What does scorching hot mean?

A potential non-conference schedule that includes Duke, Michigan St, Villanova, Colorado, and Kentucky/Florida should teach us a lot about our team.

OSU isn’t exactly a recruiting powerhouse so I don’t fault them for doing whatever they need to do to land big-time recruits. They’re playing by the rules. The Big 12 could use good players anyway.

@Marco I’m of the opinion that Wilson will play the most minutes of any freshman on the team and that he could spend a lot of time at the 4. And I think it makes sense to have Garrett come of the bench and spend a lot of his time playing with a stretch 4 rather than with De Sousa who is going to do a lot of his damage at the rim. I’m sure Garrett and De Sousa will have some on-court overlap too. However, I also think it’s a mistake to finalize minute distributions for our freshman players in June. I don’t think it’s impossible that Enaruna or McBride get 10+ minutes next season.

I am pretty sure, however, that junior Marcus Garrett is going to get a lot of minutes either as a starter or coming off of the bench. Garrett played 19 minutes as a freshman and 28 minutes as a sophomore. I think that he’ll be somewhere around his sophomore minutes again this season.

@Texas-Hawk-10 There is this thing called youtube? Is this a serious post? This is a joke. You know who else looked good on youtube? Quentin Grimes. To state conclusively in June that one freshman is going to get minutes over another freshman when the two players are similar in rank and neither has played a game in college is absurd. You have no idea how the minutes are going to play out at this point. Our head coach has no idea at this point.

This is worse than the time when you thought Cam Reddish being 100% healthy vs 80% healthy was going to be the difference in a potential game against Texas Tech.

@Texas-Hawk-10 How do you know? Wilson or Enaruna haven’t even played a game in college yet. Maybe Enaruna ends up being better than Wilson. Maybe Braun or McBride end up being better than both.

@HighEliteMajor I agree with your post but I don’t see Dotson playing fewer than 30 minutes per game next season (I’m thinking around 32 or 33), and so I don’t see McBride getting more than 10 minutes per game unless Dotson goes down. Enaruna has more competition for minutes but he also has a lot of upside and I could see him playing his way into minutes off the bench, especially if Mitch takes a RS and Jalen spends time at the 3.

I think Wilson will play 10+ minutes regardless of whether or not Lightfoot takes a RS. I think around 15 ± a few minutes for Jalen. And I think Enaruna has a better chance of getting above 10 minutes than McBride (or Braun), but that depends more on Mitch. If I had to guess I’d say only 1 freshman gets more than 10 mpg next season and that’s Jalen Wilson.

@BShark He was a puppy last season but you could see the talent and upside. He’s going to be a good player next season and a very good player as a junior.

Sorry if this was already posted.