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He shot 7/10 from 3PT against Wake Forest as a freshman! That is Brandon Johnson territory. Weird trajectory where he played a lot at the beginning of his freshman year, got 4 starts in midseason, then kinda got benched the last couple months of the season. Missed the next season altogether...

ChatGPT says Oumar Ballo, Tomislav Ivisic, Vlad Goldin, and Danny Wolf. I know it missed a few (like Northwestern's Keenan Fitzmorris who averaged 2 points and 1 rebound, and we pursued last year). But your point stands...there just aren't very many and the good ones want a big paycheck at a...

Cade Tyson? I don't really follow this much though. I listened to the Talk Gopher Buckets podcast today and Niko specifically mentioned how they have more analytics than you could ever imagine to evaluate guys in the portal, and one of the things they are looking at is bringing in players who...

Major caveat that Dawson Garcia was apparently the majority of our NIL budget last year. I think one site was ranking these with all players, not just transfers.

Yeah especially his senior year he was good...I'm saying I thought he would be a first team all B10 kind of guy.

Oldies but goodies: Oto Osenieks - thought he would become our Toni Kukoc Chip Armelin - very athletic, I thought he was a diamond in the rough Tubby could develop. He ended up having a nice senior year at Southern Miss (16 ppg) Lawrence Westbrook - he averaged something absurd like 40...

A couple nuggets he mentioned I thought were interesting: "Positional length matters more as you come up" basically the first thing he mentioned they were looking for, after the generic stuff about finding "their guys" Signing players is kind of like buying a house… Sure he might like a house...

I read somewhere that Niko really wanted him (don't remember where). That can be consistent with the idea that Jefferson was asking for more money than we could allot him (especially with Gonzaga sniffing around) and so Niko decided to pass on him.

I wonder if AJ Smith is a good defender. He's a 25% 3PT shooter, and averaged less than an assist per game...maybe he defends well? He does seem to rebound well for a guard.

Vaihola 20 min 4 points JCJ 20 min 8 points Durkin 31 min 15 points Asuma 28 min 9 points Willis 33 min 11 points Omot 26 min 13 points Reynolds 22 min 9 points Turner 20 min 6.5 points Spot work: Grove, Shinholster, any additional pieces we bring in like the reserve from Temple Elijah Gray...

Last year if I was a Colorado State fan I would have been wondering where my scoring/minutes were coming from. The previous year stats of the guys who ended up fueling their NCAA run (guys who played 15+ mpg and were part of the rotation in the tournaments: Nique Clifford: 36 starts, 30...

The actuarial tables say Jerry is a nice short-term investment for a gold digger.

Haha. Some people also saying they wished him well and it wasn’t a good fit. Also some concern they couldn’t develop him/figure out how to use him. His only good game last year (5/10 3PT, 23 points) was against La Salle so the narrative was he could only succeed against slower defenders...

Tar Heels forum says no. Also slow to get his shot off and can’t drive.

Bad idea, unless he thinks an extra year of college will increase his draft stock considerably. Sure he could make more money next year via NIL, but he would losing out on an extra year of his prime when he could be earning a second QB contract.

Would love to have this guy and add to our lengthy 3PT shooting stable.

He does a pretty good job filling up the stat sheet (averaged 7.1 rebounds, 2.6 assists, 1.6 steals and .7 blocks per 40 minutes). He just can’t shoot. Pretty important for a shooting guard. It looks like he lost his starting job at Tulsa halfway thru the season then got it back for the last 3...

Yes. Gets his feet wet next year with Vaihola starting, then he can take over his Junior/Senior year.

Very small sample size but I saw that he made 4/10 3 pointers in the last two months of the season once he was put in the starting lineup. I also love to see he averaged 3.7 assists per 40 minutes. That would have ranked 3rd on our team last year. Also shows Niko may have a type, with Vaihola...

I think if every player was a free agent every year then the Mets/Dodgers would win more. By signing long term contracts teams can actually hold on to players as they develop. And bad big money contracts hamstring them for years. Now it feels like the moment a mid major guy sees success...