(03-05-2026, 08:35 AM)Treebound Wrote: I love the fight in this team and this staff! They lost their way a little bit when Okpara went down. That's reasonable given that he was our second leading scorer. The guard play has been fantastic between Benny "Buckets" and Jeremy "Dent the Net" Smith (great guard play will be needed to make a run). The big men, especially Aiden Camman, but others as well (how big was Thompson's 3 last night) continue to improve with every game. Of course there is "Buu" leading the charge as the best player in a Stanford uniform that I've ever seen. He can create, drive, dish, shoot the tre, finish, steal and play Great defense. He has a gear that is extremely rare and I loved that the commentators last night were comparing him to Isaiah Thomas. That's a true compliment to this gifted freshmen phenom.
One game at a time, but I would love to see them keep improving and keep winning. They are so fun to watch right now, and I haven't said that about a Stanford men's hoops team in a long, long time. Keep it up, Coach Kyle and Team!
PS Hat's off to the SigEps heading up to Sacramento to cheer on Maxime this weekend! Let's get the 6th Man Club raging again!
Agree they are fun to watch, well, mainly when winning! And great nicknames!
I believe I understood announcers to say that Okorie was on track to have a good/decent chance to set the all time ACC scoring average for a rookie.
Beating out a stellar list of legendary predecessors.
I think a key thing remaining to prepare for, with NC State, and then the ACC tourney,
is how to handle double teams on Okorie.
I mean, we have been dealing with it, but I expect it will come even more.
Saw some last night, like when inbounded to Ebuka, double teamed, dished to JDS who was open for a long range bomb, that made us all nervous, but he sank it.
I'm confident Coach is all over it.
Will be interesting to see it some more in action, how it's handled.
I expect a lot of it.