Miscalculations by DH

[Chin Diesel]

That portal should be locked into a black hole until the last game of the tournament is over.

Some would say the same about college football and the portal being open during bowl season and the college football playoffs.
College basketball has yet to have players on a Final Four team opt out of the FF because they are transferring to a new school.

 

[temery]

College basketball has yet to have players on a Final Four team opt out of the FF because they are transferring to a new school.

'So?

 

[jibsey]

Mostly worried about the fact that when it comes to ballhandling, Mahaney seems to be the second best handler on the team!

If you are correct about that then it shows why we have been so screwed this year. He is by no means secure with the ball.

 

[UCfor3]

That portal should be locked into a black hole until the last game of the tournament is over.

Agree totally but programs will cheat and contact players in the portal early anyway and the NCAA will do nothing but make an example out of some random mid major like Ball St or Texas Southern.

 

[boog204]

If you are correct about that then it shows why we have been so screwed this year. He is by no means secure with the ball.

Honestly, the only guy who I'm not worried about getting randomly stripped 30 feet from the hoop is Liam. Everyone else on the team is mediocre for their respective positions.

 

[freescooter]

You know what else we are missing this year? An off the bench scorer. Joey California was the guy in 2023. Diarra played that role last year and to some extent in 2023. This team would really benefit from a microwave type off the bench when shots aren’t falling. Who is that guy on this team?

 

[Com'rGordon]

You know what else we are missing this year? An off the bench scorer. Joey California was the guy in 2023. Diarra played that role last year and to some extent in 2023. This team would really benefit from a microwave type off the bench when shots aren’t falling. Who is that guy on this team?

Has to be Stewart

 

[boog204]

You know what else we are missing this year? An off the bench scorer. Joey California was the guy in 2023. Diarra played that role last year and to some extent in 2023. This team would really benefit from a microwave type off the bench when shots aren’t falling. Who is that guy on this team?

For sure... We had Joey C, Naheim, AND DC coming off the bench to give us 5-7 a game each. Last year Hass was good for 6 and Samson would get two dunks a game.

Aside from Tarris (and sometimes even him), our bench generally gives us absolutely nothing offensively or defensively. Crazy how we went from being 10-11 deep in the preseason to really having six players who you could somewhat depend on.

 

[Kolumbo]

BJ Freeman - Guard - 6'6" 200 lbs

Arizona State's leading scorer has been dismissed. Can he transfer today? A few discipline issues, no biggie.

BJ Freeman College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

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BJ Freeman no longer with ASU due to detrimental conduct

BJ Freeman is no longer with the Arizona State men's basketball team due to conduct detrimental to the team, a team spokesperson confirmed on Sunday.

arizonasports.com

 

[husky429]

BJ Freeman - Guard - 6'6" 200 lbs

Arizona State's leading scorer has been dismissed. Can he transfer today? A few discipline issues, no biggie.

BJ Freeman College Stats | College Basketball at Sports-Reference.com

BJ Freeman - Stats, Game Logs, Splits, and much more

www.sports-reference.com

BJ Freeman no longer with ASU due to detrimental conduct

BJ Freeman is no longer with the Arizona State men's basketball team due to conduct detrimental to the team, a team spokesperson confirmed on Sunday.

arizonasports.com

We are not recruiting a kid who was kicked off our coaches brother's team. No friggen' way.

 

[Kolumbo]

We are not recruiting a kid who was kicked off our coaches brother's team. No friggen' way.

That would be the ultimate brotherly move! Turn the kid around and he wins here.

Freeman head-butts Love

 

[nelsonmuntz]

What guy?
AM or DH?
If it's AM, I agree
If it's DH - you are so wrong

The first post lights up AM. The guy barely played yesterday.

 

[Agent0]

After the 2nd round of the NCAAs, so the Monday 8 days after Selection Sunday.

But guys are already "in the portal". Trilly Donovan has a list of 70 guys already.

Care to share the list?

 

[PAHusky]

You know what else we are missing this year? An off the bench scorer. Joey California was the guy in 2023. Diarra played that role last year and to some extent in 2023. This team would really benefit from a microwave type off the bench when shots aren’t falling. Who is that guy on this team?

We don’t really even have one in the starting lineup, let alone coming off the bench

 

[Martin84]

Each of the last three years has come with major assumptions going into the year

Could Andre/Hawkins/Sanogo make star leaps in development, with the 4 transfers and 2 freshmen making immediate impacts? Took some time but we ended up hitting on those assumptions

Could Newton make the superstar leap, could those freshmen make a sophomore leap, could Diarra/Samson go from benchwarmer to key pieces, could Cam and Castle adjust immediately to the BE? Less unknowns here but obviously hits on them all

This year, could the sophomore class make a jump, could Karaban make the superstar leap, could Samson make a leap, could the transfers fix their issues under a Hurley system, will McNeeley be ready? Tarris, Solo, Liam hit. Karaban, Samson, Stewart, Ross, Mahaney missed

I’m sure those mistakes won’t be repeated again going into next year

I like everything you said until the last sentence. We could have a few down years to set up a few good years.

 

[Gutter King]

This is chess, not checkers. And we all know - sometimes you make a move and you are boxed in and there isn't anything you can do about it. He missed on roster construction - let's fight like hell the rest of the way and see what happens. I trust they will get it right going forward.

The coach takes the glory and should burden the failures, but the amount of anti-Hurley stuff is rather shocking. This season is just another data point. He didn't have the players he thought he had. Look at Kansas...I haven't watched a minute of KU, but obviously Self is going through something similar over there.

Honestly, we miss a lot of simple plays that previous teams made. A lot. We almost never pull the trigger on anticipatory passes, and when we do we've had a lot of what happened on our first offensive posession yesterday....Diarra anticipating Samson Johnson (Senior to Senior even) to continue to the basket but he just stops. TO. That's a dunk to Adama and DC. There are about 4 or 5 examples like that in a game. I never saw Aiden do it once, Ball did it in the last Nova game but really no other time, etc. Accountability needs to be shifted to the players more.

We also do not execute cuts with any sort of tenacity, it really is going through the motions 80% and when something actually pops open....we don't make the play. We are simply way too easy to guard. What made Cam and AK effective is you absolutely had to stop their cut AND the 3pt, and those players knew when the D screwed up to exploit it, and they had the PGs in TNew and Diarra that were a half a step ahead of the D as well. I mean afterall, that is the point of a good offense...to be 1/2 step ahead of the D rather than be a 1/2 step behind.

If we made the plays that were (wide) open we are probably sitting with 4 losses.

 

[auror]

Care to share the list?

It would violate the rules on this site. But they're not definite anyways, I think he says his early portal list has like an 80% accuracy. Guys change their mind sometimes (or their school/collective comes back with a good offer).