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If anyone wants to watch some full games of his, there are plenty on YouTube. (game starts 7 minutes into the video) St. John's vs Hofstra | 2023.12.30 | NCAAB Game Duke vs Hofstra | 2023.12.12 | NCAAB Game LIVE: Hofstra vs Drexel - CAA Men's Basketball Hofstra vs Princeton | 2023.11.10 |...

The Rothstein tweet reads to me that he's not necessarily coming here to start. I've made it known how I feel about Carlos throughout the message board. He's the type of player that coaches like Autry love IMO. Plays hard, pushes tempo but is smart enough to slow it down when we don't have...

If you do want to see some full games, there's actually quite a few: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwLCLk-uLPw&t=3s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WZHAjlhiarI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOuTeV9B1tE West Virginia vs Mount St Mary's | 2022.11.7 | NCAAB Game (2022) Bryant University vs...

Do you want to be the person that has to tell them that?

I think Carlos is quick enough to get into the paint but absent developing a very good floater game, I don't see him finishing very well in the ACC. He generally is looking more for kickouts than his own shots when he drives anyways, but teams will be able to gameplan for that.

Feels like the Bucks just don’t have enough tonight. And another gigantic game from Siakam. We really have nobody to make things difficult for him without Giannis.

Not going to be able to watch the Bucks game tonight but I hope I find out they made it 2-0. I’m expecting a loss this time around though.

Going to assume the best of him here and guess he intended to stay until some school gave him an offer he couldn’t refuse

Just highlights but doing all of this in one game is fun lol

It’s weird to say because Siakam was by far their best player last night but I think they maybe were better off not making the trades that they did. Then again, their record was basically the same after the trade as it was before despite Haliburton being far worse after the trade so maybe if...

The one thing I was kinda holding onto hope for with this matchup is that Indy absolutely massacred us in transition in the regular season because Griffin didn’t care at all about having us get back on defense for some reason. That was the first thing Doc fixed when he came in and at least for...

He was originally #86 when they published their first list a few weeks back but he’s #126 now.

First playoff experience was a resounding success. That first half with Dame going nuclear was so much fun.

It wasn’t until the last couple years that he touched 20 points and or 5 assists per game. He generally doesn’t put up all star numbers and tends to miss a lot of games. Feels like he always raises his game in the postseason but I have a very difficult time putting him in the top 5 discussion...

I’m not fine with mediocrity. More so just acknowledging that’s what we are right now and it’s up to Red and the athletic department to fix that.

I haven’t read the next 10 pages of what I presume are very even-keeled and respectful posts about Maliq, but this is precisely it. Someone that is exclusively a standstill shooter in the corner, even as good as Bell is at it, is not providing much value, particularly when they’re flat out bad...

My expectations for the Bucks are very low at this point, but I’ll be at Game 1 for my first NBA playoff game so hopefully we can at least get off to a decent start in the series

Source?

If he's asking for more than we can afford, either he's delusional or we are in much worse shape as a program than I thought. I have to hope we're just unwilling to meet his price point.

Need one of those RIP Leffew Era 4/12/24-4/19/24 kinda things

If you're referring to Thomas, I don't think he's really an NBA prospect at all. I haven't seen any buzz for him and he's an undersized wing with below average athleticism. They were second in the conference in KenPom behind only Charleston who've just dominated the last two years and been a...

He's listed as a guard, but he was one of the biggest guys on their team; similar build to Jyare Davis but he's only a freshman. Over 10 rebounds per 40 minutes. Nearly 2 steals and 2 blocks per 40. The offense efficiency was not there for him as a freshman, but the rebound, steal, and block...

Almost literally only shoots 3's and he's always shot it well but it's a wide range. Nearly 50% from 3 this season on high volume. His TS% the last 3 years: 2021-22: 57.5% (good!) 2022-23: 51.0% (below average) 2023-24: 72.2% (you're a wizard!) 72.2% on high volume shooting with zero finishing...

I don't really see the Aiyuk thing as a realistic option. I keep going back and forth on how I feel about the massive trade ups for the big 3 WRs. It's tempting as hell as we probably don't have any other positions we're really trying to get an immediate starter at and those three, particularly...

So Syracuse guys saying Leffew is leaning towards Syracuse and Villanova guys saying Leffew is leaning towards Villanova. Sweet.

Not really clear if that's based on any mutual interest vs. just connecting dots with him being a TTO guy and our need for a PG, but I'm choosing to hope that it's mutual interest lol

I just don't think that's true. He had fewer turnovers because he wasn't actually trying to create for anyone. If you pass the ball more, you're likely to turn it over more. JJ's assist percentage was lower than Maliq's (okay, Maliq is a good passer relative to big men) and also lower than Benny...

Why did he steal our rim?

Seems like he's pretty new but is kind of blowing up because he called Pope to Kentucky. My inclination is to be skeptical, but it's possible that he is.

I would like to think we would not hire an assistant just to land a transfer of Leffew's non-elite caliber. Schools have definitely done it to land elite talent before, and depending on the player, it could be worth it. I don't think that's what happened here. I do think it's pretty reasonable...

Not to mention the education at least seems to be important to him considering he's now gone to Harvard and Georgetown.

Really depends on the source you're looking at. On3 for example has him as the #42 ranked guy in the transfer portal, but of the 5 main sources I'm looking at, his average ranking is #100 (which tbf, is higher than Lampkin, Davis, and Leffew).

It is considered one of the worst drafts, at least at the top, in a very long time.

I'm putting my recruit stats behind a paywall until my invite is received in the mail.

They do, however, list him as a wing and say he may be best suited to come off the bench if he goes to a high major.

Lynn Greer?

Carlos makes more sense if we think we need a more ball-dominant "pure PG" type, which is arguably necessary with JJ and Bell as running mates. Barring some developments as a shooter, he won't play off the ball as well as Leffew. I still find it kinda strange that we'd be interested in both of...

I'm certainly hoping for better, but there's a decent chance this could apply to us next season too.

I'm more referring to the system than the player. We've had a lot of teams where the offense revolved around isolation scoring or one player creating everything. The closest thing we've had in recent years to a ball-movement offense was the Girard/Buddy teams because they at least had guys that...

In an ideal world, we'd be moving away from the "true PG" mold assuming people mean someone that handles the ball the entire time and does all of the creating (ala Chris Paul back in the day or Luka Doncic now) in favor of more ball-handlers and more ball movement. The issue as far as I see it...

The site that I used to use for advanced college stats has gone behind a paywall, but they allow you to sample one school to see if you think the data is worth paying for (but it's very expensive so I'm good with just Syracuse). You can technically change the school 5 times before they charge...

It absolutely has a lot to do with how defensive ratings are calculated. It's very teammate dependent and tends to favor big men, particularly big men that rack up steals like he does. As the only big man with a pulse on our team, it shouldn't be a surprise that he was our highest rated defender...

Of course the drop off from Maliq to guys like Carey/Hima would be more severe than the dropoff from Judah to Cuffe, JJ/Bell to Copeland, etc. Maliq's backups were unplayable. Cuffe/Copeland were not a dropoff/maybe an upgrade at their positions defensively.

I am definitely concerned by Lampkin's defense. I definitely expect him to hold his ground in the post better than Maliq could, but he will certainly be a worse help defender/doesn't address our rim protection issues at all (aside from potentially being able to keep other centers away from the...

Color me shocked that the defense was better with Brown at C than they were with Peter Carey, Mounir Hima, and Benny Williams playing as our C.

To play for Syracuse, yes. Not necessarily the case to play for Duke.

Looks like the offensive lineman from Remember the Titans that purposefully let his QB get sacked

Honestly didn't realize this wasn't the Maliq thread as I had a bunch of tabs open lol. I'll delete mine.

Expected, but nice landing spot regardless. Hope he does well there.

I think for some, scoring guards = combo guards, though I don't even think that really applies to MCW. He was absolutely a pass-first guy. Was he even top 3 on our team in scoring that year? He was as good a distributor as we've had in awhile. I also don't think being a combo guard is...