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Ranking players you'd like to retain for next season

Regardless of who the coach is next season, given the nature of college basketball, it seems very likely that we will only return a couple players for various reasons. If it was up to you, who would you want to return? Here's how I'd rank them:

1. Lowe - I get that he hasn't had a good season but he is still young and has the potential to be a very good player. I may try to bring in a PG though and move him to the 2.

2. Cummings

3. GDG - this may not be popular but I'd move him back to the 5, preferably as a backup and bring in a better starting Center

4. Kante

5. Delalic

6. Ndiaye - maybe he can develop into something?

7. Jorge - would have ranked him higher but he's a senior and the other guys have a higher ceiling

8. Barnes

9. Corhen - can't bring him back. Can't have a 5 who can't rebound or defend

SMU Game & Other Dribbles ...

** I’m pretty much out of words for this season. So I’ll quote @ChiefJusticeMarshall

** In the game thread, he said: “It is absolutely mind numbing we cannot run a decent offensive set where we get a good, uncontested easy shot. Everything, and I mean now 2 months total, everything is a chore and a score is usually off of an individual effort. And we just do not have good enough talent to have to play one on five every possession.”

** Yep.

** But everything else that has also been wrong since Stanford was on display.

** Turnovers. Rebounding. Being outmuscled. Giving up easy baskets in the paint. Giving up over 50% FG shooting. Trouble with screens leaving open three point shooters.

** This is about as far as I’ve ever seen a Pitt Hoops team fall in the course of a season in all my years watching the Panthers. It’s right up there with the 98-99 team, or maybe the 85-86 team. It could end up being worse.

** Should it be noted that both of those were the final seasons for the Coach who led the Panthers in each of those years?

** So where do we go now? Now that we know it won’t be the NCAA tournament, hopefully, we’ll show some pride and fire in the final seven games. That would be a start.

** Because we certainly didn’t show pride and fire tonight.

** We haven’t shown this for quite some time actually.

** That's all I've got. But I'll be there Saturday hoping for the best.
I don't know about pride, but the university definitely needs to show some fire--as in, fire Capel.

Rudderless....

there's nobody at the wheel. No energy, mental or physical toughness , no plan, no identity, no leadership on the floor or the bench.

If you step back and look at it, the only time that wasn't the case in Capel's tenure was those 2 years that he had extremely strong, competitive older team leaders in Hinson and Burton.

We don;t have the best roster but I am absolutely certain a better coach would get more, maybe even a lot more, from it.

Time to clean house...again.
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