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Our final spot has just been filled??

Hopefully he is healthy. Over looked, but he averaged 6.3 rpg his junior year at USF. Another strong rebounding guard and underscores my main issue with Whaley.
  • Made eight appearances at Florida in his grad season while attempting to come back from a knee injury suffered during his senior season at San Francisco.
  • Played three seasons at San Francisco following his freshman campaign at Boston College.
  • A critical part of San Francisco’s NCAA Tournament run in 2021-22, averaging 7.4 points and 6.3 rebounds while shooting .430 from 3-point range in 19.1 minutes per game off the bench.
  • Has four 20-point games and 28 double-figure scoring outings, including a career-high 25 at BYU (2/25/21) and a notable 20-point showing in the 2022 WAC Tournament championship game vs. top-ranked Gonzaga (3/7/17).
  • Twice knocked down five 3-pointers in a game and had seven other outings with four 3-point field goals.
  • Played for two seasons under Todd Golden at San Francisco from 2020-22.
This is why I'm not overreacting to the signing. I think he will provide pivotal minutes off the bench and if he can get hot in a game from outside, he's the type that can drop 5 or 6 threes... again, another hopeful solid role guy, same as the Boise St kid.
My biggest fear would be that our roster has a bunch of guys that were injured for long periods or all of last year- wasn't Barnabie also technically injured, Hill, Cottrell, Rishwain... if there's any delay or guys just don't come back that's a huge portion of back end of roster that could be affected

Our final spot has just been filled??

Hopefully he is healthy. Over looked, but he averaged 6.3 rpg his junior year at USF. Another strong rebounding guard and underscores my main issue with Whaley.
  • Made eight appearances at Florida in his grad season while attempting to come back from a knee injury suffered during his senior season at San Francisco.
  • Played three seasons at San Francisco following his freshman campaign at Boston College.
  • A critical part of San Francisco’s NCAA Tournament run in 2021-22, averaging 7.4 points and 6.3 rebounds while shooting .430 from 3-point range in 19.1 minutes per game off the bench.
  • Has four 20-point games and 28 double-figure scoring outings, including a career-high 25 at BYU (2/25/21) and a notable 20-point showing in the 2022 WAC Tournament championship game vs. top-ranked Gonzaga (3/7/17).
  • Twice knocked down five 3-pointers in a game and had seven other outings with four 3-point field goals.
  • Played for two seasons under Todd Golden at San Francisco from 2020-22.

Derrick freaking jones jr

Um, he was a freshman on a loaded team, put up good numbers when he was in there. Had some starter type minutes (25+) under Rice. Then a ton of injuries, UNLV barely had anything left, he got a few more minutes, still pretty good numbers.

Was very raw as a freshman whether it was the start of the season or end of the season. Athletic, high energy; nose for the ball and a flair - at the beginning of the season and at the end of the season.

Let’s credit Todd for Derrick the NBA’er and blame Rice for holding him back and having it cost his job. That’d be an ultra rich take.

But a healthy Ben as a senior vs a talented raw freshman Derrick .,,, Ben is going to win, he was glue, didn’t need touches on a team with players who needed some touches. Before he got hurt. Was he supposed to start at SG? Over McCaw? Play PG?
Derrick actually wanted to return right? But the NCAA screwed him over if memory serves.

Our final spot has just been filled??

Yeah, his 2 years prior to his Jr year he shot 40% from 3. If he is recovered from injury, he's the type of weapon you need to shoot your way out of a deficit. I don't know what people think we were going to be getting with 1 roster spot and it being mid-May and us being a Mid-major program with mid-major budget... again, the entire roster is shaped to play around a distributor at PG, shooters outside, and Whaley/Cherry/Whoever big on the inside. There's not a shining star outside DTJ but that isn't necessarily a bad thing of they're all scrappy players. We got 3 sharp shooters that could all either be terrible or shoot exactly what you need to allow Whaley and our Center to eat down low...
We likely have all of our starters anyway and just need another shooter which this fits the bill. Plus he has upside if he is recovered.
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Derrick freaking jones jr

Been injured last few months but even healthy he was only getting erratic minutes off the bench for the Lakers. He needs to go elsewhere and hope he can reestablish his career because he's stagnating in LA.
I had a debate with someone on this board last year about how Dallas wasn't using him properly and how well he would do elsewhere. His matador defense was somehow the Mavs fault. No surprise the same thing happened in LA. Like the same will happen with his next team. No one wants a big man who can't (or won't) play defense.

Derrick freaking jones jr

Remember under Rice Derrick Jones was getting little time. After Rice got fired DJones got way more time. Maybe Rice team would have been better if he played D Jones more.
He got more playtime because we only had 7 uninjured scholarship players.

Not a dig on D jones. He stepped up to the plate too. He was playing center as an undersized toothpick and between him and McCaw they kept us afloat with a couple of fun wins.

Out of everyone on that team he was the one I assumed would have the best pro career. A whole different kind of athletic.
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Derrick freaking jones jr

Been injured last few months but even healthy he was only getting erratic minutes off the bench for the Lakers. He needs to go elsewhere and hope he can reestablish his career because he's stagnating in LA.
He gets cut for a reason C WOOD its not talent. Pat McCaw is talented. Just does not have the demeanor to play. Hes like above average at with a lot of NBA qualities just not way above average to be a long term impactful NBA player.

Israeli Satire of Student Protests

I remember when Rick Majerus was head coach and he had Andre Miller, Keith Van Horn, Britain Johnson, Hanno Mattola.

And for football they had the Samoan Footstomper and the guy who was just hair short at the goal line at the Super Bowl. Heard the Wife Reciever became a high School Principal later on in life.
And Doleac. Andre Miller was my all time favorite college basketball player.
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Our final spot has just been filled??

Yeah, his 2 years prior to his Jr year he shot 40% from 3. If he is recovered from injury, he's the type of weapon you need to shoot your way out of a deficit. I don't know what people think we were going to be getting with 1 roster spot and it being mid-May and us being a Mid-major program with mid-major budget... again, the entire roster is shaped to play around a distributor at PG, shooters outside, and Whaley/Cherry/Whoever big on the inside. There's not a shining star outside DTJ but that isn't necessarily a bad thing of they're all scrappy players. We got 3 sharp shooters that could all either be terrible or shoot exactly what you need to allow Whaley and our Center to eat down low...
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