RJ Luis.

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Nothing to thumbs up about.

LawHall88 said:

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RJ Luis.

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Thanks. Hope we are able to reel him in.

That post on UH NIL is telling on just what we are up against. That is one aspect of the UH BB NIL. If you divided that equally over 13 scholarships, that is $77k per player. Are we offering $77k to each of our basketball players? I doubt it, but I don't know.

NEWS: UIC transfer Jace Carter has committed to Texas A&M, he tells @On3sports.

Averaged 16.6 points and 7 rebounds per game this year.

Story: https://t.co/Slz8OZF5zI pic.twitter.com/nM4GuBnBXJ

— Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) April 19, 2023

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NEWS: UIC transfer Jace Carter has committed to Texas A&M, he tells @On3sports.

Averaged 16.6 points and 7 rebounds per game this year.

Story: https://t.co/Slz8OZF5zI pic.twitter.com/nM4GuBnBXJ

— Joe Tipton (@TiptonEdits) April 19, 2023

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Scored a lot, but on a really bad team. I admittedly haven't seen the kid play, but his stat lines don't really jump off the page other than the rebounds considering he is a guard. He's not very good from the FT line, although he did get to the line quite a bit.

I'm sure Buzz and Co have a plan for how to use him effectively and I trust his transfer portal evaluations for the most part.

Savion Flagg type?

Only big conference school they played was Northwestern and he had 8 against them. I hope he's great for us but the stats aren't screaming major contributor next season, at least not offensively.

You could say the same about Gordon with respect to their numbers, but he contributed a lot on the defensive end of the floor.

The only important metric here is his DAWG factor.

The rebounds catch my eye and 17 a game against that level of competition on a bad team looks good, but he wasn't all that efficient. Every terrible team has to heave a leading scorer.

Know Your Enemy said:

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Only big conference school they played was Northwestern and he had 8 against them. I hope he's great for us but the stats aren't screaming major contributor next season, at least not offensively.

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What constitutes as a major contributor offensively?

No dawg in Gordon please fool

MarcAg said:

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Know Your Enemy said:

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Only big conference school they played was Northwestern and he had 8 against them. I hope he's great for us but the stats aren't screaming major contributor next season, at least not offensively.

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What constitutes as a major contributor offensively?

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As far as scoring I'd say double digits is probably a fair place to start. We had two players average 10+ PPG this season and 3 more at 9+. Would you call Coleman or Marble major contributors? They had great moments but also disappeared in games quite often. We need consistent scoring, especially from 3-point range. This pickup does not appear to address the biggest hole we had. Look, I hope the kid comes in and kills it for us next season and he may just do that. What I'm saying is that nothing on his stat lines leads me to believe that he will. He could still be a valuable player for us. But how often did we run into problems last season because we couldn't score?

Know Your Enemy said:

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MarcAg said:

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Know Your Enemy said:

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Only big conference school they played was Northwestern and he had 8 against them. I hope he's great for us but the stats aren't screaming major contributor next season, at least not offensively.

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What constitutes as a major contributor offensively?

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As far as scoring I'd say double digits is probably a fair place to start. We had two players average 10+ PPG this season and 3 more at 9+. Would you call Coleman or Marble major contributors? They had great moments but also disappeared in games quite often. We need consistent scoring, especially from 3-point range. This pickup does not appear to address the biggest hole we had. Look, I hope the kid comes in and kills it for us next season and he may just do that. What I'm saying is that nothing on his stat lines leads me to believe that he will. He could still be a valuable player for us. But how often did we run into problems last season because we couldn't score?

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We we're 65th in offensive efficiency last year out of 363 teams. That's pretty good. Scoring droughts happen to pretty much everyone in College basketball

Look at the recruits that UH and Arkansas are getting out of the portal.

Now look at this kid. He seems like an upgrade for us but we're still losing ground.

He went from 38.2% on threes his freshman year with 3.2 attempts per game to 30.1% with 5.9 attempts per game his sophomore season. Plus he only shoots 68.5% from the FT line.

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Look at the recruits that UH and Arkansas are getting out of the portal.

Now look at this kid. He seems like an upgrade for us but we're still losing ground.

He went from 38.2% on threes his freshman year with 3.2 attempts per game to 30.1% with 5.9 attempts per game his sophomore season. Plus he only shoots 68.5% from the FT line.

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Not sure who he's an upgrade over. Hopefully he can give us similar production to what we are losing with Dex moving on but I doubt his ceiling is higher than that.

Know Your Enemy said:

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MarcAg said:

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Know Your Enemy said:

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Only big conference school they played was Northwestern and he had 8 against them. I hope he's great for us but the stats aren't screaming major contributor next season, at least not offensively.

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What constitutes as a major contributor offensively?

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As far as scoring I'd say double digits is probably a fair place to start. We had two players average 10+ PPG this season and 3 more at 9+. Would you call Coleman or Marble major contributors? They had great moments but also disappeared in games quite often. We need consistent scoring, especially from 3-point range. This pickup does not appear to address the biggest hole we had. Look, I hope the kid comes in and kills it for us next season and he may just do that. What I'm saying is that nothing on his stat lines leads me to believe that he will. He could still be a valuable player for us. But how often did we run into problems last season because we couldn't score?

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The biggest hole we had was guard depth in my opinion.

I don't think we need him to come in and be an elite scorer. I personally didn't really expect us to bring in somebody that is going to be a big time scorer. Am I saying we couldn't use a big time scorer? No. I just didn't think that was too realistic honestly. Luis might be the closest thing to that, but I fully expect him to go to Louisville.

We need guys who can consistently knock down 3's. I hope he's a big part of a Top 15-20 team next season but I'm just not getting overly excited about this addition just yet.

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Look at the recruits that UH and Arkansas are getting out of the portal.

Now look at this kid. He seems like an upgrade for us but we're still losing ground.

He went from 38.2% on threes his freshman year with 3.2 attempts per game to 30.1% with 5.9 attempts per game his sophomore season. Plus he only shoots 68.5% from the FT line.

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Not sure who he's an upgrade over. Hopefully he can give us similar production to what we are losing with Dex moving on but I doubt his ceiling is higher than that.

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I'd say Gordon or one of the bench guys who have left who never played.

Dex was like 24. Maybe his ceiling next year is lower but not hard to imagine it being higher overall (in college).

So he's better than a guy who barely played by the end of the season? Lol, that's not much of an endorsement.

Know Your Enemy said:

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So he's better than a guy who barely played by the end of the season? Lol, that's not much of an endorsement.

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Gordon was the first guard off our bench.

MarcAg said:

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So he's better than a guy who barely played by the end of the season? Lol, that's not much of an endorsement.

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Gordon was the first guard off our bench.

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So you think he was a key piece to our success this season?

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MarcAg said:

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Know Your Enemy said:

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So he's better than a guy who barely played by the end of the season? Lol, that's not much of an endorsement.

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Gordon was the first guard off our bench.

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So you think he was a key piece to our success this season?

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No I think he's ****ing terrible and that was part of our problem we had no guard depth. He was past of why this team struggled.

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Then I have no ****ing idea what point you're trying to make.

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Know Your Enemy said:

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MarcAg said:

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Know Your Enemy said:

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So he's better than a guy who barely played by the end of the season? Lol, that's not much of an endorsement.

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Gordon was the first guard off our bench.

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So you think he was a key piece to our success this season?

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No I think he's ****ing terrible and that was part of our problem we had no guard depth. He was past of why this team struggled.

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Thats kinda harsh

Forgive me for setting my expectations a little higher than "better than Gordon". And I'm not against adding this guy, I'm just not getting overly excited about this particular addition as it doesn't seem to move the bar very much. Feels more like a treading water kind of move since he appears to be a Dexter Dennis replacement.

The truth often is.

What did you expect, Know Your Enemy?

If it isn't already clear, I was hoping for shooters.

Funk was 34% as a freshman and 30% as sophomore. Then as a Jr, 26%. If you watch Carter's form, it looks good.

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If you watch Carter's form, it looks good.

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This is what I'm thinkin too. Eye test-wise, it looks smooth. Can't say that for most of our team.