Dolphin, as devil's advocate......what makes you think Fitz, who avg 6.4 ppg and <2 rebounds/game in prep school is going to big plus for us net year?  what does that say the rest of his skills?  you 'hear' he's a great shooter? what did Brian Magid do for the program?

i agree with thinker let's give the freshmen a chance to prove themselves on the court.  it's really silly season when people speculate on which incoming freshmen will transfer. my guess is we'll be better than last year, and who knows we might win 20 with our weak OOC schedule. GO COLONIALS.

I don't think Rick Pitino ever said that Chris Fitzgerald was the best shooter he's ever seen, no matter how many time DM says he did.  When signing Mike Marra (also of NMH), Pitino said that "Mike Marra was the best shooter he's ever seen".  No mention of Fitzgerald.  The quote DM's referencing below regarding Fitzgerald is from Fitzgerald and Marra's coach, John Carroll, saying that (IHO) Fitzgerald is on par with Marra and Pitino really liked Marra. 

“Rick Pitino told me that Mike Marra was the best shooter he’s ever seen and Chris is right on par with that,” Carroll said.

Clearly, there is a difference.  Pitino recruited Marra but seemed to have no interest in Fitzgerald.  Mike Marra was a starter for NMH averaging 15pts, 3rbs, 3 asts as a senior after going for 19, 3 and 3 as a junior.  Fitzgerald went off for 6, 1 and 1. 

I'm not sure why speculating that sophmores like Bynes, Smith or Johnson (all of whom have shown shown real talent and ability) will not be on the team net year is fine but questioning if much lower recruited players like Fitzgerald or Guess will get much playing time is flat out CRAZY, but to each his own.

Dolphin,read herve's post above. that's what i'm basing a comment on. i've said let's judge them after seeing them in action against A-10 competition.dont you think it's odd that very few colleges recruited on of the country's best shooters? i hope they all succeed. and Magid had street cred, what? remember Allbritton made a 'zillion' threes in HS.  i agree with you that we could win 20 with our schedule.

i stopped speculating about freshmen more than 20 years ago, just trying to provide some balance.  hope we improve our 6-11 record (tourney counts) in A-10.

All I am gonna say is , the A-10 is not a push over league. Its gonna be hard for anyone who is slow and cant create their own shot. No matter how good they can shoot. What good is a good shooter if he cant get his shot off... Time will tell !!!

Gw will be very good this year !!!

Here's the legitimate case for fear: At times, KH comments and actions have been both petulant and etreme.  KH has the type of personality that likes to be challenged.  He likes to be told what he can't do so that he can go out and prove people wrong.  Tell KH he only knows how to coach his teams a certain way?  He'll change his ways and play a slow-it-down defensive grinding style.  Tell him his teams are undersized and he'll make sure they are one of the better rebounding teams in the conference.  Tell him how well his teams are playing and the word "overachieve" can't be far behind.  Today, he needs shooters so he went out and recruited shooters.  However, did he do so instead of recruiting a less heralded shooter with a more complete game?  Did he recruit shooters that can also run the floor and play defense?  Did he solve one problem only to create another?  Did he make etreme recruiting decisions? 

Again, if you only go by this board, in past July's, Lasan Kromah was either the 5th or 6th best of the freshmen, Matt Allbriton was never going to miss, and JR Pinnock was going to hopefully be a capable back-up for Ricky Lucas.  In other words, time will tell.  

Kromah will not sneak up on anyone this coming season. Lets see how he responds with that bullseye on his back this year, with Damien gone. , Everyones game plan is gonna be to shut him down, because he was our second leading scorer . Can he avoid the sophmore jin ? If he raises above all of this this year , I will climb onboard the Kromah NBA train. One NBA player on your team means you get to the big dance. Two means a sweet siteen.. Three or more the sky is the limit. So if you guys are right , that means we will be in the tourney this year..

 Honestly , I feel we have five pros . Meaning they will get paid to play basketball somewhere in the world. And out of those five , any can develope into a NBA pro in the net three years..... So I am predicting now a sweet siteen birth in three years....Or at least the round of thirty-two .. Seriously !!

Plato, I sincerely hope you're right about Kromah not sneaking up on anyone.  I hope defenses constantly double-team him and have the attitude that if they stop Lasan, they got GW beat.  This would play right into our hands.

And that is the good news about this year...lots of balance, lots of guys who can take the big shot, and even on top of this, no obvious "this is his team" type of guy like Damian was last year and Rob was the year prior.  This group isn't as talented as the 2004-07 teams (at least not yet), but I'm ecited about the number of options we will have and the inability of defenses to pinpoint 1 or 2 guys to shut down in order to beat us.