shockem wrote:Wes was clearly the heart and soul of UNI this year, and hands down their best player. Question for UNI fans: what's the plan for next year? will Jacobsen have a similar offense where he isolates one guy and lets him play one on one? If so, who takes over Washpun's role? Are you all concerned about next year's team or do you think you can improve over this year?
Is there concern replacing Wes, Bo and Paulie? Yes.
Is the talent there do to so? Absolutely.
McCloud coming in likely starts, at PG, I believe. He is, from everything I can tell, the real deal.
Wyatt starts at the 2. He hasn't had gaudy numbers because he hasn't had too, but if you've watched UNI games his first two years you've seen that he plays like a 5th year senior already and has a very nice pull up from mid range.
Jeremy Morgan starts at the 3. He'll need to be a bit more consistent on offense, but will be front runner for DPOY and 1st team all conference, I believe.
Klint Carlson starts at the 4. What you saw him do in the MVC tournament is the real Carlson. That's what he's going to do for the next three years.
Koch starts at the 5. He's only going to get better, and was already better than expected this year.
Off the bench
PF - Luke McDonnell rFr - 6'9 post player that, up until tip of game 1, was thought he could start, or at the least, play and be a major contributor, right away. He really seems to remind people of Adam Koch. He averaged 22 ppg, 13 rebounds per game in hs and had 117 blocks as a senior. http://unipanthers.com/roster.aspx?rp_i ... ath=mbball
PG - Spencer Haldeman rFr - averaged 25 ppg as a senior and had 119 assists as a senior. He's a hell of a shooter. He really could start as PG next year. I think he and McCleod are going to be a Wes/Deon situation from last year. One starts but they play equal minutes. He and Luke played AAU ball together growing up and are from the same city http://unipanthers.com/roster.aspx?rp_i ... ath=mbball
WG - Isaiah Brown - 6'5 3* kid our of Texas. Top 25 recruit in state of Texas. He plays like a cross between Jeremy Morgan, Wes Washpun and Paul Jesperson. He's a shooter, real good shooter. Seems to play defense as hard as Morgan and has Wes's athletic ability but in a 6'5 frame. He launches NBA threes without thinking. I've never seen a UNI recruit with his type of highlight tape. It takes a special kind of mentality to play for Jake. If he can do that he'll be dangerous. http://www.hudl.com/athlete/3275121/hig ... /277037378
C - Justin Dahl - rFr - 6-11 260lbs. Not built like your "typical" UNI center. Averaged 18.6 ppg 16.9 rpg and 3.5 bpg in HS. 4 year letter winner in football...imagine lining up across from that.
C - Ted Freidman - 6'10 rJr. We know what he is. He's zero threat on offense, but plays good minutes on defense. Assuming Justin makes the transition to the college game Ted's minutes will be low. He's a smart kid. Extremely nice. Just doesn't have the offense for be a key factor. I'd like to see that change. http://unipanthers.com/roster.aspx?rp_i ... ath=mbball
Deep bench and almost never play:
SG - Robbie Knarr - a ton of promise in HS. Was going to set state scoring record (or 3 point makes record, don't remember) in Illinois until blowing his ACL out before his senior year. Did it again at UNI early in his rFr year. He just doesn't have the movement anymore. http://unipanthers.com/roster.aspx?rp_i ... ath=mbball
Lincoln Conery - 6'7 230 lb rFr. He's a walk on. He's grown up going to UNI games his whole life. Family is MASSIVE UNI fans. Pictures of him and Coach Jake from when Jake was just an assistant at UNI. Decent HS stats but was on a bad team, offers to play D2 level. I'd compare him to Max Martino from previous years. Super smart. Works ass of in practice. Would give anything for the program. Likely won't see the floor until JR year in any meaningful way. http://unipanthers.com/roster.aspx?rp_i ... ath=mbball
Redshirt:
Tanner Lohaus - 6'7 215lb forward - yep Wyatt's younger brother. He's a lot like Carlson. Oversized 3 or wing 4. Plays a lot like his brother, but 6 or 7 inches taller. Missed a few games with a high ankle sprain but is shooting 63.5 % from the floor, only taken 8 3's, and needs to improve FT shooting. Tough for him to put up a ton of stats (just like it was for Morgan and Wyatt). That team has a kid going to Iowa (fran McCaffery's oldest), Mccaffery's youngest who will be D1, and a few other kids that could be D1 as well.
That leaves 1 open ride, I believe. If the right person comes available as a grad transfer Jake will take him. He's said as much. If not, I think we bank it.
It's going to be a very young team other than Jeremy Morgan. He's going to be the only senior (barring a grad transfer). There will be 3 or 4 freshman that contribute in major ways. That's a scary way to hedge your bets, but do you really want to bet against Jacobson at this point? Even if next year is down, and for UNI that means 5th place, think what the years after that are going to bring.
being so reliant on freshmen. 