A complete whip around, and my nerves were shot of a few days. I probably should have deleted my comment, but I didn't want to take anything away from Donovan Dent. His NIL agreement was not binding and he could have backed out of the deal when Mara entered the portal. Dent was fully committed and enrolled and for that I am grateful!
My opinions don’t matter… I’ve run out of hopium. Let’s see if cronin can recreate himself and bring a new brand of offense. Unless dent is now the new coach, the offense is going to look the exact same. The defense will be fine… the question has always been if cronins brand of iso offense is good enough to make ucla elite. Unless some substantial new coaching schemes reveal themselves, I just don’t see any reason to get excited.
Besides dent, who is making the baskets next year? Who are the three point shooters? Who is going to be the consistent scoring threat that compliments dent? Time will tell I guess…
I don't see that we have anymore PG minutes. Thomas is the #4 transfer recruit in the country. He's not going somewhere to be a backup. He'll be starting on a good team next year.
Do you wake up each morning, look in the mirror and say "I hate you"? Dent is coming to UCLA after "somebody" named Baskets said he would be a moron if he came. Who is the moron now?
One things for certain, we won’t actually know who the moron is until we see how next season goes. If dent leads ucla as a top 10 team for the entire 25-26 season, then yes I’ll be the moron and state the obvious that I was wrong.
If ucla struggles to stay relevant just outside the top 25 for another full season, then you can make your own conclusions… and also let me know that I was in fact right. We have another 10 months to draw any final conclusions
Howland, during his farewell tour, also rolled out a newer offense.
Cronin has had two seasons of experimentation and I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that this next one will also be categorized as experimental so that he can save his bass if it doesn’t work.
For some reason cronin has been given a really long leash to experiment as much as he pleases. Let’s just say I’ll be shocked if this years experiment sees ucla as a top 10 team that is relevant again. I’m not holding my breath as my hopium dealer decided to enter the transfer portal searching for a better nil deal
Dent committed Baskets. I dare you to call him a moron to his face. 🤡
Huge get for CMC and MOW! Welcome home Donovan Dent! With the other players who have locked in status, I am really looking forward to next season!
Oh how I wish this aged better, mom. I went from really excited like you to gut punched in a couple days. Ah, such is UCLA MBB.
A complete whip around, and my nerves were shot of a few days. I probably should have deleted my comment, but I didn't want to take anything away from Donovan Dent. His NIL agreement was not binding and he could have backed out of the deal when Mara entered the portal. Dent was fully committed and enrolled and for that I am grateful!
My opinions don’t matter… I’ve run out of hopium. Let’s see if cronin can recreate himself and bring a new brand of offense. Unless dent is now the new coach, the offense is going to look the exact same. The defense will be fine… the question has always been if cronins brand of iso offense is good enough to make ucla elite. Unless some substantial new coaching schemes reveal themselves, I just don’t see any reason to get excited.
Besides dent, who is making the baskets next year? Who are the three point shooters? Who is going to be the consistent scoring threat that compliments dent? Time will tell I guess…
You make it sound like the roster construction is finished but there’s still 4 more scholarship spots.
Besides, Clark and Bilodeau shot 40% from 3 this season. Dailey shot 38%. Good, not great. It’s not inconceivable they improve on that for next year
Skyy Clark is a player that Cronin developed well- he should be our #2 option. We will have a solid backcourt with Perry playing backup minutes.
Mara and Dailey need to make some sort of jump for us to be competitive with top teams next year.
I am also hopeful we bring in Dedan Thomas Jr. as another elite PG to backup Dent, and Magoon Gwath to backup Mara.
I don't see that we have anymore PG minutes. Thomas is the #4 transfer recruit in the country. He's not going somewhere to be a backup. He'll be starting on a good team next year.
Do you wake up each morning, look in the mirror and say "I hate you"? Dent is coming to UCLA after "somebody" named Baskets said he would be a moron if he came. Who is the moron now?
Baskets is.
well he has CDS (Cronin Derangement Syndrome)
One things for certain, we won’t actually know who the moron is until we see how next season goes. If dent leads ucla as a top 10 team for the entire 25-26 season, then yes I’ll be the moron and state the obvious that I was wrong.
If ucla struggles to stay relevant just outside the top 25 for another full season, then you can make your own conclusions… and also let me know that I was in fact right. We have another 10 months to draw any final conclusions
You're the moron for talking shit about Dent.
Did you even read Dmitri's article? He stated with statistics that Cronin has a newer offense
Howland, during his farewell tour, also rolled out a newer offense.
Cronin has had two seasons of experimentation and I’m gonna go out on a limb and guess that this next one will also be categorized as experimental so that he can save his bass if it doesn’t work.
For some reason cronin has been given a really long leash to experiment as much as he pleases. Let’s just say I’ll be shocked if this years experiment sees ucla as a top 10 team that is relevant again. I’m not holding my breath as my hopium dealer decided to enter the transfer portal searching for a better nil deal