re: Question re: Arkansas Basketball and the Last 20 years / Next 20 years

I agree with piggilicious. I find our team almost unwatchable from a team-game perspective, regardless as to whether we're doing better this year relative to recent memory. I was a basketball nut/gym rat growing up and played a lot of hoops in my formative years - and LOVED Arkansas hoops - i can vividly recall days of old w/ Eddie Sutton and Nolan, especially when thing really got rolling in late 80s-early 90s. This...what we are doing now - doesnt come close to any of the glory years.

We're terrible and have many average and forgettable players that come thru our program on a yearly basis it seems. I am utterly unimpressed with Bobby Portis - he's 6'10" and has improved his jumper and overall offensive game, but if he's a lotto pick then my impression of what's a lottery pick is way off. He's got cinder blocks for feet and doesn't dominate the paint at all.

Anyway, i digress. I think we're a middling program with the resources to be great but we're a long way from it. We'll probably make the NCAA tourney and get sent somewhere far away and lose to an inferior team in the first round because we're undisciplined and choke on the road.

This style we play doesnt at all resemble the real 40 mins of hell where i once saw a half time score of Arkansas vs Loyola Marymount at 76-72, I do not think MA is the answer but my mind could be changed if we get Malik Monk and a couple others and really make a splash and gain some momentum.

Otherwise, we'll just be an ok program which in the SEC is in the top quartile but not worth a shite in most other power conferences.