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Post by Tony on Apr 2, 2019 10:21:07 GMT -5
GoldSaint beat me to the punch with several of my points. But needless to say I agree. Our top 3 of Pickett ( best player in MAAC? ) Carey- who I'm told will be one of the better guards in the MAAC and Burns who is much better than Fisher ( especially on defensive side of the ball) Unless Carey is total bust we will have best backcourt in MAAC. Don’t underestimate how much having a legitimate scoring punch next to Jalen will help him next year. Our top 3 should be one of if not the best top 3 in MAAC. Sloan and Manny are solid MAAC players that will only get better this year with year of experience behind them. Ratliff, Young, Friday and Sutherland give us depth. Add either Holt or Falzone and then get a freshmen guard capable of contributing immediately and we have making of a pretty good MAAC team, one certainly capable of competing for MAAC crown and if complimentary players make jump a top tier mid major team
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 10:26:24 GMT -5
You and I have long disagreed about the thinking that 2 more guards have to sit in the first place. I think there is adequate PT available for 4 guards to all play 20+ mins...even with Pickett and Carey playing 30. Darwiche hasn't yet shown that he can be relied upon even in spot time. Without Smithen and even Degnan's defensive impacts, there's not yet a guarantee the defense will even be as good this year as last. Siena needs some perimeter defenders who ideally can also have a chance to be all around players. And with just Pickett, Carey, and Seymour as proven perimeter scorers...Siena may not be able to just outscore teams either. Right now, Siena may only be the equivalent of a top 220 type team. And considering they are at 267th this year...that's already accounting for significant improvement. That may still be enough for top 5 in a down MAAC but it's not the 'glory and riches beyond which we've always dreamed of'. Coaches need to find some difference makers now or we may have to wait yet another year for title town. All I'm saying. I mean, I think it depends pretty heavily on what Carey and Burns are. If Carey is a top 10 player in the league (which I think is certainly in the range of outcomes) and Burns is a top 10 player in the league (Fisher was, and the reports are that Burns is better), this team is far different than if Carey is an above average starter and Burns is a downgrade from Fisher. If Pickett, Carey, and Burns are all “elite” MAAC players, then it’s hard to see Siena not being a top 150 team and a title contender. You add in the elite defender glue guy type in Camper, the high level floor spacer in Seymour and there’s a starting 5 that’s pretty darn good. And who knows what else is out there. Emmitt Holt, if he returns to his 2016-17 form, would wreck the MAAC. He’s a guy who multiple people have said is an option for Siena. We could upgrade the 4 spot with Falzon over Seymour. We could add a grad transfer guard who can give minutes or get a freshman who could play rotation minutes. And that’s not even factoring in anything you get fro Sammy Friday, Luke Sutherland, or Jimmy Ratliff. You are right in saying we probably need another guard. But Siena already has the best player in the MAAC, and has what is being framed by the team as a “Big 3” with Don and Elijah that has a ceiling of being 3 top-10 players in the league. I think they’d be able to score a lot better with that trio, and they should be fine defensively as long as Pickett & Camper play big minutes and Carey isn’t a turnstile. You're thinking a bit too much in terms of hype and not proven style strengths/weaknesses. My brain works in thinking about who gets us possessions, stops, and offensive efficiency. I'm always counting potential team rebounding, steal, and block levels in my head, thinking about PPSs and %s, and who can be put on the ball to stop a hot scorer. Right now, Siena is majorly lacking in impactful rebounding, steals, and blocks depth. Scoring efficiency feels about the same given the loss of Smithen & Degnan vs. the potential of Carey and Burns...and what they've done historically. For improvement, right now, it would have to come from Pickett being more efficient, Friday's return, and whatever guys like Ratliff and Sutherland can give us. Siena still feels slow to me right now...and neither overly gritty nor impactful defensively (esp. possession wise) outside of Pickett. Given that, combined with questionable perimeter scoring and ballhandling depth....there are red flags abound. Much of these issues can be fixed, limited, or overridden with increasing potential strengths if they get the right pieces NOW. But, as of now, I wouldn't be saying this is enough for a MAAC title with just what we have. I'm sorry. We need more.
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Post by glen on Apr 2, 2019 10:31:40 GMT -5
If Pickett, Carey, and Burns are all “elite” MAAC players, then it’s hard to see Siena not being a top 150 team and a title contender. You add in the elite defender glue guy type in Camper, the high level floor spacer in Seymour and there’s a starting 5 that’s pretty darn good. And who knows what else is out there. Emmitt Holt, if he returns to his 2016-17 form, would wreck the MAAC. He’s a guy who multiple people have said is an option for Siena. We could upgrade the 4 spot with Falzon over Seymour. We could add a grad transfer guard who can give minutes or get a freshman who could play rotation minutes. And that’s not even factoring in anything you get fro Sammy Friday, Luke Sutherland, or Jimmy Ratliff. You are right in saying we probably need another guard. But Siena already has the best player in the MAAC, and has what is being framed by the team as a “Big 3” with Don and Elijah that has a ceiling of being 3 top-10 players in the league. I think they’d be able to score a lot better with that trio, and they should be fine defensively as long as Pickett & Camper play big minutes and Carey isn’t a turnstile. I hope Carm avoids Emmitt Holt. On paper he's a phenom but in reality he'll consume a scholarship and play less than 10 minutes. I've been watching this show for PC for 2 years.
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Post by Tony on Apr 2, 2019 10:40:45 GMT -5
I'm not even sure if Holt is eligible. I know PC applied for a 6th year of eligibility for Emmitt, but I have no idea on result of that request.So its possible Emmitt may be done with college BB. Anybody have any idea on Holt's status?
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Post by goldsaint17 on Apr 2, 2019 10:42:51 GMT -5
I mean, I think it depends pretty heavily on what Carey and Burns are. If Carey is a top 10 player in the league (which I think is certainly in the range of outcomes) and Burns is a top 10 player in the league (Fisher was, and the reports are that Burns is better), this team is far different than if Carey is an above average starter and Burns is a downgrade from Fisher. If Pickett, Carey, and Burns are all “elite” MAAC players, then it’s hard to see Siena not being a top 150 team and a title contender. You add in the elite defender glue guy type in Camper, the high level floor spacer in Seymour and there’s a starting 5 that’s pretty darn good. And who knows what else is out there. Emmitt Holt, if he returns to his 2016-17 form, would wreck the MAAC. He’s a guy who multiple people have said is an option for Siena. We could upgrade the 4 spot with Falzon over Seymour. We could add a grad transfer guard who can give minutes or get a freshman who could play rotation minutes. And that’s not even factoring in anything you get fro Sammy Friday, Luke Sutherland, or Jimmy Ratliff. You are right in saying we probably need another guard. But Siena already has the best player in the MAAC, and has what is being framed by the team as a “Big 3” with Don and Elijah that has a ceiling of being 3 top-10 players in the league. I think they’d be able to score a lot better with that trio, and they should be fine defensively as long as Pickett & Camper play big minutes and Carey isn’t a turnstile. You're thinking a bit too much in terms of hype and not proven style strengths/weaknesses. My brain works in thinking about who gets us possessions, stops, and offensive efficiency. I'm always counting potential team rebounding, steal, and block levels in my head, thinking about PPSs and %s, and who can be put on the ball to stop a hot scorer. Right now, Siena is majorly lacking in impactful rebounding, steals, and blocks depth. Scoring efficiency feels about the same given the loss of Smithen & Degnan vs. the potential of Carey and Burns...and what they've done historically. For improvement, right now, it would have to come from Pickett being more efficient, Friday's return, and whatever guys like Ratliff and Sutherland can give us. Siena still feels slow to me right now...and neither overly gritty nor impactful defensively (esp. possession wise) outside of Pickett. Given that, combined with questionable perimeter scoring and ballhandling depth....there are red flags abound. Much of these issues can be fixed, limited, or overridden with increasing potential strengths if they get the right pieces NOW. But, as of now, I wouldn't be saying this is enough for a MAAC title with just what we have. I'm sorry. We need more. From last year: We should be a more efficient offense at the rim thanks to Burns playing over Fisher and Pickett's emergence down the stretch last season at getting downhill, along with Camper's ability to get to the basket and the potential for Carey to be a downhill scorer. We will probably be a slightly worse 3-point offense (but probably will take less of them) because you are losing Degnan. That said, we could be actually more efficient from 3 by taking less bombs. We shot 34% from 3, which is basically 1 PPS and not that great. We won't be a "live by the 3, die by the 3" team. We will almost definitely get to the line more thanks to Burns and Friday taking center minutes from Fisher, adding another aggressive guard in Carey, and Pickett still doing his thing. Camper gets to the line a ton if he can make them. With Pickett at PG and playing another good ballhandler next to him in Carey, we are almost guaranteed to win the A/TO battle. We will likely be a worse perimeter defense by losing Kadeem Smithen (and to a lesser extent, Degnan). But we still have 2 impact perimeter defenders in Pickett (the best defensive player in the league) and Camper, along with whatever Don does. We will likely be a better interior defense by swapping out Fisher for Burns and Friday. Carm's teams have never fouled a lot and these guys learned to not foul from Jamion (who also doesn't foul) so we should continue to be strong in that area. In theory, the offense should be more efficient (by finishing at the rim at a higher rate and by getting to the line more), and the defense will likely stagnate (even in MAAC play when we played really good D, we were average at the rim but just great at defending the 3, so even if we give up some more 3's we will make things harder at the rim). We still win the A/TO battle. And, we now have 2 guards who can take over a game. And that's before we add 2-3 more guys, of which 1-2 of them will likely be 5th year guys with legit CBB experience that we can count on far more than a freshman. What am I missing?
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Post by $cott on Apr 2, 2019 10:48:12 GMT -5
I mean, I think it depends pretty heavily on what Carey and Burns are. If Carey is a top 10 player in the league (which I think is certainly in the range of outcomes) and Burns is a top 10 player in the league (Fisher was, and the reports are that Burns is better), this team is far different than if Carey is an above average starter and Burns is a downgrade from Fisher. If Pickett, Carey, and Burns are all “elite” MAAC players, then it’s hard to see Siena not being a top 150 team and a title contender. You add in the elite defender glue guy type in Camper, the high level floor spacer in Seymour and there’s a starting 5 that’s pretty darn good. And who knows what else is out there. Emmitt Holt, if he returns to his 2016-17 form, would wreck the MAAC. He’s a guy who multiple people have said is an option for Siena. We could upgrade the 4 spot with Falzon over Seymour. We could add a grad transfer guard who can give minutes or get a freshman who could play rotation minutes. And that’s not even factoring in anything you get fro Sammy Friday, Luke Sutherland, or Jimmy Ratliff. You are right in saying we probably need another guard. But Siena already has the best player in the MAAC, and has what is being framed by the team as a “Big 3” with Don and Elijah that has a ceiling of being 3 top-10 players in the league. I think they’d be able to score a lot better with that trio, and they should be fine defensively as long as Pickett & Camper play big minutes and Carey isn’t a turnstile. You're thinking a bit too much in terms of hype and not proven style strengths/weaknesses. My brain works in thinking about who gets us possessions, stops, and offensive efficiency. I'm always counting potential team rebounding, steal, and block levels in my head, thinking about PPSs and %s, and who can be put on the ball to stop a hot scorer. Right now, Siena is majorly lacking in impactful rebounding, steals, and blocks depth. Scoring efficiency feels about the same given the loss of Smithen & Degnan vs. the potential of Carey and Burns...and what they've done historically. For improvement, right now, it would have to come from Pickett being more efficient, Friday's return, and whatever guys like Ratliff and Sutherland can give us. Siena still feels slow to me right now...and neither overly gritty nor impactful defensively (esp. possession wise) outside of Pickett. Given that, combined with questionable perimeter scoring and ballhandling depth....there are red flags abound. Much of these issues can be fixed, limited, or overridden with increasing potential strengths if they get the right pieces NOW. But, as of now, I wouldn't be saying this is enough for a MAAC title with just what we have. I'm sorry. We need more. Carey had 32 steals two years ago, no reason to think he won't be a 40 to 50 steal guy next year. Between him and Pickett Siena could easily have two top 10 steals guys in the MAAC. And I have a feeling Burns' steals and blocks numbers will go way up playing against MAAC competition.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 11:00:07 GMT -5
You're thinking a bit too much in terms of hype and not proven style strengths/weaknesses. My brain works in thinking about who gets us possessions, stops, and offensive efficiency. I'm always counting potential team rebounding, steal, and block levels in my head, thinking about PPSs and %s, and who can be put on the ball to stop a hot scorer. Right now, Siena is majorly lacking in impactful rebounding, steals, and blocks depth. Scoring efficiency feels about the same given the loss of Smithen & Degnan vs. the potential of Carey and Burns...and what they've done historically. For improvement, right now, it would have to come from Pickett being more efficient, Friday's return, and whatever guys like Ratliff and Sutherland can give us. Siena still feels slow to me right now...and neither overly gritty nor impactful defensively (esp. possession wise) outside of Pickett. Given that, combined with questionable perimeter scoring and ballhandling depth....there are red flags abound. Much of these issues can be fixed, limited, or overridden with increasing potential strengths if they get the right pieces NOW. But, as of now, I wouldn't be saying this is enough for a MAAC title with just what we have. I'm sorry. We need more. From last year: We should be a more efficient offense at the rim thanks to Burns playing over Fisher and Pickett's emergence down the stretch last season at getting downhill, along with Camper's ability to get to the basket and the potential for Carey to be a downhill scorer. We will probably be a slightly worse 3-point offense (but probably will take less of them) because you are losing Degnan. That said, we could be actually more efficient from 3 by taking less bombs. We shot 34% from 3, which is basically 1 PPS and not that great. We won't be a "live by the 3, die by the 3" team. We will almost definitely get to the line more thanks to Burns and Friday taking center minutes from Fisher, adding another aggressive guard in Carey, and Pickett still doing his thing. Camper gets to the line a ton if he can make them. With Pickett at PG and playing another good ballhandler next to him in Carey, we are almost guaranteed to win the A/TO battle. We will likely be a worse perimeter defense by losing Kadeem Smithen (and to a lesser extent, Degnan). But we still have 2 impact perimeter defenders in Pickett (the best defensive player in the league) and Camper, along with whatever Don does. We will likely be a better interior defense by swapping out Fisher for Burns and Friday. Carm's teams have never fouled a lot and these guys learned to not foul from Jamion (who also doesn't foul) so we should continue to be strong in that area. In theory, the offense should be more efficient (by finishing at the rim at a higher rate and by getting to the line more), and the defense will likely stagnate (even in MAAC play when we played really good D, we were average at the rim but just great at defending the 3, so even if we give up some more 3's we will make things harder at the rim). We still win the A/TO battle. And, we now have 2 guards who can take over a game. And that's before we add 2-3 more guys, of which 1-2 of them will likely be 5th year guys with legit CBB experience that we can count on far more than a freshman. What am I missing? It's a minor thing, but technically Smithen was also the most efficient offensive scorer, albeit in limited volume. Still, his numbers do have an affect on the team's scoring efficiency totals. Degnan's PPS was also similar to Carey's historically. Neither Pickett or Carey have proven yet to get to the FT line at a high rate consistently. Forget everything and tell me, by player, how Siena gets to say....200+ stls, 120 blocks, and averages 36 rebs per game...based on their past rates. These are milestones of an average D1 type defensive team. Also, forget A/TO and tell me about Turnover Margin. Siena was losing Turnover Margin until Smithen started playing last year. How does Siena FORCE turnovers after losing 69 stls from Smithen and Degnan? Historically, Carey was at just a Degnan level. Also, Burns historically is neither shotblocker NOR ballhawk... .POSSESSIONS. Just a minor position D upgrade and slight rebound bump over Fisher until he shows more. Camper is a good position defender but has not been a playmaker that creates a lot possessions with drawn charges, stls, and blocks. Look, I'm not saying Siena is a losing team or anything. And I'm not saying they won't end up better than where they are right now by the time recruiting is done. I'm just saying they need more help to get to title town and they need it now. A lot of the team's upside will depend on these final 3 scholarships. And I think it's more than most people seem to realize.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 11:02:47 GMT -5
You're thinking a bit too much in terms of hype and not proven style strengths/weaknesses. My brain works in thinking about who gets us possessions, stops, and offensive efficiency. I'm always counting potential team rebounding, steal, and block levels in my head, thinking about PPSs and %s, and who can be put on the ball to stop a hot scorer. Right now, Siena is majorly lacking in impactful rebounding, steals, and blocks depth. Scoring efficiency feels about the same given the loss of Smithen & Degnan vs. the potential of Carey and Burns...and what they've done historically. For improvement, right now, it would have to come from Pickett being more efficient, Friday's return, and whatever guys like Ratliff and Sutherland can give us. Siena still feels slow to me right now...and neither overly gritty nor impactful defensively (esp. possession wise) outside of Pickett. Given that, combined with questionable perimeter scoring and ballhandling depth....there are red flags abound. Much of these issues can be fixed, limited, or overridden with increasing potential strengths if they get the right pieces NOW. But, as of now, I wouldn't be saying this is enough for a MAAC title with just what we have. I'm sorry. We need more. Carey had 32 steals two years ago, no reason to think he won't be a 40 to 50 steal guy next year. Between him and Pickett Siena could easily have two top 10 steals guys in the MAAC. And I have a feeling Burns' steals and blocks numbers will go way up playing against MAAC competition. Why? How do you KNOW both Carey and Burns will improve so much on D than what they've already done? I think they COULD BE, yes. But am I counting on it? No. And if you count on it, they don't provide it, and then there's no other options to get that type of impact besides them...then basically Siena has lost that aspect of basketball as a potential strength....which is why you need more options and depth. Also, regarding TO Margin....Smithen had 11 more steals than TOs on the year. If you add his probably 30 or so drawn charges.... He created, by far, the 2nd most impact to TO margin last year next to Pickett. His sleeper efficiency helped in literally EVERY statistical category. Maybe he was low volume but he was also so efficient that he was very impactful. Carey has to first replace Smithen's TO margin impact. I don't think he can. He'll probably have more TOs than steals/charges. And then, Degnan was 3rd with 36 stls vs. 26 TOs but without all the charges drawn.
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Post by MTS on Apr 2, 2019 11:19:38 GMT -5
We kept the core together that was the main key. Obviously I wish Richard/Walker were going to be here but one was coming off a major injury and the other was an unproven frosh who had to get stronger to be effective.
We need to sign two more important pieces (probably a guard/wing and a big). I think Carm knows this but he wants to get the right fit - have to keep the good chemistry strong. It's still only April 2nd - still plenty of good players out there.
I'll put Siena's "big 3" up against anyone including Iona's (who needs a PG currently).
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Post by $cott on Apr 2, 2019 11:20:08 GMT -5
Carey had 32 steals two years ago, no reason to think he won't be a 40 to 50 steal guy next year. Between him and Pickett Siena could easily have two top 10 steals guys in the MAAC. And I have a feeling Burns' steals and blocks numbers will go way up playing against MAAC competition. Why? How do you KNOW both Carey and Burns will improve so much on D than what they've already done? I think they COULD BE, yes. But am I counting on it? No. And if you count on it, they don't provide it, and then there's no other options to get that type of impact besides them...then basically Siena has lost that aspect of basketball as a potential strength....which is why you need more options and depth. Also, regarding TO Margin....Smithen had 11 more steals than TOs on the year. If you add his probably 30 or so drawn charges.... He created, by far, the 2nd most impact to TO margin last year. His sleeper efficiency helped in literally EVERY statistical category. Maybe he was low volume but he was also so efficient that he was very impactful. Carey has to first replace Smithen's TO margin impact. I don't think he can. He'll probably have more TOs than steals/charges. And then, Degnan was 3rd with 36 stls vs. 26 TOs. Carey had 32 steals as a freshman in 1,000 minutes. We are all expecting him to play at least that many minutes this year and with two years to mature combined with playing next to Pickett the idea that he won't improve by at least 8 steals seems unlikely. There are no guarantees on the turnovers but I would hope with Pickett doing most of the heavy lifting we will see Carey's turnovers drop as well. As to Burns, it is simply a guess, he could turn out to be as weak in the steals and blocks categories as we was at Notre Dame but there is certainly a good chance that he will be much better at those categories playing against MAAC competition. I would guess he had a lot more steals and blocks in high school if those stats exist anywhere.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 11:30:21 GMT -5
Look, I'm just pointing out the efficiencies here.
We have Pickett. AWESOME. Best player in the league. YES.
But we don't have these other impact proven ballhawks or shotblockers like him or even near him. You want to say guys will improve, fine. I'd just rather not have too many eggs in too few baskets.
And it's not like Burns has been a 10 RPG guy...which might be what this team needs to offset Seymour.
Fact is, we're just praying for Burns to do something near what Agee ALREADY is giving Iona. You want to beat Iona, you need to get some depth. And the Scott/Marshall combo is still better on the interior at Rider as well. Siena has some work to do.
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Post by greengold4ever on Apr 2, 2019 11:33:44 GMT -5
If Pickett, Carey, and Burns are all “elite” MAAC players, then it’s hard to see Siena not being a top 150 team and a title contender. You add in the elite defender glue guy type in Camper, the high level floor spacer in Seymour and there’s a starting 5 that’s pretty darn good. And who knows what else is out there. Emmitt Holt, if he returns to his 2016-17 form, would wreck the MAAC. He’s a guy who multiple people have said is an option for Siena. We could upgrade the 4 spot with Falzon over Seymour. We could add a grad transfer guard who can give minutes or get a freshman who could play rotation minutes. And that’s not even factoring in anything you get fro Sammy Friday, Luke Sutherland, or Jimmy Ratliff. You are right in saying we probably need another guard. But Siena already has the best player in the MAAC, and has what is being framed by the team as a “Big 3” with Don and Elijah that has a ceiling of being 3 top-10 players in the league. I think they’d be able to score a lot better with that trio, and they should be fine defensively as long as Pickett & Camper play big minutes and Carey isn’t a turnstile. I hope Carm avoids Emmitt Holt. On paper he's a phenom but in reality he'll consume a scholarship and play less than 10 minutes. I've been watching this show for PC for 2 years. at MAAC level, Holt should be very good, just sayin'...…….much like we feel Burns coming from ACC would thrive as well...…………..food for thought...……...
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Post by $cott on Apr 2, 2019 11:36:53 GMT -5
Look, I'm just pointing out the efficiencies here. We have Pickett. AWESOME. Best player in the league. YES. But we don't have these other impact proven ballhawks or shotblockers like him or even near him. You want to say guys will improve, fine. I'd just rather not have too many eggs in too few baskets. And it's not like Burns has been a 10 RPG guy...which might be what this team needs to offset Seymour. Fact is, we're just praying for Burns to do something near what Agee ALREADY is giving Iona. You want to beat Iona, you need to get some depth. And the Scott/Marshall combo is still better on the interior at Rider as well. Siena has some work to do. #1 on my wish list right now is a great shotblocker, unfortunately those guys are few and far between in the MAAC. Pickett was 4th in the entire MAAC at 0.88 blocks per game. Reality is to get a guy like that we would likely need to get a Michael Wolfe type that won't be ready to contribute as a freshman but has the potential to develop into an elite shotblocker. That still doesn't help us next year but I'm ok with using one of the three scholarships on a guy like that. The other option is to get another transfer from a big conference that didn't have big block numbers at that level but could improve on that category in the MAAC. That would add one more egg to your basket. You probably can't afford to get both since you need a wing and a combo guard with the other two scholarships.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 2, 2019 11:47:20 GMT -5
Look, I'm just pointing out the efficiencies here. We have Pickett. AWESOME. Best player in the league. YES. But we don't have these other impact proven ballhawks or shotblockers like him or even near him. You want to say guys will improve, fine. I'd just rather not have too many eggs in too few baskets. And it's not like Burns has been a 10 RPG guy...which might be what this team needs to offset Seymour. Fact is, we're just praying for Burns to do something near what Agee ALREADY is giving Iona. You want to beat Iona, you need to get some depth. And the Scott/Marshall combo is still better on the interior at Rider as well. Siena has some work to do. #1 on my wish list right now is a great shotblocker, unfortunately those guys are few and far between in the MAAC. Pickett was 4th in the entire MAAC at 0.88 blocks per game. Reality is to get a guy like that we would likely need to get a Michael Wolfe type that won't be ready to contribute as a freshman but has the potential to develop into an elite shotblocker. That still doesn't help us next year but I'm ok with using one of the three scholarships on a guy like that. The other option is to get another transfer from a big conference that didn't have big block numbers at that level but could improve on that category in the MAAC. That would add one more egg to your basket. You probably can't afford to get both since you need a wing and a combo guard with the other two scholarships. For the record, I'm not limiting Siena's needs to any one category. I just want to see Siena have some big potential strength...that either helps PPS differential or increases possessions. It could be rebounding. It could be TO margin. It could be getting to the line more and higher PPS. It could be shooting efficiency. It just has to be something. Right now, I don't see yet that overriding strength. I see a lot of middling and a team that probably takes good care of the ball. But, if Pickett were to (god forbid) go down they'd probably be near the cellar and be a pretty lackluster team. His presence alone is probably elevating Siena at least 5 spots over their level in the standings. Without him, just about every single statistical category would flatline in comparison to a lot of the MAAC.
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Post by knicksaint on Apr 2, 2019 12:41:26 GMT -5
Not sure we have a chance, but St. Joe's guard Lamarr Kimble, a redshirt junior guard who averaged 15 and change in 18-19 and 16-17 (missed 17-18 with an injury), has entered the transfer portal.
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