Men's Basketball Transfer Carousel and Portal - 2024-25

[Jersey77]

Losing Zek and Weston kind of sucks, as I was hoping one would stay, but we should be able to find players of their caliber in the portal. The question is, can we get better players than these two? If Fuchs, Farrell,Hammond, House, Cam, and Luis are sticking around, we should focus on landing a starting-level wing and another big. Although, looking at that Rhody Excellence tweet the other day, I am concerned that House wasn't there. I hope he sticks around. If we lose House, we have a massive hole in the scoring department. Honestly, losing Zek hurts our scoring ability as well. At least we know he would randomly go off. And he should keep improving...

We have said it a million times already, but this is a massive, massive offseason for Archie.

Zek was there and he's now gone.

I wouldn't look too much into who was/wasn't at that event.

Zek was also very close with KJ, so who knows what else may be going on.

[ElmCityRhody]

Didn’t break a sweat last half of season. Adios.

bye !!!

thank goodness

[PeterRamTime]

Didn’t break a sweat last half of season. Adios.

Well said. Nothing against the guy, but he never quite seemed like he was giving full effort. Zero "fire" it seemed. And his performance at the end of the St. Louis game in the tourney solidified it for me. We can do better.

It was like, once he had a bad game and hurt his shoulder he just couldn't get out of his head.

He'll put it all together back at Bradley I'm sure lol

[spar]

Didn’t break a sweat last half of season. Adios.

Well said. Nothing against the guy, but he never quite seemed like he was giving full effort. Zero "fire" it seemed. And his performance at the end of the St. Louis game in the tourney solidified it for me. We can do better.

It was like, once he had a bad game and hurt his shoulder he just couldn't get out of his head.

He'll put it all together back at Bradley I'm sure lol

Yeah probably, haha. But having a guy that "shows flashes" is not going to help us. We need a guy that consistently contributes, not one that disappears for MONTHS of the season. Hurt or not, he could've contributed in other ways when his number was called and he didn't.

[bigappleram]

Thats too bad on Zek, he obviously had a rough season, but I still thought there was some potential there. This is one where I'd be real curious to know which side initiated it.

I usually consider myself annoyingly logical about hoops, but there is something about watching Montgomery and Weston that is just so frustrating to me. Like, Montgomery had eight games of 10+ points to start the year, then five more in the remaining 23 games. He had 18 against Northwestern, 19 against Washington State and 14 against Yale, so it's not a matter of him only beating up on bad teams. He had 30 against G.W., then averaged 8 PPG in the final eight games after that. You just didn't ever know what you were going to get from night to night, and that's fine if he's a bench guy, but you probably can't feel comfortable penciling him into the starting lineup on a good team as a result.

Couldn't agree more with this...and if either of them came back they were going to command minutes at the 3 which based on their inconsistent level of play was going to lower our ceiling. I held out slightly more hope that Zek could put it all together but if he does it will be elsewhere. Pretty sure Weston is just going to be that type of player his whole career. Something missing.

[reef]

Yeah hopefully upgrades are going to replace Zek and BW

So many players in the portal , Arch needs to hit it out of the park

[Taylor Swift]

Ok, maybe we could send scouts, via drones, to various prison recreation yards also.

Don't give anyone any ideas...

Well, they are in there for their offense, maybe they learned some defense as well?

Probably one of the most hysterical comments ever. Thank you, blueram.

[Taylor Swift]

And another one’s gone another one’s gone
Another one bites the dust

[PeterRamTime]

Yeah hopefully upgrades are going to replace Zek and BW

So many players in the portal , Arch needs to hit it out of the park

I'll take a combo of both. Fuse them! Lol

[URI_05]

Thats too bad on Zek, he obviously had a rough season, but I still thought there was some potential there. This is one where I'd be real curious to know which side initiated it.

I usually consider myself annoyingly logical about hoops, but there is something about watching Montgomery and Weston that is just so frustrating to me. Like, Montgomery had eight games of 10+ points to start the year, then five more in the remaining 23 games. He had 18 against Northwestern, 19 against Washington State and 14 against Yale, so it's not a matter of him only beating up on bad teams. He had 30 against G.W., then averaged 8 PPG in the final eight games after that. You just didn't ever know what you were going to get from night to night, and that's fine if he's a bench guy, but you probably can't feel comfortable penciling him into the starting lineup on a good team as a result.

I'm not broken up about this, especially when you combine the above points with his lazy passes, resulting in easy fast break buckets, along with a complete lack of effort on defense...

[theblueram]

Time to stop posting for a while.

My god man, you do yourself no favors with a lot of your posts in regards to your basketball knowledge.

Some might enjoy if you stopped posting for a while.

Hey thanks for your two cents!

At least I know what I’m talking about and don’t think Archie and co should go scout local Rhode Island men’s leagues for players.

The problem with you 15, is you take everything you read on the internet as literal. Then you puff your chest in self ego and say at least I know what I'm talking about. The problem is, and clearly you don't get it yet, is that not everything posted on the internet is truth or a statement of truth. Some people post innuendos. Some people post comical diatribes. Some people just rant away because they can. But fuck, at least you know what you are talking about.

[RIFan]

How much any one players loss is felt is determined by who replaces them.

[Dino611]

All I will say is timing is key to this transfer

[79RhodyFan]

All I will say is timing is key to this transfer

I hope that means we have someone good coming in!

[Obadiah]

Thats too bad on Zek, he obviously had a rough season, but I still thought there was some potential there. This is one where I'd be real curious to know which side initiated it.

Yeah dude was a stud at the beginning of the year. Only got it back for once game. Weirdest thing ever.

Thought that he could maybe get it together in the offseason and redeem himself next year.

Which he will probably do somewhere else lol

He was a stud against lesser competition, once the quality of the opposing competition increased. his stats suffered. To a lesser degree you also see that in House's stats. House has impressive moves to the basket, but tougher competition thwarts that and we are left with the fact that he is meh on FT shooting and beyond the arc. And increased pressure brings even worse performance.

[rhodylaw]

All I will say is timing is key to this transfer

I’m intrigued…

[Rhodymob05]

Thats too bad on Zek, he obviously had a rough season, but I still thought there was some potential there. This is one where I'd be real curious to know which side initiated it.

Yeah dude was a stud at the beginning of the year. Only got it back for once game. Weirdest thing ever.

Thought that he could maybe get it together in the offseason and redeem himself next year.

Which he will probably do somewhere else lol

He was a stud against lesser competition, once the quality of the opposing competition increased. his stats suffered. To a lesser degree you also see that in House's stats. House has impressive moves to the basket, but tougher competition thwarts that and we are left with the fact that he is meh on FT shooting and beyond the arc. And increased pressure brings even worse performance.

Same happened with Foumena. One of the gambles with taking guys from lower conferences.

[steveystuds06]

Thats too bad on Zek, he obviously had a rough season, but I still thought there was some potential there. This is one where I'd be real curious to know which side initiated it.

Yeah dude was a stud at the beginning of the year. Only got it back for once game. Weirdest thing ever.

Thought that he could maybe get it together in the offseason and redeem himself next year.

Which he will probably do somewhere else lol

He was a stud against lesser competition, once the quality of the opposing competition increased. his stats suffered. To a lesser degree you also see that in House's stats. House has impressive moves to the basket, but tougher competition thwarts that and we are left with the fact that he is meh on FT shooting and beyond the arc. And increased pressure brings even worse performance.

I think House was decent for the most part. I agree that Fou and Zek both had much better games against lower competition.

House had some good games against strong teams..
PC - 18 PTS
Dayton - 27 pts
Umass - 29 and 22 pts
Duquesnse - 17 pts
Loyola - 15 pts

[Jersey77]

Yeah dude was a stud at the beginning of the year. Only got it back for once game. Weirdest thing ever.

Thought that he could maybe get it together in the offseason and redeem himself next year.

Which he will probably do somewhere else lol

He was a stud against lesser competition, once the quality of the opposing competition increased. his stats suffered. To a lesser degree you also see that in House's stats. House has impressive moves to the basket, but tougher competition thwarts that and we are left with the fact that he is meh on FT shooting and beyond the arc. And increased pressure brings even worse performance.

I think House was decent for the most part. I agree that Fou and Zek both had much better games against lower competition.

House had some good games against strong teams..
PC - 18 PTS
Dayton - 27 pts
Umass - 29 and 22 pts
Duquesnse - 17 pts
Loyola - 15 pts

For me, I feel that Fou was the bigger loss.
He has great size, athleticism, and we saw flashes that the talent and upside were there, but he was still raw.
Remember this was just his first season of Div.1 competition, I am disappointed he left.
I felt he deserved more minutes and it became apparent at the end he wasn't going to stay.

[steveystuds06]

He was a stud against lesser competition, once the quality of the opposing competition increased. his stats suffered. To a lesser degree you also see that in House's stats. House has impressive moves to the basket, but tougher competition thwarts that and we are left with the fact that he is meh on FT shooting and beyond the arc. And increased pressure brings even worse performance.

I think House was decent for the most part. I agree that Fou and Zek both had much better games against lower competition.

House had some good games against strong teams..
PC - 18 PTS
Dayton - 27 pts
Umass - 29 and 22 pts
Duquesnse - 17 pts
Loyola - 15 pts

For me, I feel that Fou was the bigger loss.
He has great size, athleticism, and we saw flashes that the talent and upside were there, but he was still raw.
Remember this was just his first season of Div.1 competition, I am disappointed he left.
I felt he deserved more minutes and it became apparent at the end he wasn't going to stay.

Yeah, Fou has talent. But he had an entire season with our team to develop and work on his game, and he still looked incredibly raw. He wasn't a typical freshman, and he did have issues against A10 bigs. I think Fuchs is the better player and will only get better. But ya most of us wanted Fou to play more. It was a dumb decision by Archie. Let's hope he doesn't make the same mistakes moving forward.

[Jersey77]

Skinn and Mason just picked up a rim protector and impactful big.
He looks like a good addition, I am a little jealous.

[Jersey77]

I think House was decent for the most part. I agree that Fou and Zek both had much better games against lower competition.

House had some good games against strong teams..
PC - 18 PTS
Dayton - 27 pts
Umass - 29 and 22 pts
Duquesnse - 17 pts
Loyola - 15 pts

For me, I feel that Fou was the bigger loss.
He has great size, athleticism, and we saw flashes that the talent and upside were there, but he was still raw.
Remember this was just his first season of Div.1 competition, I am disappointed he left.
I felt he deserved more minutes and it became apparent at the end he wasn't going to stay.

Yeah, Fou has talent. But he had an entire season with our team to develop and work on his game, and he still looked incredibly raw. He wasn't a typical freshman, and he did have issues against A10 bigs. I think Fuchs is the better player and will only get better. But ya most of us wanted Fou to play more. It was a dumb decision by Archie. Let's hope he doesn't make the same mistakes moving forward.

Yeah, Fuchs had a much better season.
But I would have liked to keep both, we still are going to need more depth upfront.

[reef]

All I will say is timing is key to this transfer

I’m intrigued…

Get us a player soon !

[PeterRamTime]

I think House was decent for the most part. I agree that Fou and Zek both had much better games against lower competition.

House had some good games against strong teams..
PC - 18 PTS
Dayton - 27 pts
Umass - 29 and 22 pts
Duquesnse - 17 pts
Loyola - 15 pts

For me, I feel that Fou was the bigger loss.
He has great size, athleticism, and we saw flashes that the talent and upside were there, but he was still raw.
Remember this was just his first season of Div.1 competition, I am disappointed he left.
I felt he deserved more minutes and it became apparent at the end he wasn't going to stay.

Yeah, Fou has talent. But he had an entire season with our team to develop and work on his game, and he still looked incredibly raw. He wasn't a typical freshman, and he did have issues against A10 bigs. I think Fuchs is the better player and will only get better. But ya most of us wanted Fou to play more. It was a dumb decision by Archie. Let's hope he doesn't make the same mistakes moving forward.

Fou did fine when he was allowed to play against the A-10

[PeterRamTime]

Thats too bad on Zek, he obviously had a rough season, but I still thought there was some potential there. This is one where I'd be real curious to know which side initiated it.

Yeah dude was a stud at the beginning of the year. Only got it back for once game. Weirdest thing ever.

Thought that he could maybe get it together in the offseason and redeem himself next year.

Which he will probably do somewhere else lol

He was a stud against lesser competition, once the quality of the opposing competition increased. his stats suffered. To a lesser degree you also see that in House's stats. House has impressive moves to the basket, but tougher competition thwarts that and we are left with the fact that he is meh on FT shooting and beyond the arc. And increased pressure brings even worse performance.

He was a stud against some of the best teams we played all year.

Best player from CCSU through Yale. Then PC he started turning it over...then basically sucked the entire rest of the year except for that GW game. Was still scoring against PC better than he did in 99% of the conference games.

Idk what, but it seemed like once he started turning the ball over he lost all confidence in himself along with his shoulder hurting from early December on.

Biggest disappearing act in Rhody history?

[PeterRamTime]

For what it's worth

KJ has started following former Pitt center Federiko Federiko

Crazy name alone I think he's a natural fit

[Rhody Sody]

For what it's worth

KJ has started following former Pitt center Federiko Federiko

Crazy name alone I think he's a natural fit

Did you see his FT %? Foumena percentages so he would be a natural fit for our team. Definitely has the size we need.

[Billyboy78]

For what it's worth

KJ has started following former Pitt center Federiko Federiko

Crazy name alone I think he's a natural fit

For what school?

[PeterRamTime]

For what it's worth

KJ has started following former Pitt center Federiko Federiko

Crazy name alone I think he's a natural fit

For what school?

Probably us

Dude got benched at Pitt. Don't know if G-Town would be in on someone like that. I've seen him play a few times though, I think is pretty dumb good. Definitely good for A10.

But ya know, maybe Federiko Federiko and KJ just met at a bar and are just bffs

[SGreenwell]

For what it's worth

KJ has started following former Pitt center Federiko Federiko

Crazy name alone I think he's a natural fit

Link to his Sports Reference page:

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/pl ... iko-1.html

His blocks per 40 would have easily been best on our team last year, excluding Bilau, although his rebounding was slightly worse than Fuchs, Foumena and Brown. (Still in their ballpark though, as opposed to like an Abdou Samb type.) Zero 3PA, 65 percent from the field and 53 percent from the line for his career suggest he's a bruiser type.

[steviep123]

Skinn and Mason just picked up a rim protector and impactful big.
He looks like a good addition, I am a little jealous.

would have loved to see him in a Rhody uniform!

[Billyboy78]

For what it's worth

KJ has started following former Pitt center Federiko Federiko

Crazy name alone I think he's a natural fit

For what school?

Probably us

Dude got benched at Pitt. Don't know if G-Town would be in on someone like that. I've seen him play a few times though, I think is pretty dumb good. Definitely good for A10.

But ya know, maybe Federiko Federiko and KJ just met at a bar and are just bffs

From what I'm reading, he's from Finland. His brother will be a freshman at South Carolina this year.

[Billyboy78]

All I will say is timing is key to this transfer

Meaning what?

[Dino611]

All I will say is timing is key to this transfer

Meaning what?

Time will show in the next week or so

[Jersey77]

All I will say is timing is key to this transfer

Meaning what?

Time will show in the next week or so

Yes, I imagine we will be getting some commits soon.

[CamsRams]

All I will say is timing is key to this transfer

Meaning what?

Time will show in the next week or so

Any hints?

[SandorClegane]

Yeah dude was a stud at the beginning of the year. Only got it back for once game. Weirdest thing ever.

Thought that he could maybe get it together in the offseason and redeem himself next year.

Which he will probably do somewhere else lol

He was a stud against lesser competition, once the quality of the opposing competition increased. his stats suffered. To a lesser degree you also see that in House's stats. House has impressive moves to the basket, but tougher competition thwarts that and we are left with the fact that he is meh on FT shooting and beyond the arc. And increased pressure brings even worse performance.

I think House was decent for the most part. I agree that Fou and Zek both had much better games against lower competition.

House had some good games against strong teams..
PC - 18 PTS
Dayton - 27 pts
Umass - 29 and 22 pts
Duquesnse - 17 pts
Loyola - 15 pts

Yeah, not sure why others are putting House in the same category. I think he was our best player by far last season. If he doesn’t come back, we have a gaping hole.

[steveystuds06]

Meaning what?

Time will show in the next week or so

Any hints?

I think he's just saying we probably have a commitment soon based on our history after losing a key player like Zek. I don't think there are any specific names besides the players we have already been connected with. You can also keep an eye on the coaches and who they follow. Last year, KJ and Duane would follow a recruit, and then they would end up committing or at least put us on their final list. I would assume we get our first commit pretty soon.

[Jersey77]

Chris Manon, who we reached out to, is visiting Richmond today.

[DeanDome88]

He was a stud against lesser competition, once the quality of the opposing competition increased. his stats suffered. To a lesser degree you also see that in House's stats. House has impressive moves to the basket, but tougher competition thwarts that and we are left with the fact that he is meh on FT shooting and beyond the arc. And increased pressure brings even worse performance.

I think House was decent for the most part. I agree that Fou and Zek both had much better games against lower competition.

House had some good games against strong teams..
PC - 18 PTS
Dayton - 27 pts
Umass - 29 and 22 pts
Duquesnse - 17 pts
Loyola - 15 pts

Yeah, not sure why others are putting House in the same category. I think he was our best player by far last season. If he doesn’t come back, we have a gaping hole.

During physical play House could still hang while most of our guards struggled.

[PeterRamTime]

For what school?

Probably us

Dude got benched at Pitt. Don't know if G-Town would be in on someone like that. I've seen him play a few times though, I think is pretty dumb good. Definitely good for A10.

But ya know, maybe Federiko Federiko and KJ just met at a bar and are just bffs

From what I'm reading, he's from Finland. His brother will be a freshman at South Carolina this year.

Yeah I've seen him play at Pitt a few times

Athletic, but fairly skinny, wiry strong 6'11 guy.

Watched him play for Finland this past summer. He would be the kind of dude we want. But who knows.

[Joe95]

All I will say is timing is key to this transfer

Hope it’s jyare Davis (Delaware) or Jake Davis (Mercer)

[Billyboy78]

Time will show in the next week or so

Any hints?

I think he's just saying we probably have a commitment soon based on our history after losing a key player like Zek. I don't think there are any specific names besides the players we have already been connected with. You can also keep an eye on the coaches and who they follow. Last year, KJ and Duane would follow a recruit, and then they would end up committing or at least put us on their final list. I would assume we get our first commit pretty soon.

So, putting two and two together, does this mean that Zek was recruited over by whoever is coming in?

[Ramfan22]

All I will say is timing is key to this transfer

Hope it’s jyare Davis (Delaware) or Jake Davis (Mercer)

I think Jake Davis is an Illinois lean from what I’ve heard

[Ramfan22]

Any hints?

I think he's just saying we probably have a commitment soon based on our history after losing a key player like Zek. I don't think there are any specific names besides the players we have already been connected with. You can also keep an eye on the coaches and who they follow. Last year, KJ and Duane would follow a recruit, and then they would end up committing or at least put us on their final list. I would assume we get our first commit pretty soon.

So, putting two and two together, does this mean that Zek was recruited over by whoever is coming in?

Good point, that was kind of weird timing for that Zek entry. Maybe a commitment soon?

Unrelated but some transfers count twitter follows as interest, even if the coach just didn’t message them at all.

[Jdrums#3]

I think he's just saying we probably have a commitment soon based on our history after losing a key player like Zek. I don't think there are any specific names besides the players we have already been connected with. You can also keep an eye on the coaches and who they follow. Last year, KJ and Duane would follow a recruit, and then they would end up committing or at least put us on their final list. I would assume we get our first commit pretty soon.

So, putting two and two together, does this mean that Zek was recruited over by whoever is coming in?

Good point, that was kind of weird timing for that Zek entry. Maybe a commitment soon?

Unrelated but some transfers count twitter follows as interest, even if the coach just didn’t message them at all.

Thanks for that tid-bit, 22. I never would have known that about transfers and Twitter.

[steveystuds06]

Any hints?

I think he's just saying we probably have a commitment soon based on our history after losing a key player like Zek. I don't think there are any specific names besides the players we have already been connected with. You can also keep an eye on the coaches and who they follow. Last year, KJ and Duane would follow a recruit, and then they would end up committing or at least put us on their final list. I would assume we get our first commit pretty soon.

So, putting two and two together, does this mean that Zek was recruited over by whoever is coming in?

Well we are offering more $$ than we have in the last two years. So you would think we could land better players on that alone. I think Zek left because of his role. He went from a focal point clear starter to a likely backup role. If I was him I wouldn't want to stick around and do that my final year.

[KevanBoyles]

To me Zek has a similar game as DG but smaller. Thus, the back up role.

[KeaneyBluBallz]

so running total, we have 7 total players from the 23/24 roster to enter the portal? is that # correct?

[Jersey77]

so running total, we have 7 total players from the 23/24 roster to enter the portal? is that # correct?

Yes, but 6 that are on scholarship.