I guess that is where we disagree. I like Sydnor, but I don't think he comes in being a guaranteed impact player. And now that he's hurt we'll never know.
Not saying it isn't a gamble, it's your choice, guaranteeing a .500 team no matter who gets injured or having a shot at a 20 win season and getting into the tournament if we get lucky with injuries.
I love love Gurdak and he was probably the most NIL. Its not that I think the other 3 (taking out the other center for a second) are bad, I just think that you could have combined the NIL of those three and got a difference maker swing forward.
Ive been saying this all summer, too many transfers, would have liked to paid more NIL to less players. Still think this team is better than last year, probably a .500 team or so. Gurdak was a steal though, can't believe we landed him.
Against South Carolina he had zero offense rebounds. Georgia Tech he only had one. Wake only 2. He is not getting putbacks. He is scoring. I could have shown the double digit games he had or the games where he had points in limited minutes. There a a hundred ways to show his stats they were...
Oh I can't believe I missed this thread
I said this all summer this player is going to be a STEAL and one of the best players on the team. Maybe even the best. You just had to look at some of his numbers from last year
2 for 2, 5 pts against South Carolina in 6 min
1 for 1 against...
So it sounds like Diego will be the starting wing 4 sorta playing the Yeboah role. If he's playing 25 minutes that leaves Syndor with 15 at best and I imagine Buchanan will steal a couple minutes at the 4. Like I said, if Diego is pretty good, no other transfer gets more than 15 minutes.
I feel like its about Diego. If he is better than average, maybe alot better than average, we ill be a legit bubble team. If he is not, we will be around a .500 team.
Yeah if he leads in minutes played, and he doesn't score, that means that the other transfers are a failure and that would mean another long season. I am hopeful Diego can score though.
The one thing is that he has a reputation of being a good defender supposedly, which wasn't the case last year. I will say if he does live up to that 4 star rating we will be a tournament contender. Can we finally be lucky for one and find that lightning in a bottle? Just one time? In any sport?
I agree I'm cautiously optimistic as well. Rivals also ranked him as basically a top 60 or so player in the nation, so if scouts think hes that good, that's another data point that makes me optimistic.