What Can We Realistically Expect Next Season?

[Stallion]

all of those Seniors are going to be replaced by better athletes. won't miss them at all. They were streaky inconsistent players themselves who have their own clearly apparent weaknesses. Killen scored some points on a bad team-somebody had to-he also was an inconsistent ball handler and turned the ball over all the time. Ritter-addition by substraction. Roberts injury plagued and never improved from his freshman year whether because of injury or other reasons. Just replacing mediocracy

[PonyDoh]

I don't expect losing the seniors to hurt much. 18-20 wins should be doable w/a horrible schedule. I'm still not sure what the roster will look like, though. If two kids are prepping, and we're still recruiting 08, it's safe to say some additional shake-up is in the works.

As long as Otis/Dubois/McCoy don't prep, we're looking ok. Personally, I'd like to see what Haynes has post-injury as well. He seemed like the most athletic of the bunch and shot pretty well from 3 in high school.

Is Rhodes definitely out of the equation? What are we expecting from TK if anything? Is Nyakundi gonna ball? Can Malone learn to do anything off the bounce? I really like the kid ALOT offensively, imagine his effectiveness from 3, if he can go by people playing him tight.

Dia should be pretty dominant, and Bamba needs to sniff double doubles every night. No idea what to expect from Harp. Hopefully, better shooting and handle.

The roster is definitely heading in the right direction, just need to see how the pieces fit and who actually is on the roster come Fall

[Roach]

all of those Seniors are going to be replaced by better athletes. won't miss them at all. They were streaky inconsistent players themselves who have their own clearly apparent weaknesses. Killen scored some points on a bad team-somebody had to-he also was an inconsistent ball handler and turned the ball over all the time. Ritter-addition by substraction. Roberts injury plagued and never improved from his freshman year whether because of injury or other reasons. Just replacing mediocracy

I see your point, but I disagree that they won't be missed. Killen at least had the ability to get on a roll once in a while, a game when he would simply carry the offense by drilling 3s from all over the place. With him gone, who has the ability to just go on a scoring tear, to carry an offense when the others aren't hitting shots?

The young guys might all improve - I think they will - but there is no go-to scorer (even an inconsistent streak scorer) on the roster at the moment.

[SoCal_Pony]

Doh has done a good job of developing existing talent.

Maybe Bamba will be next years' Ike or Jon.

[gostangs]

Killeen came on strong in the end of the season, but his ball handling in the beginning of the season cost us as many games as he won later.

I think you will see several players turn up the scoring.

[papawasamustang]

I expect to see an exciting brand of uptempo basketball with alot of intensity. Improved ballhandling & FG shooting %.
More players taking the ball to the hole, able to create their own shot.
I also want to see an upgrade in the schedule.
No reason we shouldn't be playing UT, A&M, Baylor, TT, OU, OSU, ARK, LSU sprinkled in with UTA, UNT, SFA, Texas State etc.
I would like to see the 2 tournaments continued with some of the teams mentioned above.
These are the types of teams that will bring college hoops fans to Moody or American Airline Arena.

[SoCal_Pony]

I heard we are playing Pepperdine this year in Malibu; that should be a good one for all the west coast alums.

[George S. Patton]

I heard we are playing Pepperdine this year in Malibu; that should be a good one for all the west coast alums.

The school I thought I heard from the WCC was Santa Clara. But I talked about the schedule with Herman some months ago. At the time, he thought it would be relatively the same.

Dayton rotates off, we go to TCU and Colorado comes here -- think that's right.

[Ponymon]

I don't expect losing the seniors to hurt much. 18-20 wins should be doable w/a horrible schedule. I'm still not sure what the roster will look like, though. If two kids are prepping, and we're still recruiting 08, it's safe to say some additional shake-up is in the works.

As long as Otis/Dubois/McCoy don't prep, we're looking ok. Personally, I'd like to see what Haynes has post-injury as well. He seemed like the most athletic of the bunch and shot pretty well from 3 in high school.

Is Rhodes definitely out of the equation? What are we expecting from TK if anything? Is Nyakundi gonna ball? Can Malone learn to do anything off the bounce? I really like the kid ALOT offensively, imagine his effectiveness from 3, if he can go by people playing him tight.

Dia should be pretty dominant, and Bamba needs to sniff double doubles every night. No idea what to expect from Harp. Hopefully, better shooting and handle.

The roster is definitely heading in the right direction, just need to see how the pieces fit and who actually is on the roster come Fall

As DC Pony just reported on the Recruiting thread, DuBois wants to get out of his commitment for personal reasons. NOT GOOD!

http://www.ponyfans.com/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=32409

Never, EVER trust someone with a French name!

[angryfan04]

We can expect more hype from coach doh - hopefully he can back it up this time around.....

[Glenn Sosbee]

Predicting a lot of wins so you have fodder to complain in the fall?

Kids are a year older, but losing Killen and the other seniors will hurt more than many realize - Killen quietly had a sensational year. Who's going to score in crunch time?

Hard to predict how well we'll do until we realize who replaces Janielle Dodds and Sharee Shepherd.

Killen has been an overachieving spare with no consistency. I wish him well at his real job.