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USAF said:
There's the 9th guy in the rotation of a top 1/3 of the BiG team we need
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Only 4 games but 10ppg at a power conference school shooting 45/35 is better than 9th man on a top Big Ten team, I know your whole thing is just hating on shit, but doesn't it get old. He would be a contributor on a good team. The star? Maybe not, but 6 foot 8 wings who can shoot don't grow on trees either. It would be a good get, the reaction should be excitement, not incredulity. Wouldn't it be more fun, to you know, cheer?
 


studentgopher94 said:
Only 4 games but 10ppg at a power conference school shooting 45/35 is better than 9th man on a top Big Ten team, I know your whole thing is just hating on shit, but doesn't it get old. He would be a contributor on a good team. The star? Maybe not, but 6 foot 8 wings who can shoot don't grow on trees either. It would be a good get, the reaction should be excitement, not incredulity. Wouldn't it be more fun, to you know, cheer?
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Maybe look farther into the player than 4 games, sport.
He's not a shooter, and he doesn't rebound because he's rail thin.
Maybe not 9th man, but if this is the level player we're depending on for major minutes, we're not even a bubble team.
 
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studentgopher94 said:
Only 4 games but 10ppg at a power conference school shooting 45/35 is better than 9th man on a top Big Ten team, I know your whole thing is just hating on shit, but doesn't it get old. He would be a contributor on a good team. The star? Maybe not, but 6 foot 8 wings who can shoot don't grow on trees either. It would be a good get, the reaction should be excitement, not incredulity. Wouldn't it be more fun, to you know, cheer?
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Asuma, Kyan Evans and Amot would be a real nice start. When knows, maybe Grove has a great summer and is ready as well. We are going to have enough money to go big on a star or two and good money for our other starters.
 



studentgopher94 said:
Only 4 games but 10ppg at a power conference school shooting 45/35 is better than 9th man on a top Big Ten team, I know your whole thing is just hating on shit, but doesn't it get old. He would be a contributor on a good team. The star? Maybe not, but 6 foot 8 wings who can shoot don't grow on trees either. It would be a good get, the reaction should be excitement, not incredulity. Wouldn't it be more fun, to you know, cheer?
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Honest question: How does he project compared to Both Gach? Similar players? I think Omot could play a role, I hope not a starting one though. I feel like Goch started about half of his games here, but didn't do much with the opportunity. Maybe I'm underestimating him. I'd like him to be a piece here, just not a main one from what I've seen.
 


bga1 said:
Asuma, Kyan Evans and Amot would be a real nice start. When knows, maybe Grove has a great summer and is ready as well. We are going to have enough money to go big on a star or two and good money for our other starters.
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I'm not panicking but Grove in the top 9 would be a problem. He should be the 3rd option at the 4 or 5. I look forward to him sticking around and contributing more as a sophomore, but relying on him this year would be like relying on Betts last year. Not his time yet.
 





GopherBlood777 said:
I'm not panicking but Grove in the top 9 would be a problem. He should be the 3rd option at the 4 or 5. I look forward to him sticking around and contributing more as a sophomore, but relying on him this year would be like relying on Betts last year. Not his time yet.
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I’m not saying you’re wrong, I have no clue. I’m curious why you seem so certain this is the case?
 







MNVCGUY said:
Show me where I said Poor Niko.....the tweet says he picked South Carolina over Kansas, Kentucky, Gonzaga and others.....so yeah he had his pick of pretty much any school in the country and he picked someone other than us....

If you are going to make claims about me at least make them about something I actually said instead of making crap up just to be an ahole.

Serves me right for hitting show ignored content. Guess I hoped you would turn over a new leaf now that Ben is gone but I see you are still the same ahole you were when Johnson was coaching.
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He won't do that...he gets off on picking inane fights over non-arguments. Reading would take too much time.
 

Gilthorp57 said:
www.thechampaignroom.com

EDITORIAL: Please don’t vilify Morez Johnson and his decision

As a fan base, we have to do better than this.
www.thechampaignroom.com www.thechampaignroom.com

Getting wild out there with the portal. A big pick up whomever gets Morez Johnson.
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Morez is a loss for Illinois. He was a freshman who averaged 7 an 6 this season and was offered $1,000,000 for next season as a rebounder/rim runner. His dad wanted him to shoot threes and be a bigger part of the offense to prepare for next level. That is Ivisic. Other schools have offered almost doubled what Illinois offered. I’ve seen $1.8 million. I’ll be interested if he shoots a lot of threes for his new school.
 

GopherBlood777 said:
He redshirted last year and I saw him play in the exhibition games. I'm not saying he's a bust, he just has a lot of work ahead of him yet.
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He's big and decent athleticism, skill wise he had a ways to go but if Crowl can play at Wisconsin Grove surely can find a role at Minnesota. I have to think he's got way more potential.
 

jovs said:
He's big and decent athleticism, skill wise he had a ways to go but if Crowl can play at Wisconsin Grove surely can find a role at Minnesota. I have to think he's got way more potential.
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Sure, and Crowl didn't contribute very much as a Freshman. His breakout year was during his Sophomore season. I'm hopeful Grove has a similar trajectory. Wisconsin also has a long history of developing players into contributors by their Sophomore seasons, MN not so much.
 

jovs said:
He's big and decent athleticism, skill wise he had a ways to go but if Crowl can play at Wisconsin Grove surely can find a role at Minnesota. I have to think he's got way more potential.
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Crowl was a significantly better prospect than Grove. I will be surprised if Grove ever carves out a role here, but I'd rather have him on the bench over just not using scholarships.
 




salzie said:
I dont think Gard is too upset about losing him
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I didn’t pay any attention to him this year. Do you (or anyone else) know if his lack of playing time was an issue with skill, motivation, opportunity, or something else?
 

combes1 said:
Morez is a loss for Illinois. He was a freshman who averaged 7 an 6 this season and was offered $1,000,000 for next season as a rebounder/rim runner. His dad wanted him to shoot threes and be a bigger part of the offense to prepare for next level. That is Ivisic. Other schools have offered almost doubled what Illinois offered. I’ve seen $1.8 million. I’ll be interested if he shoots a lot of threes for his new school.
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I like this kid great rebounder and tough
 

matt said:
I didn’t pay any attention to him this year. Do you (or anyone else) know if his lack of playing time was an issue with skill, motivation, opportunity, or something else?
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Obviously hard to say but Tonje/Blackwell/Klesmit/McGee is a pretty solid backcourt group, tough to crack that. Little surprised Janicki got more time than him but he played well. As noted in other threads, love Asuma but guessing he would not have seen substantial playing time behind those 4.
 

Dave H said:
He won't do that...he gets off on picking inane fights over non-arguments. Reading would take too much time.
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Yeah, much easier to just pretend someone is saying the thing you want to rip them about then to actually take the time to read what that person writes.....
 

leib0039 said:
Obviously hard to say but Tonje/Blackwell/Klesmit/McGee is a pretty solid backcourt group, tough to crack that. Little surprised Janicki got more time than him but he played well. As noted in other threads, love Asuma but guessing he would not have seen substantial playing time behind those 4.
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Yeah, true freshman on a good team is going to have to be really special right away to get significant playing time.

I know redshirting doesn't really seem to matter anymore but looks like he logged 27 minutes over 14 games so basically a wasted year in terms of game action.
 

matt said:
I didn’t pay any attention to him this year. Do you (or anyone else) know if his lack of playing time was an issue with skill, motivation, opportunity, or something else?
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From what I saw, and I watched some games this year when he got in at garbage time, it was a lack of skill and decision making. Usually had more turnovers than anything else. Seemed out of control with pretty bad decision making. Hope he gets that cleaned up wherever he goes. He's young, so I wouldn't write him off completely.
 

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