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NJHusky said:
Bilas picked MI State over Duke in the east....

Didn't we already beat Mi state? even though it didn't count
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Yes I just saw that too. Surprising he has MSU over Duke as well.
 
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UConn and Furman playing in Philly at 10 pm is completely moronic. It's almost as if the people in charge are intentionally asinine. Maybe the NCAA has deals with hotel chains and want to be sure people need to book rooms
 
regarding leadership, I wonder if part of it is a byproduct of the transfer portal. I don't know their personalities but Silas and Demary could have taken more leadership roles but perhaps being first year Huskies has something to do with it. Maybe hire Khalid as an assistant coach so some attitude would rub off

 
UCTitleTown said:
No, I'm not talking about Silas or Smith (meh....) The other guys that portaled or signed that never see the floor.
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You think Elezaj was brought in with the idea that he would be a contributor? Or Millender, who came from a D2 school?

You need a roster of a certain size to even practice effectively. You don't build a roster with the expectation of running a 15 man rotation.
 
UCTitleTown said:
No, I'm not talking about Silas or Smith (meh....) The other guys that portaled or signed that never see the floor.
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Elezaj and Paunovic were brought in as practice players. Jacob Ross was brought in because he wants to play here and be with his brother. He's a practice player we may hope to develop for the future so he has a role as an upperclassman. Millender was basically brought in as a practice player, he was only going to get any time if something disastrous happened and we lost both point guards to injury and lost another player with guard skills to injury. Koroma was brought in as a stop gap if we had injuries to the frontcourt and he got some minutes early in the season when we were injured. There was most likely some expectation that Furphy could earn some minutes but his body needs to get better and he needs to adjust to the speed and physicality of elite D1 basketball.
 
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UCTitleTown said:
No, I'm not talking about Silas or Smith (meh....) The other guys that portaled or signed that never see the floor.
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So you think all 15 scholarship players are expected to contribute? How is that even remotely possible?

Tom Moore explained it pretty well in the offseason. They filled out the roster with practice guys who were good teammates. Think Millender, Koroma, the 2 Europeans. They like Furphy and were thinking of him as a long term development piece. Jacob Ross too.

I think your expectations on how to build a 15 man roster are out of whack.
 
NCAA expanded the scholarship and total roster from 13 to 15 which gives coaches a little leeway for injuries and practice players.

we got:

Demary
Smith
Alec Millender
Dwayne Koroma
2x euros
Mullins
Furphy
Reibe
Jacob Ross

Realistically 4 have gotten realistic minutes while the other are there to either be practice pieces or growth pieces.

Or run a fantasy football pool…
 
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