Next Year

[oxfordcane]

A grad transfer is unnecessary. How many top programs take grad transfers? We are starting to recruit at an elite level. no need for a stop gap type of guy. A frontcourt of Huell, Izundu, Miller, Amp, Gak, and Waardenburg is more than capable. Do people not recognize that Larranaga is one of the best in the country, if not the best, at player development. Every single guy in our frontcourt next year is a top 150 player. They will be more than ready to produce.

You take a grad transfer if he's a very good one, not just to take one. Like, for example, I would have taken Barry this year. He's averarging 13 points per game for the team in Hogtown.

Fair point. Obviously like you said, he would have to be a proven guy and very good. But Mike White isn't recruiting anywhere near the level Larranaga is. He needed Barry this year because he isn't bringing top talent in from the high school ranks. Our last two transfers we took (albeit they weren't grad transfers), were both kicked off without ever even playing a game. And we could have used Muhammad big time this year because we lack perimeter shooting. Muhammad and Gilmore would have both played important roles on next year's team too. We lost a perimeter shooter and a stretch 4. Good thing Waardenburg is already here to hopefully fill that role next year.

Cuse is barely over 500 this year. Their grad transfer experiment with White and Gillon hasn't exactly panned out.


Do y'all actually believe newton, a top 50 player, our leading scorer and our leader in assists, is going to be benched as a senior for a 5-7 true freshman? Yes Quan turns the ball over a bit too much be he will continue to work on that. That isn't a main issue though. Larranaga's biggest flaw as a coach, really his only flaw, is the lack of involvement of our bigs in the post on offense. Lack of consistent inside scoring has been Miami's biggest and really only issue since Larranaga arrived.

 

[tcgrad1014]

A grad transfer is unnecessary. How many top programs take grad transfers? We are starting to recruit at an elite level. no need for a stop gap type of guy. A frontcourt of Huell, Izundu, Miller, Amp, Gak, and Waardenburg is more than capable. Do people not recognize that Larranaga is one of the best in the country, if not the best, at player development. Every single guy in our frontcourt next year is a top 150 player. They will be more than ready to produce.

You take a grad transfer if he's a very good one, not just to take one. Like, for example, I would have taken Barry this year. He's averarging 13 points per game for the team in Hogtown.

Fair point. Obviously like you said, he would have to be a proven guy and very good. But Mike White isn't recruiting anywhere near the level Larranaga is. He needed Barry this year because he isn't bringing top talent in from the high school ranks. Our last two transfers we took (albeit they weren't grad transfers), were both kicked off without ever even playing a game. And we could have used Muhammad big time this year because we lack perimeter shooting. Muhammad and Gilmore would have both played important roles on next year's team too. We lost a perimeter shooter and a stretch 4. Good thing Waardenburg is already here to hopefully fill that role next year.

Cuse is barely over 500 this year. Their grad transfer experiment with White and Gillon hasn't exactly panned out.


Do y'all actually believe newton, a top 50 player, our leading scorer and our leader in assists, is going to be benched as a senior for a 5-7 true freshman? Yes Quan turns the ball over a bit too much be he will continue to work on that. That isn't a main issue though. Larranaga's biggest flaw as a coach, really his only flaw, is the lack of involvement of our bigs in the post on offense. Lack of consistent inside scoring has been Miami's biggest and really only issue since Larranaga arrived.

Yes. Newton is a terrible point guard. Lykes will be a better pg than Newton from day 1. He'd probably start right now at pg if he was here. The more I think about it, the only chance Newton has to start next year is if Brown leaves.

 

[Consigliere]

How many top programs take grad transfers?

For this year...

Cuse took Andrew White
Gonzaga took Jordan Mathews

The prior year...

Zona took Mark Tollefsen
UL took Trey Lewis
UConn took Shonn Miller
Maryland took Rasheed Sulaimon
UL took Damion Lee

All guards. And those guys were taken because each of those schools needed bodies in the backcourt at the time. Louisville had Snider and Mitchell last year at guard, that's it, until they brought in Lee and Lewis. We don't need bodies in our frontcourt. We need to let our talented, highly rates bigs develop.



And Bruce Brown leaving after this year? (for the post below). Brown isn't projected to be drafted in the 2017 or 2018 nba draft, according to nbadraft.net. He has so much to work on. He needs two years minimum.

You received an answer to your question. Big programs take grad transfers.

There are more but that was just a quick answer.

 

[oxfordcane]

How many top programs take grad transfers?

For this year...

Cuse took Andrew White
Gonzaga took Jordan Mathews

The prior year...

Zona took Mark Tollefsen
UL took Trey Lewis
UConn took Shonn Miller
Maryland took Rasheed Sulaimon
UL took Damion Lee

All guards. And those guys were taken because each of those schools needed bodies in the backcourt at the time. Louisville had Snider and Mitchell last year at guard, that's it, until they brought in Lee and Lewis. We don't need bodies in our frontcourt. We need to let our talented, highly rates bigs develop.



And Bruce Brown leaving after this year? (for the post below). Brown isn't projected to be drafted in the 2017 or 2018 nba draft, according to nbadraft.net. He has so much to work on. He needs two years minimum.

You received an answer to your question. Big programs take grad transfers.

There are more but that was just a quick answer.

And Duke, unc, UK, UCLA, notre dame, Wisconsin, etc don't. I think KU took one a few years back with Tarik Black. That's it. Maryland isn't a big time program under Turgeon. He is mediocre. They can't even get past the 1st weekend.

 

[Consigliere]

And Duke, unc, UK, UCLA, notre dame, Wisconsin, etc don't. I think KU took one a few years back with Tarik Black. That's it. Maryland isn't a big time program under Turgeon. He is mediocre. They can't even get past the 1st weekend.

wow

That wasn't an all inclusive list. It was a quick pull. So to review, big time programs take grad transfers.

 

[OrangetieFatface]

I understand his usage rate isn't at super star levels, but are we sure Brown is coming back?