interesting overlooked note by many, sampson treated it as a real game… sharp not dunn/arc started
If Sharp ever gets more aggressive about attacking the basket, he can be every bit of the scorer Rob Gray was.
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Sharp starting over arc and Dunn is interesting. Sharp and LJ together is lethal.
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Disappointed Arc had 0 points 
tonight.
Especially since @pesik compared him to the Thompson twins athletic and movement wise.
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He was going against grown freaking men, that are GOOD at basketball, and much stronger physically than any college player he’ll face this year. Did i read 10 NBA players, shoot, heck ya he got smacked. I’m sure he would admit that. Its not bad thing to get whipped, he may have leaned a couple on court maneuvers he can apply this year and school some opponents…
I had read earlier that the Australian National Team wasn’t going to be an easy game.
This Australian team is one of the top 3/4 favorite teams to win the FIBA Basketball World Cup later this month. USA is the favorite to win.
We basically played a professional basketball team so it’s hard to accurately evaluate of the team. With that said, I sure hope a TA and Francis step up. I realize Sampson rolled the dice by not signing anyone else out of fear of player(s) leaving, but I think it was a big gamble that could backfire if those two don’t develop.
Just my opinion but I still think we need another 4 or 5 that can defend and rebound, and score some from the perimeter. Someone in the mold of Kaluma would have been nice.
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There are lots of reasons to be concerned about this game, regardless of the caliber of our competition, and LOTs of people on this string have expressed them (see the posts above on Francis, Sharp, Roberts from people other than yours truly).
There was nothing ridiculous about what I said.
I simply stated two facts: 1) that we got our butts stomped, and 2) that I feel a bit better about that knowing that we at least got our butts stomped by a high caliber team.
Does anyone disagree? All right……then it wasn’t ridiculous.
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Would like to see Sharp start taking it to the hole.
Damian Dunn as the 6th man makes sense; can get to the foul like at a steady clip and keep the offense scoring points if the other guards are sitting
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I dunno if he has the athleticism and quickness to beat his man to get to the hole consistently. I don’t think that’s part of his game.
He’s more of a two to three dribble 3 pt assassin at this point. As long as he brings that part consistently with him along with defense & rebounding, he should be okay.
That’s why i would start Dunn. I think he’s more dangerous with the ball on his hands where he’s just crafty and experience to get his shot off from all different type of spots or angles.
Leave Sharp as a 6th man who can come in and score in bunches and brings energy against the backups.
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We are in big trouble, the Francis experiment is not working well yet, he is a fouling machine, Roberts at the 4 not looking good, Sampson should have gotten a big man. I had high hopes for Francis, maybe the light will come on for him
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We don’t have to do this …. So we are just going to think CKS stopped knowing what he is doing overnight?
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Absolutely NOT.
Really didn’t even read past your first line
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Then go back and read all the other posts about Roberts, Sharp, Francis, etc.
As I said, those posts didn’t come from me.
I think the context is more of in comparison to title contenders
Like getting comped to Kansas, if we were comping to UCF and BYU even the most staunch critic would say we win by 15
It’s the price of success if you win enough to get bottleneck, people will mostly talk about how to break past the bottleneck
Also Sampson said Francis would be a breakout star last year. It’s not like Sampson hasn’t misplaced stock in certain players before… from a purely prognostic look there are definitely some question marks about our 4/5 that are big, and some minor ones about the guard (how to score if the 3s aren’t falling)
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