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Malachi Smith on official visit today

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Matrim55 said:
The only thing I see about a commit is second hand on twitter from account I've never heard of quoting a parody account:



I don't think we should treat this as official.

(that said, I think we've got him)
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Yeah that guy KevinBeattss is a fake account. I will wait for something real.
 
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Matrim55 said:
The only thing I see about a commit is second hand on twitter from account I've never heard of quoting a parody account:



I don't think we should treat this as official.

(that said, I think we've got him)
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And of course that account is in my DMs pushing it. I expect if it is to be it won’t be official until tomorrow out of respect for women’s parade
 
Chief00 said:
Was Mahaney a bad fit, or did we put him a role that wasn’t a good fit? I think the later.
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Kinda both, but more the former.

I think it was mostly just a recruiting miss. The staff did a very good job bringing in portal guys who could fill multiple roles in past years - Joey C and Cam could come in, play on the ball, off the ball and at least fit into the defense. And Joey was a plus basketball IQ and Cam was plus-plus.

Mahaney just wasn’t that versatile and defensively, he just made a bad situation worse.

Great kid, good player, wrong spot.
 
Fishy said:
Kinda both, but more the former.

I think it was mostly just a recruiting miss. The staff did a very good job bringing in portal guys who could fill multiple roles in past years - Joey C and Cam could come in, play on the ball, off the ball and at least fit into the defense. And Joey was a plus basketball IQ and Cam was plus-plus.

Mahaney just wasn’t that versatile and defensively, he just made a bad situation worse.

Great kid, good player, wrong spot.
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If we hadn't also missed on Nowell then the Mahaney miss would've been a semi-hit. But b/c Nowell wasn't ready, we needed Mahaney to be able to bend the opposing defense with the ball in his hands (which is something we never asked of Joey and rarely asked of Cam).

He really, really couldn't do that. Diarra was the only guy on the roster who could.

Luckily Hurley has realized this and is addressing it in the portal x2. And hopefully Adams will be ready in a way that Nowell wasn't.

Add in some progression from Ball (though I think the folks projecting him as a part-time PG are nuts) and some playmaking from Furphy, and I suspect our offense will be much more dynamic next year.
 
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Fishy said:
Kinda both, but more the former.

I think it was mostly just a recruiting miss. The staff did a very good job bringing in portal guys who could fill multiple roles in past years - Joey C and Cam could come in, play on the ball, off the ball and at least fit into the defense. And Joey was a plus basketball IQ and Cam was plus-plus.

Mahaney just wasn’t that versatile and defensively, he just made a bad situation worse.

Great kid, good player, wrong spot.
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I was always a Diarra should start at PG guy from game 1. Having said that, we should have used Mahaney as a spot up shooter and secondary ball handler. The two untold stories this season (due to their offensive disappointments) was how much Karaban and Mahaney’s defense improved. True, their defensive ceiling was below Newton/Castle. And Mahaney wasn’t really “switchable”onto a 6-6 swing man or a quick PG. Yet, when we played him we too often failed to make that defensive scheme adjustment.

I still think in the right frame of mind and system for Mahaney his shooting % is a lot better than we saw for much of the season. His mechanics and form pass the eye test.

I wish him well next season.
 
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So was Mahaney Hurley’s first choice or the product of a late start fully portalling because of the NC. I don’t recall.
 
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