Dunndone414

Omoruyi had us as a finalist out of HS, so maybe there’s something there. But, St John’s is seen as the heavy favorite - he’s a local kid and may want to stay local. Given interest and how hard it is to find elite bigs, I would expect his price to be among the highest in the portal.

Many of our fans don’t realize that biggest barrier to landing big names in the portal may be that our head coach mostly hates recruiting big names in the portal. Bruce makes these comments all the time, but here’s an example:

Moving Aden to the 2, as many think would happen next season, doesn’t fix the defensive liabilities. Ultimately his future as a CBB player remains at the 1. He has serious talent that you can’t teach, but in addition to being small right now he’s seemingly in a bad place mentally. With Tre’s emergence and Tahaad coming in, my money is on a transfer. It would be really incredible to see him stick around and get some time in the weight room, but that’s not usually how this plays out now.

I take absolutely no pleasure in saying this, but the odds on Aden playing for Auburn next season can’t be better than even money.

It’s just not really done at the high major level anymore. Ultimately unless you have 10-11 equally good it means fewer minutes for your best players. In close games those minutes make a difference.

From a neutral friend tuning in “You guys play 11? That’s hilarious!!” Even with the rotations, we’re fine. No one wins those on the road.

UGA isn’t great this year, but sadly that may come to an end soon. They’re really recruiting. Has always been baffling that they didn’t routinely get more top talent there. They’re sitting on a gold mine.

His shooting is still bad. The difference is he’s getting (literally) double the shots now. Which is what he wanted, so in that sense the move has worked for him.

An underrated problem with the substitutions is that it’s impossible to develop chemistry. Bruce is really overthinking things.

We should handle business tonight, we’re favored by 15. Bruce said there might be a hostile pro-ND environment. Trust me, the most hostile thing about the environment tonight will be the empty seats. As long as we get up for the game we should move on to an interesting matchup tomorrow (I’ll predict OK State).

As luck would have it, ND should be one of the worst teams in the P5 this season. We have a nice opportunity to get on a roll and win out up to the USC game.

You aren’t wrong. But we did some of this against Baylor as well. It’ll probably work itself out. Hoping Chaney and Denver come into their own a bit more in the 2nd half.

Bruce has hamstrung us a bit with his lineups. Playing Aden with the 2nd unit seems smart - you give them an offensive creator - but it means fewer good looks for our other two best shooters, CBM and Denver. Our best lineup is Johni, Jaylin, CBM, Denver and Aden. The less they play together the worse this team will be.

Since the post-game thread is locked I’ll leave this here: CBM played half of the minutes CMo did, with significantly better production. Seems clear he needs to be on the floor. Made some mistakes but he has a gear CMo just doesn’t.

Some other schools have backed off Jahki due to his very obvious personality red flags. (See the Amazon OTE show.) Trusting Bruce here. Might be a high-risk, high-reward situation because he can absolutely fly. We’ve struggled a bit lately landing top choice wings.

Close games are fun! (If you aren’t a fan of one of the teams. This is painful.)

In two seasons starting he has averaged nearly identical 11ppg/4.7rbg. He is what he is.

They’re doing a better job of forcing calls. We need to adjust and do the same, given officiating.

In fairness, he may be the #1 pick after this game. 😂

I’m having fun.

The end of that half is about as good as you can play.

CBM!

Denver’s shot is beautiful. Getting cooked on the other end though.

Yup, line moved from +2 to -1.5.

Their backcourt is better than ours. Need Johni to dominate inside, I think.