If you don’t think we expect immediate results, and think this a place where we have patience, I got some ocean front property in Greene county for sale.
Tucker DeVries
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I am not so sure that both Rice and Carlyle could be helpful especially on the defensive end.
Have to start out on the right foot. This gives him the opportunity. DD doesn’t have a flawless resume, this was a plus. Gives a reason to gamble on him. Because this is a gamble hire.
Woodson would not only had to have righted the ship but hoisted all the sails and made a showing in the regatta to change Dolson's mind. He knew this was Woodson's last year.
I think it has to be progression…make tourney win a game or two. Then move from there.
Not sure that's true. What if TKR misses his little jump hook in West Laffy, and we win there? And then IU holds on to beat either Maryland or Michigan? 12-8, sweep of Purdue, solid NCAA season... I can't fathom Dolson pushes him out at that point. And we were literally a couple seconds and bounces of the ball away from that.
Body of work. In four years we never sniffed the goals that we claimed we wanted to achieve.
Some condensed games and highlight reels while TD was playing early in the year
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Obviously I get it. But basically zero chance Dolson gets the green light, or whatever he needed, to push him out if he sweeps Purdue, and has an obvious NCAA at large team.
Thanks for posting. He's an elite shooter, and offensive player. Obviously gonna need some speed, size, and athleticism around him though.
I'm kind of bummed that I didn't make a point of watching them earlier in the year. They were a fun team to watch in those clips. Reminiscent of the Tennessee team with Knecht.
Tucker Devries - 3pt%
2022 Drake 33.8
2023 Drake 36.4
2024 WVU 47.3 (only 8 games)
There are worse things than building around the coaches son when he's a walk in the door candidate for 1st team all-conference. This will be a very interesting portal cycle. I believe our new coach will take a way more Otzelberger approach to roster building than a Bill Self approach. I wonder if we fill all 15 scholarships?
The other way of looking at it is our new coach gets his son 1.5+m and he has a Luka usage rate and we finish .500 in the conference again. Every game we bitch about how many shots he Jack's up and the 2-time MVC poy is killing us because he can't defend. I'm trying to be optimistic.
Somewhere between is he's Markus Domask.
He is def a border line NBA guy. Reminds me a lot of DiVincenzo or Connaughton with even a bit more size.
Those fellas are quite a lot quicker and more "bouncy" than Tucker is. Tucker is bigger though, and has quite a lot of game to him. Obviously not as good as Luka, but more of that type of player. Crafty, very good shooter, good passer, competitor, good enough athlete to get the job done, etc...
I'd be a little wary of adding a bunch of guys like Owen Freeman, if I were DeVries. He needs some tough nosed, athleticism to get up and down the court, and defend at a high level. He "wants" to get up and shoot the ball quickly in shot clocks. In order to do that effectively, you gotta get stops, and get the rebounds. The sophomore starting big from West Virginia isn't overly fast, either. If the core guys from WVU come, he needs to get some more speed and athleticism around them, probably. Another big reason they had early success this year was Javon Small. He's a very fast and explosive lead guard. Need to surround Tucker with some of those guys. Can't have a bunch of Mgbako's and Parker Stewart types around him.
Don't believe he has any eligibility left.
He doesn't, covid year is over and basketball will get a bit younger next year.
ah hell, I think you're right. I'm conditioned to seeing 4 years of stats and thinking there's a fifth coming.
Never know with how quickly the NCAA changes their minds on rules. Anyone know if the JUCO 2+4 rule is actually a rule now? I could see that impacting all levels of college dramatically if so.
Baylor Schierman-Marcus Domask might be more realistic. Your two guys had 40+ verticals.
This is Devries' new challenge. He's shown he can build competitive teams. He's got to achieve beyond that now and it won't happen without working in elite guys (who fit).
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