re: UA Basketball Recruiting

Because he provides a big body on defense. If you play 210 lb Rojas at center then centers like Wiley and Perry would score every single time.

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Because he provides a big body on defense. If you play 210 lb Rojas at center then centers like Wiley and Perry would score every single time.

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Galin slowed down Wiley & Perry? I missed those games.

Donta masked his thin frame with freak athleticism. I’d personally take 10 Dontas over 10 Wileys. Galin is atleast a decent rim protector. Probably the best rim protector on the team Is Juwan Gary and that’s sad. He tore his ACL pinning a JQ shot on the backboard and landing on JQ’s foot. Freak athlete.

How are the injured guys rehabs coming along?

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It's not like he took 200 3s or something. 56 over the course of a full season is a small sample.

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You could say the same thing about most sub-30% 3pt shooters including Retin and Releford their first 2 years who you yourself labeled as awful shooters those years when they shot a vastly superior 3pt%. You could also take out Forbes Auburn game, and his percentages drop to 17%. The fact is he shot 21% from 3 on 2 attempts per game when he was labeled as a sharp-shooter. He was given ample opportunities to have another 2 hot streaks during the last stretch of the season and he responded by going 0 for his last 12. I’m not saying he won’t ever put it together and become a decent shooter, but when you have players that want to come in that will likely shoot better than he did and offer much more offensively and defensively, you go with those guys. Oats has said that he thinks he can teach shooting so having a sharp-shooter that shot 21% from 3 last year is probably not hard for him to let go.

As for Hawkins, I kind of agree it’s a tad concerning. I never saw what they saw in him. Best case scenario: Oats likes to have one big-bodied guy on the roster for certain matchups and given our big men situation and lack of options thought he should give Hawkins a shot to earn that spot and he didn’t.

He took Hawkins because he already committed to Oats at Buffalo before he went public. Then Oats left for Alabama shortly after and he didn’t want to leave him high and dry. It also didn’t help Hawkins showed up 20 pounds overweight that summer.

Can we stop with the out of his depth stuff. Like the kid is just complete trash.

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You could say the same thing about most sub-30% 3pt shooters including Retin and Releford their first 2 years who you yourself labeled as awful shooters those years when they shot a vastly superior 3pt%.

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Retin made 14 of 57 3s his first year as a starter. Is that really that much different from 12 of 56? I would say no, but whatever. The point is that there are examples of guys who did not have much success with outside shooting early in their careers becoming capable outside shooters by the end of their careers. The argument that Forbes needs to be cut loose simply because he sucked from outside as a true freshman, even if outside shooting was supposed to be his strength, is not a strong one. Shooting was, is, and always will be just as much about rhythm, consistency, and confidence as it is about skill, so I can't help but give a pass to a guy who may have been thrown into the fire before he was ready and then never got to really play regular minutes.

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but when you have players that want to come in that will likely shoot better than he did and offer much more offensively and defensively, you go with those guys.

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This I do agree with though. Forbes did not appear to be a competent ball handler or a particularly enthusiastic defender, which I have a much bigger problem with than his shooting. The fact that he did nothing well is why we are probably going to move on. If he had just struggled from outside but played hard on defense then I would be a bit perturbed if the staff cut him loose just to replace him with another guy who has less eligibility left.

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Sounds like a good all around player. Pretty impressive for a guard to be 6th in the league in rebounding.

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Singleton is very similar to Herb. Long body, versatile, athletic, scrappy, good enough ball handler to run the offense when needed, and a fricking terrible shooter.

I got the feeling Forbes' biggest issue was confidence. That's how you go from being a great shooter to being a bad shooter in the span of a few months.

I also think he may have come in at a big disadvantage as far as knowledge and playing fast. He certainly didn't give me the feeling he was always sure what to do.

I suspect he could mature into a very solid player, but I could also see him being recruited over and transferring. It's probably going to be up to how hard and how long he wants to work to get on the court.