Eli King enters the Portal
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With Willoughby, Pratt and Bankhead.
That was in the JUCO days but still not 4 year ISU guys.
A very large percentage of our best players over the last 30 years have been transfers of some sort.
I feel sorry for the kid, because he never looked comfortable the little time he was on the court. He was 1 for 5 from 3 point land, and 3 for 8 overall. All in garbage time. Pretty small sample size, but not a good showing for playing against other team's scrubs.
Looks to be a college student who hasn't paid attention to how college ball is now.
We’re not in the tournament without Holmes this year either. Total dud evidently.
We just had a collection of predominantly transfers that beat 7 top ten teams and earned a 6 seed. You're going to be absolutely miserable if that doesn't meet your expectations.
I keep seeing comments about not being able to get playing time. It doesn't seem like we're going to be terribly deep at guard next year either. We are returning Lipsey, Watson, and Williams plus adding 1 guard in recruiting. Even if you figure a playing a bigger lineup next year with 3 forwards, theres a lot of unknowns in that backcourt. Unless the staff is already in on some guys in the transfer portal and that influenced his decision, I'm not sure I understand why people don't think he'd have a chance at playing time.
Yes of course we wouldn’t make it with out him. We only had 5 guards. He struggled a lot in February/March. Shooting % dropped significantly
To be frank, to start February we were looking to finish top 3 in conference and getting Des Moines region. We went on to finish 4-9, falling to a 6 seed and had the worst offensive performance shooting wise in NCAA tournament history. But yeah we beat #1 UNC in November!! The season ending was nothing short of a disappointment.
Umm including only Prohm and Otzelberger recruits...
Darrell Bowie (not a Big 12 starter but fine in a bench/rotation role)
Donovan Jackson (excellent shooter, would love to have him next season)
Marial Shayok (one of the best transfers of the Transfer U era)
Michael Jacobson (again, would love to have him coming in next year)
Rasir Bolton (wasn't a culture fit with TJ, but still an excellent player)
Jalen Coleman-Lands (another guy I'd love to have coming in next year)
Blake Hinson (didn't play for Iowa State, but he tore it up on offense at Pitt)
Iz Brockington (first-team all-Big 12, an excellent two-way college SG)
Gabe Kalscheur (similar to Brockington only with more emphasis on defense)
Tre King III (flashed at times this past season, hopefully will be very good next year)
Jaz Kunc (sort of a "Mario" player... few incredible strengths but no real weaknesses)
Caleb Grill (obviously it ended badly but he was playing well there for 1.5 seasons)
Jaren Holmes (HM all-Big 12, would be very happy to have him back)
Osun Osunniyi (HM all-Big, again would be very happy to have him back)
Plenty of guys who were quality or even excellent Big 12 players up there.
Give me a lineup with 6-7 of any of them with a reasonable distribution across guards/forward and you've made yourself an NCAA tournament team in pretty much every instance.
Half of those guys are quality big 12 players or never played much. Kunc never showed much, Osun was too limited, Tre is TBD, Hinson somehow never played here and is lighting it up at Pitt, Bolton left, Jacobson regressed, and Bowie was fine for what he was but wasn’t a top caliber guy.
As I said, miserable. And apparently content to be so. Enjoy.
Sometimes I think both sides know, which is likely the case with Eli. I doubt he is being run off by the staff.