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Blue Man

Iggy1979 wrote: ↑12 hours ago Blue Man: you have 4 returnees being better next year. How much better will be the key to the season.

100000 %.

If they aren’t, that’ll be the first time you hear me start to be critical of our staff. I just don’t believe that to be the case.

Blue Man

We have an interesting fan base. This rotation, as of 3:47 on 4/22, is already better than last year's and it's not even close. Bassy > Luis Sr House > Jr House Lawrence > Montgomery/Weston Sr Green > Jr ineligible Green So Fuchs > Fr Fuchs So Estevez > Fr Estevez Farrell is a TBD freshman defensiv...

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The only good tournaments URI seems to get into more recently seem to be restricted to when it plays at Mohegan Sun. Unfortunately that can only happen every four years. Given we are coming off four straight losing seasons and do not travel well outside this area, we are not really a desirable team...

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We have an interesting fan base. This rotation, as of 3:47 on 4/22, is already better than last year's and it's not even close. Bassy > Luis Sr House > Jr House Lawrence > Montgomery/Weston Sr Green > Jr ineligible Green So Fuchs > Fr Fuchs So Estevez > Fr Estevez Farrell is a TBD freshman defensive...

Blue Man

In defense of Archie's packline, we want to score in transition. UVA wants to setup the halfcourt and slow the game down. UVA is awful basketball to watch. It's lifeless and slow on purpose. UVA wants to win rock fights, we want to win track meets. We averaged 72.6ppg this year. Virginia averaged 6...

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Here’s hoping that after watching UVa get destroyed and having the Packline fail at URI that Miller will think it’s time to adapt. In defense of Archie's packline, we want to score in transition. UVA wants to setup the halfcourt and slow the game down. UVA is awful basketball to watch. It's lifeles...

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"We've played other teams with injury problems, sometimes without their best player. If we were totally healthy and the teams we played were totally healthy, I actually think our record would be worse than it is now." This is the quote. I didn't exactly remember it right! And I wasn't jus...

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Also, this is not a knock on Hammond as I was excited to see him play here and develop, but since when did a true freshman PG lead a team to a title of some sorts? And yes, in high school games Hammond was pressuring the ball very well. Doesn’t mean he’d be effectively doing that from day 1 in a gua...

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What is, "we don't do that here "? I don’t think we had the speed to do that here. He played a lot of press at Dayton, I think he lacked a quick pg who could handle the ball pickup and establish the line in the back court. See if that doesn’t change this season. He would have had he been ...

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Maybe……if we change to an uptempo belly to belly to belly 94 ft pressing defense as soon as they toss the ball up….run platoons in and out, but, “we ………………………..” What is, "we don't do that here "? I don’t think we had the speed to do that here. He played a lot of press at Dayton, I think ...

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Blue Man, are you okay? You had posted many times that KJ wasn't leaving, and you would have the last laugh. You also said that Hammond was staying because of Archie. Now we bring back your favorite Rhody player, Bassy. Just want to make sure you are all good. Of course, you realize this is just so...

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Someone check on Blue Man, his blood pressure is definitely rising This is spectacular.....spec- freeking - tacular. I want to hear the Bassy hating NIL pimps in full throat, please...trying to convince US to donate so they can afford to waste money on players that THEY have already thoroughly t-ra...

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Current—> former—> current https://x.com/bassyyyyy4/status/1781736742359277859?s=46&t=NTydXGgoYaTZr0wF3SgCbQ I have been mentally preparing myself for this the past 36 hours. Even 3 years ago with David Cox, we said the kid was a good, fast, pure PG with good court vision and great ball handlin...

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NYGFan_Section208 wrote: ↑1 week ago
Ramfan22 wrote: ↑1 week ago
Him coming back here, and getting paid...would be epic.

I think him scoring 19.6 ppg and only getting serious consideration at Fordham should explain everything.

Blue Man

How can someone who is here for 1 year be a program changer? All it takes is one good season in this new landscape for the future of a program to make a 180. I agree with this statement to a certain degree. With all of the shifting and personal changes every year, I DO BELIEVE YOU CAN TURN A "...

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Guys, keep our friend Rhody Vault in your thoughts tonight. He’s having a hard time heaping any praise at Arch or URI with this signing.

But Bryant picking up the kid averaging 3.3 a game from St Bonnie’s was great!

Blue Man

Would love nothing more than Ed Cooley falling flat on his face @ Gtown , he gets a pass year 1 but you would expect some improvement in year 2 I just don't think you get a pass when you have unlimited money to go and buy a team. If I'm a Gtown fan I think the most "tempered" of expectati...

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No one better celebrate this Lawrence transfer. Just because he’s a borderline B1G starter who played well against good B1G competition and represents a lot of things we missed on the court last year doesn’t mean we can be happy. The staff didn’t let this message board know what they were doing, so...

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No one better celebrate this Lawrence transfer. Just because he’s a borderline B1G starter who played well against good B1G competition and represents a lot of things we missed on the court last year doesn’t mean we can be happy. The staff didn’t let this message board know what they were doing, so ...

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Not Mike Powell wrote: ↑6 days ago Why does it feel like the wheels are falling off of this program?

Idk the B1G transfer seems to think that’s not the case.

Blue Man

To me, donating to the NIL is kind of like making a campaign contribution. I may donate $100 bucks or whatever, but at the end of the day it’s the deep pockets that will drive any meaningful impact. You're not wrong, but if everyone on this board had the same opinion as you, it would matter a lot.

Blue Man

Would love nothing more than Ed Cooley falling flat on his face @ Gtown , he gets a pass year 1 but you would expect some improvement in year 2 I just don't think you get a pass when you have unlimited money to go and buy a team. If I'm a Gtown fan I think the most "tempered" of expectati...

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While visiting the GU board looking for news on KJ’s hire, I checked out their other topics and read some posts on NIL strategy. One self proclaimed inside poster said Cooley - anticipating his first year would be a struggle - purposely held back a significant chunk of NIL last year so he could hav...

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It's funny, I don't really remember the meltdowns when Dan Hurley lost arguably better top level assistants to similar level jobs - Preston Murphy, ARD, Luke Murray all left for the same jobs at higher level programs that could pay more. Just because Archie's assistants pool is good "for us&qu...

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This is a depressing thread.

God this fanbase just doesn’t get it.

Blue Man

While visiting the GU board looking for news on KJ’s hire, I checked out their other topics and read some posts on NIL strategy. One self proclaimed inside poster said Cooley - anticipating his first year would be a struggle - purposely held back a significant chunk of NIL last year so he could hav...

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It's funny, I don't really remember the meltdowns when Dan Hurley lost arguably better top level assistants to similar level jobs - Preston Murphy, ARD, Luke Murray all left for the same jobs at higher level programs that could pay more. Just because Archie's assistants pool is good "for us&quo...

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This is why we were hesitant about putting it on here. Vault tweeted out the info as his own. That dudes sources are jokes. He takes guesses, sometimes educated, and hopes they’re right. Tre Mitchell being one of them. Remember how he knew that KJ was going to be officially announced last week? He ...

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UConn's win over Purdue averages just under 4 million fewer viewers than South Carolina's victory over Iowa Viewership for Monday night's game was up slightly from UConn's victory a year ago https://www.yahoo.com/sports/uconns-win-over-purdue-averages-just-under-4-million-fewer-viewers-than-south-c...

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Gonna be really funny when Kenny doesn’t go and all these “sources” got it wrong.

Vault had Tre Mitchell signed sealed and delivered to Rhody too.

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Hurley isn't leaving UConn. Certainly not before he passes Calhoun for titles. Then - it would be more likely he retires. Just like when I said Kentucky would be open, and Dan would use this as leverage to improve UConn (assistant's pay, NIL, etc), Dan isn't doing another rebuild. He's a God in a pl...

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Not Mike Powell wrote: ↑2 weeks ago
Thorr does not deserve praise for the success Hurley is having after URI.

Yeah and we shouldn’t celebrate players in the NBA either!

Blue Man

Imagine having an NBA point guard on your roster and playing him off the ball so a sub 30% shooter could jack up 6 a game.

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reef wrote: ↑2 weeks ago I saw DH hug PMurphy in the handshake line , I forget was Murphy an assistant for DH @ Rhody ?

Yes. 3 former Rhody assistants in that game. Preston, Luke, and Tom Moore.

Blue Man

I don’t think they’re talking about KJ. Otherwise why would they wait to announce it? It’s probably a coach of a FF team. That said, again, Hammond and his coaches have talked about Archie Miller as a main reason for coming to URI. Also, with how overbearing and involved Georgetown boosters are - do...

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Yeah I do have to admit a 1-2 scoring combo of DG and Jaden is pretty darn good especially with a guy like Hammond flying up and down the floor , hopefully we can find some defenders that was our major problem We got Farrell. He's one dimensional at the moment - but a long kid who commits and locks...

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He's so fast, has such a low dribble, quick hands, very alert. Caught a couple of steals when guys were napping in the back court. Constantly pushing the tempo, going at the defense and forcing them to commit, it's amazing he got 20 because he was looking for his teammates and only took what was giv...

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"Archie Miller connected with Ben Hammond right away, they are the same player, short, smart, hard nosed, tough guard at NC State. Ben Hammond is the exact same way" Lot of talk about him and about the Archie connection. He's short - no matter how he does, those P5 schools aren't taking fl...

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Am I the only one checking in on Hammond? This kid is the real fucking deal.

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We don't recruit New England kids. We do - we were in the mix with Amdy last year and couldn't afford him. I know we do. I was being sarcastic. We just can't land any of them. Were Jarvis and Jared the last 2 significant recruits from NE Prep schools that we got? That was 10 years ago. Austin suppo...

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Billyboy78 wrote: ↑2 weeks ago
SmartyBarrett wrote: ↑2 weeks ago
We don't recruit New England kids.

We do - we were in the mix with Amdy last year and couldn't afford him.

Blue Man

Count me in the team House camp. Without a true PG and playing 1/2 the year as the #1 target for a defense, he managed to be a pretty efficient scorer jumping up a level from what he was used to. 14 ppg in the A10 isn't nothing. Nice to have a guy capable of going off at any point. 1 year left I thi...

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What a bum. Last name only. Guy averages under 5 points a game in 20 mins and is a 36% shooter. I'd love him in the A10 to ridicule in person though. Calling him a bum is going way overboard. Cardiac arrest in the preseason, didn’t get cleared for the beginning of the year. No chance he was 100% an...

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What a bum. Last name only. Guy averages under 5 points a game in 20 mins and is a 36% shooter.

I'd love him in the A10 to ridicule in person though.

Blue Man

Jersey77 wrote: ↑2 weeks ago
OBRAM wrote: ↑2 weeks ago maybe its been said on this post, but teams that make it to the NIT Final Four are NCAA Playoff caliber teams.
No question both Seton Hall and Indiana State definitely are.

Certainly over Virginia

Blue Man

https://x.com/rhodyexcellence/status/1775216436199203177?s=46 needless to say - this was not me... hard pass this is a ponzi scheme How? If you want to get good players, this is how you get good players. You certainly don't have to donate, you certainly don't have to buy in. For everyone that doesn...

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Clark had 41 points plus 7 rebounds and 12 assists. She is a tremendous passer Iowa plays UConn Friday 9pm in Final 4 Both the men’s and women’s UConn and NC State basketball teams are in the Final 4, props to them. That’s crazy , wonder if that’s ever happened before ? For UConn this is the 5th ti...

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reef wrote: ↑2 weeks ago
RF1 wrote: ↑2 weeks ago
We are seeing a lot of coaches getting promoted from non P5 to P5 , it’s about identifying those up and comers

Another for the 3 teams in 4 years as a coach.

But that NEVER happens!

Blue Man

We will really know the writing's on the wall when or if Hammond enters the portal. This stealth mode plus the footdragging about KJ is just more frustration surrounding this program. Same for the collective announcement, whatever it is. Thought the recent article that came out about Hammond and hi...

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If that's the case then this is sad. Has it come down to celebrating being able to keep some players you recruited a year or so ago? Guys like Cam and Fuchs are good players, but a 'Big Week' had better be getting some really good transfers to help a much needed upgrade with the roster. Could just ...

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