re: LSU basketball transfer portal watch

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Tulane transfer Jalen Cook has committed to LSU,

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Averaged 19.9 PPG and 4.9 APG.

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OMG a scorer. Nice pick up.

2 solid pickups neither will be a star but solid players need about 3 more transfers to be competitive

If Cooks can play this year, we'll win a lot more games! If we can replace KJ, I think we can be a tournament team. Getting Cook and Wright may attract some players, but especially Cook, so getting him early may pay extra dividends.

Please tell me you’re not trying to sell me on those statistics to someone who averaged 7 minutes a game. No where near the sample size.

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2 solid pickups neither will be a star but solid players need about 3 more transfers to be competitive

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Cook had damn well better be a star, or this won't go well at all.

When you get a guy who scored 20 a game in the AAC (remember, that's the conference Tari Eason came from and he scored 7 a game before we got him), you're going to expect him to be a high-end player.

He got 100 minutes of playing time in the his last 9 games, and those were his averages over 40 minutes. That is enough of a sample size when it is against SEC opponents. Also, when I watch him play and move, I see his potential.

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He is visiting Ole Miss and he will also need a waiver to play next season


patrick ewing got fired, dont you get a free pass if your coach leaves?

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Athletically, inefficient reasons include the lack or change of an student-athlete’s participation, including no participation opportunity, a reduction in playing time or a change in the student-athlete’s position or role on the team. Additionally, no waiver will be granted for a potential change in the student-athlete’s athletics scholarship, or a coaching change, the latter becoming one of the biggest reasons for transferring we’ve seen in college athletics over recent seasons.

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The recently issued NCAA memo laid out a very narrow view of who will be eligible for waivers moving forward.

Miller opens another spot. And I would imagine someone else may enter, especially if we need a spot.

It's not like there's anybody off last year's roster that you can categorically say we couldn't improve on through the portal.

We went 2-16 in the SEC.

I just looked at the thread on the Rant about Miller leaving and some of those guys are howling about the "bad fans" happy to see him go. But the fact is he was awful last year, so much so that both he and we would be better off for the separation.

He shot 33.6 percent from the floor. 31.6 percent from the three point line. He had 2.1 turnovers to only 1.7 assists per game. Just 0.8 steals per game, and just 2.3 rebounds per game. All of that despite playing 33 minutes per game, the most on the team.

Those numbers get you beat. And Miller got us beat.

Now - it's fair to say that he was hoisting up bombs because we were utterly awful offensively outside of KJ and somebody had to shoot or else we'd just have shot clock violations most of the time. But 33.6 percent from the floor is a disaster.

You can't replace him with somebody who puts up those kinds of numbers this coming year. Frankly, I can't imagine you would. MacMahon's recruiting would have to be worse than even I think it is for that to be the case. Cook, Wright, Carlos Stewart and Amoree Abram all project to be better than this.

Has he entered yet. Some posted there were rumors around Dunham, but I haven’t seen him enter portal as of yesterday.