UNI MBB offseason thread

[OhNewby]

Good point, I forgot that everyone has some sort of an excuse for a waiver. Without him being willing to redshirt for a year (which he wasn't willing to do at Iowa, if I recall correctly), he provides basically nothing for our 2019-2020 season.

[Blue42]

Good point, I forgot that everyone has some sort of an excuse for a waiver. Without him being willing to redshirt for a year (which he wasn't willing to do at Iowa, if I recall correctly), he provides basically nothing for our 2019-2020 season.

Yeah would probably have to agree.

Would be interesting as an add for 2020-21 when Isaiah Brown has graduated.

Don't see the value of adding for one year next season.

[Wxcpanther]

Tray Croft has entered the transfer portal......woof

[06panther10]

Time to go out and find a guard for next year because there is a big hole in our roster now. What a bummer. How have we had such terrible luck with JUCO kids lately?

[PanthersMBB]

Not a big surprise. We should find out sometime if it was his grades which most would assume it was. Not a good addition for this team from the beginning. Never heard anything positive at all. Wish the guy well. Good it opens up a scholarship.

[OhNewby]

Time to go out and find a guard for next year because there is a big hole in our roster now. What a bummer. How have we had such terrible luck with JUCO kids lately?

I'll be positive and say this is not a hole, since he never actually played. Also, he probably was going to play 10 mins a game, at most. We were by far his best offer coming out of JUCO, so there were no indications he was a top prospect. Watching tape, he was really a scoring 1/2 combo not a true point guard, closest to Spencer and hard to imagine he'd step in and be better than Spencer as a 5th year senior.

Another question, do we need a guard or do we need a post player? We have 5 guards: Spencer, AJ, Pick, Brown, Berhow. I'd say unquestionably, our guard talent is miles ahead of our post talent.

That said, please, please, please, let's not leave another scholarship open like we did this year and end up with a short bench. I agree, let's go get somebody.

[06panther10]

I'll be positive and say this is not a hole, since he never actually played. Also, he probably was going to play 10 mins a game, at most. We were by far his best offer coming out of JUCO, so there were no indications he was a top prospect. Watching tape, he was really a scoring 1/2 combo not a true point guard, closest to Spencer and hard to imagine he'd step in and be better than Spencer as a 5th year senior.

Another question, do we need a guard or do we need a post player? We have 5 guards: Spencer, AJ, Pick, Brown, Berhow. I'd say unquestionably, our guard talent is miles ahead of our post talent.

That said, please, please, please, let's not leave another scholarship open like we did this year and end up with a short bench. I agree, let's go get somebody.

Its a big hole in the sense that we need another scoring & ball handling guard. We lost Wyatt and Miles and Tray was presumably going to get a hood chunk of those minutes.

We have to go out and hopefully land a guard that can play right away.

[BCPanther]

Man, that's pretty rough when we were the only ones willing to take a chance and work through the academic issues with him.

Oh well, use that ride for a ballhandler/defender. Doesn't necessarily need to be a great scorer just somebody that can manage the game for 8-10 minutes and guard somebody.

As far as JUCOs, I don't get it. Outside of Ali and the early Mac years, we've just had terrible, terrible luck.

[Wxcpanther]

Man, that's pretty rough when we were the only ones willing to take a chance and work through the academic issues with him.

Oh well, use that ride for a ballhandler/defender. Doesn't necessarily need to be a great scorer just somebody that can manage the game for 8-10 minutes and guard somebody.

As far as JUCOs, I don't get it. Outside of Ali and the early Mac years, we've just had terrible, terrible luck.

Suddenly Maishe might be a legitimate option. Even if he does dribble into double teams with his head down 😉

[Born-a-Panther]

Jake confirmed it was academics. He didn't get where he needed to be.

[FOTY]

Jake confirmed it was academics. He didn't get where he needed to be.

Article confirms we are focusing on the back court to fill the scholly.

[GoPanthers85]

Article confirms we are focusing on the back court to fill the scholly.

Got a link to the article or where to find it?

[MNpanthers]

Got a link to the article or where to find it?

https://wcfcourier.com/sports/college/uni/mens_basketball/college-men-s-basketball-croft-to-depart-uni/article_11472cff-6ab8-5eea-bc44-3b48f93f44fc.html?utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter&utm_campaign=user-share

[CyCarp]

It's a bummer Croft didn't work out. You can lead a horse to water, but can't make him drink. At the end of the day, it really didn't hurt anything. We had an extra scholarship last year (that Miles eventually got), so I can't imagine we would have used this one elsewhere. Hopefully we can make good use of this for next year though.

[Wxcpanther]

I'm assuming everyone is in agreement that this new scholarship would go to a point guard. We have an abundance of wings as it is, but maybe we can get a guy like Za who really is a wing who is more than comfortable bringing the ball up the floor. Spencer will take a vast majority of the backup point guard minutes, so a combo guard that can play on and off the ball would be the move here if possible I would imagine