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Entering the portal...7'9"

The early rumor in Trillyland was to watch for BC (Luke) so I wouldn’t be shocked if Dan is interested as well.
 
When thinking about Wilkins, people probably need to temper expectations. The starting backcourt next year is highly likely going to be Silas and Solo. Not sure this kid is taking a bench role with us.
 
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Kemba15 said:
When thinking about Wilkins, people probably need to temper expectations. The starting backcourt next year is highly likely going to be Silas and Solo. Not sure this kid is taking a bench role with us.
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I don’t think the staff is that short sighted - kid has three years left.
 
Kemba15 said:
Sure but I was talking more from his perspective not ours
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Simply saying staff would figure things out to make it work. You could roll into 2027 with a starting back court of Wilkins and County with a year in the system.

He and Newton around 33% from 3. He’s for room to get better in a better offense.
 
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Husky Alien said:
For some reason I thought 6'. Ok let's get him. Hurley's type of player
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I was laughing when I read what you wrote about his height.

Only thing is he's supposedly not a great 3 point shooter. But he looked damn good against us from three. Was Newton a good three point shooter at East Carolina? I don't remember.

Edit: I just checked out Newton's stats at East Carolina. Not a great three point shooter but not bad either. Similar stats at UConn. So Wilkins would probably be fine. He carried a heavy load at Furman so that probably weighed down his efficiency.

www.sports-reference.com

Tristen Newton College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Tristen Newton - Stats, Game Logs, Splits, and much more
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ec33 said:
This is the kid.
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Isn't our backcourt already pretty logjammed next year?

PG: Demary/County
SG: Solo/Landrew/Furphy
SF: Ross/Stewart

There's also Mullins (if he returns), and baby Ross (if he takes a step) to account for.

Even if a couple people transfer, I'm barely seeing minutes for all those guys, let alone an additional transfer portal guard. Hurley doesn't play more than 9 guys in rotation. Are you guys saying you think 3+ guards are transferring out for us? Or that you want this Furman dude to be an Alec Millender type?
 
6&counting said:
Isn't our backcourt already pretty logjammed next year?

PG: Demary/County
SG: Solo/Landrew/Furphy
SF: Ross/Stewart

There's also Mullins (if he returns), and baby Ross (if he takes a step) to account for.

Even if a couple people transfer, I'm barely seeing minutes for all those guys, let alone an additional transfer portal guard. Hurley doesn't play more than 9 guys in rotation. Are you guys saying you think 3+ guards are transferring out for us? Or that you want this Furman dude to be an Alec Millender type?
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Every year we do this and wonder where any minutes and come from. And with injuries, lack of development or whatever else, we reach a point where we’re lamenting our lack of depth and having to play a D2 player minutes in an ncaa tourney game. Bring in whoever wants to compete for minutes and go from there.
 
6&counting said:
Isn't our backcourt already pretty logjammed next year?

PG: Demary/County
SG: Solo/Landrew/Furphy
SF: Ross/Stewart

There's also Mullins (if he returns), and baby Ross (if he takes a step) to account for.

Even if a couple people transfer, I'm barely seeing minutes for all those guys, let alone an additional transfer portal guard. Hurley doesn't play more than 9 guys in rotation. Are you guys saying you think 3+ guards are transferring out for us? Or that you want this Furman dude to be an Alec Millender type?
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Landrew is not a 2.

We'll have to see - a foundational transfer with 3 years left is a valuable piece. We have no idea what Furphy is at this point - Luke talked about talking to and taking some kids with him, who knows what that means. I'm sure him and Danny have had some convos about it based on what they've seen this year. Way too early to make any calls, all I know is that a really smooth 6'5" Mass kid with three years left is a really nice piece.
 
RuffRuff said:
Simply saying staff would figure things out to make it work. You could roll into 2027 with a starting back court of Wilkins and County with a year in the system.

He and Newton around 33% from 3. He’s for room to get better in a better offense.
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From the few games I have seen Wilkins play his shooting % is largely based on poor shot selection. That can be fixed. He has nice form and confidence is not an issue. He will definitely be sought after by many high level programs. Would love to have him on the roster. Being from Murdapan (Mattapan, MA) maybe he wants to return closer to home.
 
ColchVEGAS said:
From the few games I have seen Wilkins play his shooting % is largely based on poor shot selection. That can be fixed. He has nice form and confidence is not an issue. He will definitely be sought after by many high level programs. Would love to have him on the roster. Being from Murdapan (Mattapan, MA) maybe he wants to return closer to home.
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Here’s the thing, Newton was an AA on 42/32/81 shooting. He was not a good shooter, but he could create his shot at will, could break down anyone, wanted to take big shots, hit big shots, and had good vision. Unbelievably small sample size, but Wilkins showed all of that. We greatly lack a guy who can just create. It’s why we often look so bad in end of half, one shot situations. We have to run half court offense to get a shot bc no one can get their own. No idea if Wilkins would want to come here and be one of the guys vs “the” guy somewhere else, but his skillset is what we need.
 
80shusky said:
I would hope better back up centers would be available in the portal. To back up Reibe I think we could use a defensive center who rebounds and blocks shots.
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I don’t know about rebounding but even high arching shots would be bouncing off this kids face at that height
 
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Blakeon18 said:
Rioux...7'9"...the Florida kid...entering the portal.

Does he have rotational ceiling on a good team down the road...just a frosh.

He sure would spark interest wherever he goes.

Would Hurley take a look?

Should he take a look?
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He is a maac level player
 
ColchVEGAS said:
From the few games I have seen Wilkins play his shooting % is largely based on poor shot selection. That can be fixed. He has nice form and confidence is not an issue. He will definitely be sought after by many high level programs. Would love to have him on the roster. Being from Murdapan (Mattapan, MA) maybe he wants to return closer to home.
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Hence the link to Murray and BC.
 
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HooperScooper said:
I was laughing when I read what you wrote about his height.

Only thing is he's supposedly not a great 3 point shooter. But he looked damn good against us from three. Was Newton a good three point shooter at East Carolina? I don't remember.

Edit: I just checked out Newton's stats at East Carolina. Not a great three point shooter but not bad either. Similar stats at UConn. So Wilkins would probably be fine. He carried a heavy load at Furman so that probably weighed down his efficiency.

www.sports-reference.com

Tristen Newton College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

Tristen Newton - Stats, Game Logs, Splits, and much more
www.sports-reference.com www.sports-reference.com
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Stepping up from the SoCon to the Big East is a bit more of a step up than from the AAC I'd argue. Lest we forget the struggle Mahaney had making the jump from the WCC to the Big East and he was a first-team all conference player at the time.
 
6&counting said:
Isn't our backcourt already pretty logjammed next year?

PG: Demary/County
SG: Solo/Landrew/Furphy
SF: Ross/Stewart

There's also Mullins (if he returns), and baby Ross (if he takes a step) to account for.

Even if a couple people transfer, I'm barely seeing minutes for all those guys, let alone an additional transfer portal guard. Hurley doesn't play more than 9 guys in rotation. Are you guys saying you think 3+ guards are transferring out for us? Or that you want this Furman dude to be an Alec Millender type?
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They are 100% bringing in a transfer PG to replace Malachi. Hurley has already said that Wilkins is the kind of guy they are looking for in a PG (although I am not sure he would be looking to invest that kind of capital into the position next year). Yes, you have to get him to accept a bench role (in which he plays both backup minutes to Demary and minutes when Ball takes a seat. So a fair number of minutes. Then he would be primed to take the starting job as a junior.

Why take the limited role next season (with good money)? He is jumping from Furman to an elite level. That is a big jump and he is going to need that year to develop and being the starting PG for UConn as a junior is a big carrot.
 
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