Man what a season. Ups and downs but so much better than last season.
Dallin Hall Difference. Jacarmy. Malik Thomas and Sam Lewis Heater. Having to look at maps to remember where countries are. UGO the real ACC Championship MVP. Chance “top 75 player on Evan Miya” Mallory. And Tillis
I had fun. They were frustrating at times. Low IQ and unathletic. But man they were fun and they more than did their job and I hope always feel welcome at JPJ for the rest of their life
My remarks/questions:
Money does buy happiness
Still find it odd that Odom talked about wanting to get out in transition but then recruited 3 of the worst defensive guards I have ever seen (Still love them though).
What is the scheme Odom will recruit to. What changes will he make to his roster vision on the lessons learned from this season?
Will Odom plan with Gertrude Silas and Carrere being in the rotation in mind?
Will De Ridder return? And if he doesn’t do we go Euro route again or American? And if we go Euro route can we get them on grounds earlier instead of July/August?
If we assume Chance and Lewis are the starters, who is the third perimeter starter? We need another ball handler. But Lewis also isn’t that perimeter lockdown defender.
Is chance the starting pg? Or does he spend next season on his 6th man of the year campaign?
Im just excited to see our Staff’s actual targets
Stream the overseas trip and charge for NIL funding. I will pay for the stream. If like World War 3 hasn’t tipped off yet.
Terrence Hill Jr
Mason Falslev
Sam Lewis
De Ridder
GrĂĽnloh
Chance
Gertrude
Dillan Shaw or Tyrone Riley (or get both: Tyrone Riley and redshirt Dillan Shaw)
Carrere/Silas
Obinna Ekezie Jr as a reclass or Kyle Evans from UC Irvine (get both and redshirt the one further behind after Summer workouts
Here’s how I would organize the shopping list, starting from the best case scenario of “everyone in the rotation returns” (cause we can backfill if others leave):
2-guard to go with Chance: I’ve been thinking about this as “Dallin Hall with more offense” but I think any physical guard that can drive it and hit some open 3s can work here. Don’t think he needs to be super high usage.
Center to rotate with Johann: Got any more Ugos here?
Second unit scorer: Your Jacari role so to speak. Bonus if he can essentially be the backup PG
Athletic defensive wing-forward: Would like someone you can stick on the matchup problem wings.
Not in the spirit of the portal thread (but me not being in the spirit of the portal thread is in the spirit of the portal thread) but I’d like to flip a top 50ish HS recruit. Or top 30ish. Or, even better, top 20ish.
Ultimately felt like the lack of top end talent hurt us.
Would love to minimize up transfers this year. Proven high major guys would be great after a year under our belt. We hit on just about everyone but there’s a lot of talent out there so let’s go get it