Great post and analysis- I think the year off made people forget how impactful he was as a freshman and how good he could become- I think he’ll have a Kendall Gill like trajectory where it starts with his defensive skill set and he rounds out his offense- he wasn’t a bad shooter, that will only get better and he will always be able to drive and finish as he gets stronger- he’ll he a significant player wherever he goes.Just for argument's sake, Sencire put up better numbers offensively his freshman year than Justin Harmon put up this past year as a supersenior on an Elite 8 team, and Justin played 19mpg on average this year. As well, Sencire would be our no doubt best defender and an easy All-B10 defensive team contender. He also singlehandedly won us multiple games as a freshman, and generally players improve as an upperclassman. From everything we've heard he's a great teammate and culture guy, runs on pure effort, and makes his teammates play better. While you can certainly argue his offense is limited (from what we saw of it freshman year), as a player, unless you completely devalue defense, there's no argument to be made that he wasn't impactful in his time here, and again, he did that as a true freshman. In fact, I think there are ways to get someone with his skillset 20mpg even on a B10 title contender. And if you think that's incorrect, let's look at some of the players on our past few contenders:
I understand his decision- with the transfer portal we recruited over him and he would essentially have gotten DGL minutes this year and I assume Brad was honest with him on who he plans to bring in this year- so the minutes just aren’t there for him, so I don’t blame him for going somewhere he can play- he was a good teammate and great competitor. He will be missed