The portal.
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@Kcmatt7 Moore shouldn’t be able to but at this point…apply anyway and get grumpy with the NCAA.
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We need bigs outside Flory and with Tiller having surgery and being out even longer now I think it’s smart that they are trying to have at least 4-5 guys in the room. We shall see if that happens.
I agree Griffen is worth kicking the tires on if he will stay however about a few weeks ago it was expected he was leaving.
Jackson being a player after the year off and anything from Mari after the same would be great.
There’s just so much unknown about next yr, it will be the most uncertainty we have faced in 20 plus years by far
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Malik Reneau
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@BShark said in The portal.:
Malik Reneau
Don’t see the fit here. Can’t shoot 3’s so if he’s a 4, it’s the same issues in offense as the last 2 years and doubt he’d be willing to back up Flory.
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@BShark said in The portal.:
Malik Reneau
Of course bill wants a limited post up big he just can’t help himself
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Definitely not a fit for what we need
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I’d be pleasantly surprised if we don’t contact him…
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The only thing I’ll say is the guy put up 13 and 6 in 23 minutes. I don’t get the fit necessarily but I also wouldn’t be upset.
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I think some people are going to be really disappointed by what we go after at the 4 spot if what I’ve heard is true.
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I think I’ll retract what I said about fit with Reneau. Don’t know why he went 12% from 3 this year after shooting 33% from 3 as a soph including a couple makes against KU that year. He is bigger, is skilled on offense and boards good enough. He’d take a lot of pressure off Flory in the post. I know we have familiarity with him from High School. If we are not going to get a shooter at the 4, I want someone with more size, more offensive skill and rebounding ability then we got from KJ. Renau is going to check all 3 of those boxes.
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@BShark oh man, I might have to start a wisconsin badgers category and follow them as well from day one with @wissox to keep my sanity next year
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He hasn’t entered yet but be kind of interesting to see what happens w were in on him from high School and that would be Bryson Tucker top 30 High Schol prospect. Was watching podcast he went to Indiana ?- – might be worth taking another look at
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So if Bill wants to go the route of more Bigs which has been hinted at , there goes any thoughts of run , run , and run some more
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I’m also wondering about him too but man his shooting splits are awful, 37% from the field, 15% from 3. Must have gotten injured as well since didn’t play from mid-February on. Still lots of room to improve but you’d ideally need to get him on the cheap which was not the case during his HS recruitment.
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While we are down the Indiana Roster Rabbit-Hole, man look at Mackenzie Mgbako’s stats through two years, another player that almost was a Jayhawk initially.
His stats are almost identical from freshman to soph year & I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything like it. 3pt fg%, FT%, rebounds, assists, blocks, steals, turnovers and ppg are almost identical its scary. Minutes per game, FG%, Field Goals attempted per game, fouls per game saw very slight changes. It’s like he repeated the year exactly. How’s that for consistency…
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@BeddieKU23 said in The portal.:
While we are down the Indiana Roster Rabbit-Hole, man look at Mackenzie Mgbako’s stats through two years, another player that almost was a Jayhawk initially.
His stats are almost identical from freshman to soph year & I’m not sure I’ve ever seen anything like it. 3pt fg%, FT%, rebounds, assists, blocks, steals, turnovers and ppg are almost identical its scary. Minutes per game, FG%, Field Goals attempted per game, fouls per game saw very slight changes. It’s like he repeated the year exactly. How’s that for consistency…
That is who should be playing at the 4. I’ll be a bit deflated if we roll out two bigs again for 40 minutes a game.
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We wouldn’t even look at Mgbako I bet.
Now Bryce Hopkins, that’s a JAYHAWK (I pray and beg)
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@BShark said in The portal.:
We wouldn’t even look at Mgbako I bet.
Now Bryce Hopkins, that’s a JAYHAWK (I pray and beg)
I’d probably cry if we got him at this point. He reminds me a lot of Jalen Wilson maybe even better 6’7 guy that plays like a guard. I’m just scared we will roll out 2 bigs that are completely useless more than 5 feet away from The goal.
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@kjayhawks said in The portal.:
@BShark said in The portal.:
We wouldn’t even look at Mgbako I bet.
Now Bryce Hopkins, that’s a JAYHAWK (I pray and beg)
I’d probably cry if we got him at this point. He reminds me a lot of Jalen Wilson maybe even better 6’7 guy that plays like a guard. I’m just scared we will roll out 2 bigs that are completely useless more than 5 feet away from The goal.
Having two bigs clog the lane with DP coming in doesn’t sound ideal? He needs room to get in the lane.
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@rockchalkjayhawk I hope Bill gets back to the 4 guard line up around Flory. Made a FF run in 2018 and won a title in 2022 like he forgot about those years.
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Maybe I shouldn’t make my evaluation of Reneau this way, but Indiana has just underachieved for a decade now and I just see him as a part of that. 5 star I think, which scares me as a Badger fan, and then we beat them like we almost always do and just think meh, whatever. Maybe it’s more mishandling by Woodson but I’m a no buy on Indiana guys.
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13 and 3 out of the 4 spot. Hmm stats like KJ. Can he defend like him too? I’d like to see better rebounding. T-Rex arms on both of them?
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@BShark said in The portal.:
I think some people are going to be really disappointed by what we go after at the 4 spot if what I’ve heard is true.
A leopard doesn’t change its spots
Bill would rather play 2 bigs over 4 guards. This is disheartening and shows Bill and co. Haven’t learned anything from these last 5/6 years.
Two bigs both unable to stretch the floor is yet again another disaster with roster construction
We don’t ever run either so that won’t change (unless we get down double digits then we fastbreak)
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Devries is really getting a black eye over this process claiming he held his son out for most of the season so he could transfer to a better school than WVU and not risk getting hurt. Of course this is a year after being hired away from his previous stop at Iowa Agricultural Institute (I forget where he was and would rather just make up a name than actually, you know, research where he was). When taking the WVU job he told the entire state he was in it for the long hall as a mountaineer. What a rough week to be a Mountaineer fan.
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@approxinfinity It’s been really interesting being a fan of both teams a lot of these years. Keep waiting til they both really click at the same time and get to the FF together. While I try not to talk about them too much here it comes up because they’re the only other team I’m really familiar with besides KU and sometimes it can relate. I participate in one of those SBNation sites with them that is very active and fills my need.
