Then you're just looking for attention. You're an attention whore.
Pike is a joke of exponential proportions
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You get paid nothing for your posts, yet deserve even more criticism than you get. Honestly, you are wrong so often I wonder how you navigate traffic lights at this point.
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Oh we should wait, but you can post definitive declarations whenever things don't go perfectly? How about you wait til 2026 to post again.
These are excellent points, if only he would actually think about what he's posting and reflect then he may make some salient points.
Are you now arguing with yourself against your own previous point?
CBB is filled with upperclassmen now, just as it was when the Fab5 played. Plus now you have free agency and veteran players can stay beyond 5 years. Its not about being a superstar in year 6, it's about being an experienced veteran at 24+ years old playing against very talented but inexperienced 18-19 year olds.
No , am saying it was great what the fab 5 accomplished .
Being young, when you knowingly recruit one and done guys, is not an excuse for losing
Sorry, I assumed since Pike wouldn’t play him and he couldn’t crack this lineup that he was a bust. However, it’s more like he had no idea what he had. However, it’s genius to wait until he shows his worth to comment. Well done.
Idiot fans make comments like this, don't be that idiot.
Well, weren’t you the guy that said coach prime was gonna suck? Get outta here with this holier than thou
Here's the OP to that thread. It was on point for where they were in season one.
You disappoint continuously for a self anointed board legend.Seems like Coach Prime's glow is fading. Watched a bunch of the 2nd half of the game against Stanford and Colorado does not look like a team that is playing well at all. Of course, when you're head coach doesn't actually coach 'em up it's harder to fight through adversity.
Do they turn it around and qualify for a bowl game or
Did they qualify for a bowl game in that first season or finish 4-8? I'll leave the line open but know you'll just try to twist the narrative.
Not self anointed
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I don’t understand why people don’t accept the obvious on Grant: he improved a lot this season. Pike *did* put him out there in Vegas and it did not go well. I’m sure Pike may have held him out a little longer than he should have, probably because we already had so much inexperience on the court, but this idea that he was miles ahead of the alternatives the whole time and Pike just didn’t see it is pretty unlikely.
It's funny actually because when it was announced that Grant went home to Canada and skipped his senior HS basketball season many were writing him off. Now the narrative has become Pike didn't know what he had...lol. Quite the 180.
Meanwhile most everyone but the coaching staff ignored what the kid did on the EYBL circuit or the fact that Rivals bumped him in the rankings to 4* because of his EYBL performance despite no senior season. He just needed to get up to speed more before he could be a contributor. No different than what we see in football with some true freshman who emerge as the season goes on.
It's remarkable that everyone knows better than Pike and that they think he's some babbling idiot who needs to be told what to do. They should all be coaching instead of being here.
For the record, I've stated previously that I think that Pike will not work out and we'll know over the next few years. That's solely due to his developmental style and not because he's not a very good coach. I just question whether he's going to be adjust to so much portal recruiting with limited NIL resources against the Big 10 teams who have more. I'll be happy to be wrong because I think he's a great guy and coach.
Ok Slappy. He knew exactly what he was doing..lol. He was trying anything at that point. A different starting lineup every game.
Might have had 2 more wins if Grant had played earlier.
Pike is a classy guy yet his fans are the ones always resorting to calling people names…lol.
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The three freshmen at Duke are all 5 star top 20 players, much closer to Dylan and Ace than they are to Grant and Sommerville.
The Fab 5 didn’t all start a game together until February.
Right you know better than the coach who sees them everyday when the kid was ready. What are this week's lottery numbers?
Okay little man, let me know where to send the escort to soothe your hurt ego.
Lmao. You’re scary…were you in your parent’s basement when you sifted through all two week old comments to reply to them now that Grant is finally playing? You should spend some time and dig up the Jordan threads since you have nothing better to do.
What I am saying is that Harper and Ace are better than everyone of the fab 5
If they were in the same class same year they would be ranked Higher!
Kobe went straight to the NBA he won championships!
That’s what I am talking about, I think I am being pretty clear
Idiotic post especially after not having Harper for 3 games. How about u let January happen and then start ur nonsense ? So u people ever learn?
So we r 99% not making the tourney ?
Chance of going under 500
You say he should go if so.
So what happens if we finish 19-12 and make the tourney going in playing really well and make a nice run?
Tell me what ur list will be???? Please.
Yup. You're smarter and a better judge of talent than Pike. Well done. Delusion is a hell of a drug.
No silly, Pike didn't know what he had! Just ask the super keen talent evaluators here!
What factual basis do you have for this comparison? I really don't like Michigan nor Webber but there really is no way to know. Note that Webber is in the HOF and drafted #1 overall. Why would you think that he would be below Ace and Dylan?
OK, cool. You are doing everything in this thread to argue in support of the OP. One can only deduce from that that you are aligned with Lou and think that Pike is an enormous Joke......and not that it takes some time for younger guys to gel & develop.
My own opinion is that that pretty much every player now carries the risk of being one and done for the team they are on in the NIL era.
lol ok drama queen.
I never said anything close to pike being a joke.
Man, tough to keep a scorecard of who's on who's team with all these personal attacks going back and forth. But it is kinda entertaining.
carry on fellas.
carry on fellas.
Harper and Bailey are most likely not better than Chris Weber, and will probably be ecstatic to have careers like Howard and Rose. Sure, they are putting up more points, but they shoot much more. Kobe Bryant went to the NBA and was 11th on the team in minutes played his rookie year? He won championships in his career? I haven't been paying attention to your convo, but I don't think it's clear
I'm glad somebody said this. Love Dylan. Love Ace. But C-Webb is a HOFer. He would have won multiple championships in Sacramento except he was going against Shaq and Kobe.
I have watched all 3, IMO they are better, Webber could not drive to hoop at will, split the double team, like Harp, drain effortless 3. Don’t see Harp calling TO with no TO to call🤣
He could not rise up and hit fade-aways like ACE.
Go RU hope they make make the tournament, hopefully Pike is up to the task the rest of the way!
Well said. All these people saying that Pike screwed up by “not playing Grant sooner” is pure 20-20 hindsight.
Reminds me of that scene in “Sully” where Tom Hanks points out that the simulations were flawed because they required him to turn the plane back to LaGuardia IMMEDIATELY after the bird strike, but that the sims didn’t take into account the human element of needing to evaluate the situation in real time, assess the options, make calculations, and then make a decision. The committee agreed with him and added 50 seconds to the simulation, with the result being that every simulation thereafter had the plane falling short of the runway and crashing if he turned back to LaGuardia instead of trying to land the plane on the Hudson.
Okay, a slightly obtuse analogy, I know. 🤔 But the point is, you can’t automatically conclude that Pike erred by not inserting Grant into the lineup sooner merely because Grant has played well the past few games. Grant wasn’t ready earlier on — as proven by his minutes in Vegas — and as the Hayes/Martini/Derkack/Acuff additions were faltering (the bird strike), Pike needed time to assess and evaluate and decide on the best course of action.
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