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Post by PantherU on Jul 2, 2024 14:33:11 GMT -6
If we lost TJ due to this, Bart mucked up the long-term game. Our biggest prize in the portal season, and we crap it away for short-term depth??? What long-term game is there in the world of one-year college basketball? The time for building freshmen classes to see them grow together into juniors and seniors is done. Developing end-of-the-bench players is trumped by using those spots for guys who can help now. I think we're also discounting the possibility that TJ Robinson thought he was going to run the show, saw Themus Fulks come in and realized he wasn't going to have the ball in his hands a lot.
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Post by mattg on Jul 6, 2024 21:32:46 GMT -6
My take: this was in the works for a while. Why sign Esyah Pippa-White to a scholarship when you already had two touted point guards, and who would sign under those conditions? After all, we've already got Mo Thomas as a practice body. I mean based on the limited tape of Pippa-White and his not so great stats I'd assume someone like him would sign under those conditions so he could fulfill a dream of playing division 1 college basketball and getting to be on a team. Pretty straightforward. It's not like someone like him has tons of D-1 schools beating down his door begging him to play.
I think this is a total misread on the landscape of college basketball. These first few years post COVID with extra eligibility and the rollout of NIL has made it the wild west. But we are already seeing the movement slow down. Initially it was the 1848 gold rush, every dude out there thinking they can transfer and get a big bag of cash despite that not being the case except for the select few top tier guys and top incoming freshman.
You ask about long term game and yet we have a 3 year starter. our 2nd and 3rd best guy are both going to play 2 years here. This idea that every team's best player is going to leave every single year going forward is nonsense and not supported by reality, or math.
As for losing TJ, what can you do. No one expected to get him to begin with so it was just a bonus. It's a bummer that we aren't getting to add a big time talent but we still have too many players who need minutes anyway so it's fine.
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Post by reginaldkdwight on Jul 7, 2024 10:12:30 GMT -6
Shaka Smart didn't lose anyone this offseason. Outside of freeman what we lost is a non factor
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Post by ghostofdylan on Jul 7, 2024 11:44:50 GMT -6
Bottom line: there's a lot to be excited about here.
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