🏀 2024 Basketball Transfer Portal - Portal Kombat! Fight!

[JBHoo]

Didn’t the Miami mega donor fall on hard times? I thought I saw the money was drying up

[Hooandtrue]

No idea but Im sure Miami has other big time donors.

[Sknyluv]

@hoosfan35

I’m envious of all of Tech’s departures. It presents them with an opportunity to get better. Whether they do or not remains to be seen. But they will certainly have the opportunity.

Surely there’s a tipping point when it comes to how many guys you need to get from the portal. Needing to find 3 guys from the portal seems about the right amount. It means you have enough of a remaining roster to build upon, there’s more cohesion and an existing playing style, but yet still room to sell potential playing time. And you can be more strategic with your NIL.

When you start needing to fill 7 spots, that’s when it becomes a crap shoot. There’s plenty of playing time to go around, but less NIL. And with such high turnover, coaches can’t sell potential when there’s so much unknown.

[Jerome]

I’m not envious of a program losing 7 of its top 8 rotational players. We aren’t built to reload our entire roster through the portal and neither are they

[hoosfan35]

I agree with you and that kind of turnover is definitely not a situation you want to be in year after year. But having multiple open slots and filling them correctly ia an opportunity to get your program healthy in a hurry.

With where we are at present, give me 4-5 openings this spring as opposed to 1-2 and I’d take it for sure.

I certainly wish that weren’t the case but sadly as it relates to having any success next season it is. We have major roster flaws that need to be addressed.

[wahoobelinda]

Rebuilding through the portal? One word: ARKANSAS.

[uva123]

No chance VT upgrades over Pedulla and Kidd. In addition to no chance of upgrading over Cattoor. They will get worse at 3 starting spots and probably about the same at the 2 other spots. Will be terrible next season

[rushdacote]

@MaineWahoo

I’m so torn on whether Dunn coming back would be positive for us, haha.

It seems like a no-brainer - dude would probably win national defender of the year. But we also need to actually score points, and his offensive game was so far from passable that it’s hard for me to imagine it not creating massive issues. But also, it seems like it’d be absurd to overthink a guy getting projected in the NBA draft coming back…

As frustrating as Dunn’s offense was, as bad as it was at points, he actually improved markerdly from his freshman year.

Most of the numbers are the same, but the key is his minutes more than doubled and his usage in those minutes went up by a 1/3. If you can do that and maintain efficiency, that is a big win.

Imagine he came back and made a similar jump. He’d be looking at playing maybe 80% of minutes, a usage of maybe 20-22% and maintaining that 111 ORtg, maybe jumping it to 115-125 if he fixes the yips in his FT and 3s. To me, it’s a very plausible jump for a guy with his physical gifts. I DEFINITELY hope he comes back.

[Wahoos]

@anb90

Is anyone aware of something going on at VT to cause the mass exodus

They realized they were in Blacksburg?

[Wahoos]

@Hooandtrue

He’s a jumbo win you pair with DUDES in the front court and DAWGS at the 1-2 spots.

What’s the difference between DUDES and DAWGS?

[AdventiveQuasar]

Dudes = defensive-minded forwards with good length and toughness

Dawgs = shot-creating guards

Basically what Houston (and in a slightly different way, Iowa St this season) does. SDSU too?

[HoozGotNext]

Best explanation I heard of this allegedly came from Bob Huggins a long time ago. I want to say it was Dinos Trigonis, a west coast AAU event organizer, who told the story. Huggins walked in and Dinos asked What you looking for Hugs? Hugs said I need a MFing dude. What does that mean?

Huggins explanation was something along the line of a dude is a physical freak…when you see him, you say dude! A MFer (close enough to a dawg) is a guy who makes tough plays, hits big shots…leaves the opposing coach yelling mother fer.

[Hoosindahouse]

That’s what’s the NBA is thinking too. Sounds like someone will get a steal around 15-25 area.

[SeanJCrow]

Probably safe to assume Louisville bound here

https://x.com/247hshoops/status/1773083515904536732?s=46

[rushdacote]

@Hoosindahouse

That’s what’s the NBA is thinking too. Sounds like someone will get a steal around 15-25 area.

Yeah I assume Dunn is gone, and I’ve seen a lot of logical arguments that he should go. I haven’t heard from him (or anyone passing along reports from his camp though), and not all decisions in life are logical though, so I hold out hope. I’m holding out hope for a Reece return too

[Hooandtrue]

@hoosfan35

It presents them with an opportunity to get better. Whether they do or not remains to be seen. But they will certainly have the opportunity.

They are worse than us NIL and horrendous facilities and middle of nowhere. They are not that attractive an opportunity no matter how many openings they have.

[Yob]

DUDE + DAWG = BAD MAN

[Wahoo08]

re: that, the comment i’ve seen online a bit is that they are VERY worried about where they land re: conference realignment, and feel (probably correctly) that it will be exclusively tied to their perception as a football brand/power.

so i think there has been a concerted effort to funnel ALL resources that way (even moreso than in years past) - specifically re: NIL.

Basically when Brooks left there were some that seemed to be in the know saying “this really sucks but we know why and it’s what we have to do to remain viable for the next 10 years”. Which is wild b/c it also means if they fail there, they’ve torpedoed everything in the process.

(not really sure what “fail” would be, i can’t imagine a scenario where they are not welcomed to at least the Big 12)

[GulfCoastHoo]

Maybe it’s just me, but my definition of dude is a guy who WANTS to be on the FT line down 1, on the road, with 2 seconds left. Not someone looking scared to death to be there, and can’t wait for the moment to be over.

[DFresh11]