Morez likely will never shoot or handle the ball in the open court like Derik Queen, but he could learn plenty about keeping the ball high and attacking the basket by looking at Queen's game.
A full off season with OA will do wonders.
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A full off season with OA will do wonders.
Great points, but just seeing how TSJ had an effect on the game was a great sight to see. And that's what makes him very special--he cannot be duplicated.
Agree. Perhaps he is not seeing the love he'd hoped from other teams to make a transfer enticing?
Well I'm not sure what the numbers look like, and I realize it's the "new norm" but it does still feel like for a team that's had the same coach throughout the open portaling era, we turn over our roster A LOT more than others. And to what end? Based on the players that leave, and the player that come in, it doesn't feel like either side of that is getting a meaningful improvement in the scenario. Of course we hit the occasional Homerun in terms of an incoming tranfer, and occasionally a player who leaves hits a homerun in their new destination, but for the most part it's just similar level players shuffling around until everyone (whether outgoing or incoming) comes to accept they are what they are as a Super Senior wherever the musical chairs of it all ends up rather than some more efficient allocation of players across the D1 landscape.
Yes, this is the typical "back in the day" but if you're just gonna cycle through players and they all end up in similar situations and you get similar level replacements anyways, it'd be nice to have retention/roster continuity from a multi-year building perspective. I'd love to see more of an emphasis on retention. Are Matt Painter and Tom Izzo "guaranteeing" everybody a starter spot? I doubt it. But there they are, with better teams than Illinois and in the Sweet Sixteen with a lot of multi-year players, including players that started on the bench and trusted the process to earn more minutes, whereas our fans are so eager to run everyone off in order to chase "upgrades" that often don't materialize.
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Wow - a team would need $10-$15M NIL budget to pay single player $5M. Even at KY KS or IN I can't see that high an NIL budget. I like Will but he was not even All B10. We are not talking Cooper Flagg (Duke), Johni Broome (Auburn) , Mark Sears (AL) or Walter Clayton (FL)
At Wisconsin two years ago, there weren't many shortcomings. That dude was a machine. I'm not sure what you saw that Bill Self didn't with it being so obvious.
Just type in college basketball transfer portal and go to 247s site
I can tell you what I saw: AJ was an AJ guy. He was not a Wisconsin guy. Not going to be a Kansas guy. Not an Illini guy.
I cannot explain why Self and staff couldn't see this, but some people could. Easily.
I cannot explain why Self and staff couldn't see this, but some people could. Easily.
I went to their shoot around last Thursday (game on Friday) and to me, it looked like the ball still had a poor rotation and didn't look great, but heck.....if he makes one three, it would be more than he would have even taken his sophomore year, when he didn't bother to even look at the rim.
I love Ty, but on a great team at the high D1 level.....he's a glue guy off the bench at best. He'd have an extremely defined role. It could be that he came to that logical conclusion himself? My assumption is that Brad definitely sees value in him being on a really good roster, but his niche is going to be defense, physicality, nastiness, toughness, rebound on both ends, get some greasy buckets and be a leader.
There's a TON of value in that, but in taking on that role, you're pretty much accepting that you're not an NBA player. You're value comes with being a Damonte Williams type bad a$$. Those types of guys are critical to winning championships, but not a lot want to take the role on.
Who saw this issue, you might ask? Guys that played for the Badgers for four years. No one I know wanted the guy back. AJ is an AJ guy. Not a team guy.
Damonte is a super-high character guy. His family is well-justified in being proud of him.
That is not to say that other guys, making good decisions about 'college' eligibility, are not high-character as well. Many definitely are. But weird, dumb, irrational decisions get made all day, every day by we humans.
That is not to say that other guys, making good decisions about 'college' eligibility, are not high-character as well. Many definitely are. But weird, dumb, irrational decisions get made all day, every day by we humans.
College basketball transfer portal 2025: Top 10 available prospects as window opens
A record-breaking surge highlighted Day 1 of the college basketball transfer portal window.
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If I’ve learned one thing the past few years, it’s almost impossible to predict what’s gonna happen even with good transfers.
Who thought Domask was going to be all big ten? He was being thrown around as a bench player. Who thought Booth was going to average 0 mins.
At the end of the day, collective talent and let the coaches do their job.
Who thought Domask was going to be all big ten? He was being thrown around as a bench player. Who thought Booth was going to average 0 mins.
At the end of the day, collective talent and let the coaches do their job.
I pray to the heavens that Josh dix goes somewhere else… if he comes here we might not even make the tournament dude is just not good
Or is he a pile of 
in fly heaven?
in fly heaven? 
I still have 8 pages to catch up on...but POTD
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Having continuity is important. While i agree with you on Ben, Tre would be a good player to have on next year's team. He's had some great games and it says a lot about his desire to stay after his"extended illness."
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2025 College basketball Transfer Portal Position Rankings
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Here ya go!
Morez will be working on a jump hook, right-handed and left-handed, I hope. He has the frame to make that work over all but the most gigantic (Edey) post defenders.
A full season with OA? As I understand it listening to Underwood, in-season resistance training is not different from out of season.
How dare you, sir! This is reserved for Indy and Indy alone. Keep it sacredDeserves a BOOM gif
After all this Dix talk, we could really use some DD's
Predicting the future, even for fifth-year guys, isn't going to ever be perfect. But it is absolutely NOT impossible to place meaningful probabilities upon outcome. It takes a lot of boring effort to do that, but done relentlessly, it is possible to make GOOD (not perfect) decisions. We've seen some lazy and not good decisions.
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