Incoming jc accolades

[jourdand]

Streets & Smith magazine lists both Issac Boton and D Henson as top 5 Jc transfers on the west coast. Personally I feel Streets & Smith is one of if not the best yearly publications for NCAA basketball. None of our jc transfers under Kent were ranked this highly!

 

[7ICoug]

Just to be fair, wasn't Henson a recruit from the previous coaching staff. That Assistant who was all over JC's nailed him down and of course Smith reconfirmed him, but I would give that credit to the previous Coach.

 

[SaveFerris]

Henson's definitely is a Kent recruit. Smith kept him but the legwork was done by the former staff (Elwyn McRoy was the assistant) to sign him.

 

[jourdand]

Fair enough...

 

[SaveFerris]

Same quibble when someone credits Bone for Motum or Thames when they signed in the fall with Tony.

 

[7ICoug]

True. Elwyn McRoy was a huge hire for Kent and while I don't totally agree with that direction. He was very effective.

Don't think Bone cared much about Thames...which was a crucial error of course.

 

[avabob1]

Bone wanted Thames to stay very badly, but Thames wasnt happy from Day 1 sharing the pg spot with Moore. People often over look that Thames only averaged a few minutes per game less than Moore. Thames had tremendous upside, and the coaches knew it, but Moore was further along as a frosh. Thames a better defender, Moore a better scorer. Best case would have been to have both on the floor but Thames wasnt happy with that scenario.

I think Thames only came to WSU because it was his only Pac 10 offer.

 

[Rich Lewis]

Agree with Ava on this one. Remember Bone worked his ass of to keep both Motum and Thames in the fold. They were Tony's recruits and he had to convince them to keep their commitment to WSU. I never bought that Tony's recruiting was falling off. In the next class he had Harris and who knows who else coming in. He was set for repeated NCAA tournament appearances. I'm pretty sure we'd have gone the the NCAAs instead of the NIT in 2010.

 

[avabob1]

You could be right about NCAA instead of NIT. We were close to the dance as it was. However that prior year would have been a rebuild no matter what.

 

[jourdand]

I think we dance Bone’s first year with the home win vs Oregon that was literally stolen from us, no fault of his but Kent was the coach for Oregon. That win took some air out of the sails from a team that was coming along nicely.

 

[kougkurt]

Bone wanted Thames to stay very badly, but Thames wasnt happy from Day 1 sharing the pg spot with Moore. People often over look that Thames only averaged a few minutes per game less than Moore. Thames had tremendous upside, and the coaches knew it, but Moore was further along as a frosh. Thames a better defender, Moore a better scorer. Best case would have been to have both on the floor but Thames wasnt happy with that scenario.

I think Thames only came to WSU because it was his only Pac 10 offer.

Thames AND his family where a bunch of crybabies

 

[SaveFerris]

Bone wanted Thames to stay very badly, but Thames wasnt happy from Day 1 sharing the pg spot with Moore. People often over look that Thames only averaged a few minutes per game less than Moore. Thames had tremendous upside, and the coaches knew it, but Moore was further along as a frosh. Thames a better defender, Moore a better scorer. Best case would have been to have both on the floor but Thames wasnt happy with that scenario.

I think Thames only came to WSU because it was his only Pac 10 offer.

Wasn't going down that road again. Only saying some (here and there) give credit to Bone when they both were signed in the fall by Bennett. Like Henson was a Kent recruit they were both Bennett recruits.

 

[Glad Cougar]

I think we dance Bone’s first year with the home win vs Oregon that was literally stolen from us, no fault of his but Kent was the coach for Oregon. That win took some air out of the sails from a team that was coming along nicely.

Biggest screw job ever vs. Cougars, IMO. And I actually do fault EK a bit. He talked those officials into calling the technical and he insisted in his disingenuous post game comments that the officials got it right in calling that technical foul. He knew like the rest of us that it was wrong from the get go. That was the first of many bad breaks for Ken Bone.

Glad Cougar

 

[avabob1]

Bones first team was real young, with no depth, so not sure how much better they could have done. However that Oregon fiasco was a real gut punch to a young team

 

[jourdand]

They also lost several PAC 12 games by less than 10 points