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Story: Tre Singleton to the portal

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Curdog7 said:
This is where I am at as well. This is clearly not a good thing but I don’t think it’s catastrophic. Singleton is not an elite athlete and he can’t shoot. I’m sure his shooting will improve but I don’t think it will ever get to serviceable (I could be wrong). He could be a very good defender and rebounder, which is not nothing, but I don’t see him being anywhere close to all big material. And for those saying this is sour grapes, I have thought this all season.
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I mean you're basically describing Chase Audige and I would gladly take him back.
 
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Curdog7 said:
Chase Audige was an elite athlete. Singleton is no where near as athletic. He is bigger and stronger so there’s that.
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He plays a different position, too, but "elite defender and decent scorer" feels like Singleton's ceiling and that's basically Audige, even if Audige was more athletic. My point is this isn't like losing Buie or Martinelli, but Singleton is still a guy that could have had a LOT of value as he developed.
 
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He plays a different position, too, but "elite defender and decent scorer" feels like Singleton's ceiling and that's basically Audige, even if Audige was more athletic. My point is this isn't like losing Buie or Martinelli, but Singleton is still a guy that could have had a LOT of value as he developed.
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Audige had a "God mode" where he would go off and score 10 pts in 2 minutes on occasion while always playing exceptional defense. He was inconsistent, but we were sure lucky to have him in 2023.
 
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Catmandoo78 said:
What’s sad is I know after Mart’s last game, someone said something like “Boo showed Nick how to stay and now Nick showed Singleton how to stay and that’s how you build culture”.

The reality is, what Nick actually showed is that he likely left $1M or more on the table by not playing his last season elsewhere… and what he got for it was a terrible season where they were out of NCAAT bid contention by mid December. Meanwhile, he’s going to go play G League for a couple years and then go to China and his career earnings will likely never even match what he passed up for one year of NCAA ball somewhere else. A noble decision, but a very bad business decision.

THAT is what Tre learning from Nick. If you have a chance to make a ton more money and also a chance to actually win and raise your visibility for the next level, you have to take it. That’s really bad news for next year and the next decade if there aren’t changes immediately.
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Meh. Think this is a misread.
 
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It's a disappointment to lose Tre but it's not a great loss of basketball capital if our goal is to be a tournament team. He was not on a track to be an All-Big Ten player - the league is stocked, particularly among the top six or eight teams, with players ranked higher than him either from HS or experience, He started as a freshman but he didn't wow with any particular skill and was pretty disappointing in his distance shooting. I don't think a team on which he is the best player is a tournament team in a power league. So for him to have real value, we had to either land a better HS recruit or a Buie/Barnhizer/Mart - quality player through the portal, which I just don't think is going to happen given our portal returns from the past year. I think the player he will be next year is replaceable, but I don't think he or the replacement is the key piece to getting back to the tournament.
 
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