Oskar Giltay Stanford Center possible transfer?

[Hunt for 7]

Not to excited about this player. Reminds me of a bigger version of Tyler O. Not sure why were are so excited about this visit.

 

[superjohn]

So do you agree that Nova's titles are not relevant today?

Less relevant than Michigan's title a couple weeks ago or UConn's back to back. Nova's titles were well before the transfer portal and NIL. Donte DiVincenzo and Mikail Bridges redshirted. Jay Wright often played 3 or 4 guards on the court together.

 

[jskwrite]

I think the video on Machot is certainly a lot flashier but I'm supposing here that Giltay's defensive metrics are in line with what the staff wants to do defensively, having that rim/lane protector. Giltay really saw his playing time diminish as the year went on but I haven't watched enough Stanford to know why.

 

[ddent68]

Not to excited about this player. Reminds me of a bigger version of Tyler O. Not sure why were are so excited about this visit.

You mean two time national champion Tyler Olander? Guy like him seemed to work on those teams

 

[Storrs South]

Not to excited about this player. Reminds me of a bigger version of Tyler O. Not sure why were are so excited about this visit.

If you look up this kids per 40 numbers compared to even the best Tyler O. year you will see the massive gap in skill Oskar has compared to him. Much better at rebounding and blocking shots. More athletic and bouncier.

 

[BigErnMcCracken]

Not to excited about this player. Reminds me of a bigger version of Tyler O. Not sure why were are so excited about this visit.

Some of these takes are wild.

 

[upstater]

Instead of watching the clips that are cherrypicked where he looks great, I would do some more digging and watch more.

 

[superjohn]

Instead of watching the clips that are cherrypicked where he looks great, I would do some more digging and watch more.

There's not much tape on Giltay at Stanford. I watched everything I could find from international ball.

 

[upstater]

There's not much tape on Giltay at Stanford. I watched everything I could find from international ball.

I found some stuff that was less appealing than the clip of highlights in this thread. Not much, though, so you're right.

 

[mauconnfan]

At a much lower level of basketball than UConn plays...

And Donovan Clingan didn’t go to a high end prep instead electing to play against 6’2 centers but it worked out. He’ll be fine his skills are very good and you can’t teach 6’5 at the point. I trust Dan here.

 

[mauconnfan]

Not to excited about this player. Reminds me of a bigger version of Tyler O. Not sure why were are so excited about this visit.

There is nothing in those few highlights that scream out Tyler Olander at all, you’re kidding me right? He did something on each of those videos Tyler never did.😂

 

[ddent68]

If TO is that guys floor I’m in.

 

[Kemba15]

What players want and their reality is two different things.

The vast majority of these portal guys are not going to be able to find starting jobs. In fact, it might be harder for them to find starting gigs than ever before - we’re not creating more starting jobs, but now there are a massive number of players competing for them.

In the portal, it’s now a buyers’ market outside of the very top players.

Fair, but I would still imagine that the 7-foot skilled centers being discussed will get starting gigs over being a 15-20 minute backup to Hines here.

 

[FfldCntyFan]

I'm beginning to think some on here have been inhaling the same fumes that ruff was inhaling all year.

A center off the bench who is 6'10" as opposed to being 7'0" is not going to be the difference between being a championship contender and being an also ran.

I don’t know how our staff views this kid, but I trust our staff enough to believe they know what they are doing.

Hines can be penciled in as the starter (even if everyone will be required to earn a starting role), but logically we will need someone to provide another 16-18 minutes each game of competent center play. I don't know enough about this kid to say yes he can or no he can't fill that role. I do know that there is no reason the right person can, even if he were to be a couple inches shy of seven feet tall.

 

[HuskyHawk]

There is nothing in those few highlights that scream out Tyler Olander at all, you’re kidding me right? He did something on each of those videos Tyler never did.😂

Jump?

Honestly, he moves pretty well for his size, can actually get off the floor, seems to know how to play and won't be in a rush to start. Seems like a guy we can help make better, like we did Reed. He didn't look like much at Michigan. If the staff likes him then I like him. People are delusional if they think we're bringing in anybody who would start and get 20+ minutes at a P5 school to be our backup 5.

 

[noelle]

he has a big frame, can easily put on muscle. don't think that 235 pound listed weight is accurate anymore.

also no way he's a 4 lol, not sure where that came from

 

[Goldjosh21]

The bottom line to me is if Mullins, Khamenia, Demary, and Hines are as good as we think, Ross or Landrew play well, and County, Junior Ross, and others we bring in play adequately, we're loaded and too focused on having two starting level players at each position. When has that ever been the case besides 2024?

There's always a lot of comments here about "in Hurley we trust", "we don't know what the coaches know", "Hurley is the best coach in the game" yet, for example, here we are getting nervous about who will be brought in as the backup center.

Reading all the comments about what we need and how many holes there are in every players' game is hilarious when you look at the box score for the 1999 Championship game (posted below but hard to read because the column headings don't align with the numbers).

We won the National Championship by defeating "the greatest team in the history of basketball", a team so loaded many were gushing how Duke's second team could probably win it, yet:
-our starting center played 28 minutes and had 2 points and 3 rebounds;.
-backup center played 8 minutes and had 4 points and 0 rebounds; so we had a
-total of 6 points and 3 rebounds from our center position in the National Championship game.

Should anyone think that was a fluke win, we were 34-2 that year and Jake averaged 5.5 points and 6.4 rebounds for the year, his junior year, playing 21.4 minutes per game.

For a comparison with Hines, Jake averaged 4.0 points and 5.5 rebounds in 20.5 minutes his freshman year, while Hines averaged 6.5 points and 5.5 rebounds in 18.0 minutes his freshman year. Tarris Reed averaged 3.4 points and 3.9 rebounds in 12.6 minutes his freshman year and Emeka Okafor averaged 7.9 points and 9.0 rebounds in 30.0 minutes his freshman year.

Oscar Giltay averaged 3.3 points and 4.1 rebounds in 14.6 minutes.......so maybe he or Machot or one of the other guys we're linked to will be better than some think.

Connecticut (34-2)​

	Basic Box Score Stats
Starters	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	2P	2PA	2P%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Reserves	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	2P	2PA	2P%	3P	3PA	3P%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
Richard Hamilton	38	10	22	.455	8	18	.444	2	4	.500	5	6	.833	4	3	7	3	2	0	0	1	27
Ricky Moore	37	6	10	.600	5	9	.556	1	1	1.000	0	1	.000	0	8	8	2	1	0	3	4	13
Kevin Freeman	32	3	6	.500	3	6	.500	0	0		0	0		5	3	8	0	0	3	3	1	6
Jake Voskuhl	28	1	1	1.000	1	1	1.000	0	0		0	0		0	3	3	2	0	2	0	3	2
Khalid El-Amin	22	5	12	.417	5	10	.500	0	2	.000	2	4	.500	3	1	4	4	0	0	6	3	12
Albert Mouring	17	3	4	.750	3	3	1.000	0	1	.000	0	1	.000	0	3	3	0	0	1	2	1	6
Edmund Saunders	11	1	3	.333	1	3	.333	0	0		2	4	.500	0	3	3	0	0	0	1	3	4
Souleymane Wane	8	2	2	1.000	2	2	1.000	0	0		0	0		0	0	0	0	1	0	0	4	4
Rashamel Jones	6	1	1	1.000	1	1	1.000	0	0		1	2	.500	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	0	3
Antric Klaiber	1	0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
School Totals	200	32	61	.525	29	53	.547	3	8	.375	10	18	.556	12	26	38	11	4	6	16	20	77

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This might be the greatest “calm down” talk I’ve ever read. You put it perfectly and into a rational perspective. Thank you.

 

[jnew66]

Can we aim a little higher? We've made 3 final fours in 4 years, and this is who we are looking at?

 

[UCfor3]

Can we aim a little higher? We've made 3 final fours in 4 years, and this is who we are looking at?

Agree. Averaged 3.3 pts a game for a subpar Stanford team and his minutes diminished as the season went on. This feels like a budget add and if he is the backup center, I assume that means we are possibly approaching our NIL limit. With that said, gotta trust staff. Results speak for themselves. Will root like heck for the kid if we land him.

 

[bendm]

Hopefully this is Hurley’s way of saving money so he can sign DIOP or thiam

You seem to post without having read any other threads, or even this thread. We have it on good authority Hurley is looking to bring in 3 backups at G, PF and C. That’s it.

Open the money bags like the rest of the schools do. This day and age of college basketball being cheap doesn’t help.

Sureeeee Hurley wants to be cheap.

 

[UCfor3]

Open the money bags like the rest of the schools do. This day and age of college basketball being cheap doesn’t help.

I would love that but all schools don't have the same size money bags.

 

[Uconn77Duke74]

I often wonder if we should/could have just red shirted Koroma and/or Millender etc.. and then had some backups with 2 years of understanding our system before they ever saw a minute of in game action.

 

[Candyman]

He fouls at a high rate. Someone here called him an elite rim protector and he is not. He's a good shot blocker but not elite. Its not like teams will have a hard time scoring in the paint with him in there.

If he is a third center he is a major upgrade from Koroma if he is our center to split minutes with Hines then major downgrade from Reibe.

 

[Fishy]

Not to excited about this player. Reminds me of a bigger version of Tyler O. Not sure why were are so excited about this visit.

You should take comfort in the fact that everyone else on planet earth thinks that comparison is silly.

 

[Umami Zen]

If its true we want a back up 4/PG or CG ball handling support/and a back up 5. Gotta be realistic about spreading the NIL ask for all three among the three. What do we want from a back up 5? IMO- Solid D and boards.Euro- BBIQ for our offensive sets. Solid on picks and screens for our shooters. Ability to improve skill set with our player development/SnC program. Good teammate. Based on the limited info on Oskar-Seems to check the boxes and the analytics on his limited use at Stanford look pretty strong. Affordable NIL ask.Hope he enjoys dinner at the Cap Grille

 

[Fishy]

I often wonder if we should/could have just red shirted Koroma and/or Millender etc.. and then had some backups with 2 years of understanding our system before they ever saw a minute of in game action.

Holy shit.

 

[BrysonDeMan]

I don’t know a hell of a lot about the Belgian kid other than what I saw half-watching late night games on the ACC Network, but he seems like a good program piece.

Can back up both center and power forward, played at a pretty high level in Europe, is used to the style of basketball Dan Hurley wants to play and is smart enough to get through a year at Stanford which would put him in the 99.999999998th percentile of coconuts on this message board.

The machine needs cogs. He seems to be one.

yep
Big East body
very good rebounder
Euro ball guy
Sets solid picks
decent athlete


i think he is our #2 Center

 

[drayenob]

Here's every post from "The Cardboard" (Stanford's forum) that mentions Giltay. Not a lot of activity (there's probably another forum somewhere). I didn't read every post but most are positive and they are disappointed he is leaving.

The CardBoard - Search Results

 

[Fishy]

he has a big frame, can easily put on muscle. don't think that 235 pound listed weight is accurate anymore.

also no way he's a 4 lol, not sure where that came from

Stanford. It came from Stanford. The school he currently attends. Stanford.

He's literally listed as a forward/center by Stanford.

The answer is Stanford.

Stanford.

 

[BrysonDeMan]

What about Alabama transfer Taylor Bol Bowen?

A 6'10 202 SR (7'2 wingspan) we offered out of HS, career 32.7 3P% with good defensive metrics and a top-200 shot-block rate last season (70th the previous season at Florida State!)

committed to Oregon