If they won't come then yeah I'd say they're scared to commit. I'm not saying we're going to get rotation players for every spot but I fully expect to replace those open spots with guys at least as good as the kid in Gaffney who just committed to FAU.
We have no idea how much all the players will play and how the minutes will be allocated. What I do know is posters were talking about us being too deep heading into last season and we ended up having no depth.
i cant tell if we agree. i never ever said we shouldnt fill them, i just dont think we will get 2 players that would need to play as much as castle and diarra. we have the PT for 1 of them and then 3 richie springs types that wont expect to play at all.
thanks for checking that but it proves my point. 7 of 25 means it's the very limited exception not the rule
I think we do agree, not gonna be minutes to keep adding rotation guys but as long as we fill them with someone just as injury insurance I'm fine. Preferably some grad transfers just looking to come along for an NCAA tournament ride
Floyd and Diarra are close enough that I could be convinced either way on that, but the trio we have is a massive upgrade
IMO.. Not even close. Substantial upgrades with tough/two way players that are great teammates.
This is the right analysis. The staff has dealt with replacing the players transferring out and improved the club with replacements who have already proven that they are high level players. But that masks the question of whether we’ve replaced the four rotation players who graduated and moved on. We have not replaced those players’ production with the transfers. If we’re going to be better next year than we were last year, it will take huge improvements from Hawkins and Jackson and real contributions from Karaban and one of Donovan or Samson. Will that happen? The potential is there, but it’s a long way from a sure thing.
We're better, we have players who can co-exist on the court and not just a mix of talented players who don't fit
Next years team was always going to rely on the improvements of our 3 returning rotation players. We weren’t going to recruit over those 3. We got better pieces that fit around them, I think it’s a bit unrealistic to expect the staff to do better than they did in the transfer market to improve the team. Now it’s all about player development and guys fitting their roles.
So when exactly is next year’s roster “set,” definitely no more transfers, no guys 10-13, etc.?
The counter argument is that we were deep, and Dan didn’t play the guys. So if you are coming here in a bench role, you may wonder whether Hurley will do that to you. I’m not arguing that is what happened (although in some respects I think it did) just the perception. Other coaches could easily point to how limited Hurley’s use of his bench was.
I don’t think anyone has a timetable at this point. The portal closing should make the transfers out not a chief concern anymore. Would assume we are only getting to 12 not 13 to save room for a reclass.
we will have replaced any offensive production we lost simply by swapping the whaley/sanogo pairing for a four-out offense. and IMO we should be relying on returning player development more than just bringing in new talent. we should have a nice balance of both next season but nothing is ever a given either way.
