NCAA MBB Transfer Portal

[WayneFleekHoosier 50,861]

10 minutes ago, Demo said:

St John’s RJ Luis in the portal. Big East POY. Will get big, big money from someone. Hopefully that someone isn’t Indiana. 

It’ll be one of the Bluest of Bloods. Kansas seems possible without having any background info. 

[Demo 22,882]

6 minutes ago, Home Jersey said:

Curious to hear why you’re not interested in him here

I’m probably being too nasty here, he’s obviously a good player, but he hits 2 of my personal hot buttons pretty hard: 1) He’s an inveterate shot hunter who stops the ball and stops your movement. That’d bother me less if he was actually a good shooter. But he’s not, he’s just a volume shooter. 2) His defense is tied to his offense and when he’s not scoring it’s a problem. But not in the usual way. Most guys like that get lazy when they aren’t scoring, but Luis gets kind of manic and undisciplined. I don’t know what Pitino said after the game the other day but I doubt he subbed him for shooting 1 for a million. I think he subbed him because his defense got unplayable. I just think he’s a hard guy to win with if he’s your best player, and he’ll get paid that way, I just don’t know how that’s gonna go if you’re not a Rick Pitino. 

[Home Jersey 15,210]

8 minutes ago, Demo said:

I’m probably being too nasty here, he’s obviously a good player, but he hits 2 of my personal hot buttons pretty hard: 1) He’s an inveterate shot hunter who stops the ball and stops your movement. That’d bother me less if he was actually a good shooter. But he’s not, he’s just a volume shooter. 2) His defense is tied to his offense and when he’s not scoring it’s a problem. But not in the usual way. Most guys like that get lazy when they aren’t scoring, but Luis gets kind of manic and undisciplined. I don’t know what Pitino said after the game the other day but I doubt he subbed him for shooting 1 for a million. I think he subbed him because his defense got unplayable. I just think he’s a hard guy to win with if he’s your best player, and he’ll get paid that way, I just don’t know how that’s gonna go if you’re not a Rick Pitino. 

Great take man. Makes a lot of sense... I agree. FWIW this is what Pitino said post game.

• Q: Rick, you had RJ on the bench for a pretty long stretch at the end was that just because he wasn’t making them or was there something more to it. 
• A: He played 30 minutes. That’s a long time. 
• Reporter: So he was tired? 
• Pitino: No. He played 30 minutes and I went with other people. You already know the answers Roger, you’re asking leading questions. You already know it. So don’t ask leading questions. You already know why he didn’t play. OK. 
• Reporter: Was there one play with RJ that made you sit him the last 5 minutes? 
• Pitino: You know he was 3-17 you know he was 0-3 so you’re answering your own question. I’m not gonna knock one of my own players. 

Supports both your points about being a shot hunter and it being hard to win with him as your best player when that's not falling. Somebody else can give him the bag. Very excited to see who CDD has us rolling with.

[Demo 22,882]

33 minutes ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

It’ll be one of the Bluest of Bloods. Kansas seems possible without having any background info. 

Imagine you’re right. Gonna have to be someone with deep pockets because I imagine he’ll be asking for Donovan Dent money. I think he’s from south Florida, so maybe if Miami wants to make a splash with their new HC someone down there writes the check. Suppose Texas could do it and Miller certainly saw him up close. But more likely KU or someone like that. The one I think it wouldn’t be is UK. Bad scheme fit. 

[Ron Mexico 290]

Can’t stand Calipari but I can never not laugh at his intro press conference.  Seems fairly familiar at the moment.  Plenty of hope knowing Cal took an underperforming Arkansas team to the Sweet 16 that really should still be playing.  
 

Need Conwell.  Where does he land?!?  BTown or a Texas wasteland that will always be second fiddle to football and swimming & diving.  

[Paye32 74]

Conwell, Goode, Devries...add an awesome PG and a versatile big and that would be a fun starting lineup...

[IUGRAD06 710]

11 minutes ago, Paye32 said:

Conwell, Goode, Devries...add an awesome PG and a versatile big and that would be a fun starting lineup...

Just saw that Bidunga is going to be portaling potentially.  

[BA47591 780]

36 minutes ago, IUGRAD06 said:

Just saw that Bidunga is going to be portaling potentially.  

Where did you see that. I know 2 weeks ago the Kansas boards were concerned but then 2 days ago he said he had no plans to leave. 

[Uspshoosier 53,458]

1 minute ago, BA47591 said:

Where did you see that. I know 2 weeks ago the Kansas boards were concerned but then 2 days ago he said he had no plans to leave. 

https://x.com/petethamel/status/1906051996039209454?s=46

[BA47591 780]

5 hours ago, WayneFleekHoosier said:

It’ll be one of the Bluest of Bloods. Kansas seems possible without having any background info. 

I could see Willard dropping a bag on Luis to get up and running at Villanova.  I think the young man will stay in the NE. 

[Muskie plays the four 714]

The Kokomo monster possibly in play. Nice!

[BA47591 780]

1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

https://x.com/petethamel/status/1906051996039209454?s=46

Considering Woody didn't know his name, this would be a giant add. In my head I can tell myself that Drew Adams is involved in this. 

Thanks for the tweet. 

[RaceToTheTop 30,274]

Tre White, 6’7” SF in the portal.  10.5 pts and 5.5 rebounds.   Will be 4 teams in 4 years.

[Magnanimous 5,359]

13 minutes ago, Uspshoosier said:

https://x.com/petethamel/status/1906051996039209454?s=46

Would be a nice get for us, but objectively speaking, this whole system is bulls#!t. Commit to a program and then threaten to transfer to renegotiate your NIL? 

[Uspshoosier 53,458]

9 minutes ago, Magnanimous said:

Would be a nice get for us, but objectively speaking, this whole system is bulls#!t. Commit to a program and then threaten to transfer to renegotiate your NIL? 

Coaches are doing it and have been doing it for awhile. 

[go iu bb 8,936]

1 minute ago, Uspshoosier said:

Coaches are doing it and have been doing it for awhile. 

Some coaches even made it clear before the transfer portal that scholarships were 1 year commitments on the school's part. Crean's time at IU comes to mind. We even named pushing someone to transfer to get another player after him. So if the schools have performance based loyalty, it makes sense that players would have financially based loyalty.

[Paye32 74]

1 hour ago, IUGRAD06 said:

Just saw that Bidunga is going to be portaling potentially.  

Would be a pretty nice addition 

[BA47591 780]

1 hour ago, Magnanimous said:

Would be a nice get for us, but objectively speaking, this whole system is bulls#!t. Commit to a program and then threaten to transfer to renegotiate your NIL? 

The system needs some tinkering for sure. My biggest concern is the exploitation of someone in their late teens and early twenties. The aau scene is terrible now, some are pretty upstanding but the majority are street agents. 

[BA47591 780]

West Liberty was put on the map by Jim Crutchfield and then he moved to Nova Southern.  Helluva good coach as is his replacement at West Liberty, Ben Howlett.  

[BGleas 8,967]

19 minutes ago, BA47591 said:

West Liberty was put on the map by Jim Crutchfield and then he moved to Nova Southern.  Helluva good coach as is his replacement at West Liberty, Ben Howlett.  

Beat them by 2 in 1997 when he was an assistant at West Liberty before getting the head job!