this year, being very up and down. We will still be a tough team though.

It two years, though, we could be very very good. Could be another "special" year.

I do not think it is a rebuilding year. We could have easily beaten a top 20 rpi team with a team that is losing only 1 major contributor. Yes Kwadzo is our best player but we lost our 3 best players last year though.

[achrist70]

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For some reason I think that 1 or 2 of the walkons from this year could surprise and maybe get 10 or so minutes a game next year. I also think we will get some good production out of Buss next year, especially if he hits the weight room.

I almost see a problem next year with too many good players and not enough minutes to give out. Especially in the backcourt, that is why if Singleton isn't redshirted I think that he will play a similar role to Kerwin this year, a player who will have to play both inside and out.

[achrist70]

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I do not think it is a rebuilding year. We could have easily beaten a top 20 rpi team with a team that is losing only 1 major contributor. Yes Kwadzo is our best player but we lost our 3 best players last year though.

I am not sure that Kwadzo truly wasn't our best player last year (don't hang me for saying that) he just didn't have to do as much as he does this year.

Truly I think that Marc and Johnny are the two that step up the most for us next year, ANTHONY JAMES I still think will be our leading scorer, and Jake probably 2nd but those two will have the biggest increase in scoring if that makes any sense.

[BCPanther]

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Of the walk ons, imo, Martino is the only one with a legitimate shot to get any time...