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I've lost your point here. Either that or your (or mine) math is atrocious :) 13 players on the team, even if they all earned 75k is still less than a million. Are you including football?

Replacing Taylor with Freeman and Mintz with Leffew will make us a well rounded shooting team. With Freeman, Bell, Leffew, Starling, Moore, Cuffe and even Davis guys you can't leave alone, we will rarely have more than one guy at a time on the floor who can't shoot. I guess it depends on who we...

Billy Edelin was unstoppable vs Chris Thomas. Edelin scored 15 in a half taking Chris Thomas into the post and schooling him. Watching highlights of our new transfer Davis, I was reminded of Edelin and his ability to dribble into his guy and post him up. Davis also has a similar over the...

I wish Lampkin was a little more confident in his abilities. It's all he needs to really blossom.

Or at least 4 players are unavailable due to injury or foul trouble. We aren't winning any ACC games with Davis as our center.

Nobody knows anymore. I guess we'll find out when the NCAA rules him ineligible and some court in Indiana roles they can't do that anymore in Indiana.

The motion offense dies as soon as we get into isolation. Make your cut, catch the ball, triple threat immediately, decide to either shoot, drive, or pass quickly... The motion offense had lots of complications and complexity, but at it's core, that's the whole offense. Nowhere does the...

Yup, a far cry from my normal pollyanna view. The coaches know way more about basketball than I do, and they think he can help. I think Lampkin, Freeman and Bell will be good to great, so Davis doesn't need to be any kind of savior. If he can effectively backup two positions for 20-25 a game...

Fair enough. Usually I see things I like when I watch highlights. With Davis, I saw a bunch of stuff that we actively don't want guys to do, or stuff I don't think will work at Syracuse. That said, he's a backup, we didn't have one, and I'd much rather have a super senior who averaged 17-7...

I think he's probably in good shape at 275. I think he's probably over 300 in a lot of his highlights

I feel like a lot of what he does isn't going to translate. Watching his highlights, Davis looks really big. He bulls his way to success pretty frequently... But then you see that he's 6'7" 220. He isn't going to bull his way anywhere in the ACC. He takes too many bad shots. I hate the...

Recruit/sign him as a CB, but then once he's on campus, change his position to PG.

When I read this, I'm visualizing the football players literally making dog noises at DC.

How could anybody know? The only video I saw of Carey was practice video. He made a really sharp diagonal pass leading the break. It was a nice play for a big man, but hardly enough for talent evaluation. I think the consensus of those who weren't completely skeptical was "in JB we trust."...

I hope Carey gives GMAC a great couple of years, and gets paid big by a contender his redshirt senior year.

There's nothing like a punk song about death to brighten the mood.

You and I should get a drink sometime... As long as you promise not to leave me in an alley if I get too drunk. I hate when that happens

More like 82 and sweaty when there's 34,000 there.

10 minutes off the bench at three different positions. And defending the best perimeter player of the opponent. I watched a high school game of his. He just destroyed some kid. I don't know if Westry had some beef with this poor guy, but he really dogged him. If Westry is like that all the...

Why not 28 wins? Let's not act like this would be some insane achievement. 24-7 regular season. 2 wins in the ACC tournament. 2 wins in the NCAA tournament. We've got a lot of good players. Lampkin, Freeman, Bell, Starling and Leffew, they'll win a few. Davis, McLeod, Westry, Cuffe and...

I was trying not to throw you under the bus, but since you're owning up on your own...

You're forgetting the small possibility that having a super senior center All ACC guy around would have kept Williams in line long enough for him to actually reach some of his potential. Jesse Edwards always seemed to have a calm presence that would have helped a crazy locker room.

I think you're dead wrong. They had him locked up before the Elite Eight. Since Lampkin committed a dozen high level centers have entered the portal. I think Red really liked something Lampkin does and got their man. You don't run out and hire the candidate you are indifferent toward. You...

Step back threes when you're under control and you have the defender on ice skates with the threat of dribble penetration... Leffew had several very nice movers like that in his highlight package. I just don't want to see any of the spin around jump backwards 18 footers unless there's 1 second...

We don't know anything. It could be that Red only wants Leffew because his guy, the one he wanted to be his assistant coach, said that Leffew was really good and we should get him.

He looked thinner in his recruiting photos than in his NCAA Tournament game against Florida. He seemed to have a limp and a hitch in his giddyup in that game. I wonder if he was either injured or had let himself balloon a little and he was really closer to 300 (or more! 6'11" hides a lot of...

McLeod at least had the threat of blocking the shot once they got past him... Lampkin isn't a shot blocker. I'll trade "bad in the pick and roll" for "can't stop anybody in the post" all day long, though. Lampkin also will wear teams out, he's really physical.

Leffew had a bunch of really nice cuts to the basket in his highlight package... Lampkin is going to get more assists this season with Leffew cutting off him.

I don't think we pushed Brown out. I think Red was honest that he probably wouldn't be starting and Brown decided it wasn't for him. If Red was unclear or dishonest, Brown probably stays, but maybe he's a locker room problem. Better he leaves, even though it hurts the team. Let somebody who...

I'm actually a little worried that our transition will suffer because Lampkin is in for Brown. Brown was able to beat most centers and power forwards up and down the court. Lampkin sometimes doesn't make it into the screen when "playing defense" in transition. He's nimble, and has good post...

I agreed with most of your post, until you suggested Bell will be at best our fifth leading scorer. Bell attempted only 6 threes per game in conference play last year... He was 50 attempts behind the other percentage leaders in the conference. Bell was severely underused, mostly because Mintz...

I disagree... Lampkin and Freeman were pushing Brown to the bench. Which is why Brown is leaving. He could have stayed and played 25 minutes a game essentially backing up three positions, but decided to leave. Freeman replaces Taylor, Lampkin replaces Brown.

Ultimately, we're looking at the following roster changes: Lampkin/McLeod vs Brown. This is a big win. Brown wasn't supposed to be a center... He had some really strong games. He also was helpless in others. Our center won't get pushed around this year. Freeman vs Taylor. Our single...

This is incredible thread necromancy. Good work

Well, my son was excited. :vomit:

2 things: My son's first grade class was assigned UConn for their team in the schools March Madness contest. The class gets a pizza party of UConn wins tonight. I can't really overstate how exciting this is to my 7 year old. Uconn is playing a Big 10 school. I hate the big ten in so many...

Depending on who we get as a reserve forward, I think it unlikely Freeman will play much as a three... When he's on the court, he's likely to be our second biggest player. His shooting and dribble penetration skills are added value for a guy of his size.

I was trying to be ridiculous, not serious. My satire needs to be more satirical, I guess?

It's almost like Bell lets his man get past him just so he had a chance to block him from behind. It amounts to about 8 layups out of every 10 possessions, with one block and one miss. So he gives up nearly 20, gets 2 blocks and feels good about himself. Probably something the coaches should...

Michael Jordan was out of basketball for two years as well... He did ok. ;) I think overall, we shouldn't pencil Westry in for anything. He is unlikely to come in and save the day. But he is a wildcard we get to look forward to. I worry that he is also a player potential transfers might be...

Remember this time last year, when we were sure we were going to have a three guard lineup? Freeman and Bell's backup might be a big guard.

If Leffew is our guy, we'd look like the zone Syracuse teams with huge guards denying space. The motion offense needs quick decisions, crisp passing, and good hard cuts to open spots on the court and to the basket. I really like Lampkin, because even though he's slow (seems almost to have a...

We're both wrong: 6'6 1/4" With a similar suite of skills, Freeman is the taller player. For the record, I don't by any stretch imagine Freeman is going to have anything like Anthony's season. I think something like 13 and 7 is most likely. But having Freeman a threat to score from everywhere...

We don't know if Westry had a chronic injury. We do know his one injury took a long time to heal. He might be 100% and never get injured again. Or he might never be right again. We'll see... My bet is that Copeland saw that Westry was better than him, and healthy. That's why Copeland is...

But Anthony was only 6'5"... It's looking like Freeman is a legit 6'9"

I like that aspect of Freeman's game. He seems to have been well coached or is just a smart offensive player. I think his handle is surprisingly good for his size. I have been hearing a lot of comparisons to Derrick Coleman, which is almost blasphemy. Particularly so when his body and his...

Lampkin played 28 minutes per game last year, after playing 22 each of the previous years at TCU. McLeod averaged 15 mpg before his injury, and that was the most he's played. That said, they will likely take up all the meaningful center minutes if healthy. Patterson will be our...

I like when he gets his man in his back, backs him closer to the basket and then shoots over him on the turnaround. I didn't like when he dribbled into trouble, then threw up a bad turnaround 18 footer that happened to go in. But sometimes you accept the little bit of the bad to get all that...

So you're saying you haven't learned anything since you were 20 years old? You never got better at your job two years after getting hired? What a ridiculous notion. You see NBA players become reliable 3pt shooters after years in the league, but you don't think Bell can become a better...