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sycamorebacker said:
This was discussed in another thread, so this is a repeat, but i'll be glad to give my opinion.

1) We are losing Lathan, Printy and Richard and lost AC. I think we should take another shooter now if we can get a good one.

2) After Walker is gone, we will have Kitchell (so) RJ (jr) and Gant (?) that are capable of playing the 5 if we don't sign another one next year. And that could possibly be a Juco if needed.

3) If Kitchell is good enough then we have a scenario that he will get 25+min and Gant needs 25+ minutes. We have some combo forwards and they all cannot play the 3. So we will have some 3-4 combos that we need to get on the floor. I'm talking about KD, R Smith, Arop, Bell.

Bottom line is I think we are well stocked at the 3-4-5. If we end up without a true center, then I'm comfortable using Gant or RJ. I love mobility and versatility, and I don't think we have to have a 6'9" post guy.
If we were in the Big East or Big Ten, then we would need a couple of good 6'9" or 6'10" guys, but we go decades without having a true, post-up, back-to-the-basket, defensive, 6'9" center. That's the nature of being a mid-major.

And I love shooters.
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Tend to agree with this - still nice to have a banger. But you'd have to assume that Gant, Smith and Kitchell should be able to rebound the ball well from the 4 or 5 positions. That's really what I worry about the most, between rebounding and post D. This team made it's season last year on good team D, I don't want us to lose that identity. Myles Walker, although not a great 5 offensively is a pretty good darn defender when he's not in foul trouble.
 

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Dgreenwell3 said:
May Have visited unofficially and decided to make t official...
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Yes, he has visited unofficially. The visit next weekend would have been an official. I know a couple people have PM'd me asking me what I think and I personally think he'll end up committing to Evansville. Teams are usually pretty successful landing kids when they had the last word (or visit) and he really seemed to enjoy his time there. Plus, the path to playing time is the easiest there in my opinion.
 
Jason Svoboda said:
Yes, he has visited unofficially. The visit next weekend would have been an official. I know a couple people have PM'd me asking me what I think and I personally think he'll end up committing to Evansville. Teams are usually pretty successful landing kids when they had the last word (or visit) and he really seemed to enjoy his time there. Plus, the path to playing time is the easiest there in my opinion.
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He is making his decision today, right?? Was there any time frame given with that? Are you going to provide a live video feed to supporting members?:D
 
Jason Svoboda said:
Yes, he has visited unofficially. The visit next weekend would have been an official. I know a couple people have PM'd me asking me what I think and I personally think he'll end up committing to Evansville. Teams are usually pretty successful landing kids when they had the last word (or visit) and he really seemed to enjoy his time there. Plus, the path to playing time is the easiest there in my opinion.
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Yes, but only one of his final three was in the Big Dance last year, and looks to be in a position to challenge for it for years to come. Plus, I gotta think (hope, really) that it's a good sign for us that 1) he didn't commit to E'ville while he was there, and 2) he re-tweeted a bunch of ISU stuff yesterday and today.

We'll see soon...:pray:
 

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IndyTreeFan said:
Yes, but only one of his final three was in the Big Dance last year, and looks to be in a position to challenge for it for years to come. Plus, I gotta think (hope, really) that it's a good sign for us that 1) he didn't commit to E'ville while he was there, and 2) he re-tweeted a bunch of ISU stuff yesterday and today.

We'll see soon...:pray:
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Yeah but he tweeted stuff from every school, just so happens that a lot of Sycamore people on Twitter. We have a pretty big @sycamorepride following on Twitter, probably more than most schools.

In my mind, he was just trying to continue to promote himself by re-tweeting everything. The more his name is out on the tweet wire the more hype it creates. Had nothing to do with Indiana State. My guess...
 
SycamoreStateofMind said:
Yeah but he tweeted stuff from every school, just so happens that a lot of Sycamore people on Twitter. We have a pretty big @sycamorepride following on Twitter, probably more than most schools.

In my mind, he was just trying to continue to promote himself by re-tweeting everything. The more his name is out on the tweet wire the more hype it creates. Had nothing to do with Indiana State. My guess...
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You tryin' to bring me down??? :bigsmile:
 

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