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Message: [QUOTE="Ricker, post: 5059176, member: 1245"] IMO Thomas, Mullins, Ament, Bundalo, & Reibe are the guys that seem to have mutual interest and keep us at championship caliber. I would include Burries & Cenac but it seems like their interest in us is modest. If we miss on most/all of these guys, I'd rather wait for the portal. Adams, Greer, are good players but I don't think they are better than what we could expect from the portal. They really aren't the knockdown shooters we need, and, the portal offers players with more experience. In Lewis' case, if the staff feels good about our chances with Rippey, I'd rather push for Rippey in 2026. Tounde confounds me how to use him in our system but he has the talent and motor. It would be like playing a Jeff Adrien body type at the 2-3, that is wired to rebound, make things happen, draw fouls and score without shooting a high percentage. [B]The thread asked for predictions and mine are overall disappointing and hopefully wrong[/B]. Thomas stolen by Calipari with an NIL offer we aren't interested in trying to match Mullins decides to stay home at KY or Indiana & I say KY 2 hrs from home with 7' teammate Moreno Burries go to a west coast team Cenac goes to Houston (or maybe an SEC NIL offer) Reibe goes to Creighton as the Kalkbrenner replacement because he can see how Kalkbrenner was used offensively Lewis goes elsewhere because his greatest stated focus is playing time right away and sees Nowell, Mahaney, Ball as limiting his min UConn Please Please Please gets 1 of Ament / Bundalo UConn gets Darius Adams Kudos to the staff if they can reel in Thomas/Mullins or both. I really want what these guys bring. I also don't discount a surprise foreign front court player not yet known to us. Maybe somebody in these NBA Africa development programs as a rim protector in the 7' range? [/QUOTE]

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