Cowboy Junky
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The last two tournament winning teams have had one thing in common: they had big, physical, post players in abundance.
The 2002 squad had Josh, Ugo, and Uche. The late 80's flavor had Leckner, Sommers, and Lodgins.
This years Wyoming team has real size. Ryan Holmgren has a picture on his twitter of the squad standing up straight. It looks to me like Johnathan Barnes has grown another inch from last year. Both him and Naughton look taller than Alan Herndon. Haydon Dalton isn't much shorter than the three of them. Naughton looks like a grown, damn man to me. He's big. Barnes is huge. He looks like the tallest guy on the team. We're going to have some real bangers down low. Barnes and Naughton could be the some of the best post defenders in college basketball if they put their minds to it.
Next year we get two more stretch fours, Austin Mueller and Iggy Hunte.
Look at the future of the Wyoming post.
Barnes, Naughton, Herndon all look bigger than 6'9". Dalton is about a half an inch shorter than them. Moemeka and James are in that 6'7 range. Next year we add two more 6'7" guys to the mix. They're all freshman or sophomores aside from Herndon. We've got abundant size/length in the pipeline right now.
It's going to take a lot of hard work.
We can't ever take anything for granted.
I know several guys in today's team photo won't be there when it's taken two years from now.
There's a lot of development that still has to happen.
This team has size, length, and physicality that I can't remember from a Wyoming team. There's length all over the roster. Eventually there might be the length and depth to let Justin James play two guard.
Check out Ryan Holmgren's twitter. Theres a photo of the team all standing up straight in his photo collection, not posted in a tweet. You'll see what I'm talking about.
Wyoming got a lot bigger in the off-season.
The 2002 squad had Josh, Ugo, and Uche. The late 80's flavor had Leckner, Sommers, and Lodgins.
This years Wyoming team has real size. Ryan Holmgren has a picture on his twitter of the squad standing up straight. It looks to me like Johnathan Barnes has grown another inch from last year. Both him and Naughton look taller than Alan Herndon. Haydon Dalton isn't much shorter than the three of them. Naughton looks like a grown, damn man to me. He's big. Barnes is huge. He looks like the tallest guy on the team. We're going to have some real bangers down low. Barnes and Naughton could be the some of the best post defenders in college basketball if they put their minds to it.
Next year we get two more stretch fours, Austin Mueller and Iggy Hunte.
Look at the future of the Wyoming post.
Barnes, Naughton, Herndon all look bigger than 6'9". Dalton is about a half an inch shorter than them. Moemeka and James are in that 6'7 range. Next year we add two more 6'7" guys to the mix. They're all freshman or sophomores aside from Herndon. We've got abundant size/length in the pipeline right now.
It's going to take a lot of hard work.
We can't ever take anything for granted.
I know several guys in today's team photo won't be there when it's taken two years from now.
There's a lot of development that still has to happen.
This team has size, length, and physicality that I can't remember from a Wyoming team. There's length all over the roster. Eventually there might be the length and depth to let Justin James play two guard.
Check out Ryan Holmgren's twitter. Theres a photo of the team all standing up straight in his photo collection, not posted in a tweet. You'll see what I'm talking about.
Wyoming got a lot bigger in the off-season.
