Juwan Moye

Shot blocker/rebounder/rim runner. Bidunga type.

You’re not quite calibrated correctly for this year. An all-American type is closer to $5m per the little bits of info you can find. Hell, BYU is allegedly paying an incoming freshman $6m+

If the choice is between a moped and a Purdue girl that moped is in for a long but disappointing night.

Wasn’t any one post or poster in particular. I’ve seen the sentiment in multiple places. Personally, given what we saw from IU last year, as well as a number of other teams, portal rankings are close to meaningless. Mgbako is still a “top available transfer” but I wouldn’t want him on this team as a simple example. If our new coach is prioritizing culture/fit over talent I’d be ecstatic. No clue if that’s actually the case but “winning the offseason” was a Mike Woodson specialty but then the team had to actually play games.

My favorite crashing out posts are the doomers saying “the portal is almost closed” when they clearly don’t even know what the portal closing means. The internet is a fun place.

Leaving this here as I’m confident it becomes relevant this week.

Zero worries here.

https://x.com/insidethehall/status/1911085031323230435

Nice.

With proper offensive spacing, Rice would be an absolute menace. Gets downhill with ease. Just needs a coach to tell him to stop shooting that damn midrange jumper all the time, get to the rim or pass it.

Oh, I’d prefer a 3&D guy if we can land one, I was just trying to call out that currently as constructed, that starting lineup would look to be weak on the defensive end, and I think focusing on fixing that would take priority over just having 2 more guys who are more oriented towards offense. There’s only one ball and all that. Will be curious to see if Bailey plays more at the 4 or 5. Obviously he’d be great on the offensive end as a stretch 5/playmaker but I don’t think he’s anything resembling a rim protector.

That’s why I said a “Harris type”, I know he’s not coming. But we need a strong guard/wing defender to balance that lineup IMO.

PG- Pack SG - Sencire Harris type (tough defender) SF - DeVries PF - Bailey C - Rim Protector/rebounder/lob threat I could live with that all day.

Apparently Trilly said it was.

The little hook either direction is clean: https://x.com/teddypaychecks/status/1908629062957871576

Agreed. I remember the feeling when watching Crean teams that being down 8-10 was well within reach. Haven’t felt that in a while.

This is basically my take as well. I think they eventually move to player contracts and buyouts, basically just admitting this is pro sports, but for now it’s becoming a sub-par NBA instead that risks losing what’s special about college basketball.

It gets crazier, the absolute Wild West.

Read that Gillespie got $3m from Tennessee. No clue if it’s true but that’s at least in line with some of the crazy numbers being thrown around early on.

The confirmed list of who we’ve contacted is still very short at this point, at least with what you can find thats publicly available.

79% players in the portal haven’t signed yet according to on3 and there’s still time for more to join. Not sure how it compares to last year but this speaks to how early in the process we still are.

Here’s Louisville then.

No, it’s not really reasonable but feel how you feel.

The lack of patience from some “adults” is impressive. It’s still very early in the “offseason”, so early in fact the season hasn’t even concluded.