Are we about to pick up 6'8 forward Tyler Stevenson from Southern Miss that transferred to Illinois Chicago & decommitted from them today?
PJ retweeted his decommittment.
Would this be a good fit?
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Are we about to pick up 6'8 forward Tyler Stevenson from Southern Miss that transferred to Illinois Chicago & decommitted from them today?
PJ retweeted his decommittment.
Would this be a good fit?
I'll certainly take him, but another poor 3-pt shooter. We seem to be becoming.... the same team.
Yes, he just committed to us......He averaged 14 ppg and 7 rpg on a bad Southern Miss team....shoots and makes alot of mid-range jumpers. He wasn't highly recruited out of high school, former walk-on, nor was he highly recruited in the transfer portal. His only portal offer was UIC. He may be pretty solid but not a starter
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zenX9mfF7_E
To be honest with you Jans didn't get any of his top portal targets, I think he's just trying to fill these last two scholarships at this point. We still need one more Guard.
Yep we missed badly in the portal, mostly due to being outbid in NIL. Keshawn Murphy is likely our starting 4. That's a big ask of a freshman.
Hard to be excited about this roster.
Fired a recruiter for a X and O?s guy. People shouldn?t complain who wanted the recruiter gone.
We should be better off in the long run.
Stevenson is a solid get. Plays very, very hard. At worst he will be a high energy forward off the bench. Took way too many long two point shots at Southern Miss but Jans will rid him of that habit. Will get most of his points from crashing the boards.
Yes he's a solid get and will be another hard nosed player.. But there's a reason he didn't get recruited out of High School and the only portal offer he had was Illinois-Chicago. Somebody has to go score and be more than a tough nosed defender or rebounder..... we don't have a guy like that. When Tolu sits where does our post presence come from? Who takes the game over on the perimeter? We lack on talent right now... our most talented guys are all of Howlands guys who decided to come back.... I think Jans will be a great x and o coach but worry about our recruiting future
I agree, that will help. And we may just have enough talent left over for Jans to do something this season... Shak, Tolu, Matthews and Jeffries have the talent and experience.... if Jans is the coach we all think he is those guys along with his coaching should keep us competitive... but I'm not too high on any of the new guys he brought in and we will need them
The roster is solid, but I think Jans will help us as an on floor coach. Bold prediction: We are an 8-10 seed in NCAA.
Malik Newman.. Mcdonalds All American
Quinndary Weatherspoon drafted by the Spurs
Reggie Perry McDonald's AA drafted by Brooklyn
Robert Woodard drafted by Sacramento
Dj Stewart 4 star, signed with Miami heat
Iverson Molinar signed with Milwaukee Bucks
Garrison Brooks signed with New York Knicks
Tyson Carter 4 star
Nick Weatherspoon 5/4 star
Aric Holman 4 star played with Lakers and Spurs summer league
Mario Kegler 4 star
Abdul Ado 4 star
Lamar Peter 4 star
Howland recruited a ton of talent... he just didn't coach them well but no one can say he wasn't a good receuiter. I'll debate this all day long
This is correct. I've watched a few classics from the Stans era. Just need a couple of blue chippers and a lot of hard nosed get it done type guys. You can win with that.
We/ve already tried the recruiting championship approach and it didn't work.
Jans MO is the later; lets wait and see what happens.
Your playing on words now, I never said elite... I said he was a good recruiter, which he was..if anyone thinks otherwise they don't know basketball. Howland brought in a ton of talent to State, that's why it's so disappointing he didn't win the way he should have
Howland did fine recruiting, his problem was floor coaching and player development. He was obviously a good coach back in the day but either he was past his prime or the game has passed him by. The days of never playing but one style of defense and having no clue how to attack a zone on offense (as a couple of examples) and still be successful are long gone.
Howland was a good recruiter, not elite. I was a huge Howland supporter and will always be grateful for him pulling us out of the Rick Ray disaster.
I think Jans is a far superior floor coach, so we have to hope he learns how to land some of these high profile transfers in the NIL world. We were on several big time players this season, and simply got outbid. Jans has made huge strides with some of the big basketball supporters and I think you'll see us nab a couple big time transfers moving forward.
JC is feeling the heat from inside the big donors too. He is going to be lucky if he survives this season as AD.
Howland got talent. He just did nothing with it.
What are you basing that off? What highly recruited guys has Jans brought in at his prior programs? Say what you want about Howland but the guy brought in really good talent. I hope Jans can, but so far I'm not impressed with his recruiting. I know it's early and he will have time but let's not act like he's on Howland's level in terms of recruiting
My point is he did not elevate our recruiting any better than say, Stans or Richard Williams. We were bringing in the same type of talent that we became accustomed to & nothing more, except during the Rick Ray era.
What if a few of the players Jans brought in this year turns out to be legit?
Let's not act like Howland was bringing in players like Pearl at Auburn and the Alabama coach is bringing in. Schools with less basketball prestige than MSU. That's great/elite recruiting.
He did recruit them and put them on the court but my deal with it was how some but not all of these high profile guys seemed just a touch uncoachable. Maybe they were simply looking to get to the league and bang some bucks. The defense was horrendous in spells and Howland simply had no clue vs a zone D, especially full court and I didn't feel like all the guys gave 100% like Q always did. I think Jans will have a harder playing team ans I am interested to see what type guys he signs in year 2 and beyond.
I think you are going to see the difference in Howland and Jan?s that you did in The Womens coaching transition year over year.
May not have the talent to win the SEC but they will play harder under Jan?s than they did under Howland, and will win more because of it.