If they push, think they have a really good shot here.
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Reads Big East to me TBH
The obvious Auburn player to poach is Filip Jovic
Joel Goodson
- how was I to know, she was with the Russians too?
that's been my assumption for a bit too
interesting. in a vacuum, I'd push (which doesn't mean there'd be no constraints). the big issue I see is we don't really know who's gonna be back and won't for awhile. the 5 to play 5 complicates things even further. Brad alluded to this yesterday, at length.
Morillo would be a great pickup.
Probably posted before, but he had a really strong showing with the Dominican Republic at the FIBA U19 tournament this summer.
https://www.sportscasting.com/news/fiba-u19-nba-draft-dash-daniels-felipe-minzer-sinan-huan/
Probably posted before, but he had a really strong showing with the Dominican Republic at the FIBA U19 tournament this summer.
https://www.sportscasting.com/news/fiba-u19-nba-draft-dash-daniels-felipe-minzer-sinan-huan/
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FightinIllini30
Future insider
Maybe if we all give him our car…
Any mega donors who dont like Bruce?
If you have the cash you can make it work. Look at Louisville's roster.
Boswell's also ideally a 2 guard.
Fake. Look at the handle.
RabidDawgClassic
- Los Angeles, CA
If you have the cash... that's what I said
McNeely is the only point guard on Louisville's roster, they don't have a guard under 6'4 let alone play 3 of them big minutes
Boswell is a point guard
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Noblesville Illini
- Nappanee, IN
So is Tomi! Well, point forward/center
Mikel Brown is and will be the point guard.
Agree with the overall point (even if Pettiford did enter) our roster wouldn’t work though. That said, I do think O was his lead recruiter at UK and obviously has the jersey and NY ties
They have 4 absolute starter guards on their roster (mcneely, brown, conwell, wooley). Nothing wrong with being so, but it's a money grab team in every which way.
Boswell's a SG.
Hard disagree that Brown, a freshman, will be the PG of a team that has Isaac McNeely on it
Regardless, they will not be playing 3 guards that go 6-1, 6-1, 6-2 (and neither will we, thankfully)
Boswell played SG out of necessity, and actually was our primary PG toward the end of last season after they moved KJ off the ball
He was the number 6 overall recruit in the country - I imagine he expects to start.
Even then, Mikel brown is certainly more of a point guard than mcneely who didn’t even crack 3 assists at Virginia.
They’re stacked at guard between Conwell, mckneely, Wooley and Brown - but I think brown far and away is the most true creator there. But you’re right, he’s a freshman, gotta show it first
So? I expect to make a million dollars in the stock market today
What does the coach want? Probably a 4th year senior running the show, and showing the new kid the reigns
If he does start, great... they still are not playing a trio of tiny guards (as they have zero tiny guards)
And you also got Conwell. Literally no team is even close to being as loaded with that mant guards.
You guys are missing the original point, which was that it would not be ideal to have 3 tiny guards play major minutes
All of those guys are 6'4 or taller
Would imagine the coach wants the best players and lineups on the floor, tbh. And right now, brown is projected as a top ten pick.
Would be stunned if he didn’t get big time minutes running the show.
Agree
And they are all 6'4 or taller
EDIT: Though KJ was also a projected lottery pick and him 'running the show' was an adventure at times
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