It’s been a great start for Porter Moser’s Sooners in Year 3.
Year 1…. the Sooners should have been included in the Big Dance with the nation’s toughest schedule bar none….but 18-15 wasn’t a good enough record despite the Sooners being ranked No. 38 by the NCAA’s own ranking website.
Last year was tough as the Sooners finished 15-17 and rightfully missed the NCAA Tourney. The only rotation players returning from that team are Milos Uzman, Otega Ohweh, and Sam Goodwin. Porter added two nice college recruits and five transfer guys who all meld in nicely with the Sooners’ various roster needs.
In reality…the only Sooner player who left who’d being seeing floor time with this group of players would have been Jalen Hill. I absolutely loved Jalen Jill and what he stood for as a young man and a player, but he chose to go back home and play his fifth year for Lon Kruger’s son at UNLV. Best of luck for Jalen with his final year of college hoops.
Of the five transfer portal players…. I want to start integrating them here on the blog starting with Javian McCullum who is the best player on the team. Javian is a quick athletic guard who reminds me very much of Hollis Price who played on Kelvin’s Final Four team. The second portal player I’ll mention is John Hughley who’s a 6’9″ big with great hands, quick feet, and a very soft set of passing hands, plus not at all shy shooting the three.
Then’s there’s Jalen Moore the very athletic transfer from Oregon who I would desribe to my buddy Fran Frashela as a Swiss Army knife type. Maybe somewhat like Daryl ‘Choo’ Kennedy from Northwest Classen from the Billy Tubbs era of Sooner hoops.
The other two kids are both guards and I’ll work them in on my pregame next week when the Sooners hook up to play the iconic North Carolina Tar Heels in a highly anticpated Big 12-ACC matchup.
OU is 9-0 entering this game versus Green Bay, ranked No. 11 in the Coach’s Poll, and 4-0 versus Quad 1 competition.
This will be my first venture into a basketball arena since the cancer issue. The walker isn’t going with me on this trip. I should be fine. I’m pretty well jacked just being inside of a basketball arena. This is kind of moment for me…so to speak. Yo, Adrian.
If the Thunder beat Denver or just play them tough.. I’ll write something nice about them on Sunday morning.
MJ
I’m having a technical glitch with the blog. Plus, I had two power terrain hikes this past week-end in south central Oklahoma. So, yeah, I intend to maake good on writing nice things about the Thunder’s win Denver.
MJ