2023 Portal Transfers

[brewcity77]

The Big East must be horrible, since he was 3 time Big East Freshman of the Week, and made the all Big East Freshman team.

It's more that the all Big East Freshman team is just a "who played the most minutes" contest. There were only 7 Big East freshmen to play 500+ minutes, 6 of them were on the team (Ross the lone exception).

[lawdog77]

Did they get all Big East Freshman because they played 500 minutes+, or did they play 500 minutes + because they are all Big East Freshman. You can't give the awards on small sample sizes/potential. It's who showed the most.   

I guess my point is that Storr may or may not be a good pickup, but don't discount him because of some random advanced stats showing he was the worst player on St John's.

As an aside, I still have no idea why anyone would want to play in Gard's offense.

[jfp61]

Did they get all Big East Freshman because they played 500 minutes+, or did they play 500 minutes + because they are all Big East Freshman. You can't give the awards on small sample sizes/potential. It's who showed the most.   

I guess my point is that Storr may or may not be a good pickup, but don't discount him because of some random advanced stats showing he was the worst player on St John's.

As an aside, I still have no idea why anyone would want to play in Gard's offense.

I wouldn't be excited if Storr was transferring to Marquette, so I am happy he is heavily considering Wisconsin. I think Storr would be the 12th man at MU so UW going after him is fine with me.

One or two people seemed to disagree with me so, I explained further with (admittedly too many) advanced stats.

Storr still had good high school pedigree and shot the three well as a freshman. If he works out, then last year was a fluky bad year with a bad coach.

[bilsu]

Don't question analytics, he's a bad player.

I have no idea if Shaka is interested in him. However, I suspect if Shaka is interested in him, he believes he can make him a better player.

[panda]

Don't question analytics, he's a bad player.

Why even watch the games when you can just go to basketballreference.com ?

[WarriorPride68]

AJ Storr last season was bad.
He was dead last in EvanMiya's Bayesian Performance Rating among all St. Johns players. Having the worst DBPR on the team, and the third worst OBPR on the team. He was dead last among all St. Johns players in team efficiency margin while on the court.  Filtering out garbage time Storr had a RAPM of -0.4, the second worst on St. Johns. In conference play 0.3 RAPM, the third worst on St Johns.

Storr finished the season with an offensive rating of 105.1 and 102.9 in conference play. At 6'6" his defensive rebounding rate was sub 8.5% and a steal rate of 1% (these numbers are in the 2000th's).

Against Marquette AJ Storr had offensive ratings of 79, 61, and 65.

He shoots the three well.... that's it. If you recruit him, you are doing so based on his high school profile and the hope that last year was a blip.

If Marquette went after a St John's player it should be David Jones or Dylan Addae-Wusu.

Venice new Athletic article ranking transfers. Storr #27 no Domask
https://theathletic.com/4366021/2023/03/31/college-basketball-transfer-portal-ranking/

[nyg]

Cooley filling out his roster very nicely thru portal.

Rowan Brumbaugh, Texas, Top 70 recruit and Shaka target in 2022.

Jayden Epps, Illinois, Top 90 recruit, starter at Illinois. 

Dontrez Styles, North Carolina, Top 70 recruit. 

[panda]

Cooley filling out his roster very nicely thru portal.

Rowan Brumbaugh, Texas, Top 70 recruit and Shaka target in 2022.

Jayden Epps, Illinois, Top 90 recruit, starter at Illinois. 

Dontrez Styles, North Carolina, Top 70 recruit.

All smart pick ups. Each burns their free transfer so he gets them for multiple years. I really liked Epps at u of I. Great playmaker and solid ball handler.

[GoldenEagles03]

Femi Odukale transferring away from Seton Hall.

I could see his style fitting with Marquette. He's an undersized forward at 6'6" but he rebounds well and is physical.

Transferred to Seton Hall from Pitt last year so he'd maybe have to sit a year. Wouldn't be the worst add.

[Juan Anderson's Mixtape]

Cooley filling out his roster very nicely thru portal.

Rowan Brumbaugh, Texas, Top 70 recruit and Shaka target in 2022.

Jayden Epps, Illinois, Top 90 recruit, starter at Illinois. 

Dontrez Styles, North Carolina, Top 70 recruit.

Styles was flat out bad for 2 years at UNC.  Epps looks solid.  Brumbaugh redshirted, so who knows.

1, maybe 2 good players.

[GoldenEagles03]

Western Kentucky transfer Jamarion Sharp has been hearing from these schools, a source tells me:

Kentucky
Arkansas
Missouri
Ole Miss
Florida
Florida State
Nebraska
LSU
UNLV
Memphis
Wake Forest
Gonzaga
NC State
Cincinnati

Sharp averaged 7.4PPG, 7.7RPG and 4.1BPG last season.

[The Equalizer]

Styles was flat out bad for 2 years at UNC.  Epps looks solid.  Brumbaugh redshirted, so who knows.

1, maybe 2 good players.

Given UNC's performance last year, I'm more inclined to believe that Styles was poorly coached. 

[ATL MU Warrior]

Moussa Cisse from Ok State would be intriguing to me. Probably have to sit a year but that's ok if everyone is back. 7-footer who is an excellent rim-protector for a top tier defense.

[Tha Hound]

Got to think its a very positive sign that I haven't seen us mentioned with any transfer in some time. Fingers crossed..

[Tyler COLEk]

Got to think its a very positive sign that I haven't seen us mentioned with any transfer in some time. Fingers crossed..

Seems clear by now that Shaka isn't expecting any other departures. I'm sure one or two on the team aren't yet locks to return, but it's looking likely.

[WhiteTrash]

Seems clear by now that Shaka isn't expecting any other departures. I'm sure one or two on the team aren't yet locks to return, but it's looking likely.

Don't jinx it! 

[JWags85]

Cooley filling out his roster very nicely thru portal.

Rowan Brumbaugh, Texas, Top 70 recruit and Shaka target in 2022.

Jayden Epps, Illinois, Top 90 recruit, starter at Illinois. 

Dontrez Styles, North Carolina, Top 70 recruit.

Supposedly they are in the drivers seat for Dickinson too.  Bout to look like Iowa St East circa 2018

[El Guerrero 2]

Got to think its a very positive sign that I haven't seen us mentioned with any transfer in some time. Fingers crossed..

I suspect Shaka just plays things extremely close to the vest when it comes to transfers. Remember when he first got here we seemingly had a new transfer commitment every day from a kid who'd never before been connected to MU by anyone (a la Kolek, OMax, Kur). Whereas I think many assistants leak info to reporters to try and build social media buzz behind a kid committing to them (a la Hunter Dickinson and GTown), I think Shaka has his crew's lips sealed.

[Scoop Snoop]

I suspect Shaka just plays things extremely close to the vest when it comes to transfers. Remember when he first got here we seemingly had a new transfer commitment every day from a kid who'd never before been connected to MU by anyone (a la Kolek, OMax, Kur). Whereas I think many assistants leak info to reporters to try and build social media buzz behind a kid committing to them (a la Hunter Dickinson and GTown), I think Shaka has his crew's lips sealed.

Agree. And I really like Shaka's way of handling transfers as well as other matters. No playing little games.

[PointWarrior]

Don't jinx it! 

Yes, don't be that scooper.  Focus on lack of transfers one day at a time.

[GoldenEagles03]

AJ Storr to Madison.

Pretty huge pickup.

[PointWarrior]

AJ Storr to Madison.

Pretty huge pickup.

nah, analytics say he sucks...

[MU82]

AJ Storr to Madison.

Pretty huge pickup.

They always find a way to get it done.

[nyg]

Didn't know where to post this, but here it is anyway.

UCLA has basically lost everyone, all to draft. 

Clark
Singleton
Campbell
Bailey
Jaquez

[HutchwasClutch]

AJ Storr to Madison.

Pretty huge pickup.

It is?  The same guy who was 2/17 against us in March? 

I'm afraid.