{"id":7647,"date":"2023-10-05T15:06:26","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T19:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=7647"},"modified":"2023-10-05T15:06:26","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T19:06:26","slug":"coen-carr-ranked-as-top-10-small-forward-in-college-basketball-by-andy-katz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=7647","title":{"rendered":"Coen Carr ranked as top 10 small forward in college basketball by Andy Katz"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>Andy Katz is coming out with position-by-position rankings ahead of the 2023-24 season and Coen Carr got some major respect.<\/h2>\n<p>Is the Coen Carr hype out of control? It very well might be and that&#8217;s not a knock on him, but rather it&#8217;s unfair pressure to put on a freshman who likely won&#8217;t be a starter for Tom Izzo and Michigan State basketball.<\/p>\n<p>While the hype surrounding his athleticism is real, we have national media members calling him elite.<\/p>\n<p>One of those media members in Andy Kats who ranked his top 10 small forwards for the 2023-24 season on Wednesday and included on that list is Carr. He comes in at No. 9 in the ranking which is wild considering he has yet to even play a game.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The best small forwards for 2023-24 \ud83d\udd25<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheAndyKatz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@TheAndyKatz<\/a> ranks his top 10 wings in the nation \ud83e\udebd <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6cCsrOgdEL\">pic.twitter.com\/6cCsrOgdEL<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/MarchMadnessMBB\/status\/1709675177003381075?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">October 4, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t have a problem with people believing that Carr is going to be a special player. He is. But I just think it&#8217;s way too early to call a guy who was a four-star prospect throughout most of his recruitment a &#8220;top-10 small forward in college basketball.&#8221; That&#8217;s a ton of pressure. It&#8217;s almost impossible to live up to that billing right away.<\/p>\n<p>Of course I&#8217;d love to be wrong. I just think it&#8217;s going to take a little while for Carr to earn Izzo&#8217;s trust. Rarely does the Hall of Fame head coach place a ton of trust in freshmen, but we have seen it happen in recent years with guys like Miles Bridges and Max Christie.<\/p>\n<p>Carr is probably the best pure athlete that Michigan State has had since Shannon Brown and I have no problem saying that. We&#8217;ve all seen his <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/another-day-another-insane-coen-carr-highlight-video\/\">ridiculous dunks<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/michigan-state-basketball-coen-carr-unbelievable-vertical-video\/\">mind-numbing vertical<\/a>. He&#8217;s going to make the Breslin Center erupt on numerous occasions this year. But he needs to work on his all-around game before he can be a top-10 small forward in college hoops. Again, I think he has the potential to be in this elite group, but we need to be patient with him and his growing role.<\/p>\n<p>Michigan State fans do have a lot to look forward to this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Huge praise for the freshman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":7667,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[291,190,189,504],"class_list":["post-7647","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-coen-carr","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7647"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7647\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/7667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}