Seems like many of us are excited about having 2 NBA draft picks in our starting lineup, but we correctly temper our expectations for this year because they’re both freshmen, plus we don’t have a dominant center.
With the news that Carmelo Anthony’s son is coming in for a visit, it got me thinking about that 2002/03 Cuse team. I was at the RAC when RU beat them, eventual national champs that year. So I know anything can happen, and there’s likely some luck involved as well.
But interestingly, that Cuse team also had 2 freshmen starters (forward Carmelo Anthony and point guard Gerry McNamara), 2 future NBA players (Anthony and sophomore Hakim Warrick), and no dominant center (sophomore Craig Forth). They had one senior starter, guard Kueth Duany.
Look, I’ll be disappointed if this RU team underperforms, but it’s also possible that we can excel in ways that Cuse team did, with the similar makeup of our starting lineup, not to mention maybe our best depth in decades.
With the news that Carmelo Anthony’s son is coming in for a visit, it got me thinking about that 2002/03 Cuse team. I was at the RAC when RU beat them, eventual national champs that year. So I know anything can happen, and there’s likely some luck involved as well.
But interestingly, that Cuse team also had 2 freshmen starters (forward Carmelo Anthony and point guard Gerry McNamara), 2 future NBA players (Anthony and sophomore Hakim Warrick), and no dominant center (sophomore Craig Forth). They had one senior starter, guard Kueth Duany.
Look, I’ll be disappointed if this RU team underperforms, but it’s also possible that we can excel in ways that Cuse team did, with the similar makeup of our starting lineup, not to mention maybe our best depth in decades.