re: Charles Manning Jr. enters transfer portal

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Well this is a nice kick in the balls on a friday. This sucks. Bye bye depth with penn johnson and now him leaving

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While you hate to see an experienced player who has given you good minutes in the past leave, I wouldn't overreact. Wilkinson had played his way into a starting role and minutes because he does a LOT of little things that help this team win. Thomas and Smart has been huge scorers that are hard to take off the court. Wade likes Gaines and said before the UGA game that he wants to get him more minutes.

As for Penn-Johnson, it was clear early on he wasn't going to be a big factor. LSU still has Gray and Wade has said he is going to likely give him a few minutes here and there against teams who might have an effective Center (like UF). Gray probably would have played a few minutes vs. Mizzou. Then you still have O'Neal waiting to come off of injury. Wade was probably only going to play a 9-10 man rotation anyway. You still have enough to do that.

Hate to see him leave, but I can understand why if he felt his minutes were going to be limited when he only has limited eligibility left.