2018 Recruiting

gmujim92

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IF there is no attrition from the 12 players currently either on the roster or coming to campus after graduating from HS, I wouldn’t be surprised to see the staff pocket the last scholarship and use it on the 2019 class.

Just guessing but I think they reached out to a couple transfers as an “in case of emergency, break glass” scenario.

Hopefully that won’t be an issue.
 

JBiggs

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I'd prefer they go after another shooter with the last scholarship. Great 3-point shooting is the equalizer against bigger, more athletic, and more purely talented teams in college basketball. If we want to get to the tourney and make it out of the first round, we need more than 1-2 consistent 3-point threats. Last season we didn't have a single player hit 40% from deep, and that's just not going to cut it for a team with below-average size and athleticism. Otis shot the best at 38.2%, which is pretty impressive considering the number of minutes he played, but Goanar and Jaire were the next best at 35.7% and 35.4%. After that there was a significant dropoff.

I think Jaire's shooting will bounce back closer to his sophomore numbers (38.3%) next year once he gets healthy, but unless Goanar improves a bit after an extra summer of conditioning, and unless JDS is as good of a shooter at this level as he was in HS (I think he will be eventually, but always a big "if" for a freshman season - e.g., Javon Greene at 23.8%), that only gives us 2 options that have a realistic shot to shoot around 40%.
 

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Bit of a surprise. Witchita came in late didnt they?
 

Mason2005

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Bit of a surprise. Witchita came in late didnt they?
They came like 2-3 weeks ago. Butler probably feels pretty stupid to roll out the red carpet so hard lol. This is the 3rd recruit they have loss to Wichita.

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They came like 2-3 weeks ago. Butler probably feels pretty stupid to roll out the red carpet so hard lol. This is the 3rd recruit they have loss to Wichita.

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Butler came in late, too, though...didn't officially offer until he actually showed up on campus.

Good luck to him at WSU.
 

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I'd prefer they go after another shooter with the last scholarship. Great 3-point shooting is the equalizer against bigger, more athletic, and more purely talented teams in college basketball. If we want to get to the tourney and make it out of the first round, we need more than 1-2 consistent 3-point threats. Last season we didn't have a single player hit 40% from deep, and that's just not going to cut it for a team with below-average size and athleticism. Otis shot the best at 38.2%, which is pretty impressive considering the number of minutes he played, but Goanar and Jaire were the next best at 35.7% and 35.4%. After that there was a significant dropoff.

I think Jaire's shooting will bounce back closer to his sophomore numbers (38.3%) next year once he gets healthy, but unless Goanar improves a bit after an extra summer of conditioning, and unless JDS is as good of a shooter at this level as he was in HS (I think he will be eventually, but always a big "if" for a freshman season - e.g., Javon Greene at 23.8%), that only gives us 2 options that have a realistic shot to shoot around 40%.

Not a whole lot of teams with multiple players shooting over 40% outside of Villanova, which had 7 guys shooting better than 35%. But even St. Bonaventure only had one 40% shooter on their team.

I expect Javon, AJ, and Kier to all improve significantly (no way Kier is going to be as bad next season as last, and both AJ and Javon showed really good mechanics on their shot last season). According to Paulsen, Reuter can shoot from 3 (which will be interesting; and if true, it'll mean having a lineup with 5 players who are a threat to make a 3 on the floor at the same time) -- man, that guy is really high on Reuter. I don't suspect we're going to be a jack up a ton of 3s team next year anyway.

If I'm reading the tea leaves from the interview, it sounds like after whiffing on Burton we are either going to get a transfer player or we're going to roll with 12 next year.
 

gmujim92

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Burton is smart. He looked at what is left of Wichita’s backcourt after Shamet went pro and several other guys transferred out, and he saw a great opportunity for early playing time.

He wasn’t gonna get that at Mason or Butler, both of which are stocked with young guards.

Hope it works out for him.
 

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Now that this recruiting class seems to be complete, I think it is fair to say that the staff effectively addressed every major need.

Future PG: Hartwell
Shooting/Scoring: Hartwell & Douglas-Stanley
Size/Low Post Presence: Reuter

I am very interested to see if Jordan Miller redshirts. He filled it up as a slasher in HS, but there's a lot in front of him on the depth chart. Allowing him a full year to develop physically would be really nice.
 

Mason2005

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How bad is it at Wright St that a kid would choose to lose a year of college play.

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GMU_DCU

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How bad is it at Wright St that a kid would choose to lose a year of college play.

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Might be a case of him wanting to be closer to home, I think he's from Baltimore. I've been to Wright State..very similar to Mason in that it is a big commuter school stuck in the burbs.
 

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Might be a case of him wanting to be closer to home, I think he's from Baltimore. I've been to Wright State..very similar to Mason in that it is a big commuter school stuck in the burbs.
Mason is not a commuter school anymore. We have 6200 beds on campus!!!
 
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