spiderman said:

will he though? the role is needed. but as a fan, HS athlete, or booster ... I don't see how Woj moves the needle.

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Woj is extremely popular on social media - has 6.5M followers on twitter and many of them with notifications on. I imagine he'll find a way to use that platform/massive following to attract and market players, raise awareness and money, etc. I think he'll have to move the needle for them, at least some anyway.

spiderman said:

agreed. I can't find the 3-4 guys who won't play regularly. heck, I'm not even 100% sure D'Entremont won't earn time.
do we know if everyone is healthy and working out? (specifically Soulis)

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Ha, I was almost going to throw D'Entremont in their too - I like what I have seen from him on tape.

MDspider8 said:

Will instantly boost their popularity, recruiting efforts, NIL $$$, etc.

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will he though? the role is needed. but as a fan, HS athlete, or booster ... I don't see how Woj moves the needle.

Eight Legger said:

Jordan King making 41% of the 203 three-pointers he took probably didn't hurt. High-volume, high-percentage long-range shooting will cover up offensive rebounding deficiencies.

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so all we have to do is find another Jordan King on the roster!

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Bona is also hiring a general manager...and it's Woj.

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Adrian Wojnarowski, Senior NBA Insider for ESPN, is retiring from his award-winning journalism career and returning to his alma mater as general manager for the

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Wow - that's a great move for Bona. That guy is more connected in the basketball world than almost anybody. Will instantly boost their popularity, recruiting efforts, NIL $$$, etc.

I don't think we can wait too much longer to create this position in our own program. Not like we have anyone close to Woj who would be a candidate, but there's a reason more schools are going to this model.

Bona is also hiring a general manager...and it's Woj.


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agreed. I can't find the 3-4 guys who won't play regularly. heck, I'm not even 100% sure D'Entremont won't earn time.
do we know if everyone is healthy and working out? (specifically Soulis)

Really interested to see how this plays out for playing time. Mooney gets high grades for last season portal work and then forming those new players into a unit with well defined roles. Excellent work.

This offseason, did really well in the portal - identified top prospects early and landed Beagle and Dusan. Then landed three more really good looking prospects in White, GW3, and Glou.

Last season - only real decision he had to make about PT was switching out Noyes for Dji. And Noyes got hurt.

This season, there are a ton of minutes for a few spots. Mooney has done pretty well in the past with balancing, but prior to this portal era - it was easy - due to the recruiting misses and massive roster holes - as I have discussed much in past. I think the big challenges for Mooney this season are 1) identifying the top guys and roles, and 2) instilling the defensive mindset that carried us last season. I think we have top 4 talent in the A10 (no can't lean on the media crutch b/c in this portal era they are worse than usual at predicting order and top teams). It's up to Mooney to manage it correctly.

Here is the minutes/role challenge:

Guard - Hunt - pen him in for 30 minutes. That leaves 50 to split between White, GW3 and Tyne. This is assuming Tanner and Roche are wings/forwards in our scheme.
Center - Walz and Beagle splitting 40. Possibly one or the other grabbing a few a the Bigs Forward position.
Wing/Forward - This is a true wing and a stretch 4. Here is where the minutes get very challenging. A lof of legit , if unproven (at our level) talent here. 80 minutes. Glou, Dusan, Tanner, Roche, McGlothin, Robinson, and Soulis. Going to be a lot of guys possibly not getting minutes they want.

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Not sure if this is as interesting to everyone else as it is to me, but here are some offensive rebounding stats over the past 16 years, along with some commentary.

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really interesting stuff, Fan.
I had no idea Walz had that kind of ORB rate. impressive.
pretty bizarre that last season was by far our worst ORB team rate and biggest gap from the D1 average, yet we went 15-3 in-conference. I wonder if defensive rebound rate has a better correlation to winning?

Garrett, FCM, and Burton were just different level quick-twitch athletes than what we usually put out there in the frontcourt. recuit those kind of athletes and all of our rebounding improves.

also, how about the underappreciated Terry Allen coming in 3 times? had to go back and look at his stats. almost 1,500 points, and only played 13 mpg as a freshman. 7.7 rpg as a senior to go with 17.3 ppg and 2.2 apg.

Nice little interview. Hopefully continues that upward trajectory he has been on through his career at Dartmouth. Lot to be excited about. Hoping he can step in and be a rock in the lineup, hitting 3's. Hoping he can defend and rebound at a good level too.

fan2011 said:

Not sure if this is as interesting to everyone else as it is to me, but here are some offensive rebounding stats over the past 16 years, along with some commentary.

ORB = offensive rebounding rate (number of offensive rebounds / number of misses). For teams this is just total offensive rebounds / total missed field goals. For players this only counts misses when they are on the court.

The table below shows the D1 Avg ORB each season, Richmond's ORB, the top player in terms of ORB for that season, and their individual ORB.

Season	D1 Avg ORB	Richmond ORB	Top Player	Player ORB
24	29.0	17.3	Walz	9.6
23	28.5	21.0	Quinn	8.2
22	28.1	22.4	Cayo	6.9
21	28.0	20.3	Burton	5.8
20	28.0	22.6	Burton	7.7
19	28.4	19.1	Cayo	5.3
18	28.7	23.4	Buckingham	6.2
17	29.3	20.7	Buckingham	5.2
16	29.8	23.2	Allen	7.2
15	31.0	22.2	Allen	6.8
14	31.4	26.0	Allen	7.8
13	31.8	27.1	DWill	9.2
12	31.4	27.6	DWill / Garret	11.1 / 8.3
11	33.8	26.9	Garret	13.8
10	34.3	24.0	FCM / Garret	8.7 / 8.5

For reference, Beagle had a 9.7 ORB last year at Albany.

- Walz is statistically our best offensive rebounder since Darius Garret. Garret's 13.8 ORB in 2011 put him at roughly top 50 nationally.
- We haven't had a really great offensive rebounder since DWill and Garret back in the early 2010s.
- Our best offensive rebounder tends to perform at a high level over multiple seasons, it usually isn't a fluke when a player has a good season.
- TJ and Golden were not getting a lot of offensive rebound, probably because they were focusing more on running the offense. Somehow, Quinn was getting a decent amount of offensive rebounds in 23 though.

- The national ORB rate steadily declined from 2010 to 2020, but has been on the rise since. It is always interesting to see such clear national trends in the game.
- As we all know, Richmond performs well below the national average for ORB every year.

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I looked at similar data earlier and somehow missed Walz. Probably because I was looking at players who averaged 16 minutes or more.

I wonder what the average number of misses has been in recent years? That might give an idea of the difference between 28% and 20%. Perhaps 2 rebounds a game?

There was another attempt, this time against Kamala Harris. It was a close run thing, but she survived. She is safe.

I’m lucky I just get to enjoy basketball and not pretend I’m the second coming of Mike Krzyzewski .
I do like to pretend I’m Bobby Knight occasionally, and throw chairs across my living room.

Not sure if this is as interesting to everyone else as it is to me, but here are some offensive rebounding stats over the past 16 years, along with some commentary.

ORB = offensive rebounding rate (number of offensive rebounds / number of misses). For teams this is just total offensive rebounds / total missed field goals. For players this only counts misses when they are on the court.

The table below shows the D1 Avg ORB each season, Richmond's ORB, the top player in terms of ORB for that season, and their individual ORB.


For reference, Beagle had a 9.7 ORB last year at Albany.

- Walz is statistically our best offensive rebounder since Darius Garret. Garret's 13.8 ORB in 2011 put him at roughly top 50 nationally.
- We haven't had a really great offensive rebounder since DWill and Garret back in the early 2010s.
- Our best offensive rebounder tends to perform at a high level over multiple seasons, it usually isn't a fluke when a player has a good season.
- TJ and Golden were not getting a lot of offensive rebound, probably because they were focusing more on running the offense. Somehow, Quinn was getting a decent amount of offensive rebounds in 23 though.

- The national ORB rate steadily declined from 2010 to 2020, but has been on the rise since. It is always interesting to see such clear national trends in the game.
- As we all know, Richmond performs well below the national average for ORB every year.

I like offensive rebounds as mush as the next guy ... but I love defensive rebounds.

I'm excited to see a rebounder like Beagle work. I'm confident he'll continue to rebound here. maybe Walz will board too, but we don't know how much if at all they'll play together.

so the big unknown ... are Dusan and AP and whoever else we play at forward rebounders? we lose a really good one in Bigelow. and Dji chipped in nicely from the 3. gotta replace those boards.

I have posted this before, I was at a gathering where an Assistant from one of the top 5 national programs was present. So I took the chance and asked how they viewed the rebound issue. He said they had the same debate internally, so they had their staff do a study of all NCAA games to date. Their finding did not break out OR vs DR, but they found no team had won an NCAA game and lost he boards by more than 6 unless they shot 60% or better or won some other excessive stat, eg TO's, steals, etc.

I did the same analysis of our record for about 7 years and found it worked with us, Thus my conclusion, you don't have to win the boards to win, but you have to hold it close or your margin of victory gets small. You can increase that margin by dominating in another area,

The reason I am a proponent of a more focused effort on offensive rebounding is because it adds another dimension to our game that we haven't typically displayed before. We have certainly demonstrated success with our current strategy of preventing fast break points and have beaten a lot of quality teams as well. However, our lack of physicality and focus on offensive rebounding has been a part of our game that other teams have tried to exploit and use their own physicality to gain an advantage. Additionally, the better teams tend to have the whole package when it comes to athleticism, physicality, and shooting ability. If we want to get to that level, we have have to most improve in the physicality aspect. I don't necessarily think it is something we have to stress every game either. Just like I don't think players necessarily need to fit in this traditional 1-5 role, but rather it depends on match-up and complementing skillset. For instance, depending on the opponent, we may want to focus more on limiting fast break points if they have a lot of quick guards. Also, we may want to focus more on rebounding and play to our player's strengths/abilities depending on whose on the floor. Like if both Walz and Beagle (both of whom are good rebounders) are on at the same time, as opposed to 3 smaller guards. All in all though, I don't see a downside of trying to play more physical basketball where we are aggressive with getting rebounds. Rebounds are such an essential element of the game. It could give us 7-8 second chance points in a game or limit our opponent from having 7-8 second chance points in a game. That's a 15 point swing, which can make a huge difference.

The O rebounding discussion comes down to a passive or aggressive approach to the game. Mooney favors the former.

Want the Spiders to be the aggressors. Take the game to the opponent. Don't unnecessarily retreat and just play defense. Stay in their face.

Don't intend to hammer Mooney as he has won 65% of games last 5 years, a pretty good record, just differ with his approach.

what if we just have the Giper write "DUKE" in shaky handwritten letters somewhere in the middle of our schedule and post it online with a winning score in our favor. I bet the committee would never know and Duke would still have a NET of 3 so they wouldn't care.

Boom, schedule solver complete.

mr.spider said:

Any good teams? Maybe something good could come of this situation. Wishing for the stars I know.

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At a glance, I only see Baylor and Oregon among P5 teams that haven't announced and may still have a slot free. There are a few others that haven't announced for some reason, but they all appear to be full based on previous reporting: NC State, Arkansas, Oklahoma.

SFspidur said:

There are still ~70 teams yet to release their OOC schedules. Even if pretty much everyone has an MTE lined up, there appear to still be dozens that aren’t completely firmed up otherwise and may have a spot or two available.

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Any good teams? Maybe something good could come of this situation. Wishing for the stars I know.

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Apparently we're walking.

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Yeah. Facing the wrong way to be hitchhiking.