Unexpectedflash

The portal really needs to open up so we can argue about an actual team instead of the hypothetical team we have now

The unfortunate truth is the bar is probably coming in 6th in the big ten and hopefully building from there. Dusty wins the big ten his first year and then boom he brings in the number 1 transfer class in the country. We were just mid. I do think our roster next year should be more talented because honestly it would be hard not to. And i like Fru as a backup which he seems open to per Louisville fans. I’m not sure he’d hold up as a starter the entire big ten year

In like 98% sure i read that Carr was the lead recruiter for him also. Louisville fans say he is very talented but extremely soft

I do hope we’ve reached out to dedan Thomas and Isaiah Johnson. Those dudes are great and I’ve missed good PG play

I guess i disagree. The program isn’t really in a place to turn their nose up at dudes that produced at high major programs. These aren’t the mid major all stars like last year. If I’m Vaaks there are way more places I’m thinking of before considering us

lol imagine going from tucker trying to play the 4 for us to this dude. I’m not sure there would ever be a bigger jump in athleticism

I like Evans and he would be a good first piece. Feel like he fits what Devries wants in a 4 and actually has the athleticism to be a good defender. He only shot 30% from 3 last year but it was his most attempts ever. If he can get that up to 34-35% that’d be a real plus. His ft percentage indicates he should be a good shooter though so room for hope

He started off very hot in non conference but his play fell off a cliff once the conference season started. A lot of potential though

Is orme a center or a pf? There aren’t that many videos of him but he can obviously shoot. I thought he looked slow though and I’m not sure is big enough to be a center. Granted the videos i watched were only 1 min long lol

Sage also. Him and koch next year are gonna be annoying

This is totally unfair but last year was such a miss in terms of scouting I’d rather just start all over lol. Drake may be an ok back up but idk it’s hard to say without him playing at all. Harris and miles were on a terrible team the year before so the jump feels too big. Purdue has someone from the same team also who also can’t get off the bench

I think I read Carr was Mikel Brown’s lead recruiter which would make sense since he played for team loaded. Rod Clark was Nate aments lead recruiter back in the day so it looks like we have assistants with connections that can at least get their foot in the door with elite recruits. Not as sold on Kenny or Adams. Hopefully Adams can come through with Bidunga. Would love someone with a west coast or Texas connection on the staff

lol saw something that will wade may go back to LSU. That would be hilarious

Jordan Scott starts for msu and consistently takes the best perimeter player on the other team. Can ward off the bench. Omer Mayer and Jack benter both play for Purdue. They played cj cox last year and this year. Even Iowa played Tate sage over 10 mins a game the last two games. Didn’t realize cooper Koch was a redshirt freshman but he starts for them.I’m not saying they have to be starters but you can rely on them as bench pieces. Obviously it takes the right scouting and player but hopefully that’s where Carr comes in

I couldn’t agree more! If you look at all of the teams left, other than St. John’s and Texas, they all have freshman playing key roles on their teams. I honestly think freshman have become undervalued with the transfer portal and I have no issue relying on one

Lol if they get dusty I will be extra annoyed

Ya BYU did that this year and all it took was one injury and they looked terrible after. I honestly don’t mind what we did last year in terms of money. We just spent it on terrible players. Get 2 studs and then 6 other people that you can reliably count on

I remember last year you were probably first on the Lamar bandwagon, even before it had come out that we were going after him. Any Lamars for this year?

He’s also super skinny and probably needs to put on 30 pounds lol. Very toolsy with a ton of potential though

Lol we were actually number 7 in the country overall in 2 point field goal percentage. I fully agree there are tweaks that need to be done. We played at snails pace even though we struggled to score against half court defenses at the end of the year. We definitely should’ve dumped it into Alexis whenever we got stagnant because he was way better than I expected. If i can see things that need to be changed then Im sure the staff does also. But it’s also really hard to win anything when none of the perimeters players in your rotation can do anything off the dribble. I assume that’s what conerway was for but obviously he fell out of the rotation. Teams just started switching everything on us and we couldn’t punish them for it

Whoa he moves way better than you’d expect from a guy his size. You need three bigs in the big 10 as shown by this year and this guy being one of them would be really interesting. Only a sophomore also so hopefully some room for growth

Watching even the first 4 games i was struck how legitimately untalented our roster last year was. Texas and NC st had multiple guys on the court that could get their own shot at any time. We were pretty good in what appears to be the best conference in the country. Obviously talent acquisition is probably the most important part of the job but hopefully that is rectified this offseason and we can see what Devries can do with a team that has the talent to match the rest of the big 10

More talented than this year but neither of them are primary ball handlers. I want a really good PG after what we saw this year. Also would love Coleman and would be fine relying on him since most recruits in his range are able to produce right away

Interested to see if we go the NBA roster building route of two stars and then a bunch of really good role players with Carr at the helm. Obviously there’s no salary cap in college so if you want three stars by all means but our lack of depth this year was glaring

Another guy i think we should look at is Kevin overton. Honestly I’m very confused why we didn’t go harder after him considering he played for Devries at Drake. We probably make the tourney with him. He took another step this year with a bigger role and he didn’t commit to play for Stephen pearl