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30 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Never heard of her before I saw Coach Wisdom following her, and now Judd. 

Cool. I just figured if anyone here had, it would be you.

Seems like we may be trading Kneepkens for Judd & Sidberry.

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1 minute ago, MuellerHorn said:

Cool. I just figured if anyone here had, it would be you.

Seems like we may be trading Kneepkens for Judd & Sidberry.

Yep

Booker and Lee both shot around 40% last year, Judd is a career 38%, Crump is a 3 level scorer, both Hose and Sidberry can stretch and make about 1/3 of their outside shots and Harmon has a full offseason being healthy to hopefully hit around 30% as well 

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Posted
5 hours ago, Pancho said:

Okot (Mississippi State) transfers to Souf Carolina

Just stacking bigs and won’t play them

Speaking of South Carolina, Slim Mulkey put out that Fulwiley didn’t want to leave, her helicopter mom forced her into the portal to find a bag, she wanted to go back to South Carolina and Dawn had moved on already 

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The timeline on Judd is mid-May apparently. Texas or Tennessee, with Texas leading. Does not appear she’s even considering going back to Missouri 

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Posted (edited)
18 hours ago, Js1 said:

Yep

Booker and Lee both shot around 40% last year, Judd is a career 38%, Crump is a 3 level scorer, both Hose and Sidberry can stretch and make about 1/3 of their outside shots and Harmon has a full offseason being healthy to hopefully hit around 30% as well 

Booker:

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Lee:

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Phelia:

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Judd:

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What stands out to me about these is:

1. Booker should have been taking more threes last season. I didn't realize she shot 40% from deep. However, she basically only attempted about one per game. We should be creating more set three-point attempts for her and fewer contested off the dribble at that percentage.

2. Lee should have been taking more, too.

3. In WCBB, FG% and 3P% seem to be pretty close for most decent shooters. Texas needs to adapt their offense to attempt more threes for any player shooting 35%+. The statistical payoff is there when FG% is only marginally higher for most of these players.

Keep the defensive identity, feed the post, and shoot 5-10 more threes/game, and this team should increase the average point differential. With our post depth this season, disallowing teams to collapse down in the lane without the threat of a three-point risk because we actually can - and will - willingly shoot threes would be a huge difference maker. 

With who Vic has been targeting in the portal, I'm optimistic this is somewhat his plan, as well.

Also, another year with more experienced, polished, and healthy versions of Harmon, Booker, Phelia, Lee, and Preston is going to be fun. If Preston and Lee get confidence in creating their own shots (think Preston late at home against SCar, as well as Lee the final few games of the season), we're going to have some serious offensive weaponry.

 

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Posted (edited)

Judd is now following Booker (and vice versa)

Creme updated his Early Top 25, with portal additions/departures.  Today is the last day, but schools have 48 hours to enter names, so we could still see someone go

1 South Carolina - no surprise with Latson and Okot
2 UConn
3 UCLA
4 Texas
5 LSU
6 OU (with Chavez)
7 Tenn
8 Duke
9 NCST
10 UNC

11 Vanderbilt
13 Ole Miss
16 Baylor
18 Notre Dame
19 USC

I'm surprised not to see TCU in the top 25, with getting Miles.  Also still some big names on the board, like Serah Williams and Fulwiley

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Posted
58 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Phelia is in the portal

Sad Lugubrious GIF by Pokémon

I’m hoping this means we are getting some guards from the portal and Phelia wanted more playing time. If not, then WTH, Vic?

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1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

It’s not only his choice. Maybe she just didn’t feel it here. 

Yep. Can’t put all the blame on Vic. Maybe she didn’t like it here. Maybe she felt like the eye issue means she needed a diff start. Maybe she got tampered with 

Posted
39 minutes ago, Js1 said:

Yep. Can’t put all the blame on Vic. Maybe she didn’t like it here. Maybe she felt like the eye issue means she needed a diff start. Maybe she got tampered with 

Maybe. But entering the transfer portal on the last day, after following potential portal transfers on social media is a bit odd.

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7 minutes ago, 86txex said:

Maybe. But entering the transfer portal on the last day, after following potential portal transfers on social media is a bit odd.

Either someone is coming in at her position and she freaked out or the Texas team doctors aren’t going to clear her and someone else’s team doctor is a lot more lax 

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I’m curious if Rori returning affected Phelia and NIL. I assume she was slotted for a year of NIL and then, bam, didn’t even play. Perhaps a negotiating tactic while she works that out with the WBB money 

If I have to pick whether to pay Rori and Phelia, I’m picking the heart and soul of the team 

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Yea losing Phelia is not ideal. . 
 

If it was due to Rori’s NIL which I don’t think , she better be working on that shot. But hopefully we can get these portal guards now that we have some more room 😔

Posted (edited)
19 minutes ago, D3zii said:

Yea losing Phelia is not ideal. . 
 

If it was due to Rori’s NIL which I don’t think , she better be working on that shot. But hopefully we can get these portal guards now that we have some more room 😔

I'm not saying it is due to Rori's NIL, but I am speculating it could be:

Rori is returning, which was not in the budget initially.  Nor was another year of Phelia, she was supposed to be one and done. 
Phelia got paid a year of NIL to play 8 games and it's still not 100% how her recovery is going.  And Lee did very well as a freshman in the same position, without an injury history. 
If there's any hesitation on her recovery, with Texas pursuing Judd and Kneepkins, the money may not be there.  Yet. 

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Posted
14 hours ago, perfectchaos007 said:

Rori needs to practice her midrange all offseason like she worked on her FT last year

If she would just put some arch on it she would improve her shooting % tremendously.

Back up the Brinks truck to Kneepkins door.

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Posted
1 hour ago, Js1 said:

Phelia has a DO NOT CONTACT tag

So:

She knows where she's going or
She's negotiating to stay

I wonder if Vic has the same rule as Sark, once in the portal it's bye bye. If so, that only leaves one of those.

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