CorchJay

Even tho Cooper K’d his last plate appearance he’s been hitting a little better lately. Still not hammering the ball but getting hits. We need him to start getting hot and hitting some bombs or Ike isn’t gonna see a pitch in the postseason

Ben thanks for the updates

I meant Hall. My apologies. Lots of new names

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Be nice to talk more basketball... someday

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Not much really to talk about a few before summer team practice begins but I’ll try to give my best starting lineups and what I think their roles will be.

PG - Pettiford/Magwood ( w/ Hall playing some point forward)
SG - Overton/Bashir/Walker
SF - Freeman/Bashir/Hall
PF - Hall/williams/Murphy
C - Murphy/Opurum

Totally different team from last season. Probably still need another big. Everything changes if Pettiford get a mid round 1st round grade. I expect him to be back but all it takes is one team to love you. But I’m gonna speak as if he’s back.

Last season the 2 and 3 were essentially interchangeable. I could see that from the 3 and 4 this season. Murphy will probably be our most important player with Hall being our best. Pettiford if he finds consistency each game and handles the pressure of being the “man” could find himself being the best.

Anyway I think Hall plays the most minutes averaging around 30 minutes a game and probably expands to 34 a game in mist win situations. Followed by Pettiford at 28, and Murphy at 25. The others will all get around 14-22 minutess a game with the exceptions of Williams and Magwood. All depends on them to earn 10 minutes or so in the summer. Walker I expect to be an in case of emergency guy. He’s a lot stronger than he looks so if he can learn to play good defense he can find his way on the court earlier. He can shoot it but is inconsistent.

Outside of our starting 5 and running our base flex cut offense there are so many options if Murphy is off the court. Could play Hall as a point forward role much like we did when the offense would run through CBM but Hall is much better at the rim. Could look similar to an aTm offense or even the Miami team that bounced us out of the NCAA a couple years ago. Huge 4 guard lineup with a shot blocker parked down low on defense.

Roles -
Pettiford - primary ball handler/iso/late shot clock
Magwood - learn the system/improve each week/ volume shoot when on the court
Overton - defender/slash to the basket/3 and D some
Bashir - hardest for me to see how he handles not being the primary offensive guy on his team/needs to shoot it around 38-42% from 3/ needs to prove he can bang with physical guards
Walker - work on foot quickness and ball handling/become good defender/work on shot consistency/ won’t play much
Freeman - 3 and D guy/ can bang for rebounds, CMo type that can score/needs to try to get garbage points on backside rebounding
Hall - I’m my opinion if he can be a 16/8 guy will go a long way to see if we are a contender or pretender. Has all the skills but is a volume guy needs to take better shots and cut out the bad ones/will be your secondary late shot clock guy/ will go to the FT line a lot so getting above 80 % there would help the team greatly.
Williams - we need Williams to be ready to go by the time the season starts/ he is very talented but very inexperienced/hope he plays like redshirt CWill a few years ago no fear and just plays hard and not scared of the moment like CWill seemed to be his last couple seasons
Murphy - gotta have him be the man/might need to be the real team leader/ rebound his arse off/ play elite interior defense/he can be a better scorer then 8 per game depending on how well our drives to the basket are from he could get dump offs, lobs, rebound put backs, and does have decent dribbling skills
Opurum - block shots/rebound/ play with leverage on defense and don’t pick up dumb fouls/lob guy on offense/ has good hands so like a mini Walker Kessler can play well in the air

Kent state

Who is Seth Richards? Seth Williams, maybe?

Also, if not benched last season Thorne throws for over 3k passing. So context means more than raw stats.

I will say if all the WRs play that the fans want to play and get targets it will be tough for anyone to crack 1k receiving but maybe you have a bunch between 500-800 yards. Depends on the efficiency of each WR combined with the QB effectiveness.

Still think as always can you get off the field on defense in 3rd and long and can you stay on the field on offense in 3rd and short will determine our season.

If Samantha is a baddie to you guys you need o increase your standards. Mid at best. Now when you put her in an arrest lineup maybe she’s in the top 10 percent but if I were around her age I wouldn’t even notice her.

Of course you weren’t. Dance for puppet.

For me personally as far as fans during their playing time Dylan is the most beloved Auburn athlete since Bo Jackson. That is saying a lot when you consider Caddy and the many other football superstars we have had. If Cam would have been a 3 year guy obviously he would be up there but longevity but student/player interaction Dylan blows all away.

And I mentioned 2 statues need too go up from this past seasons team. Broome the great AU basketball player and Dylan the epitome of AU athlete. If not a statue a very prestigious award that can cross all sports in his name and one that stands for 75-100 years.

I wish Chad the best. But he doesn’t scare me on another team.

Plus I think we will have a solid roster next season but a lot has to come together perfectly to be a really good team. From the roster currently looks like we are about. 7 seed going in to the tournament next season. If things mesh well and everyone plays their role maybe a 4/5 seed.