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I certainly don’t think we’re great. But it’s a mediocre field. And we very well might have the best player in the tournament.

Were his stats trending up? He had the one good game vs Ohio State. I wouldn’t call that a trend. I’d also argue that worrying about his future production is somewhat off base as well. We had an opportunity to build some success with Brice and Juwan coming back. Being successful in the moment is and was more impactful than what may happen down the line. Especially given Fred’s complete inability to do anything in the high school ranks, future roster building has relatively but nonexistent. I don’t see why we’re all the sudden worrying about it now with a mediocre player in Berke.

We need to be dropping the bag on a legit point card and an explosive power forward to pair with Mast. A season can be a good role player in the starting lineup. And wings are relatively easy to find. A legit point guard and a legit power forward or two things that we have never really had consistently under Hoberg, and that’s where we need to spend. You add those two things to go alongside Mast and you’ve got a very nice core. Berke isn’t a focal point. He’s a role player at best. And he can be a nice role player because of his ability to be somewhat effective at both the four and the five. He’s just not good enough to occupy one spot or the other. He can still get 20 to 25 minutes per game in a backup role.

I understand that. But we should’ve known what was out there and what we needed. Open the purse earlier and it saves you what you occurred. You had Brice at a good cost. You wasted him by being cheap early. We went all in on Rollie way too early as well. He was never going to be in high demand. You basically had Ulis on board for being your shitty shooting, turnover making distributor. and I don’t think Rollie was a terrible add. But not as early as we did. Especially given what we paid for others and what Chuckie reportedly got paid. could’ve been a top 10 season in school history but you pretended Berke and Meah were good because you misplayed things and got desperate

Is it really hindsight though? Both of those bigs have been nothing but mediocre for their college career. that’s not to say you can’t bring them in….but if your dropping over a mil on them…..you screwed up. For that money, you should be finding significantly better options.

It’s horrible roster management if it’s true. You should be able to find a pretty good player for $500k+. Again, if the rumors are true on that. We supposedly didn’t/couldnt write the check for Chuckie, but we spent over a million on Berke and Meah. That’s a very poor choice.

Right now, I think us or Boise play USC in the final

Which is disgusting

Especially if the rumors here on what we paid Berke were true

While I understand that, it’s hard to believe you couldn’t have an assistant keep a collection of guys together for 3 weeks. $300k isn’t great spread over 13 guys. But if some guys opt out, it’s a decent pay day for a number of them. In our case, Brice gets $200k and Juwan gets $100k. Everyone else gets a return flight home.

Sandfort would be a great addition with Mast back and a dynamic point guard. But the PG aspect is huge there.

Having teams opt out hurts. It’s a lot better with West Virginia, Indiana, northwestern, Iowa and Ohio st

This

He’s better than Ulis. But we need better.

Personally not a huge fan of giving blanket 5th years. But I don't understand why there isn't some sort of redshirt rule in CBB like there is for the 4 games in CFB. Would seem that there should be some sort of acceptance there.

And we weren’t real deep in the front court either. We need two.

The open space at the 4 and the open space at the backup 4.

Two good ones.

If this is true, then we still have a lot of work to do in the portal.

My dream is dead.

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.

Not sure I agree on high level or on a real good team. Will agree that we have room. But I’d be disappointed if Jano cant beat them out.

They’ve been decent players on marginal teams and role players on good teams. If Janowski can’t match that, then what are we hoping for from him.

Neither are anything above average. I’d actually be pretty disappointed if we can’t get their production out of Janowski.

I’m meh on Essegian. Id rather almost roll with Janowski. If we get Igor and Kyle, I’ll feel good about next year