In retrospect, probably a bad deal for everyone involved to get a 1-year transfer on an uncompetitive team in a deep rebuilding phase
Burn the Shirts
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Mooney is well positioned for extension. Picked very low in A10 preseason & a terrible ooc showing. Exceed a10 expectations with a top half finish & winning record, get some COY votes and we’ll have to reward that performance. Also u need 5 years for recruiting purposes plus he’s married with children and possibly nicer than your average nice guy.
True. I'm sure Mooney and staff thought they were going to run it back like last year, so it made sense when we signed him.
However, now a month into the season, clearly we are not running it back and one would hope that means coaching staff is re-evaluating the purpose of this year, which should be rebuilding and playing our young guys, versus 1 year rental players.
Obviously, this sucks for a player like Dusan but I guess he is getting his NIL check to play here and the reality is we owe him nothing other than the money we said we would pay him. Goes back to the premise of the thread, we need to burn these redshirts sooner rather than later and start seeing what we have and hopefully building towards next year.
My thing with AP is that he plays like a raw freshman, but is in fact a junior. He's more athletic than I anticipated, and really does rebound well and has good vision. But his decision-making is abysmal, as is his shot selection.
Dusan adds very little on either end.
GW3 can't get on the court, and that's a horrific sign of his abilities, given our offensive struggles.
Beagle plays soft.
We did see it coming, but we replaced athletic, defensive-minded and defensive-versatile players with a bunch of "fluid" shooters. Which is a dicey proposition to begin with, but becomes disastrous when the shooters can't actually shoot well.
Dusan adds very little on either end.
GW3 can't get on the court, and that's a horrific sign of his abilities, given our offensive struggles.
Beagle plays soft.
We did see it coming, but we replaced athletic, defensive-minded and defensive-versatile players with a bunch of "fluid" shooters. Which is a dicey proposition to begin with, but becomes disastrous when the shooters can't actually shoot well.
Yep. I hear you. I don't think it was intentional to replace defensive minded athletes for shooters. In a perfect world, we would have landed our top 5 guys from the portal. But, it took awhile to get all 5, and we contacted numerous others.
Beagle was early April.
Dusan late April.
So, into May, we still had 3 spots left. I'm sure we wanted some defensive, athletic guys, with a couple of our spots, but just didn't land them.
Then, the 2nd week in May we added GW3 and AP, and White was out final add late May. We didn't have much to go on with AP and GW3 except high school tape, which was good enough to land them at UCONN and Michigan, and at the time, most on here were thrilled with the additions. It just hasn't work out portal wise this year.
Beagle was early April.
Dusan late April.
So, into May, we still had 3 spots left. I'm sure we wanted some defensive, athletic guys, with a couple of our spots, but just didn't land them.
Then, the 2nd week in May we added GW3 and AP, and White was out final add late May. We didn't have much to go on with AP and GW3 except high school tape, which was good enough to land them at UCONN and Michigan, and at the time, most on here were thrilled with the additions. It just hasn't work out portal wise this year.
I’m still not sure what we’ve got with White. Has he truly played a game at full health?
He played 26, 18, and 19 minutes against Marist, Charlotte, and Bucknell, and scored 5, 0, and 0 points, going a combined 1-9 from the field ( 1-7 from 3). Oh, and GW3 is buried behind that production also.
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