2024 Offseason Portal Rumors

[CyCarp]

Another thing about Bond is that he used a redshirt his first year at Virginia. 3 years to play with 2 years at a quality program that runs fairly similar to Jakes style (at least what Jake used to run, I guess).

[PantherAlum09]

I think the best part about Bond, is that at the very least he should be a better version of what we had with Pickford. Or if we want to go more current, a better version of Duax. Maybe a bit limited on offense, but a great defender and rebounder. He has more polish to his game on offense than Duax and can play under control, but he will crash the glass and play great defense.

If he develops a 3 point shot at all, we will be cooking.

[kochrab]

I think the best part about Bond, is that at the very least he should be a better version of what we had with Pickford. Or if we want to go more current, a better version of Duax. Maybe a bit limited on offense, but a great defender and rebounder. He has more polish to his game on offense than Duax and can play under control, but he will crash the glass and play great defense.

If he develops a 3 point shot at all, we will be cooking.

I'll be extremely interested to see how his game develops if he gets more minutes. I don't feel like he got enough play time at Virginia to get a good sample.

[sivert]

Awesome. I was hoping we would get Bond. We have needed a threat to drive to the bucket to get the offense moving.

For our last couple scholarships I think we should go after a few great PGs. If we get one, awesome, if we swing and miss, ok because I like RJ and Trey running point.

[CyCarp]

One last thing on Bond from me that I recently noticed. He was the 75th ranked recruit in the country in 2022. He might be the highest rated recruit out of HS we've ever had (AJ was 78). His potential is huge.

[catsize]

Interesting that we're all excited about a kid from a midwestern suburb town. Wauwatosa is only slightly larger than Urbandale. Isn't this the same type of profile people have been complaining about?

[clenz]

Interesting that we're all excited about a kid from a midwestern suburb town. Wauwatosa is only slightly larger than Urbandale. Isn't this the same type of profile people have been complaining about?

No


It would be if it was their equivalent of Drew Daniel transferring in.

It's not

It's the elite of that area transferring in. Not just the elite of the area. Out of HS he was considered one of the top 1-2% of basketball players in the country in his class. There is a different there. Go back to what I was saying using MSP as a reference.

If you don't see that then you are being obtuse to the entire argument surrounding that topic.

[DownGoesKansas]

Interesting that we're all excited about a kid from a midwestern suburb town. Wauwatosa is only slightly larger than Urbandale. Isn't this the same type of profile people have been complaining about?

I mean we are excited about getting a 247 recruit with a composite ranking of 60... 20 spots higher than AJ...

but you do you

[BCPanther]

Interesting that we're all excited about a kid from a midwestern suburb town. Wauwatosa is only slightly larger than Urbandale. Isn't this the same type of profile people have been complaining about?

It's not the AJs, Jespersons, Morgans, Kochs, Campbells that we've been miffed by.

It's the kids from those areas that have incredibly low ceilings.

Bond isn't that guy.

[MVCBeat]

I have to say I feel a bit vindicated. Don’t count your chickens folks.

[OhNewby]

So it's not an end all be all, but I was looking at some analytics, and Evan Miya has player ratings and rankings for every single player in NCAA, from Number 1 (Zach Edey) to Number 3006 (Some guy from Alabama State). Leon Bond ranks at 748th in the country, which would actually be our second best player on the team last year, only behind Tytan, just ahead of Heise and Born.

In case you want to play around on your own https://evanmiya.com/?player_ratings.

If I'm counting correctly, out of the Top 20 MVC players, only six are returning to their schools. Tytan was the 3rd best player returning and Xavier Bledson is ranked above him (seems questionable), so it's great that we're getting basically either the best or second best returning player.

[BCPanther]

Using Torvik's preseason T-Rank, we're better than we were last year with the addition of Bond.

97th overall and 2nd in the Valley (and that factors in his algorithm thinking that Hunter Jacobson and Charlie Miller are contributors and Hornseth doesn't exist).

Games happen on the floor but with the much better schedule and what we've done in the portal, I have to kind of remind myself to stop doubting Jake in the long run.

[CyCarp]

Using Torvik's preseason T-Rank, we're better than we were last year with the addition of Bond.

97th overall and 2nd in the Valley (and that factors in his algorithm thinking that Hunter Jacobson and Charlie Miller are contributors and Hornseth doesn't exist).

Games happen on the floor but with the much better schedule and what we've done in the portal, I have to kind of remind myself to stop doubting Jake in the long run.

Does this take into account anything from Rubin?

[BCPanther]

Does this take into account anything from Rubin?

Yes, it has Rubin in the post rotation at approximately 12 minutes a night.

Minutes:

Anderson 32
Campbell 31
Schwieger 30
Hutson 29
Bond 29
Pock 22
Taylor 13
Rubin 12
Jacobson 6
Miller 3

So when you put some common sense in there we probably move up even higher.

[OhNewby]

Yes, it has Rubin in the post rotation at approximately 12 minutes a night.

Minutes:

Anderson 32
Campbell 31
Schwieger 30
Hutson 29
Bond 29
Pock 22
Taylor 13
Rubin 12
Jacobson 6
Miller 3

So when you put some common sense in there we probably move up even higher.

I think you forgot Weisbrod (and Hornseth)

Anderson 30
Campbell 30
Hutson 25
Bond 25
Schwieger 20
Pock 20
Rubin 20
Weisbrod 15
Taylor 10
Hornseth 5