Six points a game at Southern Utah in his fifth year in college? Meh. This is the pond we are fishing in?
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I see the upcoming season in much the same way.
I predict that the 23-24 team is better, even without Burton. The well below par guard play of last season was a major factor in many of the problems. The play of the replacement (King) should be FAR superior. IF King is as successful as we hope and project, then the performance of all players around him should be enhanced. If all of that projection falls into place, then the upcoming team is quite a lot better than last year's addition. That doesn't even take into account the potential of individual player improvements, nor the addition of what seems to be two pretty good freshmen.
Of course, the addition of a couple of more high caliber players make the odds go up yet another level, but at this moment that doesn't seem to be happening. Other than practice fodder, I don't think that adding a couple of filler portal players helps this team at all.
As always, the player combinations and the allocation and managing of player minutes will be THE key issue. I am willing to bet that the magic of osmosis has not improved Mooney's player management ability. Will it be team improvement, or sputter, sputter, sputter due to misapplication of resources? Time will tell.
I look at that list and we seem to be far and away the highest offer - which is not something I typically like when it comes to recruits or transfers.From Maryland. Interesting career stat lines. Played a lot of minutes freshman season at Mt. St Mary's. Then must have had injuries? Then a ton of minutes again in his 5th season. Made 39 3s. Not a lot if assists. Seems like a shooter type, not a playmaker.
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not if we're now considering guys averaging 6 points a game as a career high after 5 years at Southern Utah.
But, looking a little farther, he was 39-89 from 3 (43.8%), 43-75 from 2 (57.3%), and 23-29 at the line (79.3%), so he can shoot.
He is 6'4 and averaged 2.5 rebounds in 15 minutes, so his size and rebounding could help. And, the 3 guards that all started in front of him averaged double figures on a 12-6 WAC, 24-13 overall team, so maybe he was behind some pretty good players.
If we had one spot left, maybe I would want more of a high minute impact guy, but with 3 or 4 spots left, I think it makes sense to go after a guy who can shoot like this.
8legs1dream
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At the moment, Charleston is a better offer. But yes, overall it is in no way an inspiring list.
Is it me, or is the portal playing out much slower this season? Not talking specifically about us necessarily (obviously not for VCU either), but seems like guys enter the portal and taking sweet time. No Jay Pal updates. Langford entered the portal March 24th. Just visited us and Temple. Someone posted a number, a ton of guys still in the portal Mid May.
Mooney should be able to sell his great experience with super senior players…/s
I can't imagine any scenario in which a guy like this would transfer up to come here and then outperform his career highs. Maybe I'm wrong. In half of those highlights, Southern Utah was either winning by 40 or losing by 30 lol.
8legs1dream
Team Manager
so there's a special portal for when you are skipping between sports right? 😂
it would depend on playing time. his aggregate numbers aren't impressive. his per 40 numbers were good.
16 ppg, 7 rpg on 57.3% from 2 and 43.8% from 3.
no idea about his defense, but I'm guessing he's more than a scorer since he was named 6th man of the year in the conference while scoring just 6 ppg.
Why would he have to outperform anything? What if he averages 10-12 minutes a game and has 4 or 5 games where he plays 15 minutes and makes 3+ 3s for us? Last season, he had games of 3-6, 4-5, 4-4, 3-6, and 3-4 from 3. You can never have enough outside shooting.
this site is pretty good. ranks the transfer kids by position and you can see who's gone where.
Jordan King is their #50 PG.
Jordan King is their #50 PG.
There definitely is a lot of wrangling going on that front. I love me some college hoops, but even if I was loaded, I would find it hard to pay a kid $300,000 for 9 points and 8 rebounds.
Not sure how optimistic one can be when his Top10 includes being re-recruited back to his current school.
8legs1dream
Team Manager
I'd imagine there is a significant portion of first time NIL super booster fans that are not satisfied at all with their ROI and do not come back for a second round ha
I wonder what the statistics are on guys entering the portal and end up returning to same school and not transferring. Hard on the school cause they have to keep a spot open, but wondering if guys put their name in - see what interest they draw, and if not a lot or the interest they thought - they take a while and end up back in same place.
Solid news incoming 👀
thanks for the heads up! I need some good news.
I also need your definition of "solid". lol
I also need your definition of "solid". lol
started 72 of 73 games for Wagner. has 732 points in 3 years.
needs to improve shooting percentages from 2 and 3.
needs to improve shooting percentages from 2 and 3.
Agree, but the 2 to 1 assist to turnover ratio is impressive, as is 3 rebounds a game at his size.
Lefties from Wagner always make damn good Spiders. Welcome to the RVA Mr Hunt.
