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The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD

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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #300 on: April 15, 2024, 11:07:12 AM »
DJ Wagner and the entire Kentucky team/recruits jumping ship...should be interesting on this rebuild.

Sad part is though that if any of these kids were smart (you know like all of us were at the age), they would know Pope offense game plan is actually better (by the numbers-%) than Coach Cal's was. Cal gets them all hooked on on the family thing and I am not sure Pope can sell this to them?
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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #301 on: April 15, 2024, 11:13:20 AM »

Still would love to have Danny Wolf, he seems so much like a BU type of player.

We will need a athletic forward and also an athletic inside player, not sure Booth actually fits either role, has he is a 3pt shooter for most part.

Wolf
Ausar
Tyson
St. Thomas
Garrison
Williams
Payne
Reed

That list is the ones I would LOVE to fill out the final 2-3 spots with and I think we will still get 2-3 more at least.
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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #302 on: April 15, 2024, 11:23:31 AM »
Still would love to have Danny Wolf, he seems so much like a BU type of player.

We will need a athletic forward and also an athletic inside player, not sure Booth actually fits either role, has he is a 3pt shooter for most part.

Wolf
Ausar
Tyson
St. Thomas
Garrison
Williams
Payne
Reed

That list is the ones I would LOVE to fill out the final 2-3 spots with and I think we will still get 2-3 more at least.
Who weighs over 250 ?
And preferably someone 6'9" or taller, and not 6'2" or so.

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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #303 on: April 15, 2024, 11:28:55 AM »
Who weighs over 250 ?
And preferably someone 6'9" or taller, and not 6'2" or so.

I'm right at 250. 6'6. Problem is I'm a tad too old.
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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #304 on: April 15, 2024, 12:02:22 PM »
Not apparently....actually-https://247sports.com/season/2024-basketball/transferportal/

Shame I was looking forward to seeing the progress and his scout video was impressive.

So Nichi ended up being wrong?
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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #305 on: April 15, 2024, 12:33:29 PM »
Who weighs over 250 ?
And preferably someone 6'9" or taller, and not 6'2" or so.

Wolf/Reed I believe...you don't count (meaning you do, we all do) in this and you like all of us are way too old. LOL
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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #306 on: April 15, 2024, 02:58:38 PM »

# 1 in Basketball Portal Ranking so far, don't see us losing that spot honestly with 3-4 more needed. A team that loses everyone with a NAME coach could overtake us, but it will come down to # of players taken at that point.

BU having his way so far...still wished Frazier would have stayed.
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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #307 on: April 15, 2024, 03:10:15 PM »
So no actual explanation for why Chester left?
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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #308 on: April 15, 2024, 03:22:28 PM »
# 1 in Basketball Portal Ranking so far, don't see us losing that spot honestly with 3-4 more needed. A team that loses everyone with a NAME coach could overtake us, but it will come down to # of players taken at that point.

BU having his way so far...still wished Frazier would have stayed.

Hopefully the play on the court next season will match these rankings!
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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #309 on: April 15, 2024, 05:34:30 PM »
How’s everyone feel about Marcus Domask returning for another season.  8)

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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #310 on: April 15, 2024, 06:05:33 PM »
How’s everyone feel about Marcus Domask returning for another season.  8)

I always thought he would get the waiver needed....seems like he might and Bardo thinks so as well.

Domask, DGL, Boz, Davis, White, Rodgers, Goode, plus 3 more larger than life types and we have something pretty good I think.

6'- 2" ish all across the board....need some B1Gs now!!
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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #311 on: April 15, 2024, 06:12:36 PM »
ILLINI now with Portal Ranking Players 24/7

Boz #21 - Committed
Booth # 61 - Crystal Ball as of Today (Piper)
White #110 - Committed
Davis #265 - Committed

Now throw in say #83 Ausar and man we have some talent....That ranking on Davis surprised me actually.
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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #312 on: April 15, 2024, 06:25:46 PM »
The portal rankings just aren't really worth worrying about much.

We got a guy last year who was ranked #118 in the portal and was first team all conference.

It's really hard to guess who will be able to handle the jump in competition and who won't be.

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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #313 on: April 15, 2024, 09:05:02 PM »
The portal rankings just aren't really worth worrying about much.

We got a guy last year who was ranked #118 in the portal and was first team all conference.

It's really hard to guess who will be able to handle the jump in competition and who won't be.
That (particularly at Davis's level, or even Tre White's) and the rankings appear to be somehow worse than high school rankings even though we have the benefit of actually seeing guys play and knowing how their college teams did.

On 247's rankings last year Domask is 50+ slots below Nick Timberlake, who is smaller and had similar scoring but worse assist/rebounding numbers in a crappier conference the year before. That's a lot to leave to an eye test when the numbers and nothing else would tell you Domask was a safer bet to be a solid rotation player. RJM and Skyy were ranked higher than Domask, Keshon Gilbert and Cam Spencer and even with hindsight bias that's insane. Spencer was a 13/3/3 guy with 30 mpg in the same conference where RJM looked lost half the year and Skyy bailed halfway through the season.

Made no sense then and some of the same stuff appears to be going on in the current rankings. Guys like Bronny or Adou Thiero are ranked higher than guys like Gillis or Cam Carter or Micah Peavy or Brandon Angel who are legit college basketball players. It's like they've never seen this play out before.

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Re: The Never too Early 2024-2025 PORTAL THREAD
« Reply #314 on: April 15, 2024, 10:00:12 PM »
Well the rankings do have us currently as the #1 school recruiting in the portal....thanks for the killjoy.
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