Nobody said he’d be a really great pickup.
This simply is not true. I agree Lampkin does not address the defensive concerns in any way, but he's inarguably a better rebounder and is someone you can run the offense through if needed.
This guy is worse defensively. Significantly so.
Lampkin is a finished product. Brown isn’t. Check the turnover rate. It’s terrible.
Agreed. That doesn't refute anything I said.
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I get that you're the president of the Anti Lampkin fan club, but he played very well in the tourney for Colorado. I'm not saying I'd rather have him than Brown, but Brown is not and never will be a true 5, he's a 4/5 hybrid. Freeman is an upgrade over Brown on offense big time. And Lampkin is a massive upgrade over anyone not named Brown at the 5, but also brings physicality that brown simply wasn't capable of. To compare a highly coveted transfer to a football player with Hofstra offers is hilarious. It's more comical than those that think Lampkin is the next Big Baby Davis.
I don’t have anything besides messages on the forum to definitively say he’s a Brown replacement.
Except this kid is wanted by Texas and Houston. What reeks is the groupthink after one person started hammering his defense. If Houston wants him, hmm, I don’t know, I recall they like to play defense. The kid isn’t Zach Edey, but he will give us offense and rebounding at the least. And he is a 5, I wish Brown was staying, I love the kid, but he isn’t a 5
He was the starting center (and legit center at that) on a team that made the NCAA tournament. Not to mention he played extremely well in those tournament games. He brings what we have been lacking for years. Having him with Naheem as the backup sounds good to me. Now let’s get the guard situation figured out in the portal as well as a wing player for depth.
Your hatred of Lampkin could solve the energy crisis (and you might not be wrong!)
...and has already played for two other P5 programs.
Really? Because he just started on a team that played in the NCAA tournament. Something that we haven't done in a while. And he scored well. He averaged more pts a game than Brown did while getting about the same in rebounds. They spoke glowingly about him at Colorado. I like Brown but we aren't losing Melo. He could have stayed. is it your contension that we shouldn't have done anything in the portal that would cause Brown to leave? Because Donovan C isn't coming here. We are getting who we can get. And I'm going to think that a guy that does this for his living knows more about the game than internet posters.
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