rambler95_99 wrote:
I think we need to let the Feelings of the Final Four go. That was a magical season with players that just worked well together. That season had a couple bumps in the road, but that was a roster of players that knew how to play with each other. They didn’t have to think where to go, they just knew where to go. This collection of players may get there this year, more likely next year, but it’s unfair to compare any future Rambler team to the magical run of San Antonio. I will also make a bold prediction. Jalon Pipkins will be a deciding factor of how far we go in March. Dude is just too athletic to not make a difference.
Not in November of ’17 they didn’t. That team at the beginning of the year struggled. We were coming off a disappointing finish to the Milton Doyle years, and didn’t look all that great at the start. It wasn’t until the UIC game, a month into the season, they really showed any sign of what it would end up being. For God sake we were losing in the second half to a bad UMKC team at the beginning of the year, and looked pretty lost at times the entire first month. I’d love to go back and see what some of us were saying that November. Especially halftime of the UMKC game, and a few weeks later at Boise.
Look, nobody is realistically thinking this is a Final Four type team. Or even an at large type team with our youth and schedule. The point is this is a young team, with a lot of talent, learning to play the D1 game. It’s not going to happen overnight, but these kids absolutely have the potential to be right there in March. Absolutely nobody in the MVC has shown themselves to be a team I look at and say “we can’t beat them”. As the great 20th Century philosopher Axl Rose once said, all we need is just a little patience.