I feel no sympathy for UU. They have acted since day one that they are better than the Big XII, almost UT-like. Time to hand them their heads on a silver platter
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ucf next year
Guards/Wings
Darius Johnson (15pts per- Big 12 HM)
Jaylin Sellers (15pts per- Big 12 HM)
Jordan Ivy-Curry (17pts per - UTSA transfer)
Dallan Coleman (transfer former starter at Gtech)
Dior Johnson (Former 5star, top Juco)
Mikey Williams (Former 5star)
Forwards/Bigs
Keyshawn Hall (17pts 8rbs, Goerge mason Transfer)
Moustapha Thiam (5star Recruit)
Rokas Jocius (9pts 5rbs 6’10, La Salle starting center)
JJ Taylor (Former 4star, Memphis Transfer)
Benny Williams (Former 4star, Syracuse Transfer)
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The big 12 gets even wealthier.
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If Dawkins can get this team to gel, they could be pretty damn good.
Insane talent but sketchy questionable mix of personalities. But UCF can thrive if they become 2nd chance U and still hold the kids accountable
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Soft team but some good potential in the backcourt.
VJ Edgecombe (Baylor) been dominating for the Bahamas in the qualifier for the Olympics, Bahamas won both games and now qualified for the real Olympic tournament at the end of july
Edgecombe won player on the game both games despite coming off the bench, scoring 21 and 20 respectively (against mostly pros/and his team mostly NBA players)
does most of his damage attacking the post, rarely shoots but did go 50% of those attempts, 3 for 6 in both games combined
AJ storr (Kansas) played with the bahamas in pretournament scrimmages but didnt play with them in the actual tournament, Kansas newspaper is insinuating passport issues… storr had 15pts and 14pts in the scrimmages
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Bored on 4th of July but random decided to look at the on-paper weakness of every big 12 as of right now
Houston - bench scoring, floor spacing, defensive rebounding
Kansas - floor spacing among key players, will have lots of lineups wher only 2 on the floor can shoot
Iowa State - 3-point shooting capability; they mostly score on 2s, so they struggle to score against teams with good post defense
Baylor - post defense and lack a lead scoring guard (as a shooter off the dribble)
BYU - defense/rebounding and coaching; can he capitalize on offensive players?
Arizona - needs multiple lower producing players to step up and go to the next level; Arizona, in general, has suspect defense
Cincinnati - 3-point shooting and floor spacing, they have shooters but it means taking minutes from their best players. for example a jizzle, dayday, skillings, mitchell, aziz lineup, none of them can shoot, outside of simas these are debated as their best players
Kansas State - efficient scoring; only one scoring guard, and he is somewhat streaky
Texas Tech - scoring; no proven scorer on the team, likely playing small ball, which could impact rebounding
UCF - defense; their point guard is a decent defender, but almost every other player is high offense with suspect defense; their center is 200 lbs, so rebounding is also an issue
West Virginia - only one center on the roster, and he isn’t very good; post defense and rebounding
TCU - can lower-level transfers translate to the high major level? Lack of experience; six players for TCU will be freshmen or redshirt freshmen
Oklahoma State - there isn’t a single notable shooter on the roster; shooting on paper could be terrible
Utah - good at 3-point shooting, but on paper, they don’t look good at anything else
Colorado - the overwhelming majority of the roster has little to no Division 1 experience; anything and everything could be a weakness, but we’ll say experience for now
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@pesik UCF’s Dior Johnson was invited to the CP3 Elite Camp
https://x.com/NikeEYB/status/1807816432790446485
No other Big 12 pg on the list.
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UCFs Mikey Williams
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I do have to wonder (with the Baptist Church supporting Baylor) if Baylor now rivals UT-Austin & Kansas & Duke with respect to their NIL program for basketball players.
Don’t see defensive rebounding as remotely being a weakness.
Bench production will be there
Floor spacing to me isn’t a weakness. We will play the way we need to get looks.
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We were pretty poor last year at defensive rebounding
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we are bottom 22% nationally in defensive rebounding percentage, 20% of the point scored on us are 2nd chance points …we have numerous games were we gave up 20+ offensive rebounds…
at what point does that become a weak point? when we are bottom 5%?
bench production “could” be there but we are basing all of it on optimism… mercy hasnt played d1 and has a career average is 4pts per on 37% fg% …they are the 2 likely sources of bench points we are hoping
for the context of this convo we are talking about vs good teams.good defense. floor psacing is an issue … rewatch any of the 3 iowa state games, they just crowded the post all game with no repercussion, we didnt get a single shot we wanted… then watch iowa st vs byu, and byu was scoring at will, as byu could punsh them for trying to crowd the post. i think they are going to try to address this with Arceneaux at the 4, but again its “hope” that he improves
i just stated on paper weakness, im sure all of the teams i states above all have hope those arent weaknesses
With Ramon, TA and JoJo back 100%, plus McFarland and lath having an extra year. I think our defensive rebounding will greatly improve. Uzan also has potential to be a really good guard rebounder. Sharp made it a point of emphasis in an interview to highlight that as a weakness of his last year and he’s focusing on getting better, he too has a chance to be a great rebounding guard.
Our bench scoring is definitely going to depend heavily on the development of TA and JoJo and how quickly Mercy and/or Chase can get acclimated. Both can light it up from 3, but idk how quick they will be ready.
Now with floor spacing there just isn’t much we can do there besides players developing. Ramon shot definitely looks back to form. TA empathized working on his jumper a lot with his injury that’s all he could do. If Uzan could at least go back to his freshman year shooting, that would still be improvement. Low volume but high efficiency. If mercy and chase are ready that would be huge with floor spacing. I wouldn’t say any of those are out of the realm of possibility. The great ones, but a lot less likely, would be Wilson, Roberts and JoJo developing a consistent 3. 32-35% from Wilson, 25% from JoJo and Roberts.
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Especially after Arc and Tugler went down. With those two healthy and hopefully an improved Francis along with Roberts we should be much improved
Yes no TA and no Tug, Walker got injured and J’Wan was constantly playing hurt.
This team will not have a deficiency with rebounding so take that crap somewhere else.
There are always question marks early in the season. No one is returning a ready made starting lineup much less a bench. We have question but have as many answers entering the season as anyone. There is a reason I used production over the word scoring because that is important. As long as we keep running our stuff and avoiding huge let downs they are doing their jobs.
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And again don’t consider spacing a weakness. We will run our sets to get open looks and play to our strengths. However TA is a forward and will be starting his offense from the perimeter.