Two New Guys
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Zalewski appears to be an existing student at NU - or at least he graduated high school in 2017. Given his age & limited production in high school, I assume he is a walk on and primarily a practice body. A couple good friends of mine from the mid-90s made the team as walk-ons. Seemed like a thankless job (but also an incredible accomplishment).
https://www.maxpreps.com/athlete/er...S00gAmVebEWg/gendersport/basketball-stats.htm
Also, its safe to say that Zelewski will not be taking Charlie Hall's spot when it comes to entertaining interviews:
He might be only 6 feet tall, but wearing #55 automatically makes you larger.
Honestly, if he can dribble it up the court and pass it without turning it over, I’ll take him as an emergency PG.
I think Zalewski may have previously been a student manager. I heard that one of the managers was going to be a walk on this season.
Kid can shoot, but the competition at this camp level appears to be weak, Guessing nothing more than a practice body based on this. By comparison, the Dixon tape is miles ahead of this one,.
Wonder it this means Tino is on scholarship now... would be odd for us to have 4 walkons, though for other BIG teams (Indiana immediately comes to mind) it is not unusual..
Given the large number of players remaining in the portal, I can state with a reasonable degree of certainty that we will have at least one scholarship player in addition to our current eligible 10 (possibly 11/12 if Audige wins his appeal/Malnati is awarded a schollie).
Malnati getting a scholarship doesn't necessarily mean he is a "scholarship player".
nteresting, guessing Lou's info in this regard was erroneous, or plans changed?
https://northwestern.rivals.com/new...strong-defender-with-outstanding-athleticism-
just going off what i heard. he might have heard different. sometimes these things are not clear depending on who you talk to.
They better be appealing or I have some serious questions about CCC. We're going into this season with 9 scholarship players, 4 walk-ons, and a really good lacrosse player. That scene from Hoosiers keeps going thru my mind... "my team is on the floor." Striking out more than Kyle Schwarber right now.
Just speculating, but Collins might be playing the "long game". 2019-20 is doomed no matter if Audige is eligible or not. Collins is under contract through 2025, so even another last place finish doesn't affect his job security. Could be that he see's Jersey Mike's "brighter days ahead starting 2020-21" given his more recent recruiting success and wants 3 years of Audige plus Bam, rather than wasting a year of eligibility in the coming futile season. Who knows.
Ah, the old “tanking in college hoops” strategy. So that’s where we think things are.
This is going to be a strange season. We really need Nance to break out as a legit Big Ten player to have any shot to make some noise.
Methinks Greer and Boo are more critical to winning games.
Along with making shots.
Nance is the only NU player at the moment who could realistically develop into an All Big Ten First Teamer. Thus, we need to see the sophomore jump.
But sure, having a lead guard would be nice too.
Miller Kopp has a high ceiling. He showed flashes of his capabilities last year, and with more confidence and another year in the strength program, I think he can be our leading scorer this year.
The way it worked when I was younger was that we'd go looking for the best talent to play against. When they beat the crap out of us, we'd go back and keep going back until we got good enough to compete.
There wasn't much -- if anything -- in Kopp's, Nance's or Greer's freshman play that concerned me. Huge learnings for all three and the reasonable expectation is that each substantially improve. It's perfectly reasonable to expect their shooting percentage to improve. All should be better defensively. There is probably the most room (and natural talent) for Nance to make the biggest leap.
I think Greer will be steadier with the ball. I expect his minutes will surprise.
Kopp is tough and talented and he'll play huge minutes. I think the shots fall for him this year.
Nance can do an awful lot just being on the floor. I'm excited to see his progression.
We've not seen Ryan Young but he's been under the tutelage of Brian James so we should expect that he is capable of some amount of minutes.
Super excited to see Robbie Beran play....kid is bouncy, as CCC says. Ditto Bouie.
I don't think it's going to be boring.
We also need Jared Jones to contribute in a similar manner as Dererk Pardon after he burned his shirt freshman year.
Somehow something tells me I am going to lol at this in a few years when someone other than Nance makes 1st team all BIG. Way to have confidence in our players, though!
I believe your take here has some merit. We weren't able to redshirt people in the past, and it cost us. Collins tried to do this with Pardon, but unfortunately ever warm body at center getting injured at once torpedoed that plan. The process was resumed with Young, and I believe that we will see at least one redshirt a year in the future,
As an aside, think about if CC had succeeded with his plan to redshirt Pardon. If that one move had not been sunk by injury, we are talking about a completely different 2019-20 season....
But not a better one:
LG: tru frosh or Greer - blah
Wings - Gaines, Kopp, Buie, Lax - blah
S4 - Nance, Beran - blah
C - Pardon, R Young, JJ
The LG has nothing proven to rely on - more of sophomore leap and true frosh savior.
Gaines is a hard nosed D guy. Kopp show some spark as a legit rotation guy, not a superstar. More sophomore leap prayers. Then tru frosh prayers and missed stardom as b-ball to play non revenue sport but came to NU to lift the program prayers.
Nance showed nothing. Plenty of excuses...I mean explanations. But more sophomore leap and tru frosh prayers.
Pardon - legit B1G player but not MJ 2.0. Ryan and JJ - more unproven product prayers.
Do I need to eval the walkons?
Lots of prayers without considering the NU injury bug.
So you're saying our 2019-20 season would not be appreciably better with Pardon as a 5th year? I respectfully disagree it that is what you are saying. And you can't look at it with just the existing cast; for example if Pardon was here, than a grad transfer or two who had just one year of eligibility is likely here because with Pardon they can see a winning team...
Our 2019-20 season would probably be appreciably better with Pardon, Benson, Ivanauskas, Ash, Brown and--more importantly--any number of our top recruiting targets that we have struck out on the past few recruiting classes. I'm not going to point to a foot injury to Alex Olah in December 2015 (that sidelined him for 3 weeks) as the thing to sink our 2019-20 season--and the thing that is preventing us from signing quality grad transfers this off-season. You are grasping for excuses.
None of the players who left that you cite would have had anywhere near an impact as Pardon:, imo. Think Benson or Ash, etc.staying would have influnced grad transfers? Believe you're truly underestimating the talent level of DP here....