WSR Full Court Report

Yep, any size to help Solomon Hill bang and toughen up these young bigs is a great thing. I'm sure many will agree with me when I say as "tough" as Arizona competed last year, the guys weren't "tough enough" when it came to going balls out for rebounds and refusing to give up driving lanes to the basket and letting guys finish at the rim.

I expect Miller to give the entire team free reign to contest shots and be really physical, not having to worry about foul trouble since there will be so many fouls to go around this season.

Some analysts are slowly but surely starting to speculate or predict Lyons actually being a detriment to Arizona's team chemistry. However, they are saying if Lyons fits in then Arizona is a legit Final Four contender.

As for Hill, we started to see him "lean out" through the course of last season. In fact, when I say him face to face at both USC/UCLA and then later at the Pac-12 Tournament he appeared noticeably leaner.

Arizona will need Hill's toughness at the PF spot IMO, but I think he'll be more versatile this year as we witnessed from him during the second half of league play last season. A lot more squaring up his defender from the perimeter and attacking the basket. If he jump shot does evolve (I'll believe it when I see it against live D1 competition, this his dribble drive will be made even more dangerous because defenders will have to play him honest in space).

Who is saying Lyons is a thorn?
Phuk them

The nattering nabob of negativity in me is compelled to ask WHO is suggesting Final Four? I note that last year when Turner and the 2 Johnson's were only going to get us to the final four (same 'analysts') but we were to expect a Championship this coming year....

I mentioned this a few weeks ago and people ran for the hills - claiming Sidiki was actually just a long term project, that everyone knew Nick couldn't shoot and Turner wasn't actually ranked all that high. I find is curious that nationally it was a top twenty class no matter who you cite and the same people who then said it was under rated and should be the #1 class are now saying it was ranked too high and that they knew all along it wasn't that good and no one ever thought Miller could possibly get to the tournament in his first 14 years - that's just Wineknow's unreasonable expectations.

I'm gonna save this 'final four' post so that next year when 2 of the recruits don't even show up and the best ones who do are total busts and our point guard is a head case and Romar beats us three times (like usual) and UCLA commits an NCAA record umber of turnovers and still beats us, and ASU beats us at home to knock us out of the tournament because Miller won't run a zone defense for a minute to change the flow of the game, I'm going to note that Gary cited sources who thought we were Final Four material.

I'm just hoping we can survive the first round of the NIT next year... THAT would be real progress.

Final Four. LMAO.