thunderbird1100

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What percentage do you expect for a big rebounding shooting guard? Not every player is going to be a 40% shooter. 32% is fine, and if he improves on that then his shooting will be more than adequate.

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We need guys who can shoot and one that can actually start. No I'm not saying the dude needs to be a 40% 3PA, stop putting an argument out there that doesnt exist. I'm talking a guy who is a good scorer and took more volume from 3 a game and shot at a DECENT clip (mid-high 30% is totally fine). If nobody in our starting group is much of a shooter, then, how are we fixing last year's problem at all being a bad shooting team?

We arent fixing that problem by starting a 32% 3rd year CAA 3 point shooter at SG. We arent fixing that problem by having a 6th year player coming in who is a career backup. I just find it odd after landing Dedan Thomas at guard who can be a nice distributor and general scorer himself we seemingly havent figured out we need guys who can shoot the basketball and do it on some volume as a starter. Dedan thomas didnt take many 3s at all last 2 seasons. King was a mediocre shooter in a bad conference on mid volume for a starter. MacKinnon also took less than 3 3's a game as a starter in the WCC last season. Why wasnt this made a priority and why are we talking about grabbing an international player at this point? Just seems like odd roster construction once again, or we just flat out ran out of money, once again.

If we're not going to be a decent shooting team then we have to be elite in some other offensive categories and I'm not sure we will be at this point. Wade's teams often didnt shoot well from 3 but they sure as hell rebounded well on the offensive glass to make up for it.

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How come Jay can't find a DH on a roster loaded with #1 recruiting classes and a ton of NIL money spent on transfers

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You mean like the DH hitting .343 and has a 1.135 OPS on the season who just hit a walk off grand slam in our very last game :lol:

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Sounds like the same sitch with Dickenson and Milam to me

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Milam even in his current slump is hitting near .290 on the season, pretty big stretch to act like the Antigua is anywhere close to him at the plate. Milam also has 21 XBH including 9 home runs slugging .530. Antigua is literally hitting .200 on the season with 1 XBH (a double) in 88 plate appearances. Not to mention, Milam is fielding .981 at SS, while Antigua is fielding .928 :lol:

Continue to look like a moron, thanks for the laughs.

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Averaging just over 3 point shots per game is a pretty decent clip. And 2 seasons averaging 40% is enough of a sample size.

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Again, totally fine if this was a backup pickup, I'm not sure it was though. This guy was a pretty minimal producer at UTSA/Memphis as a 4th and 5th year college player. We can stroke a 40% shooter as much as we want but to average 9 points at UTSA and 5 points at Memphis in years 4/5 is not someone I'm ever getting excited about unless again more of a 10-15 minute a game guy here or something.

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Right now, King. The 6'6" guy who shot 45% and averaged 18.5 as well as 6 rebounds.

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You mean the guy who shot 32% from 3 in the CAA in his 3rd year? Yeah, color me worried if that's our starting SG going into next season.

There is still a big gaping starting hole on this team as it sits between SG/wing depending which way they go with King/MacKinnon. I think its fine if 1 of them starts, but both, ehhhhhh

He should have went to a mid-major who doesnt care for a few years riding into retirement if he just wanted to be a skipper for a bit again.

Taking the USC job was just more career suicide for him. Unless he hits the portal in a huge way this offseason they are cooked again for next year because they arent bringing in notable high school talent. They have got to bring in a number of starters from the portal, specifically on the mound for sure.

Carter definitely isnt a starter in this league. They better hit big on another guard/wing. The international talk is extremely disappointing. Those guys rarely work out well in year 1.

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I just wish he wasn’t draft eligible next year. Would love to have him for a 3rd year

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This, I just dont think there's any way he makes it a 3rd year here if he improves at all upon this season next year. If he can hit close to 12-15 HR next season with a high average still, he's long gone and probably Top 10-15. Especially if he shows he can play a really good CF.

Not as promising as I would have hoped. On ESPN a guy released a Top 65 and it only included Fauske a couple weeks ago. No Young, Moss, Ebel or McKenzie in his list.

I will say nice to see Serna seems like he's more than likely making it in here unless his number isnt that high. That would make 2 years in a row we've brought in our top catcher, which is something we struggled with for years fighting with the draft and those guys.

Still a ways to go to find out who goes pro and who comes here (and stays on current team), but I get the feeling with the size of this class, and the fact the roster are being severely dwindled down to 34 players; we will use the portal to be ultra selective. It's not going to be double digit players coming from there. Probably not more than 5-7 guys if I had to guess.

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Either I’m not understanding that correctly but Texas hasn’t played OU yet and also Texas hasn’t lost a series yet this year

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"They" in that is USC

Texas is at the top of the league and they (USC) lost 2/3 to OU. This was in response to someone mentioned the league added 2 good teams since when Mainieri was here.

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Has the league changed that drastically in 3 years?

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The transfer portal has drastically changed the ability to plug holes you think you have, for sure

The problem for Mainieri is they had a pretty bad portal haul to go along with a pretty bad freshman class as well. Now he had no real input on the freshman class obviously, but the weak portal haul certainly was a lot on him.

South Carolina is really lacking on the talent end and he doesnt have the talent influx to fix that thus far, and their freshman class coming in for next season is also still pretty weak.

So basically he better go balls to the wall in this next portal cycle and hit it big because thats about the only way South Carolina will be competitive again in the SEC next season.

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SLU Friday night guy is a dude. If they get in the tourney, they will ruin some 1's seed day.


Brother Martin kid that blew his arm out a few years ago.

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Dude's a 5th year senior too.

Last year he had a 2.87 ERA but only 49 K's in 84.2 IP.
This year he has a 2.06 ERA with 98 K's in 74.1 IP

He must have added a really good pitch between this year and last year to double his K's in 10 less IP