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1 hour ago, ubmae86 said:

How are his free throws? He needs to bring that number up D-E-S-P-E-R-A-T-E-L-Y

The rest, I'm really excited to hear about. Hopefully we can (almost) run the table again this year! 🙂

It's gotta be in his head, you don't shoot better from 3 (roughly at the national average too) than from the FT line with a busted shot. I'd almost rather that isn't his main focus all summer. I find when I golf a lot and focus on my swing mechanics too much I play like trash but coming back after a long break I play well. I think he's got a decent shot but missing then over thinking and missing again is a harsh cycle.

It's Britain's top league but I don't think British basketball is very high in the Euro food chain lol. David Kadiri averaged 16 and 10 in that league a couple years ago, so I think it could be a good situation for McRae to thrive in.

Giving players minutes because they're tall and we want to be like the high majors is a recipe for disaster. The Arizona game showed us we need to play to our style and make other teams matchup with us. Who knows what the starting lineup looks like but I'd be shocked if our closing lineup doesn't include Jordan, Graves and Johnson. They'll probably be our top 3 barring a surprise from somebody and should be on the floor together in winning time.

1 minute ago, UBinMD said:

So which guy has the better “source”?

Bronstein

Lakers signed two summer league big men not named Nick Perkins 

11 hours ago, MDBullsfan89 said:

If a healthy DNP, that's crap. Gotta be some team with available minutes for him.

We know he had an opportunity with at least the Mavs and I wonder what the decision making process was to go with the Nets. I feel CJ would have fit better with the Mavs NBA roster and gotten more opportunity in the summer league. Nets have probably 6 guys on their roster that will be regulars in the NBA and the Mavs have.. maybe 2?

17 minutes ago, DocCas86 said:

So five-sixths (now six-sevenths) of comments in this thread have nothing to do with the topic... can we change the topic or should we start discussing?  Or just say...please refer to 2019-20 Schedule thread to discuss and feel free to skip the 'dick measuring contest' content.

Having an extended disagreement about a game on our 2019-2020 schedule = dick measuring contest worthy of a new post

Posting about a dick measuring contest = legitimate content clearly

Perkins has been good, but if the Lakers are looking at taking a big man from their SL team I fear that Cacok has shown more than him thru 2 games. Luckily they're playing in Vegas too so Perkins has opportunities but he can't be the pretty good, second best UDFA big man and make an NBA roster. I agree though that I feel that they're not using him well. Additionally I feel running with first unit PG Joe Young, who is just trying to get his own, has done him no favors.

I think Jordan, Johnson, and Graves are pretty locked into starting in the backcourt.

I think Nickelberry gets the 4 spot but maybe Hardnett pushes him. The 5 is the tricky spot.

At the 5 I feel like Mballa is the most physically ready but if he has to sit I'd think Skogman starts. While Bertram isn't anything exciting I don't see how he doesn't get some minutes at the 5 if for nothing else to eat fouls. Hardnett isn't strong enough to deal with true posts and it's tbd how Skogman does there.

Here's how I picture rotational depth charts. Gallion doesn't have a clear path to mins and neither does Fagan regardless of the injury situation. Bertram is probably out of the rotation if Mballa is eligible which puts us at 10. Deeper in season I see Williams getting potentially buried with a redundant skill set to Nickelberry and Hardnett while Grant gets spot mins providing shooting none of the others have.

Primary Ballhandlers: Jordan*, Segu

Secondary Ballhandlers: Graves*, Johnson*

Wings: Nickelberry*, Hardnett, Grant, Williams

Forwards: Mballa* (?), Skogman, Bertram

It'll be interesting to see how it pans out but I like our odds for the 3-peat.

"The ESPN contract also includes language that would protect the network, should marquee schools, such as UCF, Cincinnati or UConn leave for another conference."

https://www.apnews.com/d01c9d9805f6460bab475f8d93c32ef6

Not sure which is true but i guess it would make sense since the contract is mainly for football from what it seems and UConn didn't contribute much there.

ESPN had stipulations in the contract for if  one of the marquee teams leaves so I don't think the schools will be seeing anymore money (maybe less). However adding us or any of the other rumored teams probably doesn't really change that.

Damn I've caught a handful of Oakland games and Im really high on him, Oakland has had some talented teams his first two years and I don't think he's really gotten to shine. That's a good pickup for Miami.

Someone commented on the reddit post that Hardnett followed a UB coach (presumably Jenkins) on Instagram last night

We went hard after him last year

50 minutes ago, 961819 said:

At this point I feel like this has to be an academics thing like McBulls said. Transferring credits from one college to another is hard enough, throw homeschooling in the mix and it’s probably a mess 

I also wondered this but having already signed to Washington State you would think they'd have that kind of stuff lined up/know what they're doing.  Who knows, hopefully he ends up coming to UB though.

Not looking great for us haha

12 hours ago, MillenniumBull said:

Neither Dontay or Jordan were recruited as defenders.  They became them. They learned those skills and got that tenacity practicing on the hardwood at Alumni, knowing if they wanted to play here, you had to defend here.  The culture is still here.  I can see several players taking on the role.

I agree although I do recall an article in the Spectrum Jordan's freshman year where he was quoted saying that the coaches said he's Lamonte Bearden if he tried on defense hahah

Edit: found the quote

"Jordan shares certain traits with Bearden. Both are athletic, quick and have great ability to finish at the rim. But the coaching staff and Jordan feel there is one significant difference between the two.

“I play defense,” Jordan said jokingly."

1 hour ago, DocCas86 said:

First let me say last year's team was a great joy to watch they were special and I have nothing bad to say.  However imagine if we had  someone like Nigel John (in his senior year) as a part of that team.   Maybe the rebounding differential is not as one-sided in TT favor... Maybe you harass the top 3 scorers (three tallest on the team) on TT a bit more.  I am guessing a much closer ending. 

I understand your point but we should temper expectations on John. Big men are typically slower to develop and from his highlights it doesn't look like he's had much exposure to D1 level competition. I'm excited at the prospect of him being at UB for 4 years but I wouldn't be surprised if he has a season similar to Jeenathan (who I'm high on for this season, but was shaky as a freshman)

2 hours ago, Jeseph said:

I suspect we’ll hear news on this today 🤞🏻

No customary "It's a great day to be a Bull" tweet yet 😢 

omg the play at 1:17 in the first video

Yeah maybe in the future.  In the meantime you can get an idea based on a combination of

247 - high schoolers 

https://www.jucorecruiting.com/junior-college-basketball-player-rankings-top-100 - JUCO

and Kenpom or transfer ranking lists (i.e. Jeff Goodman) - transfers

You're right, that's why I put the "FWIW" at the beginning of my original post. It was more of a ballpark thing, shows that our recruiting is still doing quite well.

I've never seen transfers get updated ratings, some of the top JUCOs get re-rated in Harris' case.  A lot of JUCOs get pages for their JUCO career but it just shows them as unrated/unranked in Cadwell's case.  My calculation just used everyone's high school profile.

1 minute ago, MDBullsfan89 said:

Hopefully we seal the deal here. Does he have a visit scheduled with Pitt at this point? Seems like they are our only competition for him. And they already got Eric Hamilton who we were speculating about in another thread, so hopefully we can beat them out for John.

I think he already went on a Pitt visit, he also visited Oklahoma State