He was playing small ball 5 at Princeton but he will be a 4 at Rutgers (have to assume at least)
I thought Oskar was out of here? I know nothing official announced yet but a chance he’s coming back? I want as many new pieces out of portal as possible so I hope he’s not returning.
I hear ya’ man…..shooting and offense was horrific last year, we try and go get some new guys and people have complaints and they revert back to defense. We have focused solely on defense in recent years with Pike, it’s time to upgrade the offense as we all saw how bad it was last year. Might we suffer a trade off and the defense is a little worse next year? Possibly, but overall the trade off of having an improved offense with upgraded shooting to go with a lesser defense should make them a better overall team. I don’t think our defense will drop to #350, maybe we’ won’t be top 5 either, but I can live with a reasonable drop if the offense has a great improvement.
If Oskar gets seven pounds thicker he may be able to play a little 5 in a small ball lineup. He’s still the best hope for 9 points in three possessions.
Don't remember which of them was guarding cliff but it was the other forward Caden pierce that grabbed 15 boards that game. I confused him and martini as well..
Briefly played some five, yes. Seven more pounds though and he’d be more solid than a concrete bridge abutment in there.
Just checked and the Big O is listed at only 220 while Martini is listed at 235 (and Dino Martino-for-Three-Oh looks to be every bit of that).
Oskar?!?! Let’s wish him the best, have him move on to whatever is next for him and get some shooting in the portal, we already look pretty good with landing Martini. Let’s get another piece who can shoot, we don’t want to be relying on and playing the Oskar’s of the world next year. Time to move on from that, onward and upward. We have purged much of last year’s roster for a reason and that’s a good thing.
Even if we land Martini, we have 2 more spots to fill in addition and possibly another one if Gavin bails. If we land Martini and two other impact players, do you really think we’re going to secure a 4th portal guy who will be good enough to contribute? Seems very doubtful to me.
Ain't no way Ogbole weighs only 220. Absurd. And roster stats are notoriously fudged. Cliff would need to stand on two phone books to be 6'11".
Oskar…sorry should have clarified.🤷♂️😂 Oskar is the Big O because he could drop a triple double at any time…(points, 3pointers made, 3 pointers attempted).
This is interesting. Do we prefer GG for 3 years or Allocco for 1? I prefer GG for 3 because his difficulty on O was mostly due to poor guard play.
Possibly, maybe he doesn’t have to be great, but how about he’s just better than Oskar. That’s not a crazy ask, let’s stop acting like Oskar and Ogbole are some good or valued pieces on the roster. Neither one is very good. If we can bring in someone better than Oskar (I didn’t say a star player, I didn’t say a starter, I only said someone better than Oskar) than by all means please do so.
Sure. Nothing to do with his poor shooting and wanting to launch shots from 5 feet beyond the arc.
I’d prefer we put together the best possible roster for next year and worry about the rest later.
Isn't this the end of 5th year seniors? Thought they only got that because of the free covid year.
It is the end of 5th year Covid situations but is not the end of graduate transfers due to early completion of undergrad degree or redshirt (injury or other).
Ogbole weights are all over the place.
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A pipeline will never be a thing due to NIL and varying opportunities across the country every year. i guess I agree with getting better players each year and not worrying much about the long term, but I remain convinced that our guard play hindered GG immeasurably. Would Allocco have fared much better ? I doubt it.
GG hindered his season just as much as guard play. They froze him out a bit because he was awful. You know how you get past that? Make a play. Make a play for himself, for a team mate. Move without the ball. Do something when you are out there. It took him 2/3rds of the season before he showed a sign of wanting to do anything but shoot. Freshman need to earn respect, he wasn't doing it.
That's fair...but it works both ways. Confidence and chemistry matters, and it affected him a lot. I am not convinced you can compare players from other programs to RU players. Our offensive efficiency ranking was in the 300s, and that starts with guards. It's up to them to run our sets and create good looks for teammates, and they were the worst in the country at that.
Were they though? We got a lot of good shots that were just missed. You get good shots, you've run your offense well.
I'm pretty much of the same viewpoint, but I'm not even convinced he's "better".
Yeah, I thought Dean was terribly overvalued, by a few, but think most of those conversations were on TOS where they had a Dean fan club thread. I always thought Oskar was the better player of the two.
