RECRUITING: Elijah Brown visit info
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Brown will be a tough get with Oregon and Gonzaga in the mix. Gonzaga could be a threat to make it to the championship game again if Williams Goss comes back.
It will be fun to bump these threads the next two years and see that people don't have Lewis in their starting line ups. he gone be good.
People not having TL in their starting line-up doesn't mean they don't think he'll be good.
You really think Lewis is going to be a day one starter if we add two or three more guys to can play right away? Niang and Morris weren't even day one starters.
No. You take them both. Same with Juiston. Last spot goes to a sit out. You take another sit out guy if we miss on a guard.
Unless you have a shot at getting the Lawsons as sit outs. Then you save room for two.
Once these dominoes start falling its going to get interesting, there are a lot of the same names in on the big transfers. It could get chaotic when guys start committing as lots of offers will be impacted by each commitment. With such a deep group, teams will be looking to 2nd, 3rd, 4th choices etc.
Let's oversign...say take six of them...they ll look good. I remember the days in 2012 when the bench was not good and in-house people were picking walk on schollies. It would be amazing t have 4 qualifies people on scholarships. Juiston and the Lawsons and Edwards would be great.
We need players and we need competition. I am really excited about our team next year, but there are a ton of unknowns. We have no returning all Americans and as we have seen there is not guarantee a player will make an immediate impact. It would be nice to pick and choose, but I think it is important to fill the roster with guys we think can play at this level. At that point, let everyone compete for minutes.
You didn't even mention Lewis in he discussion of possible starters. I think you're underestimating Lewis's talent and abilities.
That lineup has talent but its TINY...even by the small ball standards we're used to. If you have Jackson and Wigginton on the floor together, it'd be nice to have a Babb like player at the 3 but with your lineup, it would give the option to bring in Babb, Lewis or Long off the bench so we'd still have 3 good sized kids at the 2/3 off the bench, so that would be great as well. That would give Prohm a lot of flexibility with matchups.
Tiny? It's just as large as most of our past 6, if not arguably larger with a true post in Young and a long, athletic Juiston who will be a plus rebounder. I'm sure there will be times when Wigginton or Jackson are subbed out in favor of Babb or Lewis, but still. I don't see there being much a functional difference between a 6'2" guard and a 6'3" or 6'4" guard, particularly when Wigginton is a much better athlete than Morris, Naz, or Matt
Wigginton and Jackson would be the two smallest guard pair we've started this decade, not to mention two of the shortest guards we've had period. Lucious is the only shorter starter during the Fred/CSP eras. Nader, Niang, Ejim, Hogue, McKay, and BDJ are all bigger/equal to and just as/if not more athletic than the guys we will start at their positions. Burton may be the only exception. I'm not saying that lineup won't work, its just a fact its very small, smaller than teams we've had get abuse on the glass.
And? Rarely do guards get a ton of rebounds. We didn't get killed on the glass this year because our guards weren't agressive enough rebounders.
Functionally, no.
Young and Juiston would be a bigger than a lot of our frontcourts, Brown a wash on the wing, and Wigginton and Jackson a bit smaller in the backcourt. You don't measure the size of your lineup by your pg.
At the moment the dream line up for next season in my opinion is
Jackson- 6'2 (not actually)
Wigginton- 6'2
Brown- 6'4
Juiston- 6'7
Solomon- 6'8
That's not really that small. Last year we went 6'2, 6'4, 6'4, 6'5, 6'8.
Not to mention we could bring Lard and Kosango off the bench who are both 6'9 or so. Obviously I don't know what we would get from either one.
Jackson- 6'2 (not actually)
Wigginton- 6'2
Brown- 6'4
Juiston- 6'7
Solomon- 6'8
That's not really that small. Last year we went 6'2, 6'4, 6'4, 6'5, 6'8.
Not to mention we could bring Lard and Kosango off the bench who are both 6'9 or so. Obviously I don't know what we would get from either one.
Our guards were actually really good rebounders last year, Morris, Thomas and Naz all got 4-ish a game, it kept us in a lot of games. Without that production we would have been in serious trouble. So maybe we didn't get killed bc of our guards but you can argue things would have been much worse without that production from them. We were able to play small because we had guards that held their own, Brown could be that type of a guy but I'm not sure about Jackson or Wigginton.
