He’s a beast. C’mon Cliff. You won’t be loved at ASU like you will be here. Be a hero!!!
BB Recruiting Cliff Omoruyi Decision Time for tomorrow
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He’s a beast. C’mon Cliff. You won’t be loved at ASU like you will be here. Be a hero!!!
Moved to noon? Doubt he'd do it at 9am local time. :Sly:
Adam Zagoria predicted Rutgers at 5:15 today.
I hope our fans give Cliff O a chance to develop before annointing him the savior. Big men always take longer to adjust.
Savior? We just went 20-11 we don't need a savior, back in 2015-16 we needed a savior. Today we have Myles Johnson and a host of other players. We just need another cog to help tune up the machine.
Sorry but this is nothing like the Toal recruitment (thankfully!!)
I am still preparing myself for the worst, some of you are popping Champaigne already
Just need good defense and a few points per game his freshman year, not a lot to ask given his abilities.
Feels more like the AD saga and where he stays home and gets drafted 1st round after 3 years. I hope it turns out the same.
For the past few months I'd been checking with two different sources about this recruitment. A few weeks ago, I posted in one of the many Clifford Omoruyi threads, that one source was hearing lots of Rutgers buzz while the other source wasn't and continued to tell me that ASU would be the pick.
About a week ago the source that was saying ASU suddenly started telling me he was no longer sure.
Today I heard from both sources and they both said it's Rutgers. One of them mentioned how it went down but I'm not posting that here lol.
:Chop banana:
Let's let him commit before we start worrying about that lol
If we get Cliff, that will open the door for other elite NJ recruits like Trey Patterson to begin seriously considering RU.
Maybe I got confused. A guy in another thread was giving me a hard time about Pikiell's recruiting and his name started with a T. Apologies.
Agree. If the minutes breakdown at center looks like this it should be pretty good:
MJ - 22 min
Doucoure - 11 min
Cliff - 7 min
No way Cliff will be behind Duke unless Duke has a massive turnaround next year.
Try this on for size...
Myles at the 5, Cliff at the 4. Not for long stretches, just to show it.
Good luck scoring down low on that!
Myles at the 5, Cliff at the 4. Not for long stretches, just to show it.
Good luck scoring down low on that!
I still think Cliff will be backing up Johnson for the most part but might play just as many minutes as Johnson.
Overall and offensively MJ is the best big on the roster but watch Doucoure's D late in the year. Plays straight up without fouling and sets great screens too without fouling. Having bigs that can take up space and not foul is huge. He also perfected the hedge and recover that escaped MJ and Duke also did a nice job on closing out on the corner 3pt shooters.
Hope Duke can contribute a bit offensively this year to round out his game.
Hope Duke can contribute a bit offensively this year to round out his game.
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With Cliff this team will be sick!
Is it me or is Pike building a Juggernaut?
Is it me or is Pike building a Juggernaut?
pike is the man. Absolute pro in everything. Great ambassador
Lots of hard work to be done between here and there. But it’s definitely exciting to think about how Pike has us trending right now.
Things change. Before he got Jones and hopefully Omoruyi, his recruiting was underwhelming. These two could change things dramatically.
Not even close. When Doucoure was in there, we had no shot blocker/atlerer. He had no rim protector presence. We also got horribly outrebounded when he was in there. He did not have the quicks to drop off his man and affect another players shot. Johnson could could and did do that. Smaller players did not look to automatically attack the basket when MJ was in there. They would when Doucoure or Cater were in there. Douc's best attribute was that he did not foul as much as his Freshman year and he was a big body that could bang down low, but he did was no where near as effective as MJ was defensively.
Johnson was one of the best defensive centers in a league of very good centers. CO looks like he has as much or more athleticism as Johnson.
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We couldn't handle UM when they had 2 bigs in the game at the same time. We were winning both games until they went big. This would allow us to match up nicely when we face that again. We would not suffer inside when a stretch 4 or 5 pulls one of our bigs outside.
