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(04-03-2023 04:06 PM)The Answer UAB Wrote:  

(04-03-2023 03:32 PM)blazers9911 Wrote:  

(04-03-2023 02:51 PM)grendelson138 Wrote:  Wild new times for sure. I've gotten used to pulling up a roster on my phone to know basketball player names during the first few games of the season. 'Oh yeah, he transferred from this school.'

Full resets of both football and basketball for 2024 ... I'm guessing I should invest in lots of antacid.

It would not be shocking at all if the roster remaining was Gaines, Toney, Butta, and Davis. I thought Gordon had some upside, but he hasn’t seen the floor the past couple of years. Whether we as fans like it or not, this is how AK is going to construct his teams. We have some good looking guys already committed, if we can fill a couple of needs in the portal, great.

I also won’t be shocked if Gaines isn’t back. I want him back and think he could thrive next year, but I just have a feeling he may not return.

Lol at IG accounts asking if EG did enough to get drafted. In what world would he be drafted right now?

He has elite leaping ability and wing span for a guard his height. That's literally it. His shooting, passing, decision making, size, strength, and ability to finish through contact at the rim are all well below where an NBA guard should be IMO. He's also not YOUNG by NBA standards anymore. He's played 3 years in college and is still raw. That is much later than most breakout NBA prospects, AKA why you don't see a ton of 4 and 5 year quintessential "college players" getting drafted.

He could have a shot at the league if he puts on weight, gets stronger, continues to improve his jump shot, develops some kind of a mid range game, finishes better at the rim (shot ~41% from inside the three, which is bad considering how many of his shots come right at the rim), and cuts down on the turnovers. He'd get eaten alive in the NBA right now.

^^This is in terms of getting drafted by the NBA before anyone bites my head off.

He obviously still lives in my head rent free. I've never watched a more polarizing player. He can do things that almost no one at his size can do. He also had games where he looked like the next coming of Jason Kidd in terms of his assist:turnover numbers and calmness under pressure. He will also throw the ball to the other team with no teammate within 10 ft of the pass on the last possession of the game and jump into the air multiple times in the same game and have absolutely no idea what to do with the ball. Never seen anything like him.

The juxtaposition of his ability to perform borderline humanly impossible feats on the court, but also repeatedly make the mistakes of a middle school player is just plain insanity to me.