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DAWG61

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Feb 26, 2008
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I'm not convinced our basketball roster is in that bad a shape as everyone was making it out to be the other day. From everything I've read/seen of Deivon Smith he's the type of player that starts day 1. Molinar and Stewart are future stars. Ado is as solid as it gets. That only leaves Tulu Smith as the wildcard at the 4. If he's ok we still have a very talented starting 5. Howland just needs to add 2-3 players for depth. Hit up the jucos or grad transfers and we are fine. We have 8 months before game 1. Certainly Cameron Mathews and maybe even Quinten Post are a little better than people are expecting right now.

PG Deivon Smith (top 50 overall player in the nation)
SG Iverson Molinar
SF DJ Stewart
PF Tulu Smith
C Ado

Mathews (he's an athletic freak)
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Howland never plays more than 8-9 guys anyway.
 
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Misfit

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Oct 21, 2018
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I said almost exactly the same thing in a thread a coue of days ago and got not a single response ,but I am the Misfit.We got a commit from a small forward named Andersson Garcia. Don't expect a lot from him next season, but who knows.
 
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DAWG61

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Feb 26, 2008
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Uh check out his twitter timeline and this stat line against Memphis East. Memphis East is pretty good competition for HS.

[tweet]1223434172317999104[/tweet]

[tweet]1205583837838954496[/tweet]

[tweet]1213305457005215744[/tweet]

Looks like Garcia is the 2nd or maybe the best player on a very talented Hamilton Heights team that has at least a Florida commit a New Mexico commit along with a MSU commit now in the starting 5.
 
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bruiser.sixpack

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Aug 13, 2009
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Next season is not going to be very good, but with losing 3 legacies and Nick, I would take the NIT next year for sure. Probably what we would have got this year with those 4.
 
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My Bru

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Feb 7, 2020
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We need a Lawrence Roberts and Shane Power BAD. Maybe Smith is that guy, but we need another.
 
mstateglfr

mstateglfr

All-American
Feb 24, 2008
16,268
6,098
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DAWG61 said:
Uh check out his twitter timeline and this stat line against Memphis East. Memphis East is pretty good competition for HS.

Looks like Garcia is the 2nd or maybe the best player on a very talented Hamilton Heights team that has at least a Florida commit a New Mexico commit along with a MSU commit now in the starting 5.
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My comment had a couple meanings.
1- we signed a 0 star unevaluated player(how is he unevaluated?) so who knows how ready he is to play right away, but at least its a body on the team.
2- even if he is a contributor, we need more than just one commit.
 
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DAWG61

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Feb 26, 2008
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Idk why he hasn't been evaluated but he holds offers from KSU, Florida and Bama along with other P5 schools and his stats are more eye popping than Ado & Varnado who both went to the same school as him. Hamilton Heights in Chattanooga. Looks like Howland has stolen one here. Nobody fire him just yet.
 
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ezsoil

Junior
May 26, 2013
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DAWG61 said:
I'm not convinced our basketball roster is in that bad a shape as everyone was making it out to be the other day. From everything I've read/seen of Deivon Smith he's the type of player that starts day 1. Molinar and Stewart are future stars. Ado is as solid as it gets. That only leaves Tulu Smith as the wildcard at the 4. If he's ok we still have a very talented starting 5. Howland just needs to add 2-3 players for depth. Hit up the jucos or grad transfers and we are fine. We have 8 months before game 1. Certainly Cameron Mathews and maybe even Quinten Post are a little better than people are expecting right now.

PG Deivon Smith (top 50 overall player in the nation)
SG Iverson Molinar
SF DJ Stewart
PF Tulu Smith
C Ado

Mathews (he's an athletic freak)
Post

Howland never plays more than 8-9 guys anyway.
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im not as worried in today's transfer world it's easy to fill out a roster ...especially if the new transfer rule passes...
I just hope enough of the people who have tickets between the baselines and who don't show up will be fed up and not renew their tickets. I'll slide around and will make sure my seats will always be filled
 
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DAWG61

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Feb 26, 2008
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Yea if Quinten Post can be productive it'll be huge. He's a big dude. He's from the Netherlands and played on their national team I believe. He's not some scrub walk-on.
 
Seinfeld

Seinfeld

All-American
Nov 30, 2006
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It’s interesting to me that you got downvoted because even 17-13 could easily be viewed as optimistic.

We finished 20-11 last year during the regular season. Since then, Carter graduated, we lost Perry, Woodard, and Nick to the Pros, and 5 more decided to transfer. For those counting, that’s NINE losses which is damn near unprecedented.

People keep talking about how losing guys to the transfer portal is the new norm, but the question is... who has Howland prepared to move into these spots? Well, in the last 3 combined recruiting classes, Howland signed 10 kids, and he’s now lost 7 of them. Call it dead weight or the allure of the NBA all you want, but these were Howland’s recruits and any way you look at it, it’s awful.

So now we’ve got to replace 4 of our top 5 guys, 81% of the scoring, and a severely depleted bench. With what? A freshman PG and a transfer that most have never even seen play?

This team is going to be awful next year guys. There’s no sugar coating it, and 15-15 will be nothing short of an amazingly pleasant surprise.
 
Seinfeld

Seinfeld

All-American
Nov 30, 2006
11,323
7,280
113
There’s really no way around it, but the blind optimism has been flowing freely lately. It almost reminds me of the “anything’s better than Stansbury” posts we saw years ago up until people got a taste of what that actually looked like
 
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patdog

Heisman
May 28, 2007
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27,782
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He played for their U-20 national team. There's a big difference. Generally only a couple of players on a youth team will ever make it to the adult national team. Not saying he can't be a decent player for us, but it's not like we signed some European superstar.
 
Drebin

Drebin

Heisman
Aug 22, 2012
21,776
25,553
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Seinfeld said:
It’s interesting to me that you got downvoted because even 17-13 could easily be viewed as optimistic.

We finished 20-11 last year during the regular season. Since then, Carter graduated, we lost Perry, Woodard, and Nick to the Pros, and 5 more decided to transfer. For those counting, that’s NINE losses which is damn near unprecedented.

People keep talking about how losing guys to the transfer portal is the new norm, but the question is... who has Howland prepared to move into these spots? Well, in the last 3 combined recruiting classes, Howland signed 10 kids, and he’s now lost 7 of them. Call it dead weight or the allure of the NBA all you want, but these were Howland’s recruits and any way you look at it, it’s awful.

So now we’ve got to replace 4 of our top 5 guys, 81% of the scoring, and a severely depleted bench. With what? A freshman PG and a transfer that most have never even seen play?

This team is going to be awful next year guys. There’s no sugar coating it, and 15-15 will be nothing short of an amazingly pleasant surprise.
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I just came here to say that this post is right on target.
 
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