Certainly without question the high point of
Posted on: September 10, 2019 at 08:29:56 CT
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the Kim Anderson era was that first offseason when he was doing his victory tour around mid-Missouri. With avg coaching what he inherited could have certainly competed at a reasonable level in the SEC, and given that Alden was able to retain Fuller and Fuller was able to bring in Fulford it was very plausible that things could have worked out from a talent perspective if he was able to have any level of success on the court.
Obviously it wasn't meant to be once we saw how bad he was at coaching too, and then the roster completely cratered after that first season. But Kim inherited a better situation from Haith than either Cuonzo or Mike Anderson got from their predecessors by a huge margin.
What you listed was certainly one of his failures at MU, and almost certainly among the top 15 reasons he failed. Kind of hard to isolate his failures and inadequacies down to only one thing though. Had Kim inherited the same situation Haith received in 2011, we would have been a 3 win team in 2012-13. Not 3 wins in the SEC, 3 wins total for the season. That would have been an absolute disaster of a time to try such a foolish experiment.
Edited by FIJItiger at 08:53:26 on 09/10/19