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Class of 2023 PG Naithan George (Ontario/AZ) TRANSFERRING TO SYRACUSE (4/4/25)

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walsh2012 said:
In addition this we'd be buying out the rest of his contract, and signaling to any other coaching candidates that you have <2 seasons to rebuild. Wouldn't be a good look.
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Such a myth. Competitors want to go places to compete.

See: Ville, Louis
 
Blanko97 said:
Thats not true at all. Kiyan was coming here regardless of red and melo was going to support his son regardless of red.
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Sure he was
 
EnviroSciGuy said:
Such a myth. Competitors want to go places to compete.

See: Ville, Louis
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Respectfully disagree - the coaching world is small and they talk. It's worth it to do right by people
 
Red2003 said:
After last year we should do the opposite of everything last year. That means not building around the center position or going all in on 1 guy. I don’t care if we play 4 guys at center 10 mins a game each.

Just my opinion.
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This exactly. Last year proved that blueprint doesn’t work. You HAVE to have good to great guard play at the PG position. Even the year Rak was a senior and we built the offense around him we weren’t going to make the tournament (even if we didn’t have self-imposed ban).
 
Florida plays 3 guards to start and the majority of the game. I think people can start to reframe what they think we have to do to be successful. The question is less about the height of each individual starter, and more about what we can do with regard to team offensive/defensive capability. Houston constantly has 2 bigs on the floor who can’t shoot outside of 10 feet. These two teams are playing for a championship tomorrow night. Hoping we do get another coach who can help aid our current ones in installing a more cohesive defensive strategy/rotations.
 
Capt. Tuttle said:
My HS basketball coach always encouraged me to work on my switch hitting in the offseason.
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bnoro said:
We probably would’ve retained Donnie and the other recruits and just would’ve had to replace JJ which wouldn’t have been that bad
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No
 
walsh2012 said:
Respectfully disagree - the coaching world is small and they talk. It's worth it to do right by people
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Disagree all you want, but having known and chatted with some D1 coaches, they know they are there to perform or leave (and get paid a ton either way). Even in the nonrevenue sports.

Anyone scared by what you are talking about... isn't in the stratosphere of being a good fit.
 
OrangeXtreme said:
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I'd like to see George, JJ and Kingz to get about 25 minutes each in the pre-conference season.
Kingz can play probably 10 minutes at SF, if we get Deng.
That would leave around 30 minutes for Fennell and Anthony to share.

Then, if Kingz plays SF for 5-10 minutes of the time he's on the floor, then you have 10-15 minutes for Donnie and Deng at the SF, too. And you have Donnie 10-15 minutes at PF, or C in a small ball lineup.

I'm looking for 20 minutes for Kyle, 10 minutes for Souare. Then you have 10 minutes for White or Donnie at the 5, and they're going to find 10 minutes for White at PF. Womack is going to have a hard time getting playing time if we sign Deng, unless other guys are just not getting it done from three.

The key is that he has to keep all these guys involved while they work out the best rotations. Guys need 4-6 weeks to show their talents. Red can't "decide" so early next season. Keep them all involved. Provide regular rotations, give them all a fair chance, and then it will work itself out.
 
I was reading an article posted on the Souare thread, about one of Georgia Tech’s games last season. The two leading scorers for Tech were injured for a stretch, leaving George not only the teams only reliable ball handler, but also their leading scorer.

In other words, the same situation Starling found himself in last season, which dramatically increased his shots, but also harmed his efficiency.

The result? George had a six game burst. Where he scored 21.8, passed out 6.5 assists (his season average), got 4.8 rebounds, only turned it over only 3.3 times (an increase of .3 over season averages). But the key point is that his scoring efficiency increased dramatically. He shot .459 from three, .534 from two, while increasing his attempts to 15.8 from his season average of 11.1.

This was against ACC teams later in the season, George’s 50-55 games of his career. If you look at short to medium stretches of excellence as a way of gauging a players upside, that stretch indicates a very high upside.
 
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IthacaMatt said:
I'd like to see George, JJ and Kingz to get about 25 minutes each in the pre-conference season.
Kingz can play probably 10 minutes at SF, if we get Deng.
That would leave around 30 minutes for Fennell and Anthony to share.

Then, if Kingz plays SF for 5-10 minutes of the time he's on the floor, then you have 10-15 minutes for Donnie and Deng at the SF, too. And you have Donnie 10-15 minutes at PF, or C in a small ball lineup.

I'm looking for 20 minutes for Kyle, 10 minutes for Souare. Then you have 10 minutes for White or Donnie at the 5, and they're going to find 10 minutes for White at PF. Womack is going to have a hard time getting playing time if we sign Deng, unless other guys are just not getting it done from three.

The key is that he has to keep all these guys involved while they work out the best rotations. Guys need 4-6 weeks to show their talents. Red can't "decide" so early next season. Keep them all involved. Provide regular rotations, give them all a fair chance, and then it will work itself out.
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Red had substitution issues this year, which could be because at times it seemed like we had no good options.

I’m curious how he will handle a deeper, talented, more versatile roster. Highly touted freshman, transfers, returning vets - can he mesh it all together?
 
jdubs30 said:
Red had substitution issues this year, which could be because at times it seemed like we had no good options.

I’m curious how he will handle a deeper, talented, more versatile roster. Highly touted freshman, transfers, returning vets - can he mesh it all together?
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Agree and same questions. It was shocking how many times we had to run a combo of Carlos / Cuffe / Taylor / Petar / Davis across the 1-4. It’s crazy we won the games we did and had leads in several games late in the year.
 
IthacaMatt said:
I'd like to see George, JJ and Kingz to get about 25 minutes each in the pre-conference season.
Kingz can play probably 10 minutes at SF, if we get Deng.
That would leave around 30 minutes for Fennell and Anthony to share.

Then, if Kingz plays SF for 5-10 minutes of the time he's on the floor, then you have 10-15 minutes for Donnie and Deng at the SF, too. And you have Donnie 10-15 minutes at PF, or C in a small ball lineup.

I'm looking for 20 minutes for Kyle, 10 minutes for Souare. Then you have 10 minutes for White or Donnie at the 5, and they're going to find 10 minutes for White at PF. Womack is going to have a hard time getting playing time if we sign Deng, unless other guys are just not getting it done from three.

The key is that he has to keep all these guys involved while they work out the best rotations. Guys need 4-6 weeks to show their talents. Red can't "decide" so early next season. Keep them all involved. Provide regular rotations, give them all a fair chance, and then it will work itself out.
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Kingz is almost certainly the starter at small forward, no matter who else we get. I expect him to get around 30 minutes.
 
jdubs30 said:
Red had substitution issues this year, which could be because at times it seemed like we had no good options.

I’m curious how he will handle a deeper, talented, more versatile roster. Highly touted freshman, transfers, returning vets - can he mesh it all together?
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Have to wonder if Red was trying to manage his lineup substitutions as if he had promised several players some much playing time. It appear like the substitution at time were like a college intramural game where every player paid so much to be on the time and the team manager just substituted in mass.
 
jdubs30 said:
Red had substitution issues this year, which could be because at times it seemed like we had no good options.

I’m curious how he will handle a deeper, talented, more versatile roster. Highly touted freshman, transfers, returning vets - can he mesh it all together?
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We used to complain about Boeheim's lack of rotation, but I really think we need to get back to a roster where you're playing 8 guys most games, with 9-10 getting minutes in lesser competitive games.
 
bnoro said:
We used to complain about Boeheim's lack of rotation, but I really think we need to get back to a roster where you're playing 8 guys most games, with 9-10 getting minutes in lesser competitive games.
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100%. My memory isn't what it used to be some of those JB rotations but of those 8 guys there was usually our 6th man that was a stud, then the backup center put in there to play defense and foul some guys in case the starter got in their own foul trouble, then the 8th man was the next best guy that could play.

Unless there's an injury really or we're beating a up a team which happens less and less don't want to be seeing the 9-10 guys much.
 
Cappy3 said:
Kingz is almost certainly the starter at small forward, no matter who else we get. I expect him to get around 30 minutes.
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I don't see how he plays 30 minutes unless some of that is at 2G and JJ moves to point, or when he sits down.
 
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