I wish we had clairty on Kadins situation. Not having an athletic 5 to go against teams with talented bigs decreases our versatility. Papi can bang but we all know his limitations. Hopefully Kadin’s sit can get resolved positively and he either gets healthy (physcially or mentally) or earns TBs trust back.
We are still in good shape in the standings if we can win these next two at home. But Burns will be a tough task for us especially if BVP plays the lions share at 5. The State guards will be tough to guard with their athleticism. Will be a big win if we can pull it out Tuesday. Filipowski will also give us matchup problems on Saturday. So two tough games, glad they are at home.
I think CTB knew our front court limitations s but hedged to the future w Traudt. He assumed Kadin would play like early season Kadin all year and that good BVP would shown up most nights, not every other. As you can tell by HGN tone about a mobile 4/5 being a transfer priory that the staff realized the issue but were hamstrung when it became crystal clear
If We don’t at least give Kadin a go Tues/Sat then my red flags will be way up. It’s not just Kyle it’s Lively. They’ll have 15 offensive boards if we can’t block him out
Thats not really back to the basket. That’s kind of the face up forward I was talking about. Maybe a hook shot here or there. But his game was mostly face up and slashing and feasting in that dunker spot.
Edit: I am wrong. There was a lot more back to the basket than I realize LOL. But I think having a forward who can do both is better than just a purely back to the basket big.
If Kadin doesnt become a factor at least , then we probably end up as a 4/5 seed and I will have a hard time picking us past the 1st weekend. Our offense can get us through the regular season but in post season we will run into good defenses and our inability to rim protect and guard talented bigs on good teams will be our downfall.
Tbh I don’t see Traudt here 5 years anyway so if Kadin is a lost cause I’d burn the shirt. Can still get 15 games out of this year so wouldn’t consider it a waste of a season à la Joey Baker. We need some length or the defense will continue to get killed in the paint and the only options seems to be Kadin and Traudt
The issue is I am not sure Traudt can get up to game speed at this point. It took McKneely and Dunn some game reps to be comfortable and that’s without the pressure/implications Traudt would be under if we were to burn his shirt now
Time to burn the shirt is way past. Either Kadin gets right (and I believe he will), or the team will make do. Kadin at 15-20 minutes against teams with a traditional 5 is going to be necessary.
After this week 4 of our last six games are against bad teams. Opportunity to get him minutes. None of us really know what is going on behind the scenes. I think he is a good guy and I hope it all works out well for him and UVA.
Interesting that only 7 of 24 of voters think Kadin wasn’t playing well leading up to UNC. (Chalk some of those non votes up to poor poll design, though).
I think to a certain extent, Kadin got caught up in a bit of a whipsaw where his minutes were trimmed because of small ball (seems uncontroversial), perhaps more than staff intended if they were closely paying attention (mildly controversial), and (here comes the wild guess part, and likely controversial) maybe Kadin hasn’t reacted well, and maybe staff hasn’t reacted well to Kadin not reacting well.
Hope I’m not the only one who thinks Harris is gonna be a walking bucket in an actually structured offense. This dude is seriously talented, even if he’s backing up Reece next year I think he’s gonna be a fan favorite.
