Recent content by HensonHall71

You’re right- for some reason I thought Demin was playing for the Real Madrid first team- how quickly I’ve forgotten him already!

Agreed, it seems that way- it might be as simple as Watkins indicated he’s staying in the draft On the overseas targets - there is a big difference between the two in my mind- Egor is playing with professional men and would be a significant contributor right away, Kasparas is playing with 16/17...

I was just thinking of the scenario where Riley reclasses to ‘24 and we take one transfer and one international player - we likely don’t want to take three more in ‘24 nor would we have the NIL for it

It does bring back the theoretical debate Indy started a couple of days ago about do we want: A) Watkins - best player in the portal and gives us the best path to win now or B) Lathon + another player- if that is Kaparas/Riley - which would give us a proven SG plus a 17 y.o. Developmental guy...

And Brad is building the team with Fears’ freshman year in mind as well- you can see from the types of guys he’s getting in the portal. Fears would be the missing piece on this team next year minus Humditty

This is correct- totally different situation than Domask- Lathon has only played 4 years, he gets to play 5 so he was likely granted his 5th year Domask didn’t meet the threshold of a Medical redshirt so he wasnt granted a 6th year after he already played 5 years

I hear you- but in this portal era it seems guys coming from mid majors that are really talented don’t miss a beat transferring up- Knecht, MD for us, etc

My assumption is that it's because this would be his 7th year playing his fifth (he sat out a year when he transferred the first time and then had a medical RS year)- so I think he would need NCAA approval for the 7th year of eligibility in this case. I don't know where that stands, but he did...

The question for me now is - do you wait for Watkins' draft decision and risk losing out on him to a higher bidder (a decent chance of that happening, although I think we have a great situation for him) and in the mean time Lathon decides he wants to go elsewhere (Michigan and I'm sure others...

Yeah, obviously Watkins did it against a higher level of competition, but Lathon had good games against some of the best teams they played, so I don't have any worries his skill set will transfer up Here is their per 100 possession breakdown for further insight. Watkins gets to the line more...

I don't think anyone is saying they are all on Watkins level - he's clearly the top choice with the most proven capabilities - but to be fair he wasn't even All - ACC last year, so it's not like he's a sure fire 1st team all big ten - I think he can be, but it's not the likely outcome The...

That Kugel has committed to Mississippi State

I think the staff has done a great job this portal season putting the pieces together - we have: 1) A top tier PG who is pass first and a good three point shooter (we have a PG!) 2) A 7 foot center who can shoot the three and spread the floor (we have a true Center!) 3) A really good shooting...

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Now that Wells is out, and the inherit complications of bringing Kasparas over from FC Barcelona, and the fact that everyone will be after Jamir Watkins if he drops out of the draft - I think it's time to continue the conversation on who we'd rather have between Lathon and Kelly. I prefer...