Regardless of the coach or the circumstance, my first expectation of every season is to make the tournament. No different this coming year. Honestly, that's usually my only expectation.
Anything better than that is gravy in year 1.
You also hope for greater success, especially with pretty much the same team, because it proves his system, philosophy and culture is working. That's the perfect foundation to start attracting the right players, which I feel was drastically absent the past 4 years. If this happens, there's really no transition period to temper expectations, which is what quality and experienced coaches can do.
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05-06-2022, 02:17 PM #21
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05-06-2022, 05:18 PM #22
For Sean’s first year back, I’ll be happy with a winning conference record and one win in the Big Dance.
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05-07-2022, 05:55 PM #23
I’ll give you a good reason: Because he is Sean F’n Miller and and we are the Xavier F’n Musketeers and that’s what we are supposed to do. Oh, Sean won’t say anything publicly, but he has a reputation to live up to and he knows what he was capable of doing with an X team in the Atlantic 10. Now in the Big East, Sean Miller sees a program with a higher ceiling and a roster from last season that had a ceiling of at least a Sweet Sixteen with the right coaching and he knows he can make that ceiling even higher next season by the time he is done molding the returning players and the new ones being added.
The thing is that it is not important that any of us fans “guarantee X will make the Sweet Sixteen in Sean’s first year” and possible even go further. What matters is that we now have a coach who expects to get there and who’ll feel like a failure if he does not start off his return to X with a big bang… and with the emphatic statement that he was absolutely the right bad-ass MF to lead this program to new heights.”Last edited by IM4X; 05-08-2022 at 11:50 PM.
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05-09-2022, 10:38 AM #24
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I think this is the right answer. I think we *could* make the NCAA tournament. I also think people are greatly underestimating how much we'll miss Scruggs and Johnson (and even Odom to some degree). I do think he'll have this team playing harder and smarter, we just have a pretty severe deficiency (very little 3pt shooting returning from an already terrible 3pt shooting team). I think we pretty much need Craft or Tandy to become a key contributor asap off the bench.
I'd assume our rotation will be something like
C-Nunge
PF-Freemantle
SF-Jones
SG-Kunkel
PG-Boum
Subs: Edwards, Tandy/Craft, and Claude.
If Freemantle can rediscover the player we *think* he can be, that will be pretty essential to us having an identity
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05-09-2022, 10:44 AM #25
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05-09-2022, 11:23 AM #26
Miller also specifically mentioned him in his interview with Jon Rothstein. I just listened to that interview yesterday on Rothstein's podcast.
Miller also mentioned it will take some time to get what he wants going building the program his way. He did mention he has some nice pieces in place though."I’m willing to sacrifice everything for this team. I’m going to dive for every loose ball, close out harder on every shot, block out for every rebound. I’m going to play harder than I’ve ever played. And I need you all to follow me." -MB '17
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05-09-2022, 01:21 PM #27"He's a little bit ball-dominant, he needs to have the ball in his hands, and he's not a good shooter." Ball-dominant … isn't that a nice way of calling someone a ball hog? Where is my Jay Bilas Thesaurus?
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05-09-2022, 01:36 PM #28
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05-09-2022, 01:42 PM #29"I’m willing to sacrifice everything for this team. I’m going to dive for every loose ball, close out harder on every shot, block out for every rebound. I’m going to play harder than I’ve ever played. And I need you all to follow me." -MB '17
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05-09-2022, 04:18 PM #30
At both Xavier and Arizona, Sean’s teams missed the NCAA tourney in his first year and made it in the 2nd.
But, “past history is no guarantee of future success(or failure)”. It may sound obvious to say it, but every year is a brand new year. What happened at X and what happened at Arizona in the past, has absolutely no bearing on what might happen at X this coming year. The only thing we know is Miller is a top quality coach. He might be the difference between having a good year or having another disappointing year. We all certainly hope that is the case, don’t we?
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