Yes, best.
A lot of potential, think he could hit some 3s. But not really what was thought
he might bring at his height--and also injuries. Would have liked to see him develop--and he
well may have in a different era.
  But the spot can be wisely used in the marketplace.
  We need bigs. As great as he is, Castro can't be the only one.
And shooters especially, a real weakness outside Trey A. when he is on and Garrett if
he very hopefully stays healthy.

There's a real common thread between what happened to 2 of our most successful coaches
in recent history from how it was "revealed," the timing and correctness of the allegations, where the nothingburgers surfaced, GW's reaction and our subsequent decline in for years afterward.

And sorry, classless of us not to put bench in at all.
We blew it long before final minutes.
Are we worried about the metrics for this season?
 

Where's Ty Bevins?
Has he been too effective to get it into this submissive, ole defense lineup?
 

When we fight back within or close to striking distance, someone tries to do too much by themself.
A familiar pattern.

Of course it ended with a bad pass bouncing back to them for a score.

We're playing them back in the game.

If we're missing a (relatively) big like Sean in a team that is strong down low, that is not good. More offensively than defensively, but still, even in drawing fouls. Not letting Degenhart totally roll over us would seem to loom large.
   Excellent preview by dmvpirahna, as always.
   Hope we can surprise. 
Their rebounding margin on defense is less scary than if they are good on the offensive boards. We've
been hobbled by second, third, fourth and fifth chance rebounds.
  Other questions are which formerly unimpressive Boise State shooter has the potential to win the coveted career 3-point shooting award?
And how will the portal departures and Crown money affect play? Will Jun and Jacoi be more motviated to show their skills for a new audience? Will we play them much? 
Will the rest of team be motivated by the showcase, as such, opportunity and money?
performance award? Which Drumgoole will show up? Good time for the streak shooting to be positive--for Trey A as well. All we can ask from Castro is to be Castro, which is a huge plus.
   The most disturbing aspect of this is Boise State wanted this third-tier tournament so much they turned down the NIT. Money may be the factor. Also they will be pissed from being the first 4 out. Think without looking back again, they beat Clemson and BC in OOC.
    The hope is they will be overwound, Mountain West oversold and we play like we have nothing to lose.

1)H&R 71 offers some good observations. One I just don't remember. Jun bounced the ball off the backboard for a dunk during the game? Which one?
Don't remember it. That would be classless unless he or us was being mocked. For showboating definition,,
see Bamisile, Joe in a GW uniform. Don't know if Odom let him do it.
Didn't someone do that bounce of backboard for another player against us this year at the Smith Center? May have been a lesser team trouncing us, like Duquesne (Max's revenge) or something.
  Open to things I don't know. But in any case, pretty hard from personal observation and reputation to think of Jun as anything but a great guy.
  The whole grass is greener thing has totally screwed college basketball. And fandom most of all but
the richest, most powerful teams. Revolving door every year.
Look forward to discussing this in depth, hopefully after we win the Crown tournament,, though
realistic expectations may be wildly different from that hope.

Missing Jacoi and Jun for all the reasons cited here. Both lost starting jobs, Jacoi certainly
more justified.
Since a lot of this is about money as well as old fashioned fit: Jacoi presumably looking for more playing time--no idea how much money or how much more he can get. Jun could have gotten a huge payoff after last year. Don't know about this year, so if he would start next year, would think it would be better
to stay at this level at a place he loves. But maybe he's seeing what's out there, which certainly may be
better than our offer.
   Jacoi served a valuable function, especially at the end of the season, as a trusted head in or near 
crunch time. Also, he played point guard to CJ's point guard. When they played together, Jacoi helped settle the team down. We actually needed another point guard because while CJ is looking toward a great GW future and is explosive, he is a freshman and still developing.
   We have a long offseason to talk about it after the Crown, where we either lick our wounds or revel in our
surprising success. But as noted above, this makes it really hard to care about players and a team that
is constantly changing.
  Hard to tell because of our quarter (half is too generous)-ass schedule. But this year had a feel to it
like we were developing a team that could really be a force in the league, albeit with some needed upgrades. And now it all depends on the very revolving door.