(12-10-2017 12:07 PM)luckyflash Wrote: be worried that we have 2 Sr guards and 3 Jr guards but we're needing to play a 6'0" walk-on.
Both Sr. Guards are backups ... and would be backups on any team in the MAC, and likely not play much if at all for a couple of them.
The 6-0 walkon ... while still a walk-on ... does still have a lot of starting experience, albeit fpr a very bad team in Maine.
Jr. guards have big issues in that Avery lacks athleticism ... Johnson only an average player previously on a bad team ... and then Walker ... who would start on a few teams (the way he has played to start the season ... and most of his career... minus last to 2016-2017 games) ...
This team has pieces ... but can't shoot consistently on the perimeter and has yet to solidify its post rotation beside ADR. Duling has started, Pippen has started and Frederick (one game) has started ...
Back to the seniors ... they are really 'Sophomores' when it comes to playing for Kent ... not really seniors in terms of the program.
Combine all of the above and you have a .500 team. If they figure it out still might not win more than 18 ... if they don't figure it out team could struggle even worse.
But here is the scary part ... if they don't figure it out, 2018 could be a struggle as well, considering much of the MAC East is sophomore-junior dominant like Kent and most (Buffalo, Toledo, Miami, OU Akron) of the division teams are already ahead of KSU as it is.
In short, unless ADR can play his 20-22 minute and deliver 13/8 ... Kent becomes very easy to beat, even with the good 10-game Walker. At least, that's the way it looks right now.