That makes way more sense, given his recent activity on social media. He's been all about the NCAA needing to pay players and disapproving of the FBI stuff that broke last week (about athletes and their parents getting paid, in some cases meager amounts, by agents/coaches). That would also lead me to believe he's not going to elect to sit a year where he'd either improve his prospects or find a home in the G League.
I'm guessing that seeing a guy he was really close to go #4 overall and making millions with the Celtics might be a factor in this.
Cook is 20. Turns 21 in September.
He's a fucking stick figure. Most of the team is. The fallacy of basketball players getting "too big" is antiquated. You have players with long, lean frames, they're never going to come out looking like body builders with all the cardio they put in. But they can come out looking jacked and being a lot stronger. 99% of the time, a player adding good weight will be nothing but a benefit. Nunge and Garza need to add at least 15 lbs going into next season. Jordan needs to add 10. Maishe needs to add at least 10. Moss needs too add 5-10 and learn how to dribble.
The Williams.
I was loudly ridiculed in chat when I mentioned this early this year.
You have about 32 weeks.
Well that's dumb. By the way, Cook was 11-22 from the floor, 4-8 from the line and only had 3 boards in 37 fucking minutes that game.
which may or may not be true.
We were out of things so fast this year that I went numb to the disappointment pretty quick. On December 7th they were 4-6, 0-2 and were in a huge hole already. On January 7th they were 9-9, 0-5 and that was that.
He is always trying to emulate a national reporter, always trying to have “perspective” and comes off like a whiny wanna-be bitch.
LATFG to an all-timer.
I didn’t mean to say that he doesn’t need to get bigger and stronger. I’m just saying that he came in bigger than I expected and young kids will have a baseline progression from their freshman year through their senior year in terms of getting bigger and stronger. I don’t think Nunge needs to completely re-shape his body or anything. even following the baseline will result in drastic improvement.
I honestly thought they were going to win the BIG in 2016. Fuck me for thinking that.
Can I include football?
Yeah, '14 and '16 hurt much worse than this year. Was easy to see the fatal flaws on this roster as soon as Big Ten play started and know we were going to suck. '14 and '16 were gut punches.
Top 5 for sure
2012 football wasn’t anywhere near this bad for me
My favorite sports event of the year as well, but my interest will still be high. I’m used to Iowa not playing Thursday and Friday by now, as sad as that sounds. @cjhawks @Costanza @brantshawks @otherfaggotswhowanttomeatupandwatchthetourneythatday
Getting mad again?
This is not the teams or Fran’s fault. Blame the Big Ten for scheduling the BTT a week earlier.
You mad?
my inference is that the Mel experiment convinced Fran of his 80s-90s biases for players not to "get too big." Meanwhile, MSU trots out a roster every year full of kids who can get up and down the floor, and push Iowa's kids around (except for a r'd up McCabe).
RATT from October 17, 2017!
Fuck him. Hope Cook's back to dunk all over his ugly ass.
