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re: Boom!! tGeneral has landed Marcio Santos
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:16 am to drizztiger
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:16 am to drizztiger
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Tbird has definitely made up his mind, not sure you’re going to be able to sway him.
Who cares
No one knows anything, no one on here has seen this guy play in person or anything.
Euro League is just a different world. Wade has already said the only guys they are paying are guys that will PLAY. This guy is coming to play.
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Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:18 am to thunderbird1100
They may have more talent sure but there’s still a huge difference in 18-20 year old potential vs. grown men physically
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:21 am to drizztiger
This is what I like about Wade
He knows the solution here, especially in our current state, is not simply give me more NIL /rev share. That only gets you so far when you’re competing against better programs with the same budget. Wade knows he needs an edge and has to zig while they zag.
Will this strategy work? Idk but it’s a good pivot to try.
He knows the solution here, especially in our current state, is not simply give me more NIL /rev share. That only gets you so far when you’re competing against better programs with the same budget. Wade knows he needs an edge and has to zig while they zag.
Will this strategy work? Idk but it’s a good pivot to try.
This post was edited on 5/6/26 at 10:22 am
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:21 am to CatfishJohn
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He's got a good stroke
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Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:22 am to Fun Bunch
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Come on
Have some of you really not been paying attention to the talent in the SEC recently? There's a reason a ton of SEC teams are making the tournament each year now. It's a ultra talented league. 13 players got taken in the 2025 draft, that snot counting all the guys who also got G-league deals or other pro contracts across the world.
Sure, all of Div 1 is a step down from the euro league, not talking about what ULM has on their roster here though.
The SEC has a TON of talent in it though. It's not exactly going to get much easier, especially playing a different brand of basketball overall he has to adjust to. There's going to be athleticism he has rarely seen before playing on an Israeli team coming here and some of the 1st round NBA talent. Remember Ron Zipper? The 22 year old Israeli pro who came here and did nothing all season here. He averaged 11 points and like 21 minutes a game his last year over there in Israel. Now this guy certainly is better than him (not doubting that for a second), but when Zipper came over here he clearly could not adjust to the overall athleticism he started seeing. The guy could just not defend at all and was a big issue he never really played all year.
This post was edited on 5/6/26 at 10:29 am
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:23 am to BilJ
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They may have more talent sure but there’s still a huge difference in 18-20 year old potential vs. grown men physically
If this guy was a physical player, maybe that would matter. But he doesnt rebound and fouls all the time.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:30 am to thunderbird1100
The fouling is an issue.
Has he been asked to be a rebounder? What style of offense do they play? Because of his game going out to the 3 pt line and overall offensive game, do they ask him to immediately slip when a shot attempt goes up and not crash the rim?
Has he been asked to be a rebounder? What style of offense do they play? Because of his game going out to the 3 pt line and overall offensive game, do they ask him to immediately slip when a shot attempt goes up and not crash the rim?
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:31 am to thunderbird1100
Someone get this guy a Xanax. Jesus. 
So tired of this Ron zipper example as reason to believe Wade’s international recruits won’t mesh. I felt retarded just typing that.
So tired of this Ron zipper example as reason to believe Wade’s international recruits won’t mesh. I felt retarded just typing that.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:31 am to thunderbird1100
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Have some of you really not been paying attention to the talent in the SEC recently?
How would Maccabi do in SEC play?
This post was edited on 5/6/26 at 10:33 am
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:31 am to BilJ
quote:Agreed. Wade isn’t the type to stand with arms crossed and just toss money at highly touted recruits without an overall plan in place for the player and the team. Wade himself admits that he’s adjusted his strategy just from last year at NCSU. Unfortunately, the past few years LSU MBB just seemed to keep trying the same thing regardless of whether it worked or not. That’s when posters on this board had to resort to counting double digit losses starting at 14 or more points.
He knows the solution here, especially in our current state, is not simply give me more NIL /rev share.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:35 am to Fun Bunch
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Wade has already said the only guys they are paying are guys that will PLAY. This guy is coming to play.
Wade said he is paying 8-9 guys. The 7-9 guys on the roster will only play 10-15 minutes a game. He essentially said he isn'y paying the back of the roster to ride the bench and never play at all, not that he isn't gonna pay role players...
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:43 am to Fun Bunch
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The fouling is an issue.
It's a pretty major one to playing a lot of minutes anywhere. Nwoko was a pretty talented overall player but it constantly hampered his playing time here last season.
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Has he been asked to be a rebounder?
The guy who played in front of him averaged 7 boards a game in euroleague. They arent telling a big 6'8-6'9 guy "hey dont rebound"
This post was edited on 5/6/26 at 10:44 am
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:46 am to tigerbait2010
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So tired of this Ron zipper example as reason to believe Wade’s international recruits won’t mesh. I felt retarded just typing that.
Thats not what i said at all, in fact I specifically said this guy is way more of a talent over Zipper. The point on Zipper was defensively he was so bad he couldnt even get minutes on the court here. It's a different style of basketball and there's a lot of athletes here you dont exactly see on the regular in the Israeli league. It's an adjustment for any long time euro player, but at least guy has played American basketball in the past getting time in the summer league a few years ago. He is a much better athlete, so the transition wont be nearly the same.
In the end though, not being a defender or rebounder is what will cause a big to never play a ton of minutes anywhere. He is a scorer and that's great, but it wont buy him 25-30 minutes a game here, especially if we land who we think we will at the big spots in guys like Graves. You have to understand, this guy is a 10-15 minute rotational guy is a GOOD thing if thats his role here next year, it means we scored the bigs we really wanted ultimately. This guy is absolutely the offensive juice you want coming off the bench and giving you some points, but you dont want a non-rebounder and defensive liability out there for 25-30 minutes a game.
This post was edited on 5/6/26 at 10:50 am
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:47 am to drizztiger
Wade did a great job last go round of finding hidden talent that fit what he wanted to do….so knowing nothing of this dude at all I trust his proces, if he commits to McMahon yeah I’m probably questioning this take
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:48 am to thunderbird1100
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The guy who played in front of him averaged 7 boards a game in euroleague. They arent telling a big 6'8-6'9 guy "hey dont rebound"
They certainly might be because they have guys there specifically to rebound.
Because of his offensive game, when he's in he might be slipping out on every shot attempt instead of crashing.
I really don't know. Do you?
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:52 am to Fun Bunch
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Because of his offensive game, when he's in he might be slipping out on every shot attempt instead of crashing.
I really don't know. Do you?
You do realize he plays on the defensive end of the court and being 6'8 250 he would often be defending well inside the 3 point line, right? He averaged less than 1 DEFENSIVE rebound per game in 14 minutes. This is an indication of not being a very willing rebounder at 6'8 250. This guy clearly has the athleticism to be better, he just hasnt. I'd be 99% certain his team is not telling him on the defensive end "hey just run down the court every time a shot goes up, dont bother trying to rebound the ball"
This post was edited on 5/6/26 at 10:55 am
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:54 am to thunderbird1100
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Remember Ron Zipper? The 22 year old Israeli pro who came here and did nothing all season here. He averaged 11 points and like 21 minutes a game his last year over there in Israel. Now this guy certainly is better than him (not doubting that for a second), but when Zipper came over here he clearly could not adjust to the overall athleticism he started seeing. The guy could just not defend at all and was a big issue he never really played all year.
I'm not saying Zipper was a great player. He may not be and never will be. But he also played for the worst coach in the SEC and one of the worst power conference coaches in the country. That has to be taken into context in any discussion. Every season McMahon would leave guys to waste away on the bench while his teams constantly got drummed. It would be one thing if McMahon had some great history of developing players at LSU to eventually become winners. But he didn't. At all! When you lose nearly 80% of your games against major conference opponents it is hard to give much credence to your personnel decisions. And it's hard to expect anyone would have great success under you when so very few (at LSU) have.
I'm not saying Santos is going to be some great player either. But Wade here gets the benefit of the doubt because he has earned it over the course of his career. McMahon doesn't get the benefit of the doubt...because he earned that over the course of his LSU career.
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:55 am to thunderbird1100
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You do realize he plays on the defensive end of the court
I think you are misunderstanding what I am saying and how some players are asked to play in today's game
I will leave you to it. I guess we will just have to find out
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:57 am to lowhound
Price we paid for him is rumored to be $3mil+
He’s going to play
He’s going to play
Posted on 5/6/26 at 10:57 am to Alt26
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I'm not saying Zipper was a great player. He may not be and never will be. But he also played for the worst coach in the SEC and one of the worst power conference coaches in the country. That has to be taken into context in any discussion. Every season McMahon would leave guys to waste away on the bench while his teams constantly got drummed. It would be one thing if McMahon had some great history of developing players at LSU to eventually become winners. But he didn't. At all! When you lose nearly 80% of your games against major conference opponents it is hard to give much credence to your personnel decisions. And it's hard to expect anyone would have great success under you when so very few (at LSU) have.
I'm not saying Santos is going to be some great player either. But Wade here gets the benefit of the doubt because he has earned it over the course of his career. McMahon doesn't get the benefit of the doubt...because he earned that over the course of his LSU career.
Careful. Even though this is 100% spot on, we can’t point out McMahon’s pathetic tenure here. I’ve been told by charmin soft “fans of the program” that it brings a negative vibe to the board.
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