Could very well be my favorite gif of all time . . .
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Odom and staff gonna dazzle us after apparently sleeping through the portal
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Apparently Jalen Shelley from Loyola Marymount is going to visit
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I donât know where youâre getting your figures. If its On3, their transfer portal list is woefully incomplete. As it stands now, according to VerbalCommits, there are roughly 752 commitments from the 2,659 players who are in the portal, and that includes those returning to their original school. That is fewer than 30%.
Top remaining, per Evan Miya. In a follow up, he notes that Conerway and Council donât have eligibility left.
https://x.com/evanmiya/status/2046986134610469127?s=46
However, as a reminder, these portal rankings only get a 1.7385 on the THPRIJM (Tim Haney Portal Rankings I Just Made Up).
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Weâve discussed this on the Sabre. It is from each positions top 50 players (they use 6 positions). It is a top 300. You wont find many quality P4 players outside of the top 300. Will there be exceptions? Sure but that isnt what you fill your team with and you probably dont fill your starting SG with a diamond in the rough.
Yessefou likely to UCLA, Juke to Michigan or Tennessee, Momchilivic-florida, Celsicar committed to Baylor todayâŚâŚâŚâŚ..lets hope Odom is heavily involved abroad. There isnt much left in the portal.
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Iâm taking a break at work checking out Benny Gealer and Ryan Agarwal stats, howâs your day going? 
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Iâm still hopeful that we get a decent haul, but as the days pass the hope is dimming considerably. Time will tell.
How is Shelleyâs defense? Heâs definitely long but is he athletic?
AI slop from Trillyâs godforsaken discord site suggests it may be okay, but hard to rely on that.
We didnât really have an athletic wing or wing stopper last year, so if heâs that, that could be good. I can think of a prominent play this last season (the most prominent?) where it wouldâve been nice to have a wing stopper.
Obligatory - âit was the refâs fault!â
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This is a leadership and program-level failure potentially. Odom needs to deliver, and fast.
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Actually, I suspect that there are more exceptions than you might imagine. The services are limited in how they evaluate transfer prospects. For the most part, I suspect that they are basing their rankings on the playersâ 2026 production. That isnât always valid, can be misleading, and some of the talking heads now know it. Last year, Darrion Williams was highly ranked (5th in the portal according to On3). After he failed to live up to that ranking, I heard multiple commentators referring to it as a âBatman & Robinâ situation. N C State paid for Batman, but they got Robin. Already this year I have heard it questioned whether a highly touted player is a Batman or a Robin. On the other side, Onyenso was barely ranked inside the Top 300. At the same time, Sharma was ranked #386 and his play at St Louis would suggest that he was a major steal for them. Rohde was ranked higher than Sam Lewis. P5 players who see little action do not get valid evaluations. Often, mid major players do not get valid evaluations. Meanwhile, P5 players whose stats looked good, largely due to the players around them, get overrated. Lastly, just because a prospect puts up gawdy numbers doesnât mean theyâre good for the team. See P J Haggerty. Essentially, the published ratings are seriously flawed and shouldnât be taken at face value.
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Have to let it play out. But I wouldnât put this on Odom. If things donât play out well itâs a failure at upper levels of the school forcing our flagship programs to operate handcuffed to some ideal. Got to spend these days. No restrictions.
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Odom will be judged by results on the court next season. What exactly does he need to deliver on your timetable?
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Read my post, boy.
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Yes Master.
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You are making my points for me. Again, I donât care if you are 176 or 299. Very few guys outside the top 300 make an impact. You went to 386 for a rotation player in the A10. Maybe Sharma could do that in a P4? I donât know, I know he didnât the year prior. I donât take them as exact but there are certain marks where you are reaching on guys and you can find the exceptions but they are few and far between.
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Poor Kadin. If he were in college hoops this year, heâd have been able to get $1 million for every chicken wing he caught
https://x.com/kcshedrick/status/1635432449487388674?s=46
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(Wrong thread lol)
Soy garlic or spicy?
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