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I think collectively with the talent coming in, they can replace the production. The size is what we can’t replace
Yeah, you can’t train someone to grow over 7’. If we do end up getting Howard, that will help. We have no depth at center now and no one who you think would be a starter on a tournament team. Maybe I’m setting expectations too high, but this team has a chance to go deep in the tournament.
I have to imagine that we now see (at least at the start):
Gresham
Edwards
Harris
Hammonds
Ngumezi (the catch however is quite possibly just 15 MPG)
However past that, we see a lot of Auburn type stuff with 4 wings plus a big (Howard seems a lot like freshman Claxton if he comes in that he's very talented but raw, so I would expect him to probably just play spot minutes). It's not exactly ideal, but they made it work.
Wheeler/Walton/Brown/Howard mainly off the bench with Camara getting spot minutes (feel this way since he's raw) and Crump getting occasional minutes during foul trouble problems.
It wouldn't surprise me if Wheeler/Gresham/Edwards/Brown/Hammonds ended up popping up a good bit as a lineup. With 4-star freshmen, you don't really know if they're going to contribute, so I'm looking at the guys that I think are most likely to (Brown was a former 5 star and Wheeler looks underrated).
Is Howard 100% able to transfer from Ole Miss and start immediately?
he’s not transferring. he never enrolled, he just needs a release from his LOI. same process as Wheeler.
Howard just popped to Georgia. Good get, but like I said he feels like to me a lot like freshman Claxton in that year two will be his big contributing year (hopefully, instead of the Claxton situation, year two will be his big year but he even stays for a third year and it's with good teams).
I'm curious how he got released from his LOI though. That's interesting, Kermit Davis is new.
From Rivals;
"When I went to campus on Sunday, Coach Crean showed me the whole campus because I had never seen it,” Howard told Rivals.com. “He broke down my film for like three hours. My mom wanted me to go to Georgia Tech after Saturday’s visit and I thought I was settled on Georgia Tech, but she wanted me to go up to Athens to see it to be sure. After we met with Coach Crean, she didn’t expect so much out of it and she just said she was fine either way I go. She really liked that visit. It was the way he broke everything down about my game and his plan for me that sold me on Georgia.”
Coach Crean is obviously an amazing recruiter. Not only because of the class he has assembled, but he had Howard ready to go as soon as the Claxton news came down. We beat GA Tech for Howard, and they are added to the growing list of schools who our 2019 class turned down to come to Athens. I’m not sure if I’ve ever seen this happen before. This is going to be fun.
We aren't done yet....expect another announcement soon....grad transfer Big Man to complete the roster
I’ll give you props on your OP. Spot on. Nice job.
Solid stuff. Thanks for the breakdown.
Good call superdawg! Spot on!
Dawgnation.
The "Antman" has arrived in The Classic City. The future is here!
Claxton just got invited to the green room for the draft tomorrow which means he's more than likely going in the first round and probably top 20.
Anyone still think he should've come back?