priority #1: retain Toure, Batemon, and Pleta. I know they said theyre staying, but those guys have potential to be the base building blocks for a final four a few years down the road if they stay for a while
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Yeah, I'm forever confused thinking Hamilton & George Mason reached early, high level elected positions but both died early on after the USAs formation without achieving such. Ben Franklin I remember as he was quite old at the signing of the Constitution.
He’s not a bad rebounder. His best asset to our offense is he’s deadly from deep at 6’8. Not a lot of rebounds to be had out there. His defense has improved exponentially in his three years in the program. Even with a slender build I can’t remember one time seeing him get out muscled for a rebound.
Any chance we can bring in a couple of studs via the portal with the assistant coaching additions we will be making?
Nice fit. Big body (6'8 240) Power Forward that rebounds and plays defense at a high level. Went to Link Academy in Missouri, I wonder if we had made contact in the past.
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As long as the sprained ankle fairy stays away. UGH!!!!
No problems there, as long as his primary role isn't also defending the 3pt line.
Nice fit. Big body (6'8 240) Power Forward that rebounds and plays defense at a high level. Went to Link Academy in Missouri, I wonder if we had made contact in the past.
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I liked what I saw in those clips. His FG% is 56.5 and his FT% is 68.6 (not great), but he averaged a double-double and is only a freshman.
Not great but our free throw percentage last year I believe was right around that number and that was with Milan hitting at a very high percentage.
Kind of.
Look at Nate Heise, he was a basically stand on the 3 point line offensive threat. But Nate still did a solid job of grabbing long rebounds.
I would hope that is part of NBA feedback Molan receives: work on body, develop shot off dribble and rebounding.
Think we have enough coin for this Thomas Dowd fella from Troy? Seems like he could be a plug and play guy at the 4. Great rebounding numbers, but moves like a guard, can hit the 3 at an effective rate, and good FT %. Will likely be highly sought after, but man it would help with the loss of Jefferson.
Could just be a pipedream, but honestly don't see a lot of dropoff from last yr with a lineup of:
1. Toure
2. Batemon
3. Milan
4. Dowd
5. Buchanon
Could just be a pipedream, but honestly don't see a lot of dropoff from last yr with a lineup of:
1. Toure
2. Batemon
3. Milan
4. Dowd
5. Buchanon
Dowd looks good. Wish he had more than one year. However, he would have been very helpful against Tennessee. I would say take him but guessing TJ has some other guys he is looking at right now.
Yeah, Franklin was about 83 when Washington was inaugurated, and died the next year, so too late for the presidency.
He'd fit right in age-wise these days.
Only thing I didn't like about the clip was the literal talking head invade my line of vision.
Obviously we'll need to fill Jefferson's general impact/role, even if it's from a combo of multiple players. It'd be cool to have good size, but can't overreact based on how this season having so much 4/5 size in CBB, and specifically how it much it would've helped vs. Tennessee (and Arizona in Big 12). For years & years, we heard how college basketball is a "guard's game," so if we go too far in the direction of frontcourt, who's to say we wouldn't regret it a couple of years from now when we don't have enough 1s & 2s?
TJ's roster construction tends to be steady, methodical, realistic, so I'm not worried he'll take too much of a knee-jerk approach.
TJ's roster construction tends to be steady, methodical, realistic, so I'm not worried he'll take too much of a knee-jerk approach.
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Yeah, it would be silly to build a new team around a specific weakness against a specific type of team.
Usually we start hearing players put out a list of teams that have contacted them right now. Inhave not seen anything from any players yet
The portal doesn't open until the 7th. Anyone that did that would out programs that are tampering, even though everyone is doing it.
