***Official 2018-19 Transfer Thread***
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I’m impressed with the talent available in the transfer market this year.
I love me some legacies, like Nick was, but...
...his numbers against Top 100 and Top 50 schools is not too encouraging.
George Mason was 5th of 14 in the A-10 last year.
Granted, that was a shortened season for him. He was better as a junior.
Yeah I didn't even look at his senior #'s since he only played a couple games. Seemed like a nice player at first glance, but I didn't look into the advanced stats at all.
I would that, at 6'5", the junior version is intriguing.
He was a low-efficiency, high-volume scorer at a lowish/middish-major, though.
I would hope there were better options.
Funny how our need this season is a volume scorer when we have been looking for everything but a volume scorer in the spring for so long.
The only guards we're in on currently are Grille and Nadolny, right? Maybe Prohm feels good with Lewis and the other guards coming in.
Prohms teams always revolve around more than one point guard. My guess he doesn't feel confident in the point guards he has next two years. He has guards, but maybe he's not convinced he has the right point guards.
Haliburton seems to be a perfect fit at PG next year. Behind him, it seems like we have combo guards. That's not necessarily a bad thing, but I feel good with Tyrese running the point next year.
Yeah, I really doubt it is anything but handing Tyrese the keys to the PG spot for next season and until he decides to leave Ames for a professional basketball career.
I know you want two PGs on your roster just as a matter of policy, but Tyrese has already proven he can play 35+ minutes per game at pretty good efficiencies.
The real need is proven, volume scoring. A scrap heap Shayok/Wigginton, either from some external source or development of Leech, Lewis, or Griffin. From what I have seen, Lewis has the scoring part in bursts, but his defense can be ugly.
Nadolny and Grill are depth and development guys. I think you hope you can have some good minutes out of them as freshmen, and particularly on a team that is going to have so many guard minutes up in the air, but it is not an absolute requirement.
Something like...
-- one of the freshman guards
-- a grad transfer... somewhere between Kane and Beverly... yes, I know, wide range, but he doesn't need to be an AA, but he needs to be a viable Big 12 player, not a scrub
-- a redshirt in the Shayok or Nixon mold, hopefully a wing
...and we had a very successful spring.
Nothing Prohm has said in interviews suggests he will go more than half time using a traditional lineup. In fact his words were 10-15 minutes. Plus there is the basis of what he has run in the past. It is just his style. To run a small lineup, he desperately needs guards. Talented ones.
Outside of Shayok and Jacobson, this staffs transfer recruiting has been a bit disappointing. Nixon TBD.