Next year's scholarships

[howeda7]

I guess it just depends on if this might be an ongoing issue with Omot or not. We know little about what is actually going on. I think he's too talented to not try to get him back (if they think he will get back to 100%).

If he comes back for the last 10 games or so, he can probably still get a medical redshirt for this year. I don't think it matters if you play the first few games or the last few. He only played 2 games last year IIRC. 12 games over two years would likely get him granted both of them.

 

[matt]

I'm cool with keeping all the injured guys around, but I'd hope they'd be willing to take a pay cut, especially if their NIL hinders us from adding more 'sure-fire' quality players that fit Niko's system.

Niko is maxing out his talent this year. Everybody in the CBB landscape sees this.

I really think what he did with Cade Tyson could open up the floodgates this transfer period.

My order of priority for the injured guys:

1. Vaihola: Greater screener, rebounder, and above-average post passer. Seemed to be a solid system guy.
2. Omot: Hard to gauge, but probably benefits by not seeing him play much. Should be versatile, especially defensively, and still has two years (I think?).
3. Willis: Didn't seem to gel in the system; doesn't help our shooting woes; turnover-prone. I also don't know if his injury was impacting him before the Stanford game; it could have been.
4. Stephens: I know nothing about him. Could be a sharp shooter off the bench?

Agree with 1-3, but I think Stephens could be a good, end of the bench guy. He is a 3 pt specialist, he’s a guard, and I think he was cheap. We need all of those things this year, and I assume we’ll need them next year. I don’t think he’ll be an impact player, but he’s cheap and we could sure use some shooters on the roster.

 

[Tucker32]

I'd much rather have him than Willis. But you can't have too many guards.

Willis, in his short time, demonstrated that is much stronger physically than Evans, has a much stronger defensive game, and brings the ability to handle the ball, push the ball, etc. Plus, he scored a ton his previous years. Just showed a real strong lead guard game.

Evans is not showing much at UNC at all... his limitations at the higher level game in and game out are showing. Doesn't mean I wouldn't want him here, but I don't think he would start ahead of Willis.

 

[howeda7]

Willis, in his short time, demonstrated that is much stronger physically than Evans, has a much stronger defensive game, and brings the ability to handle the ball, push the ball, etc. Plus, he scored a ton his previous years. Just showed a real strong lead guard game.

Evans is not showing much at UNC at all... his limitations at the higher level game in and game out are showing. Doesn't mean I wouldn't want him here, but I don't think he would start ahead of Willis.

Admittedly, I haven't watched Evans at UNC nor Willis last year. But Evans was much more impressive at CSU than Willis was here IMO. To be fair, Willis was dealing with the injury for at least a couple of the games he did play, so we didn't get much sample size.

I don't really view it as an either/or choice. You could easily start Willis, Evans and Asuma together.