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A proposal (based on an obscure Star Trek episode - yes, I'm a sci-fi nerd): There was a storyline where the crew was finally able to ensnare a mischievous group operating out of the holodeck, placing them inside a computer program where they thought they were still actively engaged with the outsid...

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Good catch! This avoids some real potential problems. Glad they fixed it. ! Yes. And I think with the extra Covid year there have been more grad students so it’s good to have all students ts on the same portal closure date. Seems common sense to begin with but it’s the Wild West without many rules ...

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steviep123 wrote: ↑23 hours ago Lynne Greer to Temple. I'm not surprised he'd follow his father's footsteps, but was hoping we'd get a look

His dad is on the coaching staff at Temple as Chief of Staff

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Aren't we all college basketball fans? You never watch any low majors? Do you watch anyone but URI? By that logic it's pathetic to watch URI basketball lol. I also never watched a FULL Albany game during the season. I found a full game on YouTube and watched it (skipping to the Bassy parts) to see ...

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Good catch! This avoids some real potential problems. Glad they fixed it. ! Yes. And I think with the extra Covid year there have been more grad students so it’s good to have all students ts on the same portal closure date. Seems common sense to begin with but it’s the Wild West without many rules ...

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Effective immediately https://x.com/jeffborzello/status/1783148557001720286?s=46&t=X3tFdRrojFvLeOstPVmZqw Great. Simple. Consistent. Good catch! This avoids some real potential problems. Glad they fixed it. ! Yes. And I think with the extra Covid year there have been more grad students so it’s ...

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Duquesne is recruiting Maximus Edwards from George Washington and could be close to an announcement

And could Bronny be far behind?

https://www.sportingnews.com/us/ncaa-ba ... 3f1e1a7180

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Billy Lange adds Rutgers Transfer Derek Simpson who played 2 years at Rutgers Also big news Erik Reynolds Jr returns Saint Joseph's Men's Basketball Head Coach Billy Lange has announced that Derek Simpson has enrolled on Hawk Hill for the 2024-25 season. A native of Mount Laurel, New Jersey, Simpson...

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Celts were 14.5 point fav tonight hosting 8-seed Miami but they lose by 10 with jimmy butler out

Series now 1-1

Tyler Herro has now hit 59 consecutive FTs

NBA record is 97 straight set by Mike Williams back in 1993

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I have a very good theory (not a source this time lol) but it could be Mark Turgeon, he was seen behind the URI bench at the GW and GM away games in DC & Virginia and checks the boxes of former head coach and hasn’t coached since ‘22 And he has a connection to Rhody via the Mitchell twins! And ...

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Good points earlier from 78, PRT and Stevey regarding our D. I am concerned about the D. We need to coach up the players here now to be smarter on D, give better effort on D and we need to add another viable big that can protect the rim. As someone rightly posted yesterday - sorry for forgetting th...

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Where do you think Koch got the 6'8" from. You think he just guessed? Anyway, who cares. I still think Green at the 4 and Fuchs at the 5 together is too small. That was my point anyway. I did not say Koch guessed. I don’t know where he got it. I also don’t know where you got that Thomas is a h...

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Good points earlier from 78, PRT and Stevey regarding our D. I am concerned about the D. We need to coach up the players here now to be smarter on D, give better effort on D and we need to add another viable big that can protect the rim. As someone rightly posted yesterday - sorry for forgetting th...

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He must have grown since we signed him. https://www.providencejournal.com/story/sports/college/2023/05/26/austria-native-david-fuchs-commits-to-rhode-island-basketball/70258434007/ So you take the ProJo over the URI roster info that is shared with all Of D1? What makes the ProJo right at 6’8” still...

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Is this good news? Hasn't it widely been assumed that Archie sitting out a year and Kenny Johnson sitting out two years were bad things in that their connections kind of dried up and needed to be reestablished? I disagree with that notion.. There's been plenty of coaches who have sat out a year and...

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Yeah but he's 6'8. I'd figure he'd inevidently be matched up with with some bigger guys on the wing/inside by virtue of being 6'8. Fuchs is 6’9” not 6’7” Sit at floor level and compare Fuchs to Foumena, Brown, Green, Stewart and Bilau he fits with their listed heights. So if 1 is exaggerated then t...

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Fuchs is listed at 6'9. I'd say he's a solid 6'8 in reality. Green can definitely play the 4 in the A-10. He didn't seem to have problems scoring inside. The Greek UConn guy and the guy out of Green Bay we targeted last week look like they can play the 3 or 4 (maybe) so it looks like we are adding ...

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Ramfan22 wrote: ↑1 day ago Effective immediately

Great.
Simple. Consistent.

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Everyone lost someone. This is the first off season that I’ve noticed that no one is safe from the portal. Duke, Kansas, ect. Which makes me feel better that to this point we've kept 3 starters/probably our best 3, 2 freshmen who could easily go to a higher level program, and we've improved at 2 po...

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Rhodymob05 wrote: ↑1 day ago Everyone lost someone. This is the first off season that I’ve noticed that no one is safe from the portal. Duke, Kansas, ect.

Money, money, money. It’s going to get crazier.

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I know we're all bummed about Hammond. I want to show that it's not a URI thing but a part of a larger problem that even blue bloods have to deal with. Bill Self should be on the hot seat! Guy clearly doesn’t know what he’s doing! No one wants to play for him! Don’t you dare look at how he did in t...

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Because we know the guy can't play in the A10, we have two years of proof So why do you think Miller added him back? Because he made a horrendous decision and he couldn't land better options Why can’t he land better options? Plenty of talent and time remaining. What would have have preferred he do?...

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Hahahhaa what a pathetic response Yep! Players can't get better! I think he's just trying to troll at this point. His comments are reaching Rhody72 levels. At least 72 was funny. Anyone who watches sports knows that college players typically improve and develop once they become juniors or seniors. ...

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Here are the numbers I sorted 2FG%, 3FG% and FT% for all of our past starters and added Lawrence and Thomas. Last year a glaring weaknesses was FT Shooting. Thomas 77.5% and Lawrence 77.1% easily surpass our players 2FG% has Thomas 50% and Lawrence 48.9% leading all URI guards with Fuchs and Brown ...

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After multiple horrible years and losing our top recruit, if our plan G was landing the leading scorer of the American East, I think that's great. If he wasn't named Sebastian Thomas, I think we'd have a lot more excitement about landing a guard who dropped 30-40 in multiple games. But for some rea...

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What numbers? His FG% and 3 PT % are horrendous. Here are the numbers I sorted 2FG%, 3FG% and FT% for all of our past starters and added Lawrence and Thomas. Last year a glaring weaknesses was FT Shooting. Thomas 77.5% and Lawrence 77.1% easily surpass our players 2FG% has Thomas 50% and Lawrence 4...

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What numbers? His FG% and 3 PT % are horrendous. How did you think Jaden House was last year? I thought he was one of our best players. Jaden House shot 27% from 3 at high point. He shot 64% from the FT line. 43% FG. When he came here, he took fewer shots and had more help than he did at a high poi...

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After multiple horrible years and losing our top recruit, if our plan G was landing the leading scorer of the American East, I think that's great. If he wasn't named Sebastian Thomas, I think we'd have a lot more excitement about landing a guard who dropped 30-40 in multiple games. But for some rea...

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It's so freaking annoying. I said it a few days ago and I'll say it again. We may have the worst fanbase in America... I have mentally created a list of posters that when I see their names on the side of a new post I scroll right past. A lot of trolls that are out of touch from reality and provide ...

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You are correct. International players cannot accept NIL $ as it is violation of their student visas. This from VCU Message Board re Shulga. Penalties for paying International Players could be significant if caught. IMG_3234.png What's the over/under on when that gets lawsuited away? A year? 18 mon...

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Some of these transfers just don't make much sense. This is 1 of them. Follows his coach across the country. Has an alpha role on a team that fills their gym every game and can contend for an NCAA bid. I am sure he was being paid to some extent but how much more is someone offering him? I can't ima...

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Since Shulga is from Ukraine going to school here in US, using he exempt from NIL? Just like David Fuchs is exempt? You are correct. International players cannot accept NIL $ as it is violation of their student visas. Anyone ever wonder why all these schools do an overseas trip every year? You are ...

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After multiple horrible years and losing our top recruit, if our plan G was landing the leading scorer of the American East, I think that's great. If he wasn't named Sebastian Thomas, I think we'd have a lot more excitement about landing a guard who dropped 30-40 in multiple games. But for some rea...

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Archie is being patient. We need to follow Might be some deals at the deadline. Players being too patient or trying to reach, only so many spots on each team. I think last COVID year so realistically too many people in the portal. When the music gets close to stopping they might be scrambling for a...

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Brea highly regarded……

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At this point, I am not sure that we will bring in any pieces that will be immediately slotted for a starting position. Right now, Archie knows what he needs in terms of depth, pretty obvious. We need to bring in some players that will give us solid quality minutes when needed, and actually that ca...

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I don’t think it’s an option. We must get stronger than just adding Thomas and Lawrence IF we are going to knock on the NCAA door. I think we're one big away. We're not trying to win the B1G or Big East. We're trying to win the A10. I think this roster plus another big can get it done. Agree. I was...

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I don’t think it’s an option. We must get stronger than just adding Thomas and Lawrence IF we are going to knock on the NCAA door.

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Is it totally unrealistic to hope/think they could bring in guys (that we haven't considered) that would be among the top 3 players on the team? And everyone slide down a slot? Or two? I wouldn’t expect that to be a back court guy. It would seem hard to compel an impact guard to come here given how...

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How do we know that House and Green are coming back? There is no need for them to enter the portal if they plan on trying to make money overseas. Overseas money vs. NIL money isn't a crazy delta anymore, is it? Somebody recently posted what the average salary is overseas. I don't remember the numbe...

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So in the scheme of things (at the moment) it seems we've traded Kortright and Hammond for Bassy and Lawrence. I'm not sure I like that trade, but can talk myself into it. I’d resigned myself to thinking Hammond wasn’t coming about 6 -8 weeks ago. Never appeared at a URI game including local to DC ...

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5 left. Who's next? 16 players on the '23-'24 roster (including walk-ons). 11 are gone. I'm not so sure this is a bad thing. Will need to see what the final roster looks like before we know for sure though. Actually 6 left if you include Farrell who is on the 2024-2025 roster Fuchs House Green Kort...

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April 22nd
Now down to 6. I predicted 5 but may be high considering 6+ months to go
Portal closes May 1

Fuchs
House
Green
Kortright
Weston
Estevez
Brown
Montgomery
Wright
Foumena
Dubsky
Stewart
Bilau
Hammond
Farrell

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It took like 1 minute. How many of those centers a could be headed to the A10? Most of the really good ones are power 5 locks, and there’s a lot of ones who aren’t even close to A10 level, possibly dropping down to D2 or JUCO. Would take more than one minute to answer that question. :lol:

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Dino611 wrote: ↑4 days ago

Call me crazy but I’d love to have him as Green’s backup

9 A10 Teams on the list

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If Bassy is indeed visiting then imo he commits. We could do worse. What this indicates to me is actually a positive. Based on the players who have stayed and those who have left, we could have a squad who gives consistent effort, even though the talent level might still not be good enough to conte...

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Bassy is back haha wow that’s wild. Starting PG if I were to guess Bassy has to be penciled in as the starting PG. Don’t see any way Thomas accepts URI’s offer and not be the starting PG in his final year of eligibility. Do you think that was promised? I'm not sure...I almost think he'd have come h...

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Joe95 wrote: ↑4 days ago Bassy is back haha wow that’s wild. Starting PG if I were to guess

Bassy has to be penciled in as the starting PG. Don’t see any way Thomas accepts URI’s offer and not be the starting PG in his final year of eligibility.

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