Thomas Sorber. Austin Swartz
https://twitter.com/ARosenfeldHoops/status/1649931567765110784
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From Mansassas Virginia. Williford has been up to his school/watched him play a few times I believe. Fran Fraschilla retweeted this so it may seem like he’s trending towards being a national recruit/top 150 kid. Was recently offered by and visited Harvard.
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What’s crazy is Ian Jackson is one of the top 2024 guards and I’m fairly certain with the eye test, he ain’t no Elijah Gertrude.
2024 class is very weak.
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@DFresh11 have they played against each other?
Sounds like he had a good day, so if EG is better with eye test, I’m getting even more excited.
https://twitter.com/adamfinkelstein/status/1649828632926322688?s=46&t=y0pD4dAiibd6gpo_tXLkaQ
Brogdon or Hauser…these kids wouldn’t know who they were…they all have stars in their mind…nba sixth man is like first scrub off the bench to these kids even though most won’t even sniff a nba camp…
What’s the deal with the comp in the adidas circuit? Looks like the only guy on the court
EG is a better athlete by far. I’d say Drake Powell is UNC best 2024 player
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Ian and Elijah? I will have to ask on that
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No UVA mention with Ngonba
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That’s disappointing. Maybe we are setting the bigs board as well. Or we’ll just portal fill around Stevenson lol
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I think we need to portal fill for our bigs because atleast they won’t be Jay Huff skinny and we will be able to see their skills at the college level and it won’t take 5 years…
Plus- they can’t transfer a second time without alot of angst and approval.
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Ngonga has been really good this weekend. Hopefully it makes the staff push for him as the 2024 big.
2pm:
Dontae Russo Nance vs Austin Swartz on court 1
Christian Bliss court 2
Jarin vs Team Takeover court 4
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Maybe, but there would still be issues. First, as we witnessed with Gardner, even with extensive D1 experience, it still took him a half a year to begin grasping his responsibilities on the defensive end, and I’m don’t think he had mastered them by the end of the year. So, I am unsure you ever realize the full benefits of a “big” transfer who has only one year of eligibility remaining. Maybe not even those with two. Then, the issue becomes: which is easier to find and recruit, a high school player, or a first or second year college player in the transfer portal? I don’t know the answer, but, regardless, in Coach Bennett’s defensive schemes, most benefits are seen after extensive experience in those schemes. Years.
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Goes back to a discussion had a while ago that UVA is better off with multi-year bigs, not OAD recruits or one year transfers.
In the current environment with immediate transfers, wouldn’t premium HS bigs be a big risk area for us in general? Isnt that why we have a history of project bigs to begin with (meaning high-4/5-star bigs don’t wanna sit to learn a system when they can be playing right away elsewhere, but scrappy low-4/high-3-star guys who need to add weight or know they are a dev project are okay with it)? Honestly, what niche (for portal and for HS) should we pursue to catch and keep prospects in a healthy bigs pipeline?
Sounds heretical even as I type it, but is the pack line hurting us here, and if so can anything be done to address it?
Curious to know people’s thoughts. It’s a beautiful Sunday morning in AZ and I figured I’d stir stuff up.
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For me, the bigger defensive issue with Gardner (or someone like him) is that even with 2 years in the system, he still got played off the court in a key moment by a kid from a mid major in the first round of the tourney. Not really trying to hate on Gardner (though I guess I’m succeeding anyway), but am trying to say (1) experience in the packline is a wee little bit important, but not nearly as important as having Ryan Dunn like gifts, and (2) the issue with Gardner was less experience, and more height, length, and lack of compensatory athleticism. Let’s take guys like that only when we need to, and be aware of the downsides. (esp. when that guy can’t make 3s on the other end).
I joined this off-topic tangent b/c I turned on the games and BLiss and JArin were out, but now Jarin is back, so bye bye
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No because we will never be a big oriented team and wing forwards like Dunn Murphy and Akil pick up the packline defense incredibly quickly
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Our offense does not appeal to true bigs … hedging, recovering, hedging, recovering and picking up cheap fouls, setting picks relentlessly … tough to recruit studs for that.
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link?
All these referendum talks on style and scheme and pace. We just need 3pt shooting at the 1 and 2 spots.
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