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McMiller is an interesting one. High profile out of high school, lived up to it at each stop at Rutgers and Penn State. Heard about the huge ego, that's Kim's jam but sharing the ball has not been her thing. If she's finally tired of trying to do it alone, she's a great fit for Kim and the style of play but then, what's the lineup because she's not an off the bench player. Does Fulwiley agree to come of the bench again in that scenario?

Janneh, would be a great pick up off the bench subbing Knox or vice versa.

Crump is a great fit to spell the 2/3 with an elite 3 point shooter to space the floor. Her with any of the 3 guards and the way they can penetrate and kick would be very hard to stop.

Edwards would be an obvious yes, its her and Knox on the floor at the same time that makes me excited. Those 2 running both sides of the floor with any guard who can dish for the next 3/4 years would be great.

Trygger, I just don't get unless you can add an athletic 5 too, because she's just Koval with a better shot. Nice to have bodies but we need someone who can run and defend athletic bigs from other teams as well.

The discussion of dominance came from the post I replied to stating about how we get dominated by other teams big girls and need some to return that. If you read that you'd understand the context in which I stated, Merkle is not that.

My point was she would not be as productive with LSU because 1. Our pace is too fast for her to succeed because Mulkey like to play a certain style. 2. She would not be a focus of the offense like at Penn State

My previous post becomes even more relevant after last night. The two games I mentioned, that mattered are the two teams in the national championship tomorrow. She has decent, not great showings in blowouts. The worse of the two against the style we play and see night in and night out. It's not a match.

Hence my mentioning Woolfolk who's a perfect fit. Reynolds who we played this year and cause us problems is also a good fit. I'd hoped Cody and Jones and Bama had gotten in the portal since Curry left bit the didn't.

Why a 1 year, non fit isn't what you're looking for? Because Williams and Fulwiley are Seniors next year. You have a chance to compete for a title. You don't bring in a piece you expect to swallow up extensive starting time, that changes your whole pace and style of play and then make them have to do a total rebuild on chemistry. You need plug and play pieces and that boosts you for the year after where currently we don't have a true star on this roster as of now.

That's the point. She didn't dominate any other big girls. Go look at the schedule. Only 2 games matter, UCLA who plays a slow pace but had 6-7 Betts, she had 15 and 4 and they lost by 36, Betts had 25 and 7. Against South Carolina, (SEC size and speed) she had 9 and 9 and they lost by 40 and Okot didn't even play, Edwards had 29.

If with LSU she would be constantly behind the play and would slow down LSU's entire offense, especially with someone like Fulwiley starting next year. She would consistently get beat on the defensive end in the open floor by teams that have bigs that run ...ie ALL THE GOOD ONES.

She also is a Junior so she only has 1 year left. You don't take that over more athletic kids that will be Sophomores and Juniors next year

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Gracie Merkle, 6-6, C, Jr. (19.2 ppg, 8.2 rpg)

That's who we want.

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As I posted under the thread about her, she's s horrible fit. Not built for the pace or the physicality of the SEC. Those stats are a mirage. She was the #2 player on a team so bad her stats had no choice but to look good. She's a mirage.

Woolfolk is bonafide and insert ready now.

Watch the game, not highlight reels and read stats.

Definitely need another guard. Richard, Fulwiley and Williams start more than likely. Hines off the bench, with no Bourrage you need another guard off the bench as Lampley is more a 3/4.

Remember we also lost Gilbert who I think was a critical loss to this team this year, unless her issue is resolved and she's asks for another season. You definitely need at least 1 more guard, maybe 2.

Go get Essence Cody AND Naomi Jones from Bama. Kristi Curry is gone. They could follow her but if they want to stay in the SEC those 2 plus Koval and Knox and Lampley and Z. Johnson if you want to go small should be more than enough. With the guard play to give multiple lineup looks with different levels of athleticism, defense and scoring.

Ain't win shxt either! A bunch of good recruits and no x's and O's. What 1 sweet sixteen and 2 second round exits.

Yes, anything at this point is better than McMahon but Wade wasn't a great coach, he's a great recruiter.

Don't know why y'all so upset. He thinks he's Trump but of Louisiana. Control to do whatever he wants. Same shxt. Can't complain about him and praise the other and you probably voted for both.

From everything I saw, it wasn't even people from Rapides Parish. There was a shooting at a club south of Alexandria on 71 at like 4 am Saturday, 2 dead. There was some sort of retaliation planned for that, that was aimed at the parade and other events. The folks doing the threatening seemed to be from Avoyelles Parish.

The last thing I saw, don't know how true it is, a rapper was invited to the homecoming by a student(s) because it's a MAJOR event, thousands come out for the events which is why we do it on Saturday every year. Apparently, the shooting was over or directed at this rapper in support of another rapper and our events got caught up in that simply over him being invited. Both rappers are from BR.

Whoever this group from Avoyelles was, didn't just threatened our events but we're attempting to cause chaos at the hospital and with EMS around town.

High ceiling but doesn't have the motor. Pouts when he doesn't get the ball. We played them last year and had nobody his size. We won and he sat on the 3 pt line all game long. He could be a very good collegiate 4 since he will get to stretch the floor but has to shoot better. He's not a center though, at all

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Charles Smith won't allow it.

Nothing is allowed to take any spotlight from basketball. Lord forbid a basketball player want to play football, he'd have to miss fall workouts with the basketball team. There have been a number of extremely skilled athletes that were strongly encouraged to not play football. There have also been a number of extremely skilled basketball players zoned for Rapides that somehow end up on campus at Jones Avenue... well before open enrollment was a thing. It's funny how that seemed to happen.

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1. Yes, he is the reason football can't get where they need to go and as long as the principal is positioning his son to succeed him (he's now asst. athletic director), nothing will change.

2. It's less about who's playing and not and much more about the money. Football used to hold its own on the budget, even when we were bad but Smith was always the AD. The neglect to one program over the other was obvious.

3. He's always let kids play more than one sport. There are plenty that played football and baseball too throughout his tenure. What he does do...is not start them or cut minutes, because they aren't there for everything in the summer and fall. Not always, but most of the time.

4. Been a thing said for years that we got kids we shouldn't have, yet, I think we never got sanctioned by LHSAA until 2021 or 22 and that's with the LHSAA having gone through the entire athletic dept previously on multiple occasions. But tell the truth, all the while, it was kids that should have been at Peabody for football, that were at ASH and Tioga before open enrollment. It happened all over Rapides. If the RPSB and LHSAA overlooked it for some, why not others?