Quote from: TSmith34, Inc. on March 11, 2026, 09:02:22 PMHamilton was/is absolutely atrocious.

IMO, Owens has shown great progress and is a valuable returning piece. Philips, well, MU doesn't exactly have a lot of good 3P shooters.

Tre...OK if he is the 11th-13th player.

Phillips has more upside than Owens, IMO. Phillips is aggressive and isn't afraid to mix it up. He also looks like he might still be growing and could fill out.

Quote from: wadesworld on March 11, 2026, 08:53:52 PMOn a roster with bigs of Royce, Gold, Clark, and nobody else, he played all of 5 minutes. If Shaka lands a starting 5 in the portal I have zero doubt he'll play minimal meaningful minutes next year with Sheek also joining the big man rotation.

I need to see 3 really good transfers in. As long as Nigel, Royce, and Stevens are back, I'm fine with any of the rest finding a new landing spot and filling their spot with transfers. Would prefer to keep the redshirts plus Philips and Owens, but not going to worry about it if any of them leave. And won't worry about it if Hamilton is back, again assuming we add a good 5 from the portal. Shaka's issue isn't "can't resist playing Hamilton," it's "has literally no warm bodies beyond Caedin."

Hamilton was/is absolutely atrocious.

IMO, Owens has shown great progress and is a valuable returning piece. Philips, well, MU doesn't exactly have a lot of good 3P shooters.

Tre...OK if he is the 11th-13th player.

Quote from: wadesworld on March 11, 2026, 08:53:52 PMOn a roster with bigs of Royce, Gold, Clark, and nobody else, he played all of 5 minutes. If Shaka lands a starting 5 in the portal I have zero doubt he'll play minimal meaningful minutes next year with Sheek also joining the big man rotation.

We can hope, but I'd rather just remove the temptation.
X absolutely sh*tpumped us in those 5 minutes, which ended up being kind of important.

QuoteShaka's issue isn't "can't resist playing Hamilton," it's "has literally no warm bodies beyond Caedin."

That might be a fair argument against a team like UConn, but Xavier had nobody that was going to kill us inside if we went small and used Parham at the five for 5-10 minutes. It likely couldn't have been worse on the defensive end, and we could have countered with pace and scoring.

Quote from: mileskishnish72 on March 11, 2026, 08:03:47 PMThe portal opens April 7. I hope Shaka has gotten rid of the deadwood by then and can go to work finding basketball players.

u think hes kicking 3 guys off the roster within the next month?

Quote from: Tums Festival on March 11, 2026, 08:06:34 PMIf you don't like the broadcasters then just mute the stream and listen to the radio call. But you won't do that because you love to complain and start new threads about everything under the sun.

Or because then you'd have to listen to Homer, who is somehow even worse.

Fanta's good as a BE cheerleader. He's not a good play by play guy.

Quote from: SchnitzelBoy on March 11, 2026, 08:58:36 PMLove Fanta. The voice in my head when I read all your Caedin complaints is 1,000,000,000 more annoying and shrill than his will ever be.

May he be the voice of the Big East Tournament for as long as he wants to be and longer. Class dude. He rules. Haters don't. 

Oh, we found Fanta's scoop account loooool.

Quote from: panda on March 11, 2026, 08:53:46 PMWhat many are missing here is the poor performance is coupled with a horrible big east this season. We could barely keep the pace against other bad teams. If this was a season with typically competent providence, creighton etc. We would've looked much worse. Need a ton of help to get back to where we need to be.

Kick'n us when we are down? Keep your facts to yourself. 

Love Fanta. The voice in my head when I read all your Caedin complaints is 1,000,000,000 more annoying and shrill than his will ever be.

May he be the voice of the Big East Tournament for as long as he wants to be and longer. Class dude. He rules. Haters don't. 

Global cities? Nah timezones dont exist according to @withoutbias

Quote from: Pakuni on March 11, 2026, 07:57:12 PMSome keep asking "What's the harm of keeping Caedin around as a bench player?"
The answer, as we saw tonight, is that Shaka can't seem the resist the urge to play him, despite mountains of evidence that it's going to hurt the team.

On a roster with bigs of Royce, Gold, Clark, and nobody else, he played all of 5 minutes. If Shaka lands a starting 5 in the portal I have zero doubt he'll play minimal meaningful minutes next year with Sheek also joining the big man rotation.

I need to see 3 really good transfers in. As long as Nigel, Royce, and Stevens are back, I'm fine with any of the rest finding a new landing spot and filling their spot with transfers. Would prefer to keep the redshirts plus Philips and Owens, but not going to worry about it if any of them leave. And won't worry about it if Hamilton is back, again assuming we add a good 5 from the portal. Shaka's issue isn't "can't resist playing Hamilton," it's "has literally no warm bodies beyond Caedin."