It's huge. It's impactful. No way Michigan is like Michigan without Smith.Towns will still be crucial to OSU.Jones is crucial to Louisville. Take a look at Virginia Tech and Alabama. Next year Ivy kids will be crucial at Notre Dame and Loyola Chicago.We saw what Yeboah did for Rutgers and Gettys to a lesser extent. Hopefully Rutgers is taking a hard look at kids who remain, especially if Jacob and Geo decide to leave. There has to be a spot out shooter who can contribute at this level.
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We've been talking about landing that spot out shooter transfer since Adam and Eve.
In my opinion we’re a really good candidate school to land a puzzle piece transfer or JUCO. The easiest ones to find are shooting guards and sharp shooting wings. Only a few truly impactful BIGs and PGs are usually in those pools. The transfer and JUCO markets are usually littered with sharp shooters looking to land somewhere that needs shooters and has decent distributors. We’re going to fit that mold regardless of who returns. Geo, Paul, Caleb and JY won’t all leave - we won’t need a PG. And if MJ and RHJ are returning a transfer will think the team has potential for another tourney birth and will not be terrible. We should be an attractive choice for a shooter.
While not always as glaring, we need another Akwasi type big as well unless one of the freshman develop into that role by next year, which at this point, does not seem likely. More likely that Oskar or Dean flash shooting ability. With regard to adding shooter, the question is whether Jaden Jones can fill that role or not? Seems to be mixed opinions on shooting form and his ability to be an effective perimeter scorer at this level.
RU72 is 100% correct.....you want a player with some leadership capabilities and a wing shooter at 22 to 26 minutes a game. Ideally someone capable of 9 to 11PPG vs B1G competition.
That allows more runway and development for Jaden Jones to play another 16 to 24 minutes a game as a frosh and get his feet wet. If Jones can get 10 to 11 OOC games under his feet as a player with that many minutes early, it would help his development to step into a larger role as the B1G season rolls around.
The assumption is even if Jacob Young departs, you still need to be at or above 70PPG to be effective and a NCAA caliber team. Asking Jaden Jones to play 28 to 30 minutes could give you 10PPG, but would be ideal to have a buffer between Jones and the upperclassmen.
Cliff/Myles/Reiber or Douc at the 5
RHJ and grad transfer/Mag or Palmquist at the hybrid 4
Caleb/Mulcahy/Mag and Jones at the 3
Mathis/Mulcahy/Jones at the 2/3
Geo/Mulcahy/Miller at the 1.
I think guard is the easiest place to develop a backup so I am completely comfortable that Miller will be a solid backup to Baker.
You would need to have another player depart to take on a grad transfer, RU currently stands at 14 if no one departs right now (Miller the 2021 PG, being #14).....even if Miller replaces Young on the roster, that's 13 and the max number you can carry. Any grad transfer would mean a transfer or graduate leaving and not taking advantage of the extra year.
I also think RHJ and Mathis both return....Mathis specifically lands with 26 to 28 minutes by default with Young departing.
That allows more runway and development for Jaden Jones to play another 16 to 24 minutes a game as a frosh and get his feet wet. If Jones can get 10 to 11 OOC games under his feet as a player with that many minutes early, it would help his development to step into a larger role as the B1G season rolls around.
The assumption is even if Jacob Young departs, you still need to be at or above 70PPG to be effective and a NCAA caliber team. Asking Jaden Jones to play 28 to 30 minutes could give you 10PPG, but would be ideal to have a buffer between Jones and the upperclassmen.
Cliff/Myles/Reiber or Douc at the 5
RHJ and grad transfer/Mag or Palmquist at the hybrid 4
Caleb/Mulcahy/Mag and Jones at the 3
Mathis/Mulcahy/Jones at the 2/3
Geo/Mulcahy/Miller at the 1.
I think guard is the easiest place to develop a backup so I am completely comfortable that Miller will be a solid backup to Baker.
You would need to have another player depart to take on a grad transfer, RU currently stands at 14 if no one departs right now (Miller the 2021 PG, being #14).....even if Miller replaces Young on the roster, that's 13 and the max number you can carry. Any grad transfer would mean a transfer or graduate leaving and not taking advantage of the extra year.
I also think RHJ and Mathis both return....Mathis specifically lands with 26 to 28 minutes by default with Young departing.
I thought teams could be over 13 scholarships next year with the extra year of eligibility for those seniors who might return. Doucoure is in his 4th year but was red shirted one season. Who knows he just might graduate or move on. There is a lot of uncertainty.
There is no requirement to keep anyone once they graduate. Duke while a great teammate and nice guy, likely won’t be on the team next season
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The problem is pike doesnt want to upset the soft kids on this roster who are emotional wrecks. We couldve had jahvon quinerly and luther muhammad, pike said no.
I think MJ’s decision is tied to Geo’s. They built a legacy together. He referred to it. He won’t abandon Geo if Geo plays for us next year. Either both stay or leave was my take away.
You'll need to keep into account that Pike strategically keeps 1-2 scholarships available for the walk-ons each year.