U.S. Men 2025-26 Discussion - Quad God and the Mere Mortals

[Karen-W]

I understand what you mean and I agree. Yes he can be selected but all I want to say is that Olympic Games is not JGP Ankara... it's a different level and in my opinion someone who has no experience on that level should not have his senior premiere at the most importand event of all no matter what the junior scoring says. Not if you have other options. Neither of all possible men who will get the 2 spots besides Ilia will have a chance to win a medal. So my choice would be Max. He doesn't have the highest score but consistent around 223 and he proved to be a fighter no matter what life is throwing at him

This is such a ridiculous line of reasoning. Taking Kazanecki out of the discussion, Naumov still doesn't beat either Hiwatashi or Torgashev in any numerical analysis.

Why not just be honest with yourself and the rest of us and cut out all the faulty pretzel-twisting and instead just say that you want Naumov on the team for purely sentimental reasons?

 

[Kiki5375]

This is such a ridiculous line of reasoning. Taking Kazanecki out of the discussion, Naumov still doesn't beat either Hiwatashi or Torgashev in any numerical analysis.

Why not just be honest with yourself and the rest of us and cut out all the faulty pretzel-twisting and instead just say that you want Naumov on the team for purely sentimental reasons?

As I said "My choice would be"
No need to be so rude

 

[gkelly]

Because the junior is showing more future promise and neither of those two have ever come close to delivering on the promise they showed at the same age as Lucius. Here's a comparison of their fall scores scores this season - keep in mind, Lucius skating only juniors this fall has had one less jumping pass and no quads in the SP

No quads in the junior SP is true.

Juniors and seniors have the exact same number of jumping passes in both programs. The difference between the junior and the senior free skate elements is that seniors do both a choreographic sequence and a leveled step sequence, whereas juniors only do the choreo sequence now.