1. Right on about Isaiah Mobley except mediocre may be too harsh but not as good as touted for sure.

2. Yes, I saw Reese Waters in high school and he has more upside than the current wing players. Trojans are not going to contend with current wing players. How can the coach start White at wing when he is a poor outside shooter? White looked good overpowering midmajors but just don't kinow about him in Pac12. At best, he should play high post. Baumann had the hot game, but again against midmajor which is where he can from. Can he shot play with the big boys? Max A. too inconsistent in outside shot. Like his athleticism coming off bench, but agree with member who wrote about his shortcomings which should preclude him starting. Eaddy would be my oher starting wing because he has been the most reliable outside so far,.

3. Yes, Morgan comes from a midmajor. But like Eaddy, has shown he can play with the big boys. Found this info: Morgan recorded 10 points and five rebounds against the Wildcats in Tucson last November. He also posted double figures in scoring versus UCLA and USC. What also makes me like Morgan is, unlike USC's other transfers, he was recruited by top teams such as UCLA, Arizona, Arizona State, Oregon and Texas.

Waters and Morgan are the type of players that USC needs to contend. The question is whether it is too soon in their development to help now.

Add: my problem is Enfield is playing so many midmajors and worst in nonconference so the team is not prepared enough to play Pac-12 competiion. So Enfield crushes teams like Irvine, Montana and Santa Clara and wins 20 games or so a year and some members here think what a wonderful coach we have.. I would rather be facing better caliber opposition to get ready for the conference. Colorado showed the team was not, especially the physical play.

Second add: After USC was beating up the cream puffs in nonconference, some members were saying here at Evan Mobley was better than Okongwu. I think his Colorado performance silenced them. It wasn't a suprise to me. In high school, Rancho Christian with Evan was disappointing in the playoffs both years because Mobley doesn't assert in the post, doesn't establish position enough down low. Okongwu shot 60 percent because he took only good shots inside (which also creates fouls which can put other team in foul trouble). I don't want my big man shooting outside when he is 7 foot and is very athletic. Reminds me why Abdul-Jabbar was so good. He was thin like Mobley and got pushed around, but remedied that by developing a sky hook shot taken from near the right baseline so harder to get help on him.

Third add: I do agree Anderson would be a help on defense at the point, just don't know about his offense. What I would do is shuffle him in and out with Peterson and use Peterson more if offense needed or Anderson for defense.

Ugh, what an ignorant post.

USC scheduled a quality non-conference slate this year but most of it was canceled. Have you heard of this thing called a pandemic? By the way, are you aware that UCI won the Big West last year?

It is indeed a wonderful thing for a USC coach to win 20 games every year. Only someone completely ignorant of USC basketball history would consider this a problem.

Evan Mobley is still better than Okongwu (though in a different way), and that evaluation doesn't change because he finally had a subpar game, doesnt.change it anymore than it made Big O worse because he had 6 point game against Nevada last year. It doesn't change things even though Okongwu also struggled against Colorado in a far-worse loss last year at home. You see, for people who understand basketball, the evaluation of a player doesn't ebb and flow from game to game, but is determined by the sum of the games. Mobley is very skilled and has a nice offensive game and is on his way to a huge year. He will be helped going forward once we have our point guard back.

To piggy-back on MeltonNotHelton (I see myself doing this a lot) - re: Schedule. Please look at EVERY power 5 conference team schedule. There might be exceptions, but I just checked Oregon, UCLA & Arizona's. I also checked Michigan State's and Duke's. Pretty cream-puffy non-conference for all. There's one, maybe two games against traditional top 25 opponents for Duke and Michigan State, but all of those teams had lots of directional schools/schools named after people. We played two traditional quality teams in BYU & UConn, going 1-1. And our small school opponents have had recent success.