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It doesnt matter who is in the portal.

I read exact what he posted

You missed the point that he was a late reclassification from the class of 2023 to 2022 because Steve wanted to lock him down while he could. He got to campus was late and then got injured. He was not a 4* with offers from across the country, but we don’t know what his recruitment would have looked like if he stayed in 2023z
Regardless, the original point was that after the first 2 transfers, nobody else added will be highly sought after at the time we bring them to RU. Chol fell into that category.
 
Well, non tournament team. Seems like a lot more than that was available for a better player when minutes are being handed out like candy to palm, Paul, and reiber.

There were minutes available once Mag went down but there weren't any before that.
 
There were minutes available once Mag went down but there weren't any before that.
That was mainly due to the roster construct. Hopefully we don’t need any of the starters playing 30+ minutes again this year in every game.
 
Well Ash & Gump scored a couple more epic fails in this thread. You would think people who are so badly wrong, so often, might tire of being continually exposed as morons, and perhaps stfu for awhile.
I was dead on about last off season and we missed the tournament because of it.
 
I'm sorry I don't want to hear that we couldn't find an upgrade over Reiber and palm in the portal cause that's just ludicrous. They were literally worthless on last year's team. There were likely 500 kids out in the portal would would've been better
But Pike is a developer and those kids will be Big 10 quality players. Thatr's what abojut 50 fans on this board said last off season. It didnt happen.
 
Way too early to group Agee and Chol together especially since Chol reclassified and joined the team late and was always going to be more of a high upside developmental project
Agree. Can’t even put them in the same conversation. Some of our posters…geez.
 
The injury couple with the fact that the bench players from the previous year didnt develop into Big 10 players was the reason.
Mag's injury was THE main reason we missed the tourny. He was the glue guy, the cog in the machine that we couldn't replace, every good team has an irreplaceable player that can submarine a season. Tell that to UMass, who was 6-1 when theiy lost their starting PG, Noah Fernandes, they finished the season 15-16(6-12 in the A10), only went 1-3 in 4 games after Noah gave it a go before shutting it down for the year. Guess they didn't have a PG to replace him like we didn't have a forward to replace Mag. It happens every year in every sport and a team underperforms after it.

Some Pitchers can look horrible if their favorite catcher gets injured.
QBs can slump and lose for weeks if their top WR goes down.

We were 16-7(8-4) in 2nd place by ourselves, top 20 in NET, Ken Pom, and T-Rank, and went 2-6 to finish the season and 1-1 B1G tournament. We finish the season 4-4 or 5-3 with Mag healthy which would put us at 21-12 or 22-11 into the NCAA tournament. Not saying UMass would have gotten there but they sure would have finished the year with around 20 wins with a healthy Noah in a down year for the A10.
 
You are missing the point. Maybe he turns out to be a huge steal, but Chol was not a heavily recruited kid. He was a late pick up to fill a roster.
One of the mods watched preseason practices and said he was the surprise of the sessions
Then we saw little of him in the season

I would like to see him get extended minutes during a game we should win easily, just to see what he can do
 
One of the mods watched preseason practices and said he was the surprise of the sessions
Then we saw little of him in the season

I would like to see him get extended minutes during a game we should win easily, just to see what he can do
That’d be great and it would mean we found a diamond in the rough. The point still stands though that it’s unlikely we are landing 3 highly sought after transfers or frosh recruits for next years class. That’s true even if Hyatt decides to leave or we lose a frosh commit. We got Noah. Maybe we get one more high profile kid max. Expectation should not be for more than that.
 
Rumor has it that we might have lost Ndongo, can I complain about that if it is true?
You can complain about it but are you going to blame Pike if Ndongo leaves because of NIL money? IF the answer is yes, then you can't complain.
 
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You can complain about it but are you going to blame Pike if Ndongo leaves because of NIL money? IF the answer is yes, then you can't complain.
He doesn’t even contribute to NIL and he wants to talk about “sitting on your hands”.
 
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