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to bad miami has no idea how to use him
Fwiw, positive inside info of dion jordan
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Jordan's skill set is impressive but we've got to get rid of that flawed philosophy of overvaluing players who seemingly are on the rise but have never been great. That's my primary hope for Hickey, that we jettison that nonsense. Just wait a year until he gets more experience. Then it becomes wait two years, and so forth.
I prefer the opposite approach, to target guys who have fallen out of favor due to public obsession with current conventional wisdom. For example, is it really a surprise that Kentucky and Connecticut advanced to the NCAA basketball title game? Those are blueblood programs, with multiple recent national titles. Premier recruits coming out of their rumps. Yet fixation on one regular season apparently was enough to dump them to 7th and 8th seeds. Marvelous. I'm all for it, as someone who bets college sports based on preseason ratings. Kentucky was rated #1 in the consensus of preseason rankings that I used. I was chuckling every time Jay Bilas picked against them in the tournament. He was using some subjective gump that I don't care about. I trust early indications and excellence.
Sorry for the detour but if we continue to pick cute Wichita State type players and story lines there's no way we'll amount to anything. You can make Wichita State out to be better than Kentucky or Connecticut only if you have no clue what you are doing, if you place overboard weight on recent games and what others are saying. Some of the preseason sources had Wichita State as low as 40 or 42. None were above 15 or 16. A strong independent general manager would reject the flawed Wichita State approach and assign exponentially greater weight to indications prior to the season, when the real world had Kyle Van Noy significantly above someone like Morgan Moses, for example. Different positions and somehow they have flopped in terms of where they are expected to be drafted.
I'd like to pick an entire slate of guys who were projected much higher in early September than in early May. It will look like a gamble only until they show up in camp.
I prefer the opposite approach, to target guys who have fallen out of favor due to public obsession with current conventional wisdom. For example, is it really a surprise that Kentucky and Connecticut advanced to the NCAA basketball title game? Those are blueblood programs, with multiple recent national titles. Premier recruits coming out of their rumps. Yet fixation on one regular season apparently was enough to dump them to 7th and 8th seeds. Marvelous. I'm all for it, as someone who bets college sports based on preseason ratings. Kentucky was rated #1 in the consensus of preseason rankings that I used. I was chuckling every time Jay Bilas picked against them in the tournament. He was using some subjective gump that I don't care about. I trust early indications and excellence.
Sorry for the detour but if we continue to pick cute Wichita State type players and story lines there's no way we'll amount to anything. You can make Wichita State out to be better than Kentucky or Connecticut only if you have no clue what you are doing, if you place overboard weight on recent games and what others are saying. Some of the preseason sources had Wichita State as low as 40 or 42. None were above 15 or 16. A strong independent general manager would reject the flawed Wichita State approach and assign exponentially greater weight to indications prior to the season, when the real world had Kyle Van Noy significantly above someone like Morgan Moses, for example. Different positions and somehow they have flopped in terms of where they are expected to be drafted.
I'd like to pick an entire slate of guys who were projected much higher in early September than in early May. It will look like a gamble only until they show up in camp.