Basketball Transfer Portal Thread

Sam wasn’t gonna be a great style fit and I think Achor is exactly the type of guy that I’d yes Jans system. He didn’t leave KState for disciplinary issues either so no real concern there. I don’t think we done in the portal only at 13 on roster rn and we know how Jans like to redshirt those guys that are no gonna be in rotation. So I’d expect us to bring in 2/3 more players still. In particular #1 prospect in state Davis-Fleming defiantly needs a redshirt and I’d expect Chol or Tee Bartlett to get one also. This year will be different folks not real pecking order or who guaranteed to be rotation

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Originally Posted by StarkVegasSteve

No. Still want to find a CG to pair with Hubbard and maybe one more guy. I still think either Warren or Chol get into the portal before it closes.

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With Sam Walters deciding to flip on us thats potentially 3 more additions. Definitely need another guard/ball handler who can actually run offense. Getting another hybrid big wouldn't hurt either now the Walters decided to flip on us

We gotta find guys at this point who are okay with the idea of potentially not starting. Or guys that wanna prove they belong in the rotation. Makes it very hard to get established players this late in the portal. We know how Jans plays guys. Hubbard, Shawn Jones, Ballard & Achor will be starters. And the last spot is VERY likely to be Amier Ali or Jaborri McGhee with the other being a scoring spark plug off the bench. Jans only runs an 8/9 man and that’s 6 already. I think we can count on Paymon & Dellquan both being in the rotation as well. I believe that King Grace, Tee Bartlett will be given opportunities to get play time as well. Guys like Chol, Davis-Fleming & Cameron Paul are all potential redshirts

I’d imagine it will be depth more than anything at this point. Starting lineup feels like it’s alresdy got 7 guys competing for 5 spots and I’m sure Jan’s will want to redshirt some young guys. Hard to get guys to come soemheee when we lack NIL and they probably wouldn’t start. I’m not as heartbroken about the Walter’s thing as a lot guys are. He wasn’t a great fit to begin with

That stinks but at the same time, we would have been his 3rd school in 3 years. Seems like he wants it his way.

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Originally Posted by ZedFedder

That stinks but at the same time, we would have been his 3rd school in 3 years. Seems like he wants it his way.

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Very true, but at this point it really doesn't matter because we will be in full rebuild mode again next season with how College sports has become. Hopefully soon some sort of rules are made so this free for all won't continue

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Originally Posted by NCMSTFAN

Very true, but at this point it really doesn't matter because we will be in full rebuild mode again next season with how College sports has become. Hopefully soon some sort of rules are made so this free for all won't continue

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Yep. Thats college recruiting now. More portal- less HS recruits

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Originally Posted by BulldogBear97

We gotta find guys at this point who are okay with the idea of potentially not starting. Or guys that wanna prove they belong in the rotation. Makes it very hard to get established players this late in the portal. We know how Jans plays guys. Hubbard, Shawn Jones, Ballard & Achor will be starters. And the last spot is VERY likely to be Amier Ali or Jaborri McGhee with the other being a scoring spark plug off the bench. Jans only runs an 8/9 man and that’s 6 already. I think we can count on Paymon & Dellquan both being in the rotation as well. I believe that King Grace, Tee Bartlett will be given opportunities to get play time as well. Guys like Chol, Davis-Fleming & Cameron Paul are all potential redshirts

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From everything I've seen and read King Grace may be ready day 1. I'm not sure how much time he gets but he's apparently pretty good. Tee Bartlett may get a little run in the post as well, Jans likes those big strong wide body post players and he is pretty skilled as well.

Unfortunately Gai Chol will probably fall down the depth chart again.. this is a case where I wouldn't be upset if he transfers and tries to find playing time elsewhere he gave everything he had for a couple seasons but it just never really worked out for him. Transferring isn't always a bad thing and in his case it would be understandable

He's going to get PT, no doubt.

Saw a tweet yesterday claiming Kentucky's NIL for this coming year's team is over $20MM

Read an article on 24/7 that listed us as one of "The Most Underwhelming Portal Classes" thus far. We were listed at number 88 and only one of the players is in the top 450. Looks like we are trying to find pieces that fit for a "blue collar team". No highly rated players at all.

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Originally Posted by Goldendawg

Read an article on 24/7 that listed us as one of "The Most Underwhelming Portal Classes" thus far. We were listed at number 88 and only one of the players is in the top 450. Looks like we are trying to find pieces that fit for a "blue collar team". No highly rated players at all.

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247 hasn't rated 2-3 of our portal commits yet...hence the low ranking. Whoever wrote that article hardly did any research apparently

247 does not even have a rating on Wuincy Ballard.

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Originally Posted by Tripp McNeely

247 hasn't rated 2-3 of our portal commits yet...hence the low ranking. Whoever wrote that article hardly did any research apparently

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Good to know. Had me very concerned thus far.

It is so hard to keep up with all the moving parts. Hubbard, Jones Jr, Warren and Chol only returning players from last year? I thought I say Paymon in the portal? Then transfers we have Ballard, McGhee, Achor and Ali. Freshmen coming in are Bartlett, Davis-Fleming, Grace and C. Paul. I assume this means we still have some room? Or am I missing people?

Eric Paymon is in the Portal now so that opens another spot. Jans has a few more holes to fill and hopefully we get them sooner rather than later

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Originally Posted by PGHBulldogBG

It is so hard to keep up with all the moving parts. Hubbard, Jones Jr, Warren and Chol only returning players from last year? I thought I say Paymon in the portal? Then transfers we have Ballard, McGhee, Achor and Ali. Freshmen coming in are Bartlett, Davis-Fleming, Grace and C. Paul. I assume this means we still have some room? Or am I missing people?

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We can carry 15, we have 12 right now so we can get 3 more players. Not sure if we get 3 but we need to get at least 2 more. Hubbard is technically still going through the draft process so that's still somewhat of a question even though most think he will return.

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Originally Posted by NCMSTFAN

We can carry 15, we have 12 right now so we can get 3 more players. Not sure if we get 3 but we need to get at least 2 more. Hubbard is technically still going through the draft process so that's still somewhat of a question even though most think he will return.

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If Hubbard does not return and somehow gets drafted, we are in big big trouble. While the high school class is good, the portal class is just bad overall. We need to be in talks to throw some big money around to some of these top guys in the portal.

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Originally Posted by PGHBulldogBG

If Hubbard does not return and somehow gets drafted, we are in big big trouble. While the high school class is good, the portal class is just bad overall. We need to be in talks to throw some big money around to some of these top guys in the portal.

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We need a top line player. Very concerned right now.

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Originally Posted by PGHBulldogBG

If Hubbard does not return and somehow gets drafted, we are in big big trouble. While the high school class is good, the portal class is just bad overall. We need to be in talks to throw some big money around to some of these top guys in the portal.

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You're not wrong. People on this board were raving about the portal guys as we were getting them and I said I would wait for Jans to be done before I gave my honest opinion but as of now and what we have we are a worse team than we were last season on paper. We brought in no scoring threat and we still need a true PG, we are definitely behind the curveball right now. Let's see what we can get with these last 3 picks but he needs to go get a scorer from an SEC, ACC, Big 12 type conference, we don't need to go get a scorer from a Charleston Southern type team because that rarely translates to the SEC.

I actually do like our Freshman class though, I think Grace and Barlett will be really good and they may be counted on sooner rather than later if Jans doesn't do much else in the portal. This class reminds me of that class when we had Mario Kegler, Lamar Peters, Eli Wright etc