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  1. The ISU players are there for a role, they aren’t the replacements for Disu and Abmas, and no one ever claimed they were.

    Tramon Mark is closer to that, and hopefully Pope and someone like Garrison joins him.

    With that said, calling all non-P5 transfers low-hanging fruit is lazy and reductionist. We just saw a Final 4 filled with non-P5 transfers.

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  2. 11 minutes ago, MuellerHorn said:

    Off-topic, but I'm curious why Schertz went to SLU from ISU.

    Is it that much better of a job? Does it pay that much better? I guess the A10 is more likely to get more than one team in the NCAA tournament, unlike the new MVC. His alma mater is FAU, so no ties there. I can't nail down an obvious reason.

    He made 365k a year at Indiana State, Saint Louis is paying him 2 million per year. So yeah, the pay is that much better.

    Indiana State did offer him a raise, but the highest they got was 850k. 

  3. 7 hours ago, Rickylovesweed said:

    His GF is also playing at Kansas next year.

    I've never understood the Storr hype. He's a legit scorer but pretty bad at everything else. I would straight up take Mark over him and especially if it doesn't involve us getting into some type of bidding war. 

    I know we live in a new basketball reality, but not once playing consecutive years with the same team for his entire college and high school career still feels like a red flag.

  4. 15 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    Because I'm tired of them.  LeBron is almost fucking 40 and has been the center of the basketball world for 20 years.  KD is 35.  Steph is 36.  Just go away and let me watch the younger guys like Ant, Brunson, Halliburton, Chet, Banchero, etc.  I'd be much more interested in watching that.  I'm not a big fan of the old dudes hanging on for one more go-round.  You've had your shot, now let the younger guys take over.

    I don't need any more LeBron, Steph or KD in my life.  I'm full.

    USA basketball basically begged those old guys to come back, because all those young guys you listed minus Chet were on the last world championships team that got their asses kicked. I’m not going to bash the OGs for simply saying yes.

    If the young guys want to take over, then they should be better. 

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  5. 3 minutes ago, Fud said:

    Jokic is the guy to worry about. And Doncic. One man wrecking crews. 

    Slovenia hasn’t qualified for the Olympics yet, and they’re not a lock to either. Now that Dragic has retired, that team is Luka and a bunch of spares. Serbia is dangerous though, if they get everyone to play, that team is more than just Jokic.
     

    2 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    People said the Wolves couldn't play Rudy and KAT at the same time, either.  That seems to have worked out fine this year.  I'm sure they could find a way to get them all on the floor.

    That’s two guys. Add Embiid to the Timberwolves and they would struggle to start all 3. Especially since Gobert isn’t versatile at all.

     

  6. 41 minutes ago, Chewbacca said:

    Embiid should have played for France.  Him, Wemby and Rudy is a tough out for anyone.  

    All 3 of those guys can’t play at the same time, Embiid made the right choice with regards to fit.

    Im fine with the team, but I don’t understand why they didn’t have a tryout phase. They usually have a minicamp of some sort before they finalize the roster.

  7. 15 minutes ago, Duane Moore said:

    There is just something about those vocal peer recruiters on social media that never seem to work out. Jalen Milroe, Brown, Kirkland. Bobby Taylor at ATM. 

    It works out sometimes. Omenihu was as big of a vocal peer recruiter as I can remember, and he over-performed and is now an impact player in the NFL. 

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  8. 27 minutes ago, HookEm said:

    He may be considered a top-25 transfer, but in 4 years he has never gotten a single All-Conference or All Defense Award. No All Freshmen Team. Not even honorable mention. Nothing.  For me, that is a red flag, especially when 3 out of the 4 years were in the AAC. And Arkansas sucked last year.  It would be different if he was a sophomore. 

    Don't get me wrong, I hope he is great.

    That’s fine. It’s still stupid to compare him to Horton and Onyema.

     

    I don’t think transfer portal rankings are the greatest, but they’re good to look back on to remember expectations

    Horton was a late desperate take who remained unranked even after we signed him, Onyema was a mid 3-star.

    Even the ISU guys are coming in with more expectations than that.

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  9. 6 minutes ago, HookEm said:

    I feel like this is a big negative for us

    It’s only negative if we do nothing to replace him. There are better options in the portal.

    I appreciated Mitchell’s energy and rebounding, but he often kneecapped our offense.

  10. 20 minutes ago, closetojumping said:

    What's the story here?

    The Houston version is Shaun Bagwell having goes with at least Darryl Kile, Ken Caminiti, and Mike Hampton. The Caminiti trade was driven by Jeff Bagwell's demands, allegedly.

    There was rumored to be a love triangle between Jason Kidd, Toni Braxton, and Jimmy Jackson. If I’m remembering correctly, Braxton went on the radio to promote her album and wouldn’t deny the rumors, so everyone assumed they were true.

    Kidd and Jackson have always denied it and claimed Braxton did what she did because it was good promo for her album. Jamal Mashburn, who was also on that Mavs team, also says the story wasn’t true, but claims that the rumors gained so much steam that they did in fact hurt the locker room and helped lead to the breakup of that team

     

    The Spurs one, Tony Parker just slept with Brent Barry’s wife.

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  11. 8 minutes ago, utfan87 said:

    So now just making the tournament is the barometer for a successful season. Out of the transfers we took outside of weaver who would you consider a positive addition? I am totally basing this off of RT not knowing how to construct a team 

    Ignoring how your response is a complete non-sequitur to mine. You do realize that Weaver also came from a team that didn’t make the NCAA tournament right?

    You aren’t making a coherent argument at all.

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  12. 30 minutes ago, D3zii said:

    Honestly though, are we cautioned at all that we’re getting D1-AA players or are they really good!?? 

    Well, this is not football, so that’s not a thing.
     

    But also, many of the best transfers come from non-power conferences. And more importantly, Larry is a guy I think can play well alongside volume scorers. We just landed Arkansas’ leading scorer, I think it’s a good fit.

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  13. 54 minutes ago, Teryor said:

    This is where I start to get a little worried about the RT roster building project though he'd be the best of the transfers we've had so far, lotta ball dominant types only one ball

    If Hunter is gone, like we assume, I don’t think it’s too overboard. We definitely need a PG.

  14. 27 minutes ago, Newy25 said:

    I didn’t want to post this in the young man’s commitment thread but the first thing an Arkansas booster told me is he was rumored to be involved in a love triangle with another player. Obviously his personal preferences are of no concern but hopefully he wasn’t part of something that damaged the locker room at his prior team. 

    Your booster friend likely just read a random message board post like everyone else.

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  15. 57 minutes ago, Teryor said:

    I see it as high 4*+ guys expecting to come in and play as freshmen, then don't and leave (Johnson), or see that RT is recruiting over them with transfers and aren't interested in playing that game with RT which is totally understandable. High school recruiting strategy/roster management feels like it's some serious ass right now. RT has to be honest with himself and the recruits about their role, actually play and try to develop them, or stop trying to recruit this type of player though.

    Yep, posted in the basketball board, but the roster management needs to be more organized. Instant impact freshman and guys willing to wait are the only high school players we should be recruiting.

    If Cam Scott doesn’t fit either of those, then we shouldn’t have signed him in the first place. 

  16. 26 minutes ago, UnhappilyMarried said:

    Yawn

    Having $ to reallocate to the portal is a win 

    Probably true, but I would like the roster management to be more organized. The reality for Cam Scott today shouldn’t be all that different from when he signed. If he doesn’t fit now, he didn’t fit then. So why did we even pursue and sign him? Why did he sign?

     

    The whole thing seems silly to me.

     

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