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This dude appears to be that sixth or seventh man who is a specialist.   Sort of a CJ type of player.  The hope is that he can come in and light it up from three point line and provides a hard driven 15 to 16 minutes a game.  I may be totally off base; but that is my initial reaction. 

Is it because we are upgrading quality of athletes, size and overall players - so we aren’t required to be as “systematic” going forward due to higher quality of player and less about needing system to hide warts and defencies? 

...and we haven't even brought up Braden Frager yet.  I wonder how his surgery went?

I have a feeling when late October rolls around we're going to be hearing that Nick Janowski has been surprising people in practice. 

Steve Forbes needs to stay away. 

Per Washut: William Kyle canceled his visit to Iowa State. Still visiting Wake Forest Sunday-Monday, then back in Lincoln for spring game weekend. Nebraska staff visited him again earlier this week. 
 
Milicic decision coming as soon as this weekend. 

Seems like Mast might not play so as more European post types

Looks like Hausen is at KSU right now too and coming on Monday. Get one of these and I'm fine. I prefer Hausen, but I'd take either. 

I think with Lahkin out of the picture our next name on the cocktail napkin is David Skogman

He would've been cool actually. 

Conferences are desperate to grow revenue. I can't dismiss this enough.

It’s more or less this simple.  And if Mast is healthy, Igor isn’t even a need.  Theres no dynamic players outside of those 3 that are going to come here. 

No, the visit got cancelled.  It was Victor Lahkin of Cincinnati, who was set to visit until he committed to Clemson yesterday.  Sorry for the false alarm. 

Hausen standing around the line is in a big part because of Novas offense. They pick the mismatches and everyone els spreads the floor. Might be why he is moving on.
 
i hope Jano is better than both and think he will be at some point. However I want to win now and not taking any chances if we don’t have to. We have room, let’s fill it up with proven guys and make a run

Both Hausen and essegian would be filling a movement shooter role that departed with CJ and Keisei. Very comparable and honestly it's a toothpick difference. 
 
Personally like Hausen quite a bit. He has some *shit* to his game I think. And I mean good shit. As far as janowskis role, beat one of those two OR ulis out for minutes. Ie, be rollies sub and trade off initiating offensive sets with Brice. He's going to be hard to keep out of the rotation though. I've said that for a while, and I'll continue to say that. 

FWIW:
 
Gavin Griffiths was a top 50 national recruit with offers from UCONN, Alabama, Creighton and others. 
Nick Janowski was a top 130 national recruit with offers from Marquette, Wisconsin, Iowa State and others. 
Eli Rice was a top 300 recruit with offers from Georgetown and St. Bonaventure. 
Jamarques Lawrence was a top 200 recruit with offers from Wake Forest, Cal and DePaul. 
 
At least on paper, this is a serious upgrade in talent at guard over Rice and Lawrence. 
 
Now, Keisei's clutch shots and momentum changing shots will certainly be missed, don't get me wrong. At the end of the day he provided 15.1 ppg and was a 37.6% three point shooter. I think Griffiths/Janowski and the increased volume for Williams can make up all that difference, and we'll be better defensively just by not having Keisei out there.

Tominaga shouldn't be listed as he is out of eligibility, whereas Rice made a choice and I wish him the best of luck at PSU.
 
As for Rice over Griffiths, I have to disagree there as GG's ceiling is a lot higher than ER's IMO. He has a better overall skill set, can defend multiple positions and has better length. He was pretty impressive at times in our game at home against Rutgers, especially when he was matched up with Gary. Blocked Gary's shot twice when he tried to take him to the bucket, rebounded over Williams down low and drew a foul and scored over a taller defender taking the ball to the basket making a difficult finish look easy. I think we really got a good one.

This may be a want more than anything, but if we miss on Kyle, this is my next target. Super athlete that will provide rim protection opposite mast or whoever. Looks to be great on rolls to rim also. 
 
 
 
 

Nick Kern and Zach Hicks are both similar in stature to Eli but they are tenacious defenders and they play exactly the way Mike Rhoades wants to play. I wouldn't be surprised if we see Eli in the portal again next year. 

With all due respect to Fansided and this author, they will let any moron print anything on that site.

The connection to note for Eli Rice to Penn St is that Rice was heavily recruited by VCU who at the time was coached by now Penn St coach Mike Rhodes.

If you can get PGs that can hit 3s or post players that can hit threes, great.  However at some point it's important to value defending and rebounding as well given they're factors to winning. As long as Fred has self-starting guys, he's more than capable of adjusting his gameplan. 

We're interested but probably not interested in paying what it will take to land Payne. 

I thought Washut had said it was a possibility on Ulis but I/he could be wrong 

Helpful to reference who we have
 
G Ahron Ulis - 6'3" - SR
G Rollie Worster - 6'4" - SR
G Brice Williams - 6'7" - SR
G Sam Hoiberg - 6'0" - JR
G Gavin Griffiths - 6'8" Soph
G Nick Janowski - 6'3" FR
 
F Juwan Gary - 6'6" - SR
F Rienk Mast - 6'10" - SR
F Andrew Morgan 6'10" - SR
F Braden Frager 6'6" - FR
 
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Gary, Juwan Ahron Ulis Williams, Brice Mast, Rienk Worster, Rollie Morgan, Andrew Griffiths, Gavin Janowski, Nick Frager, Braden  
 
Seems like prioritizing guys who might be here past next season should be highly considered.