Pony_Law wrote:News out that the pacers are signing Ben Moore to a two-way contract from his current G-league deal. This will allow the pacers to move him up and down between the G-league and NBA. Ben has been killing it for the G-league team.
People need to appreciate how insanely talented the team last year was. Tournament inexperience (Ben and Sterling were not leaders of the NIT or our previous NCAA team, Semi din't play at all his year at Duke) playing against a confident team on a high, and I think fatigue (6 man rotation for basically the whole year) cost them a deep tournament run. That team will likely have had 5 starters who played at least some minutes in the NBA, that is insane (feel confident Ben will get minutes with this news, Shake is a lock for some minutes if he is a 1st round pick, and Jarrey has got a strong chance). For Reference the the UCONN 2014 team that won the national championship had 1 player that made it into a game in the NBA (they also had a d-league player and some other non american league professionals).
Good post. What you didn't mention that cost that team a run in the NCAAT is that none of the three freshmen panned out. Imagine if McDowell, Wilson, or Froling had been able to contribute with meaningful minutes. We owe the world to Larry Brown but the misses on all three of these guys cost last year's team dearly.
On Jank - he has 3-4 years to prove he can keep this program at a high level with his staff and players. Let's not forget he is the reason Nic Moore ended up here, and he can dine out on that for a while if nothing else.
We have enough fans who have tasted winning and high level basketball that apathy isn't an issue like it is with football. We will be fine. Keep the faith.
Posted: Tue Jan 09, 2018 4:25 pm