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

[PeterRamTime]

Traore and Manyawu do not move the meter

Traore hasn't played and basically plays the same position as DG and Farrell. If he plays at the 5 he is undersized.

Manyawu looks about 6'8, good athlete, but needs weight. Better than Tyson, but again, undersized and average skill.

Please tell me they aren't the ONLY big guys we have contacted

Good lord

[Billyboy78]

Ha, I guess I find it weirdly endearing? I don't think Stewart and the walk-ons were really A-10 quality players, but I've never gotten the vibe that any of the players Miller have brought in are bad guys or anything like that. So, I kind of like that Stewart is stumping for a walk-on that probably sat at the end of the bench with him. Ball is from Medford, so there are probably some D-II, D-III schools in New England that would be interested in rostering him.

So my question is, why didn't he go to D-II or D-III in the first place if his goal was to actually play college basketball?

You're asking why an 18-year-old thought he could maybe break into the lineup of a D-I program starting as a walk-on? I don't know, I think that's pretty common. Teenagers have lofty dreams!

I guess. Starting off 14th on the depth chart at best seems a little too lofty.

[Billyboy78]

I was always told to judge a player by looking at the list of schools recruiting him, so....

[SGreenwell]

Manyawu is a very good rebounder, and shot 60 percent from the field. Excluding Bilau's small sample size, Manyawu's per 40 stats from Wyoming would have led out team last year in rebounds... And steals, which I realize is damning with faint praise, because we didn't have anyone that could pressure the ball. But you can see indications of his athleticism translating to actual numbers, which is always good! I don't think he's a program changing player, but I think there's more upside in him than others we've been linked to.

[Jersey77]

Manyawu is a very good rebounder, and shot 60 percent from the field. Excluding Bilau's small sample size, Manyawu's per 40 stats from Wyoming would have led out team last year in rebounds... And steals, which I realize is damning with faint praise, because we didn't have anyone that could pressure the ball. But you can see indications of his athleticism translating to actual numbers, which is always good! I don't think he's a program changing player, but I think there's more upside in him than others we've been linked to.

Actually I am just meh on Traore, hoping we can do better with our scholarships.
Nothing really stands out and I don't buy into the whole per 40 minute stuff, it doesn't translate into anything and is pure speculation.
Besides I would rather have a player who has played significant Div. 1 minutes and actually demonstrated something even at a lower conference.

But I guess if Archie and the staff sees something in him, I suppose we have to trust them.

[Billyboy78]

Manyawu is a very good rebounder, and shot 60 percent from the field. Excluding Bilau's small sample size, Manyawu's per 40 stats from Wyoming would have led out team last year in rebounds... And steals, which I realize is damning with faint praise, because we didn't have anyone that could pressure the ball. But you can see indications of his athleticism translating to actual numbers, which is always good! I don't think he's a program changing player, but I think there's more upside in him than others we've been linked to.

Actually I am just meh on Traore, hoping we can do better with our scholarships.
Nothing really stands out and I don't buy into the whole per 40 minute stuff, it doesn't translate into anything and is pure speculation.
Besides I would rather have a player who has played significant Div. 1 minutes and actually demonstrated something even at a lower conference.

But I guess if Archie and the staff sees something in him, I suppose we have to trust them.

Yes, someone on our staff likes him. So do Marist | La Salle | Hofstra | Binghamton I Bryant | Albany | San Jose State | Akron | Stony Brook I Fairfield | Scared Heart | NJIT | How far we have sunk.

[PeterRamTime]

Manyawu is a very good rebounder, and shot 60 percent from the field. Excluding Bilau's small sample size, Manyawu's per 40 stats from Wyoming would have led out team last year in rebounds... And steals, which I realize is damning with faint praise, because we didn't have anyone that could pressure the ball. But you can see indications of his athleticism translating to actual numbers, which is always good! I don't think he's a program changing player, but I think there's more upside in him than others we've been linked to.

Actually I am just meh on Traore, hoping we can do better with our scholarships.
Nothing really stands out and I don't buy into the whole per 40 minute stuff, it doesn't translate into anything and is pure speculation.
Besides I would rather have a player who has played significant Div. 1 minutes and actually demonstrated something even at a lower conference.

But I guess if Archie and the staff sees something in him, I suppose we have to trust them.

Yes, someone on our staff likes him. So do Marist | La Salle | Hofstra | Binghamton I Bryant | Albany | San Jose State | Akron | Stony Brook I Fairfield | Scared Heart | NJIT | How far we have sunk.

Holding out hope that we got more targets than that

[Billyboy78]

Actually I am just meh on Traore, hoping we can do better with our scholarships.
Nothing really stands out and I don't buy into the whole per 40 minute stuff, it doesn't translate into anything and is pure speculation.
Besides I would rather have a player who has played significant Div. 1 minutes and actually demonstrated something even at a lower conference.

But I guess if Archie and the staff sees something in him, I suppose we have to trust them.

Yes, someone on our staff likes him. So do Marist | La Salle | Hofstra | Binghamton I Bryant | Albany | San Jose State | Akron | Stony Brook I Fairfield | Scared Heart | NJIT | How far we have sunk.

Holding out hope that we got more targets than that

Well, of course we will. But he's the first. I though this new money was going to get us a better class of recruits? He certainly doesn't fall into that category. Exactly the opposite.

[rambone 78]

Gives us reason to hope.

NOT.

Pathetic.

[adam914]

If we can get a big man in here that can defend and rebound that's good enough for me. I don't think we need to have a big guy that is counted on to score much with our current roster.

[PeterRamTime]

If we can get a big man in here that can defend and rebound that's good enough for me. I don't think we need to have a big guy that is counted on to score much with our current roster.

Short centers forever

The Rhody Way

[section(105)]

If we can get a big man in here that can defend and rebound that's good enough for me. I don't think we need to have a big guy that is counted on to score much with our current roster.

I would say yes. Maybe sprinkle in some most basic low post drop step, get fouled, make free throws ?

[steveystuds06]

Two players should not be on our team next year: Wright and Traore. They are low-major players.

However, I'm completely confused about why people wouldn't get excited about Manyawu. This reminds me of the people who were negative about Green when he also put up decent numbers in the conference USA. Manyawu had an impressive freshman year in a competitive conference. As SG mentioned, he would have led our team in rebounding, steals, and PER. Notably, he posted 15 points and 12 rebounds against St. Louis and 12 points and 10 rebounds at Texas.

Additionally, he showed improvement as the season progressed, averaging 9 points and 9 rebounds in his final 10 games. I'm uncertain about others' expectations here, but I see Manyawu as the type of player we should be eager to recruit and land. He has proven himself at the Division I level and has room for growth. It's puzzling that some people praised PC for landing a recruit like Christ yet criticized our offer to a player with similar stats in a tougher conference. That's not a knock on Christ. I think both players could be strong, big men.

Manyawu and Fuchs form a promising young frontcourt duo that should show even more improvement in their second-year. I hope we land him.

[NYGFan_Section208]

Rory chimes in. I don't know. I just find this to be hilarious for some reason.

So...what are these "boxes" that Jimmy B checks?...curious minds want to know....

[Billyboy78]

Rory chimes in. I don't know. I just find this to be hilarious for some reason.

So...what are these "boxes" that Jimmy B checks?...curious minds want to know....

Ticks.

[NYGFan_Section208]

Rory chimes in. I don't know. I just find this to be hilarious for some reason.

So...what are these "boxes" that Jimmy B checks?...curious minds want to know....

Ticks.

No one likes ticks....but ticked or checked...please, what are these "boxes"?

[Billyboy78]

So...what are these "boxes" that Jimmy B checks?...curious minds want to know....

Ticks.

No one likes ticks....but ticked or checked...please, what are these "boxes"?

Maybe he kept the players hydrated.....both on and off the court.

[Jersey77]

[Ramfan22]

Damn it I got excited he was visiting here

[NYGFan_Section208]

Damn it I got excited he was visiting here

well, if he goes to gw, he probably will be?

[Ramfan22]

Damn it I got excited he was visiting here

well, if he goes to gw, he probably will be?

[McRam]

Damn it I got excited he was visiting here

Does this mean we can’t compete with GW for players like Castro? Wow

[Ramfan22]

Damn it I got excited he was visiting here

Does this mean we can’t compete with GW for players like Castro? Wow

No someone sent it in the transfer portal thread I’m desperate for transfer news and I just assumed it was URI, then I read GW and got severely disappointed.

[rhodylaw]

Two players should not be on our team next year: Wright and Traore. They are low-major players.

However, I'm completely confused about why people wouldn't get excited about Manyawu. This reminds me of the people who were negative about Green when he also put up decent numbers in the conference USA. Manyawu had an impressive freshman year in a competitive conference. As SG mentioned, he would have led our team in rebounding, steals, and PER. Notably, he posted 15 points and 12 rebounds against St. Louis and 12 points and 10 rebounds at Texas.

Additionally, he showed improvement as the season progressed, averaging 9 points and 9 rebounds in his final 10 games. I'm uncertain about others' expectations here, but I see Manyawu as the type of player we should be eager to recruit and land. He has proven himself at the Division I level and has room for growth. It's puzzling that some people praised PC for landing a recruit like Christ yet criticized our offer to a player with similar stats in a tougher conference. That's not a knock on Christ. I think both players could be strong, big men.

Manyawu and Fuchs form a promising young frontcourt duo that should show even more improvement in their second-year. I hope we land him.

Don’t give up on Wright yet, don’t rely on him either, he is the kind of athlete who may figure it out eventually. If he does he will be a good player. I no issue filling out the bottom third of the roster with “low major” players who work hard and may improve to be more. I had no issue keeping Rory last year to see if something more would come.

[DeanDome88]

Two players should not be on our team next year: Wright and Traore. They are low-major players.

However, I'm completely confused about why people wouldn't get excited about Manyawu. This reminds me of the people who were negative about Green when he also put up decent numbers in the conference USA. Manyawu had an impressive freshman year in a competitive conference. As SG mentioned, he would have led our team in rebounding, steals, and PER. Notably, he posted 15 points and 12 rebounds against St. Louis and 12 points and 10 rebounds at Texas.

Additionally, he showed improvement as the season progressed, averaging 9 points and 9 rebounds in his final 10 games. I'm uncertain about others' expectations here, but I see Manyawu as the type of player we should be eager to recruit and land. He has proven himself at the Division I level and has room for growth. It's puzzling that some people praised PC for landing a recruit like Christ yet criticized our offer to a player with similar stats in a tougher conference. That's not a knock on Christ. I think both players could be strong, big men.

Manyawu and Fuchs form a promising young frontcourt duo that should show even more improvement in their second-year. I hope we land him.

Don’t give up on Wright yet, don’t rely on him either, he is the kind of athlete who may figure it out eventually. If he does he will be a good player. I no issue filling out the bottom third of the roster with “low major” players who work hard and may improve to be more. I had no issue keeping Rory last year to see if something more would come.

13 Scholarships are more than enough to have a few deep bench guys and keep some continuity in the program.

[section(105)]

Hope Always gets lots and lots up over the summer.

[Rhody Sody]

Two players should not be on our team next year: Wright and Traore. They are low-major players.

However, I'm completely confused about why people wouldn't get excited about Manyawu. This reminds me of the people who were negative about Green when he also put up decent numbers in the conference USA. Manyawu had an impressive freshman year in a competitive conference. As SG mentioned, he would have led our team in rebounding, steals, and PER. Notably, he posted 15 points and 12 rebounds against St. Louis and 12 points and 10 rebounds at Texas.

Additionally, he showed improvement as the season progressed, averaging 9 points and 9 rebounds in his final 10 games. I'm uncertain about others' expectations here, but I see Manyawu as the type of player we should be eager to recruit and land. He has proven himself at the Division I level and has room for growth. It's puzzling that some people praised PC for landing a recruit like Christ yet criticized our offer to a player with similar stats in a tougher conference. That's not a knock on Christ. I think both players could be strong, big men.

Manyawu and Fuchs form a promising young frontcourt duo that should show even more improvement in their second-year. I hope we land him.

Agreed on Manyawu, solid upside. Played great competition. Check out the game log. Young kid too.

[RamStock]

Two players should not be on our team next year: Wright and Traore. They are low-major players.

However, I'm completely confused about why people wouldn't get excited about Manyawu. This reminds me of the people who were negative about Green when he also put up decent numbers in the conference USA. Manyawu had an impressive freshman year in a competitive conference. As SG mentioned, he would have led our team in rebounding, steals, and PER. Notably, he posted 15 points and 12 rebounds against St. Louis and 12 points and 10 rebounds at Texas.

Additionally, he showed improvement as the season progressed, averaging 9 points and 9 rebounds in his final 10 games. I'm uncertain about others' expectations here, but I see Manyawu as the type of player we should be eager to recruit and land. He has proven himself at the Division I level and has room for growth. It's puzzling that some people praised PC for landing a recruit like Christ yet criticized our offer to a player with similar stats in a tougher conference. That's not a knock on Christ. I think both players could be strong, big men.

Manyawu and Fuchs form a promising young frontcourt duo that should show even more improvement in their second-year. I hope we land him.

Don’t give up on Wright yet, don’t rely on him either, he is the kind of athlete who may figure it out eventually. If he does he will be a good player. I no issue filling out the bottom third of the roster with “low major” players who work hard and may improve to be more. I had no issue keeping Rory last year to see if something more would come.

Keeping guys like Rory and Always Wright are useless. Neither one of these guys should be on this roster if we are looking to move forward and try to compete. They are D-2 players

[RIFan]

What little we are hearing is not instilling confidence in me. It’s not good when the players we are competing for in the portal have mid to low level A10 level schools as their best options. We don’t get were we want to be by recruiting players that are stretch A10 players.

[PCFriars]

Damn it I got excited he was visiting here

Does this mean we can’t compete with GW for players like Castro? Wow

No someone sent it in the transfer portal thread I’m desperate for transfer news and I just assumed it was URI, then I read GW and got severely disappointed.

I wouldn’t be too disappointed. Not sure he will be a big minute guy in the A-10 either. Decent shotblocker but is always out of position and has frying pan hands.

[Jdrums#3]

Good points on both sides in the posts above regarding end of bench players.

I think it depends on the NIL budget for each year and what is or isn’t left over in the budget after the starters or top rotation players are all paid.

Given that, I guess filling the roster comes down to cheap practice fillers and developmental type players.

I would guess that going more than 6-7 deep (RE: NIL) for a non-power conference team could be a struggle some years if not in most years, imho. But I am just guesstimating. I could be off (too high or too low) on the 6-7 for any one year.

ETA: Someone associated with the program will need to develop a GM mindset to assist in seeking out the best value players within the NIL budget with approximately 1800 players entering the portal plus tracking prep recruits, unless that 1800 portal number starts to drop dramatically for some reason.

[PeterRamTime]

Manyawu

[Iggy1979]

Two players should not be on our team next year: Wright and Traore. They are low-major players.

However, I'm completely confused about why people wouldn't get excited about Manyawu. This reminds me of the people who were negative about Green when he also put up decent numbers in the conference USA. Manyawu had an impressive freshman year in a competitive conference. As SG mentioned, he would have led our team in rebounding, steals, and PER. Notably, he posted 15 points and 12 rebounds against St. Louis and 12 points and 10 rebounds at Texas.

Additionally, he showed improvement as the season progressed, averaging 9 points and 9 rebounds in his final 10 games. I'm uncertain about others' expectations here, but I see Manyawu as the type of player we should be eager to recruit and land. He has proven himself at the Division I level and has room for growth. It's puzzling that some people praised PC for landing a recruit like Christ yet criticized our offer to a player with similar stats in a tougher conference. That's not a knock on Christ. I think both players could be strong, big men.

Manyawu and Fuchs form a promising yocung frontcourt duo that should show even more improvement in their second-year. I hope we land him.

I'll take them both. Pitino said Troare is a 'culture player,' hard worker and leader. Exactly was this team needs.

[steveystuds06]

Two players should not be on our team next year: Wright and Traore. They are low-major players.

However, I'm completely confused about why people wouldn't get excited about Manyawu. This reminds me of the people who were negative about Green when he also put up decent numbers in the conference USA. Manyawu had an impressive freshman year in a competitive conference. As SG mentioned, he would have led our team in rebounding, steals, and PER. Notably, he posted 15 points and 12 rebounds against St. Louis and 12 points and 10 rebounds at Texas.

Additionally, he showed improvement as the season progressed, averaging 9 points and 9 rebounds in his final 10 games. I'm uncertain about others' expectations here, but I see Manyawu as the type of player we should be eager to recruit and land. He has proven himself at the Division I level and has room for growth. It's puzzling that some people praised PC for landing a recruit like Christ yet criticized our offer to a player with similar stats in a tougher conference. That's not a knock on Christ. I think both players could be strong, big men.

Manyawu and Fuchs form a promising young frontcourt duo that should show even more improvement in their second-year. I hope we land him.

Don’t give up on Wright yet, don’t rely on him either, he is the kind of athlete who may figure it out eventually. If he does he will be a good player. I no issue filling out the bottom third of the roster with “low major” players who work hard and may improve to be more. I had no issue keeping Rory last year to see if something more would come.

I hope we can do better personally. You push Bassy out, but keep this kid? It doesn't make much sense to me. He's going to be a junior next year. It's not like this is a young guard. If we're going to give a scholarship to a junior point guard, I would hope that point guard is good enough to be part of the rotation. I would love for him to prove me wrong and make a big impact next year. We'll see.

[ram1980]

Two players should not be on our team next year: Wright and Traore. They are low-major players.

However, I'm completely confused about why people wouldn't get excited about Manyawu. This reminds me of the people who were negative about Green when he also put up decent numbers in the conference USA. Manyawu had an impressive freshman year in a competitive conference. As SG mentioned, he would have led our team in rebounding, steals, and PER. Notably, he posted 15 points and 12 rebounds against St. Louis and 12 points and 10 rebounds at Texas.

Additionally, he showed improvement as the season progressed, averaging 9 points and 9 rebounds in his final 10 games. I'm uncertain about others' expectations here, but I see Manyawu as the type of player we should be eager to recruit and land. He has proven himself at the Division I level and has room for growth. It's puzzling that some people praised PC for landing a recruit like Christ yet criticized our offer to a player with similar stats in a tougher conference. That's not a knock on Christ. I think both players could be strong, big men.

Manyawu and Fuchs form a promising yocung frontcourt duo that should show even more improvement in their second-year. I hope we land him.

I'll take them both. Pitino said Troare is a 'culture player,' hard worker and leader. Exactly was this team needs.

Check out their ft %. Perfect fits. Manyawu 57%, Troare 30%.Fits our current 'culture'.

[steveystuds06]

Two players should not be on our team next year: Wright and Traore. They are low-major players.

However, I'm completely confused about why people wouldn't get excited about Manyawu. This reminds me of the people who were negative about Green when he also put up decent numbers in the conference USA. Manyawu had an impressive freshman year in a competitive conference. As SG mentioned, he would have led our team in rebounding, steals, and PER. Notably, he posted 15 points and 12 rebounds against St. Louis and 12 points and 10 rebounds at Texas.

Additionally, he showed improvement as the season progressed, averaging 9 points and 9 rebounds in his final 10 games. I'm uncertain about others' expectations here, but I see Manyawu as the type of player we should be eager to recruit and land. He has proven himself at the Division I level and has room for growth. It's puzzling that some people praised PC for landing a recruit like Christ yet criticized our offer to a player with similar stats in a tougher conference. That's not a knock on Christ. I think both players could be strong, big men.

Manyawu and Fuchs form a promising yocung frontcourt duo that should show even more improvement in their second-year. I hope we land him.

I'll take them both. Pitino said Troare is a 'culture player,' hard worker and leader. Exactly was this team needs.

I would have preferred to keep Weston or Zek. But maybe this would be the perfect level for him, and he would make a jump. He does work his ass off when he plays. You'll never see this kid not give 100%, and we seriously lacked that in the last two seasons.

[PeterRamTime]

Two players should not be on our team next year: Wright and Traore. They are low-major players.

However, I'm completely confused about why people wouldn't get excited about Manyawu. This reminds me of the people who were negative about Green when he also put up decent numbers in the conference USA. Manyawu had an impressive freshman year in a competitive conference. As SG mentioned, he would have led our team in rebounding, steals, and PER. Notably, he posted 15 points and 12 rebounds against St. Louis and 12 points and 10 rebounds at Texas.

Additionally, he showed improvement as the season progressed, averaging 9 points and 9 rebounds in his final 10 games. I'm uncertain about others' expectations here, but I see Manyawu as the type of player we should be eager to recruit and land. He has proven himself at the Division I level and has room for growth. It's puzzling that some people praised PC for landing a recruit like Christ yet criticized our offer to a player with similar stats in a tougher conference. That's not a knock on Christ. I think both players could be strong, big men.

Manyawu and Fuchs form a promising young frontcourt duo that should show even more improvement in their second-year. I hope we land him.

Don’t give up on Wright yet, don’t rely on him either, he is the kind of athlete who may figure it out eventually. If he does he will be a good player. I no issue filling out the bottom third of the roster with “low major” players who work hard and may improve to be more. I had no issue keeping Rory last year to see if something more would come.

I hope we can do better personally. You push Bassy out, but keep this kid? It doesn't make much sense to me. He's going to be a junior next year. It's not like this is a young guard. If we're going to give a scholarship to a junior point guard, I would hope that point guard is good enough to be part of the rotation. I would love for him to prove me wrong and make a big impact next year. We'll see.

He is young. Didn't fully focus on basketball until a year ago. He was basically a freshman last year.

I look at it like, next year will be a Christion Thompson like redshirt year and he can really contribute the following season.

[steveystuds06]

Don’t give up on Wright yet, don’t rely on him either, he is the kind of athlete who may figure it out eventually. If he does he will be a good player. I no issue filling out the bottom third of the roster with “low major” players who work hard and may improve to be more. I had no issue keeping Rory last year to see if something more would come.

I hope we can do better personally. You push Bassy out, but keep this kid? It doesn't make much sense to me. He's going to be a junior next year. It's not like this is a young guard. If we're going to give a scholarship to a junior point guard, I would hope that point guard is good enough to be part of the rotation. I would love for him to prove me wrong and make a big impact next year. We'll see.

He is young. Didn't fully focus on basketball until a year ago. He was basically a freshman last year.

I look at it like, next year will be a Christion Thompson like redshirt year and he can really contribute the following season.

Yup, that's part of the reason I'm not that high on him. He's a junior but he's behind regarding his development. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. I don't see how he gets minutes this year unless we lose more players. Luis, Cam, House, Hammond, and hopefully Coit would all play over him.

[Rhody15]

Two players should not be on our team next year: Wright and Traore. They are low-major players.

However, I'm completely confused about why people wouldn't get excited about Manyawu. This reminds me of the people who were negative about Green when he also put up decent numbers in the conference USA. Manyawu had an impressive freshman year in a competitive conference. As SG mentioned, he would have led our team in rebounding, steals, and PER. Notably, he posted 15 points and 12 rebounds against St. Louis and 12 points and 10 rebounds at Texas.

Additionally, he showed improvement as the season progressed, averaging 9 points and 9 rebounds in his final 10 games. I'm uncertain about others' expectations here, but I see Manyawu as the type of player we should be eager to recruit and land. He has proven himself at the Division I level and has room for growth. It's puzzling that some people praised PC for landing a recruit like Christ yet criticized our offer to a player with similar stats in a tougher conference. That's not a knock on Christ. I think both players could be strong, big men.

Manyawu and Fuchs form a promising yocung frontcourt duo that should show even more improvement in their second-year. I hope we land him.

I'll take them both. Pitino said Troare is a 'culture player,' hard worker and leader. Exactly was this team needs.

Usually players who are described as a “hard worker” or “tries hard” are not actually good basketball players.

It’s a nice way of saying they stink.

[PeterRamTime]

I hope we can do better personally. You push Bassy out, but keep this kid? It doesn't make much sense to me. He's going to be a junior next year. It's not like this is a young guard. If we're going to give a scholarship to a junior point guard, I would hope that point guard is good enough to be part of the rotation. I would love for him to prove me wrong and make a big impact next year. We'll see.

He is young. Didn't fully focus on basketball until a year ago. He was basically a freshman last year.

I look at it like, next year will be a Christion Thompson like redshirt year and he can really contribute the following season.

Yup, that's part of the reason I'm not that high on him. He's a junior but he's behind regarding his development. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. I don't see how he gets minutes this year unless we lose more players. Luis, Cam, House, Hammond, and hopefully Coit would all play over him.

Yeah and by year 3, he'd be a culture guy and potentially decent.

Please Coit

[McRam]

Two players should not be on our team next year: Wright and Traore. They are low-major players.

However, I'm completely confused about why people wouldn't get excited about Manyawu. This reminds me of the people who were negative about Green when he also put up decent numbers in the conference USA. Manyawu had an impressive freshman year in a competitive conference. As SG mentioned, he would have led our team in rebounding, steals, and PER. Notably, he posted 15 points and 12 rebounds against St. Louis and 12 points and 10 rebounds at Texas.

Additionally, he showed improvement as the season progressed, averaging 9 points and 9 rebounds in his final 10 games. I'm uncertain about others' expectations here, but I see Manyawu as the type of player we should be eager to recruit and land. He has proven himself at the Division I level and has room for growth. It's puzzling that some people praised PC for landing a recruit like Christ yet criticized our offer to a player with similar stats in a tougher conference. That's not a knock on Christ. I think both players could be strong, big men.

Manyawu and Fuchs form a promising yocung frontcourt duo that should show even more improvement in their second-year. I hope we land him.

I'll take them both. Pitino said Troare is a 'culture player,' hard worker and leader. Exactly was this team needs.

Usually players who are described as a “hard worker” or “tries hard” are not actually good basketball players.

It’s a nice way of saying they stink.

Kinda of like the most improved camper awardI got!

[RamStock]

A big man target here freshman Cam Manyawu 6’9 forward from Wyoming has been in contact with the staff. Averaged 7 ppg and 6 rpg last year.

Finally some news ! Thanks

What do those numbers translate to in the A10? 4 and 5?

Considering that the A-10 stinks it would be a jump in numbers. He played against much better competition than this league has to offer. You should be happy if they get him as he is a pretty good player and was only a freshman. We aren’t going to do much better and probably worse.

[theblueram]

He is young. Didn't fully focus on basketball until a year ago. He was basically a freshman last year.

I look at it like, next year will be a Christion Thompson like redshirt year and he can really contribute the following season.

Yup, that's part of the reason I'm not that high on him. He's a junior but he's behind regarding his development. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. I don't see how he gets minutes this year unless we lose more players. Luis, Cam, House, Hammond, and hopefully Coit would all play over him.

Yeah and by year 3, he'd be a culture guy and potentially decent.

Please Coit

Year 3? You mean like you expect him to be here for three years? Cmon man.

[Rhody_NYCT]

In this new lame world of college hoops I wound't get your hopes up for ANY player to stay longer than 2 years anymore. If certain rules are changed then it could be, and hopefully will be, a different story.

[PeterRamTime]

Yup, that's part of the reason I'm not that high on him. He's a junior but he's behind regarding his development. At the end of the day, it doesn't really matter. I don't see how he gets minutes this year unless we lose more players. Luis, Cam, House, Hammond, and hopefully Coit would all play over him.

Yeah and by year 3, he'd be a culture guy and potentially decent.

Please Coit

Year 3? You mean like you expect him to be here for three years? Cmon man.

Well I'm speaking hypothetically. If Ways sticks around until 25-26 then it will be his 3rd year here.

[ElmCityRhody]

In this new lame world of college hoops I wound't get your hopes up for ANY player to stay longer than 2 years anymore. If certain rules are changed then it could be, and hopefully will be, a different story.

Ruined college sports

[theblueram]

We have walkons in the portal. What's next, Ramettes?

[ElmCityRhody]

We have walkons in the portal. What's next, Ramettes?

I’ll donate to their NIL

[Billyboy78]

We have walkons in the portal. What's next, Ramettes?

I’ll donate to their NIL

They're a lot more marketable than our players.

[NYGFan_Section208]

dang...should these last few zingers posts be in the thorr/stone interview thread?