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I think probably wanting the 3 and d player. Someone that can be deadly from outside and play defense at the minimum. Of course, being awesome in other areas would be a bonus.

hence the many complaints about not going after more guards and leaving a scholarship open. And even after running a smaller lineup with mediocre guards worked better, Woodson doubled down on pretending his buddy ball in the post system was the way to go moving forward.

Most of the those suggestions seem pretty good. When Woodson actually had smaller lineups at times, they actually performed better during those stretches.

Who knew his name image and likeness was worth that much If we get him, thank the donor rather than Woodson

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We should be better from outside and may shoot a few more per game but I don't think you can just add how many players shot on other teams and assume they will get the same number of looks in our system.

Of course, that assumes the new players can maintain their shots per game in our system of post first.

Wonder if we would try pull in both Payne and Ballo or if it is 1 or the other. I'm hoping for Rice, Carlyle, Conwell, Ballo or Payne

Ranking 1) Ware 2) Rice 3) MM 4) Ballo 5) Carlyle 6) Tucker (if he stays for a while, he has a ton of potential to be higher) 7) Hickman (probably higher if factoring in need) 8 ) Cupps 9) Newton (only because we haven't seen anything) Overall this offseason would be better simply because it addressed the positions more evenly.

We are as good at hyping as most fanbases. Definitely haven't been living up to that hype. We are stuck with Woodson so I am right there with you on not being too optimistic about this upcoming season.

If it was me, I would roughly do the following MM at the 4, MR at the 5 for 10 minutes MM at the 4, Ballo at the 5 for 10 minutes MR at the 4, Ballo at the 5 for 20 minutes MM would then get stuck out of position at the 3 for maybe 10 minutes or so and Tucker and someone else could play the remaining 30 minutes at the 3.

It's hard to make a good lineup with MR being a tweener between 4 and 5. The issue wasn't with adding Mgbako and Ware though. The biggest issue was Woodson completely whiffed on adding any starting level guards and we went into the season with wild thing XJ and Gallo as our best guards.

I agree buddy ball limits our offense but no one here is advocating for not adding any shooters and leaving it to just Mgbako. Mgbako got brought up when someone said we didn't have any shooters. We hopefully will get a least 1 quality shooter that is in the high 30s or better percentage.

how are Rice and Carlyle with on the ball defense? Our defense stunk it up when Xavier wasn't playing or wasn't getting after it. We are just as a sparse on players that can pressure the ball as we are with outside shooting.

More 3 point shooters isn't going to fix Woodson's buddy ball crap in the post that puts MM at 3 when he should be a 4. I agree we need another outside shooter but finding the next Matt Roth or other 3 point specialist to sit the bench isn't really going to solve much.

No one was saying he would be the only 3 point shooter but he is pretty good Rice was over 30% 3 pt shooter until a very bad stretch to end the season. I don't know why he stunk it up from outside to end the season but I don't think he is as bad of a shooter as his season percentage would suggest. Galloway was a good shooter the year before last. Needs to figure out what went wrong. We definitely need another good shooter but our team isn't completely devoid.

Guess that's what I get for not noticing your profile pic lol

Is that just who you want or you really think we can get him?

In the current landscape, it is surprising when anyone stays 3 seasons.

April is a month long

Been hearing rumblings...

Woodson makes 2+2 = 3. He gets less out of his players than their talent Couldn't win a game in tourney with TJD on the roster and it took TJD and JHS to eek out a single tourney win. We had soon to be NBA player Ware this year and couldn't even make the tourney. Unless he gets the Calipari level All-Star team, his teams won't get anywhere because he runs a system that gets less from more. Sure hope we can get some All-Stars coming in or Woodson actually changes his approach (doubtful given his comments that confirm he still thinks beating a dead horse in the post is the way to go), but not holding my breath that our ceiling will be anything higher than squeezing into the tourney.

King lebron or bond, LeBron bond

shouldn't title be 2025 rather than 2026?