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Posted on 3/29/24 at 3:43 pm to beebefootballfan
Posted on 3/29/24 at 3:43 pm to beebefootballfan
Cohen is a Hog
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Posted on 3/29/24 at 4:14 pm to Pygthagorean Theorem
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The 6-10, 220-pound grad-transfer chose Arkansas over Notre Dame after taking official visits to both schools earlier this week. According to the 247Sports transfer rankings, Cohen currently sits as the No. 46 overall player available in the portal and the No. 8 overall power forward.
Cohen had the second-best statistical output of his career, posting 15.9 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.7 assists on 54.4% shooting from the floor, 34.4% from distance and 69.6% from the foul line for the Minutemen.
Posted on 3/29/24 at 4:17 pm to Pygthagorean Theorem
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Cohen is a Hog
Choose between us and Notre Dame does not implore a ton of confidence
Posted on 3/29/24 at 4:30 pm to UltimateHog
Really good get it. Great fit for Muss's system, facilitates an offense very well and is a very smart player. Great shooter and instincts.
Great way to kick off the portal season!
Great way to kick off the portal season!
Posted on 3/29/24 at 4:55 pm to UltimateHog
I like the size and skillset. Not very athletic. If he was he'd be a top 10 transfer. Will be interesting to see how well he translates to the SEC
Posted on 3/29/24 at 5:02 pm to The Sultan of Swine
Yeah I can see why Muss had him high priority. Very Jaylin Williams esque player. Great fit.
Posted on 3/29/24 at 5:05 pm to UltimateHog
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Very Jaylin Williams esque player.
That was the comparison I thought of too.. if he keeps developing. He was able to become an occasional 3 point threat last year.
I think his ceiling is quite a bit lower than Williams, but I could see him working out for us if he modeled his game that way.
Posted on 3/29/24 at 5:22 pm to UltimateHog
Apparently Cohen grades really really high on potential.
Posted on 3/29/24 at 6:24 pm to RazorHawg
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Eric Musselman and Arkansas basketball landed their first major commitment out of the transfer portal on Friday. Former Massachusetts forward Josh Cohen officially announced his commitment to the Razorbacks by posting the news to his personal X (formerly Twitter) account.
The 6-10, 220-pound grad-transfer chose Arkansas over Notre Dame after taking official visits to both schools earlier this week. According to the 247Sports transfer rankings, Cohen currently sits as the No. 46 overall player available in the portal and the No. 8 overall power forward.
With the addition of Cohen, Arkansas has 7 of 13 spots filled for the 2024-25 basketball season. Cohen will be joined by incoming freshmen Isaiah Elohim and Jalen Shelly. Khalif Battle, Trevon Brazile, Baye Fall and Tramon Mark have yet to officially announce intentions for next season, but all are still on the Arkansas roster for next year until they do.
This season was Cohen's first at UMass after four years with mid-major Saint Francis of the Northeast Conference. Cohen had the second-best statistical output of his career, posting 15.9 points, 6.8 rebounds and 1.7 assists on 54.4% shooting from the floor, 34.4% from distance and 69.6% from the foul line for the Minutemen.
Cohen scored a season-high 28 points on three separate occasions, scored 20 or more in 11 games and recorded five double-doubles last year. His impressive year was good enough to earn First Team All-Atlantic 10 Conference honors. In the 2022-23 season, Cohen averaged 21.8 points and 8.3 rebounds for Saint Francis, which earned him Northeast Conference Co-Player of the Year honors.
Arkansas is in desperate need of some front court depth next season. Veteran forwards Makhi Mitchell, Jalen Graham and Chandler Lawson are each out of eligibility. As it stands, the Razorbacks have just six players on scholarship. Baye Fall and Trevon Brazile are the only forwards on the roster, but neither have officially announced their intentions to return for next year. Adding helps the Razorbacks shore up their front court depth for next season with an experienced and decorated big man.
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UMass transfer forward Josh Cohen has committed to Arkansas, he told On3.
Cohen, a 6-foot-10 senior, averaged 15.9 points and 6.8 rebounds per game this season for the Minutemen.
The Lincroft, New Jersey native is currently ranked as the No. 27 overall player in On3’s Transfer Portal Rankings.
Cohen becomes the Razorbacks’ first transfer commitment this offseason. He will join two talented freshmen in four-star SG Isaiah Elohim (No. 46 overall nationally) and four-star SF Jalen Shelley (No. 57).
Posted on 3/29/24 at 9:28 pm to RazorHawg
Until Musselman proves he can run a compote t offense, I will continue to be skeptical about any of his moves this offseason.
He needs to change his entire approach from practice to actually scrimmaging and designing plays that work on offense. You can't win a title only on defense.
He needs to change his entire approach from practice to actually scrimmaging and designing plays that work on offense. You can't win a title only on defense.
Posted on 3/29/24 at 9:30 pm to Jack Ruby
The guy has had massive success for 7+ years and you want him to change everything due to one portal miss season?
That's wild.
That's wild.
This post was edited on 3/29/24 at 9:30 pm
Posted on 3/29/24 at 11:59 pm to UltimateHog
You should know by now we have the most knowledgeable fanbase. We had a large chunk of them that thought HY posted that video without Muss permission. We’re terrible
Posted on 3/30/24 at 12:15 am to Woopigsooie20
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Searcy native and Arkansas State starting forward Freddy Hicks is entering the transfer portal, the grad transfer announced on social media Friday.
Hicks battled through injuries but had a strong finish to the season for the Red Wolves, averaging 19 points per game and 7.2 rebounds per game while shooting 46.3% during the Sun Belt Tournament and the College Basketball Invitational.
He had one of the most memorable shots in recent A-State history during the SBC Tournament. His game-winner over App State propelled the Red Wolves to their first Sun Belt Championship game in 17 years.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 12:18 am to UltimateHog
He actually changed his approach to practices this year going live for most of the sec schedule.
He and his staff do have a weakness when it comes to BLOB plays on both ends.
There has been a little more of a problem than guys not making shots with his offense. Too often the shot available isn't an easy shot for the roster he's assembled.
It's also fair for the fan base to default to a coach being unwilling to change their coaching philosophy as that majority of the fan base has had nothing but the most hard headest of coaches in their lifetimes.
He and his staff do have a weakness when it comes to BLOB plays on both ends.
There has been a little more of a problem than guys not making shots with his offense. Too often the shot available isn't an easy shot for the roster he's assembled.
It's also fair for the fan base to default to a coach being unwilling to change their coaching philosophy as that majority of the fan base has had nothing but the most hard headest of coaches in their lifetimes.
Posted on 3/30/24 at 6:16 am to UltimateHog
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The guy has had massive success for 7+ years and you want him to change everything due to one portal miss season?
There’s some truth to what he’s saying though. What works is cyclical. You can’t stick with the same philosophy forever if you want to maintain success.
Here’s a good article on Dan Hurley and his realization his offensive system needed to change after his first 2 years at UConn LINK
I would love to see Muss make the same shift to an off-ball motion focused approach.
Some excerpts:
By then, Hurley knew that changes were needed to enliven UConn's offense. Back-to-back March Madness defeats in which the Huskies shot 7-for-23 from 3-point range and only scored 22 points in first halves against the Aggies in 2022 and Maryland a year prior had exposed one of the program's flaws: Hurley's house blend of punch-out toughness, crazed intensity and phonebooth defense could only take Connecticut so far.
What UConn needed was an imaginative offensive elixir.
"Without a high-powered offense and being able to score the ball," Hurley told FOX Sports, "you can't win a six-game tournament."
Hurley and his assistants envisioned a movement-based offense that emphasized off-ball screening over isolation plays or traditional pick and rolls. They dreamed of a roster stuffed with high-level passers, shooters and "game processors" who could operate a system culled largely from overseas concepts.
"I feel like there's less pressure on you as a coach when you can win a game in non-rock fight fashion," Hurley said. "When you can go on runs, it's more fun, and it's less pressure to get a stop. I think you coach more relaxed.
A successful run through the Big East Tournament last week means UConn will enter the Big Dance ranked No. 1 in the country for offensive efficiency, No. 6 for effective field goal percentage and No. 6 in assist rate. Every member of the starting lineup is ranked among the top 26 players in the country by EvanMiya.com and averages at least 10.8 points per game. Hurley's current roster is averaging nearly six more points per 100 possessions than the title-winning group from a season ago.
"Any time you played Danny's teams in the past, you knew you had to win a street fight," said Manhattan head coach John Gallagher, whose team lost to UConn in late November, during an interview with FOX Sports. "Now in the last, I'd say, two to three years, you gotta go into the library and win the debate, too.
This post was edited on 3/30/24 at 7:00 am
Posted on 3/30/24 at 9:28 am to Woopigsooie20
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You should know by now we have the most knowledgeable fanbase. We had a large chunk of them that thought HY posted that video without Muss permission. We’re terrible
Posted on 3/31/24 at 9:36 am to hawgfaninc
Pinion to astate
Posted on 4/2/24 at 9:05 am to pioneerbasketball
Omaha Biliew in the portal after 1 year at Iowa St.
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:43 pm to Woopigsooie20
quote:Nice post. Aged well.
You should know by now we have the most knowledgeable fanbase. We had a large chunk of them that thought HY posted that video without Muss permission. We’re terrible
Posted on 4/2/24 at 2:46 pm to Drewbie
Like cheese.. ya know, the nasty, stinky kind! 
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