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Message: [QUOTE="UBandCuse, post: 4244938, member: 6749"] Been saying this on other transfer posts and I hate being a pessimist but the truth at hand is we have lost a backup center who barely was able to squeak by when our only real C went down with injury AND we lost Swiders scoring and shooting ability beyond the arc. The unfortunate part was we only have one scholarship left to fill two areas we badly need help in. With no one else being mentioned and us being heavily involved in Ballard, one can assume that they are prioritizing replacing Frank. On paper that would be 4 Centers on paper (JBA, Carey, jesse, and replacement backup). We don’t know if Carey will be fully healthy or able to perform after a year off. We don’t know if JBA will be healthy and if he is what can even be reasonably expected of him. We know Jesse had a wrist injury and that when he went down, our two other options on the roster struggled a lot. While it isn’t a knee injury, a wrist injury for a C isn’t exactly a walk in the park either due to their involvement/physicality of the game and healing times. So I can see why the staff is focusing on replacing Frank. Replacing him with Ballard wasn’t a good idea and I’m very happy we missed out on him. All the best to Q at Wichita St. What we also know is that we lost pretty much every scorer/perimeter threat besides Joe. I don’t lump Benny into that category yet but I’m he’ll be there. Now, in order to replace the scoring and the shooting, we are relying on the freshman coming in who are ready and Benny/Joe. That is what really concerns me. We get a backup C, great. But Jesse goes down and it’s a player similar to Ballard tasked to step up, and we haven’t added any proven scorers to help the freshmen then I think it could really ugly. My stance all along is to find an upperclassman 4 with length who is a decent 3 point threat. They replace the scoring and with their length can help out at C. That might allow Carey to get some mins this year when Jesse is sitting so that we can develop him quicker. If Jesse goes down in that scenario, at least you still have scoring and Carey might be more ready to step up since he benefited from not RS’ing. With SU not being involved with any C’s in 2023 and jesse presumably gone next year, they must be really high on Carey. [/QUOTE]

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