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Seems high to me, because it'll probably take a couple months into the season until we have all the pieces starting to mesh together.

Seems way high to me. I’m not sold at all on our prospects for next season

lukeyrid13 wrote:Seems way high to me. I’m not sold at all on our prospects for next season

If Dante gets added, I could maybe see it, but even that would be a stretch. IMO we are like a 40-50 team right now.

The non-conference schedule will be tough for this new group but if they can survive it and gel by the time conference play starts, they will be have the pieces to compete for a conference title and likely make the NCAA Tournament.

Well we added Dante, and Addison is sounding like a heavy Ducks lean. Add both of them, and a top 25 ranking is more justified.

Jon Rothstein has us #8 and CBSsports at #15.

GoDucksTroll wrote:Jon Rothstein has us #8 and CBSsports at #15.

#8? Sheesh. Even with Addison, that's a bold ranking!

I honestly don't think it's too high.

Payton is one of the top PGs in the country. JC player of the year in Duarte. 5* center and wing in Dante and Walker. Juiston is a beast who started to show an improved shot before he got hurt 8 games into last year. With another year to work on that he might actually be our best player this year. We have one of the best shooters in the country who over the last two years shot 44% from 3 on 7 attempts per game in Mathis. Richardson, Okoro, and Lawson are all quality reserves.

It's going to take some time for them to come together, but we know Altman can do that, and it helps having a SR at the most important position.

duck541 wrote:I honestly don't think it's too high.

Payton is one of the top PGs in the country. JC player of the year in Duarte. 5* center and wing in Dante and Walker. Juiston is a beast who started to show an improved shot before he got hurt 8 games into last year. With another year to work on that he might actually be our best player this year. We have one of the best shooters in the country who over the last two years shot 44% from 3 on 7 attempts per game in Mathis. Richardson, Okoro, and Lawson are all quality reserves.

It's going to take some time for them to come together, but we know Altman can do that, and it helps having a SR at the most important position.

Absolutely! Having an experience senior in Pritchard can be huge this year! I just hope he doesn't have his first half of the season slump he's had the past two years. When he's aggressive he is fantastic and can lead this team far, but when he's tentative he's almost a liability at times. Both him and Richardson need to play confident and aggressive all season long.

duck541 wrote:I honestly don't think it's too high.

Payton is one of the top PGs in the country. JC player of the year in Duarte. 5* center and wing in Dante and Walker. Juiston is a beast who started to show an improved shot before he got hurt 8 games into last year. With another year to work on that he might actually be our best player this year. We have one of the best shooters in the country who over the last two years shot 44% from 3 on 7 attempts per game in Mathis. Richardson, Okoro, and Lawson are all quality reserves.

It's going to take some time for them to come together, but we know Altman can do that, and it helps having a SR at the most important position.

I heard someone the other day going through this same list of credentials, and it suddenly hit me that a lot of the best basketball teams are in a similar boat to the ducks in terms of having to reload on a yearly basis. It must be really hard to do pre-season rankings in college basketball. It's a good thing the polls don't mean much.

Phalanx wrote:

duck541 wrote:I honestly don't think it's too high.

Payton is one of the top PGs in the country. JC player of the year in Duarte. 5* center and wing in Dante and Walker. Juiston is a beast who started to show an improved shot before he got hurt 8 games into last year. With another year to work on that he might actually be our best player this year. We have one of the best shooters in the country who over the last two years shot 44% from 3 on 7 attempts per game in Mathis. Richardson, Okoro, and Lawson are all quality reserves.

It's going to take some time for them to come together, but we know Altman can do that, and it helps having a SR at the most important position.

I heard someone the other day going through this same list of credentials, and it suddenly hit me that a lot of the best basketball teams are in a similar boat to the ducks in terms of having to reload on a yearly basis. It must be really hard to do pre-season rankings in college basketball. It's a good thing the polls don't mean much.

absolutely. thats the reality of college basketball these days. pretty much every top team except for michigan state is relying on multiple first year players to play big minutes. we obviously are taking that to the max, with 5 of our probably top 6 being new. but we are probably asking the least of our freshman of teams projected in the top 10. dante and walker are going to be asked to rebound and use their athleticism on defense, and the offense will depend most on mathis and duarte, one of which has already played with pritchard before. juiston has already played at a high level before, and will likely shoulder most of the load when it comes to scoring inside.

This is a good sign!!!

“6-2 + 21-year-old #Oregon PG prospect Pritchard had an extremely impressive weekend at the 2019 @nikebasketball Academy that seemed to cause some scouts to rethink their stance on his #NBA prospects”

http://insider.espn.com/nba/insider/sto ... ll-academy

northbeachsf wrote:This is a good sign!!!

“6-2 + 21-year-old #Oregon PG prospect Pritchard had an extremely impressive weekend at the 2019 @nikebasketball Academy that seemed to cause some scouts to rethink their stance on his #NBA prospects”

http://insider.espn.com/nba/insider/sto ... ll-academy

Nice. If he plays like he did down the stretch last season, it's warranted praise.

As much as PP lit it up at the end of the year, I think it was as much about Altman taking the reigns off. Dana is famous for meticulous detail. I think it’s why we start slow. But at some point when we came into the P12 tournament with a poor seed and little to lose, he rolled the ball out and let PP ball. The combo of Altman’s coaching/system coupled with PP’s natural gym rat play was a thing of beauty to watch.

UofDuck wrote:As much as PP lit it up at the end of the year, I think it was as much about Altman taking the reigns off. Dana is famous for meticulous detail. I think it’s why we start slow. But at some point when we came into the P12 tournament with a poor seed and little to lose, he rolled the ball out and let PP ball. The combo of Altman’s coaching/system coupled with PP’s natural gym rat play was a thing of beauty to watch.

PP has taken a lot of criticism, because he’s always the guy that’s supposed to break through. But at the end of last year it finally felt like his team. This year is where he can make himself a lot of money, and hopefully this is the year he finds that consistency. I really wish King had come back, because in my observations they meshed really well together with PP being able to find King wide open shots.

I think Pritchard works best when he has a shooter who can also penetrate. Like a Dorsey or King. Hopefully Mathis or Duarte or Patterson can fill that role.