2023-24 Rotation

[Iggy1979]

1. House
2. Brown
3. Foumena.
4. Weston
5. Montgomery
6. Kortright
7. Stewart
8. Estevez

Injured
Bilau

Fighting for minutes
Wright
Green
Dubsky

[Billyboy78]

1. House
2. Brown
3. Foumena.
4. Weston
5. Montgomery
6. Kortright
7. Stewart
8. Estevez

Injured
Bilau

Fighting for minutes
Wright
Green
Dubsky

Does this excite anyone?

[section(105)]

1. House
2. Brown
3. Foumena.
4. Weston
5. Montgomery
6. Kortright
7. Stewart
8. Estevez

Injured
Bilau

Fighting for minutes
Wright
Green
Dubsky

Does this excite anyone?

Nope. Maybe the collection of these parts will gel into a mid pack conference team. Time will tell, I guess. After all we were 14th in conference. Where’s the scoring coming from?

[Dino611]

1. House
2. Brown
3. Foumena.
4. Weston
5. Montgomery
6. Kortright
7. Stewart
8. Estevez

Injured
Bilau

Fighting for minutes
Wright
Green
Dubsky

Does this excite anyone?

Nope. Maybe the collection of these parts will gel into a mid pack conference team. Time will tell, I guess. After all we were 14th in conference. Where’s the scoring coming from?

Jaden House

[PeterRamTime]

1. House
2. Brown
3. Montgomery
4. Kortright
5. Weston
6. Foumena
7. Always (might overtake Kortright by end of the year)
8. Green

The two freshman and Rory fighting for minutes

A healthy Bilau pushes to start.

I still don't get why people think Bilau will be out for a significantly long time. What have you all heard? He posted himself walking on Instagram like a week ago and wasn't limping at all. If it's just ACL I don't see how he isn't ready by January.

[Dino611]

1. House
2. Brown
3. Montgomery
4. Kortright
5. Weston
6. Foumena
7. Always (might overtake Kortright by end of the year)
8. Green

The two freshman and Rory fighting for minutes

A healthy Bilau pushes to start.

I still don't get why people think Bilau will be out for a significantly long time. What have you all heard? He posted himself walking on Instagram like a week ago and wasn't limping at all. If it's just ACL I don't see how he isn't ready by January.

Just from what I’ve heard, he came back faster than expected for his shoulder surgery so you could be right PRT

[bigappleram]

Is Foumena expected to be an instant contributor? Or more project aka Alex/Abdou. I didn't see the scrimmage and hard to gauge based on Canadian prep school tape.

[Jersey77]

1. House
2. Brown
3. Foumena.
4. Weston
5. Montgomery
6. Kortright
7. Stewart
8. Estevez

Injured
Bilau

Fighting for minutes
Wright
Green
Dubsky

Does this excite anyone?

So many unknowns here, but just speculating I don't see this rotation getting us in the top half of the A10.
Yes I expect improvement but probably more in the 8-12 range.

[KevanBoyles]

I think Wright is going to surprise a lot of people.

[theblueram]

Yikes

[rjv]

The rotation for "The Patient Rhody Fan"

[jcru]

I think Wright is going to surprise a lot of people.

Same. I'm thinking:

1. House
2. Brown
3. Montgomery
4. Wright
5. Foumena
6. Weston
7. Estevez
8. Kortright
9. Dubsky
10. Stewart

Available?

Bilau
Green

[Rhody15]

I have absolutely zero idea why I feel this way as I have watched zero seconds of game tape on him, but just going off stats, being voted the most improved player in the conference and the natural progression most players make, I believe Montgomery is going to be a very productive piece for us.


Still don’t see this team getting to the top of the conference though.

[Jdrums#3]

1. House
2. Brown
3. Foumena.
4. Weston
5. Montgomery
6. Kortright
7. Stewart
8. Estevez

Injured
Bilau

Fighting for minutes
Wright
Green
Dubsky

This (as Iggy posted above) is how I see it at this very early point in time with Bilau’s time of return still undetermined and many unknowns.

Where’s the scoring coming from with this group ? Hopefully, House and Monty because beyond those two, I don’t see anyone who has the potential to average double digits yet. The rest of the scoring is going to have to come via scoring by committee. Hopefully, with a year under their belts, Weston and Stew can help consistently in the scoring by committee group most of the time with periodic help from others like Kortright, Bilau (whenever fully healthy) and Green (if eligible). Beyond that, maybe 1 of the 3 freshman (I am including Always in that group) can help periodically.

Hopefully we are better defensively, equally as good from the line percentage wise as last year at least and cut down on the turnovers.

No idea where we will finish yet.

[theblueram]

They better figure out those beer lines. Quick.

[rjv]

I love to dream...but lets be realistic.
One of the Freshman will step up or natural progression or even another year under their belt.
There is no one with a proven double digit D1 scoring average except for House
I'm not being negative...I'm stating fact only.
Yes I hope improvement but hope improvement does not win games

[SmartyBarrett]

I think Wright is going to surprise a lot of people.

Same here.

[Billyboy78]

I think Wright is going to surprise a lot of people.

Always.

[reef]

The rotation should be a solid 9 with the 10th man getting a few minutes, don’t want the kids being upset with lack of time

[rhodylaw]

I have absolutely zero idea why I feel this way as I have watched zero seconds of game tape on him, but just going off stats, being voted the most improved player in the conference and the natural progression most players make, I believe Montgomery is going to be a very productive piece for us.


Still don’t see this team getting to the top of the conference though.

Booo…we went from being a group of undersized non-shooters to a lengthy athletic team that can shoot. We will be much better. Top 6 A10 team. Book it.

[steveystuds06]

I love to dream...but lets be realistic.
One of the Freshman will step up or natural progression or even another year under their belt.
There is no one with a proven double digit D1 scoring average except for House
I'm not being negative...I'm stating fact only.
Yes I hope improvement but hope improvement does not win games

Kortright averaged 10 and 4 last year..Ish averaged 8 pts in his sophomore year before he broke out last season. Players develop and players get better. Especially if they have a bigger role. I think Zek and Weston can score the rock with more minutes and bigger roles.

[rjv]

I'm with Rhodylaw 2022-2023 prediction contest
rhodylaw 22-9 13-5 72.85 Carey, 14.75 6,251
We are winning NCAA Tournament.
Sorry could not resist!

[PeterRamTime]

I'm ready for a Chris DiSano roster breakdown!

[rjv]

Kortright is going into his 4th year
1st 10.3
2nd 3.5
3rd 10.3
Leggit
1st 6.6
2nd 8.3
3rd 16.4
steveystuds06 you need to compare year 3 to year 3

[Billyboy78]

I'm ready for a Chris DiSano roster breakdown!

Chris has said in the past that he's not that interested nor knowledgeable about recruits. He's more interested in judging them after they get here and he sees them in person.

[PeterRamTime]

I'm ready for a Chris DiSano roster breakdown!

Chris has said in the past that he's not that interested nor knowledgeable about recruits. He's more interested in judging them after they get here and he sees them in person.

Well I'm sure he'll write out some kind of preview before the season starts.

[Billyboy78]

I'm ready for a Chris DiSano roster breakdown!

Chris has said in the past that he's not that interested nor knowledgeable about recruits. He's more interested in judging them after they get here and he sees them in person.

Well I'm sure he'll write out some kind of preview before the season starts.

He will, after seeing a few practices.

[Rhody15]

I have absolutely zero idea why I feel this way as I have watched zero seconds of game tape on him, but just going off stats, being voted the most improved player in the conference and the natural progression most players make, I believe Montgomery is going to be a very productive piece for us.


Still don’t see this team getting to the top of the conference though.

Booo…we went from being a group of undersized non-shooters to a lengthy athletic team that can shoot. We will be much better. Top 6 A10 team. Book it.

Just completely disregarded the first part of my post huh

[rhodylaw]

I have absolutely zero idea why I feel this way as I have watched zero seconds of game tape on him, but just going off stats, being voted the most improved player in the conference and the natural progression most players make, I believe Montgomery is going to be a very productive piece for us.


Still don’t see this team getting to the top of the conference though.

Booo…we went from being a group of undersized non-shooters to a lengthy athletic team that can shoot. We will be much better. Top 6 A10 team. Book it.

Just completely disregarded the first part of my post huh

I did - I was booing your conclusion.

[rhodylaw]

I'm with Rhodylaw 2022-2023 prediction contest
rhodylaw 22-9 13-5 72.85 Carey, 14.75 6,251
We are winning NCAA Tournament.
Sorry could not resist!

No worries. I don’t predict a losing season ever in that contest even if that is what I think. I will admit they were worse than I expected this last year though by a lot. Thought we would be a little over .500.

[steveystuds06]

Kortright is going into his 4th year
1st 10.3
2nd 3.5
3rd 10.3
Leggit
1st 6.6
2nd 8.3
3rd 16.4
steveystuds06 you need to compare year 3 to year 3

I only brought up Kortright becuase you said we only had one double digit scorer. The two guys that I think can make a jump like an Ish are Weston and Zek. I expect Kortright to put up similar numbers as he did last year.

[KingstonLane]

People here are always so overly focused on how many 20ppg scorers we have on our team. Last years squad was wayyyy to top heavy. Ish and/or bray need to score 25 on any given night for us to have a chance.

This roster is much, much deeper with experience across the board

How many players on San Diego St, who made the national championship scored in double figures? ONE. And he averaged 12.6 ppg.

They then had 8 other guys scoring between 5-10 ppg.

The college game is a lot different than the NBA. It’s not a superstar league

[Jersey77]

People here are always so overly focused on how many 20ppg scorers we have on our team. Last years squad was wayyyy to top heavy. Ish and/or bray need to score 25 on any given night for us to have a chance.

This roster is much, much deeper with experience across the board

How many players on San Diego St, who made the national championship scored in double figures? ONE. And he averaged 12.6 ppg.

They then had 8 other guys scoring between 5-10 ppg.

The college game is a lot different than the NBA. It’s not a superstar league

We are aware of that, but more important 4 of their 5 starters were on that team the previous year.
Also the other mid-major in the Final Four FAU all 5 starters were on the team the previous year.

In comparison we probably won't have any player that will start this season that started in 22-23 or was maybe even on the team.

[PeterRamTime]

People here are always so overly focused on how many 20ppg scorers we have on our team. Last years squad was wayyyy to top heavy. Ish and/or bray need to score 25 on any given night for us to have a chance.

This roster is much, much deeper with experience across the board

How many players on San Diego St, who made the national championship scored in double figures? ONE. And he averaged 12.6 ppg.

They then had 8 other guys scoring between 5-10 ppg.

The college game is a lot different than the NBA. It’s not a superstar league

Yeah and I've seen enough ball screen then iso one on one crap around here.

We would move the ball very well at times last year, but couldn't hit any wide open shots consistently so then we needed Bray or Ish to just head downhill and make something happen.

If we can start hitting some of those shots next year it will change a lot for the better.

[PeterRamTime]

People here are always so overly focused on how many 20ppg scorers we have on our team. Last years squad was wayyyy to top heavy. Ish and/or bray need to score 25 on any given night for us to have a chance.

This roster is much, much deeper with experience across the board

How many players on San Diego St, who made the national championship scored in double figures? ONE. And he averaged 12.6 ppg.

They then had 8 other guys scoring between 5-10 ppg.

The college game is a lot different than the NBA. It’s not a superstar league

I'll also add

I think some of the doom and gloom crowd really underrates how much more experienced we will be next year compared to this year. Pretty significant jump.

Stewart, Fou, Bilau and Weston will all be more experienced and 90% of the time players improve year to year. Bilau may not, but just having him back at all gives us something we sorely lacked when he wasn't in the lineup.

House 4th year
Kortright 4th
Brown 3rd
Green 4th
Montgomery 3rd
Bilau 4th?
Weston 3rd
Always 2nd
Stewart 2nd
Fou 2nd
Estevez 1st
Dubsky 1st

Compared to
Carey 5th
Martin 5th
Leggett 3rd
Bray 2nd
Bilau 3rd (redshirt at Wichita no playing time there)
Weston 2nd (redshirt injury no playing time)
Tchikou 3rd (redshirt injury no playing time)
Samb 2nd (first year of actual playing time)
Bassey 2nd
Stewart 1st
Lou 1st
Fou (redshirt)

Even our most maligned transfer addition in David Green had proven more at the D1 level than seven of the guys on the roster last year (Fou, Lou, Stewart, Samb, Tchikou, Weston and Bilau)

[KingstonLane]

People here are always so overly focused on how many 20ppg scorers we have on our team. Last years squad was wayyyy to top heavy. Ish and/or bray need to score 25 on any given night for us to have a chance.

This roster is much, much deeper with experience across the board

How many players on San Diego St, who made the national championship scored in double figures? ONE. And he averaged 12.6 ppg.

They then had 8 other guys scoring between 5-10 ppg.

The college game is a lot different than the NBA. It’s not a superstar league

We are aware of that, but more important 4 of their 5 starters were on that team the previous year.
Also the other mid-major in the Final Four FAU all 5 starters were on the team the previous year.

In comparison we probably won't have any player that will start this season that started in 22-23 or was maybe even on the team.

That’s fine too. I think the year after next is our more realistic window

My prediction is top half of the conference next year, and competing for a league championship in 24-25

[reef]

People here are always so overly focused on how many 20ppg scorers we have on our team. Last years squad was wayyyy to top heavy. Ish and/or bray need to score 25 on any given night for us to have a chance.

This roster is much, much deeper with experience across the board

How many players on San Diego St, who made the national championship scored in double figures? ONE. And he averaged 12.6 ppg.

They then had 8 other guys scoring between 5-10 ppg.

The college game is a lot different than the NBA. It’s not a superstar league

We are aware of that, but more important 4 of their 5 starters were on that team the previous year.
Also the other mid-major in the Final Four FAU all 5 starters were on the team the previous year.

In comparison we probably won't have any player that will start this season that started in 22-23 or was maybe even on the team.

That’s fine too. I think the year after next is our more realistic window

My prediction is top half of the conference next year, and competing for a league championship in 24-25

Definitely something to shoot for , not out of the realm of possibility

[KevanBoyles]

I had some time to kill and I was interested to see what 3 point shooting percentage that the new transfers brought to the table. Collectively, House, Wright, Montgomery, and Kortright shot 36.175% from three last year. That number would place them 71st in the country. That is a hell of a lot better than an our 30.38%, which ranked 333rd last year. Yes, I know it wasn’t all against D1 competition, but still has got to be an improvement. (Brown did not take any threes.)

[reef]

I had some time to kill and I was interested to see what 3 point shooting percentage that the new transfers brought to the table. Collectively, House, Wright, Montgomery, and Kortright shot 36.175% from three last year. That number would place them 71st in the country. That is a hell of a lot better than an our 30.38%, which ranked 333rd last year. Yes, I know it wasn’t all against D1 competition, but still has got to be an improvement. (Brown did not take any threes.)

Really good research and so so important!! Got to hit the 3 ball these days get lots of attempts and makes !!

[steveystuds06]

I had some time to kill and I was interested to see what 3 point shooting percentage that the new transfers brought to the table. Collectively, House, Wright, Montgomery, and Kortright shot 36.175% from three last year. That number would place them 71st in the country. That is a hell of a lot better than an our 30.38%, which ranked 333rd last year. Yes, I know it wasn’t all against D1 competition, but still has got to be an improvement. (Brown did not take any threes.)

Love it!

David Green is a 35% shooter
Rory shot 45% from 3 in his final 10 games.
Connor is a sniper
Cam can shoot.

We will be a better shooting team next year.

[Jersey77]

I had some time to kill and I was interested to see what 3 point shooting percentage that the new transfers brought to the table. Collectively, House, Wright, Montgomery, and Kortright shot 36.175% from three last year. That number would place them 71st in the country. That is a hell of a lot better than an our 30.38%, which ranked 333rd last year. Yes, I know it wasn’t all against D1 competition, but still has got to be an improvement. (Brown did not take any threes.)

Love it!

David Green is a 35% shooter
Rory shot 45% from 3 in his final 10 games.
Connor is a sniper
Cam can shoot. i

We will be a better shooting team next year.

Yeah Stevey we should be a much better shooting team next season.

I am leaving Green out of the rotation for now because he is currently ineligible to play in 23-24 unless of course he obtains a waiver.
The NCAA recently sent out a reminder memo of the new conditions for multi-transfers for immediate play.
It looks like they are making an effort to crack down on this.
We will see what happens, it is my feeling Archie was willing to take a chance on Green whether or not he has to sit.

Last year he was willing to take a gamble on Ant, although his situation was academic.
Unfortunately, that didn't work out well.

[rhodylaw]

I had some time to kill and I was interested to see what 3 point shooting percentage that the new transfers brought to the table. Collectively, House, Wright, Montgomery, and Kortright shot 36.175% from three last year. That number would place them 71st in the country. That is a hell of a lot better than an our 30.38%, which ranked 333rd last year. Yes, I know it wasn’t all against D1 competition, but still has got to be an improvement. (Brown did not take any threes.)

Clearly shooting was an emphasis - what I can’t know just by looking at season percentages is how consistent they are.

Even our “good” shooters from three the past several years have been very streaky. Hit 3 or 4 in one game and then miss every shot the next. That is almost as bad as the overall percentages (which were horrific and only not down in the 20s because of a few hot nights).

[Jdrums#3]

Hopefully we add enough of them (3 point shooters) so that when one or two go cold another one or two get hot.

If we add another shooter, like the young man from FAMU (39% from 3) who just entered the portal, that will help.

[Blue Man]

1. House
2. Brown
3. Foumena.
4. Weston
5. Montgomery
6. Kortright
7. Stewart
8. Estevez

Injured
Bilau

Fighting for minutes
Wright
Green
Dubsky

Does this excite anyone?

People were excited for the twins.

It’s wild the turn that people have decided to make. With Cox it was excitement or fake excitement but everyone talked about how good we were going to be.

I trust the coach, I bet we’ll be excited when they start playing.

The idea that on paper excitement equals on court success is wild.

Preseason #1 UNC fans were super excited. How’d that work?

[RamStock]

1. House
2. Brown
3. Foumena.
4. Weston
5. Montgomery
6. Kortright
7. Stewart
8. Estevez

Injured
Bilau

Fighting for minutes
Wright
Green
Dubsky

Does this excite anyone?

People were excited for the twins.

It’s wild the turn that people have decided to make. With Cox it was excitement or fake excitement but everyone talked about how good we were going to be.

I trust the coach, I bet we’ll be excited when they start playing.

The idea that on paper excitement equals on court success is wild.

Preseason #1 UNC fans were super excited. How’d that work?

I think it works both ways. People don’t like when a negative view is pushed out, but it is also tough to stomach when every player that is signed by Archie is treated like a great get. On both sides almost all people here haven’t seen these players play. The truth lies somewhere in the middle and the results will speak for themselves. It is always going to be hard to get up for a season with no shot at a tourney bid and the schedule littered with poor teams at the Ryan Center.

[steveystuds06]

Does this excite anyone?

People were excited for the twins.

It’s wild the turn that people have decided to make. With Cox it was excitement or fake excitement but everyone talked about how good we were going to be.

I trust the coach, I bet we’ll be excited when they start playing.

The idea that on paper excitement equals on court success is wild.

Preseason #1 UNC fans were super excited. How’d that work?

I think it works both ways. People don’t like when a negative view is pushed out, but it is also tough to stomach when every player that is signed by Archie is treated like a great get. On both sides almost all people here haven’t seen these players play. The truth lies somewhere in the middle and the results will speak for themselves. It is always going to be hard to get up for a season with no shot at a tourney bid and the schedule littered with poor teams at the Ryan Center.

I don’t think every player is treated as a great get. If that was the case then most people on here would think we were going to win the A10 this season. When in all reality most of us think we may be able to be a mid level A10 team. An improvement. This roster has some interesting players that could end up being pieces on a top A10 team down the road, but on paper, it doesn’t seem to have any program changing players like an EC or JT. But it’s too soon to tell so I’m going to have some hope and trust in this coach.

[Rhody72]

I don’t think every player is treated as a great get. If that was the case then most people on here would think we were going to win the A10 this season. When in all reality most of us think we may be able to be a mid level A10 team. An improvement. This roster has some interesting players that could end up being pieces on a top A10 team down the road, but on paper, it doesn’t seem to have any program changing players like an EC or JT. But it’s too soon to tell so I’m going to have some hope and trust in this coach.

The program is in a difficult situation with a very good head coach. There are NO players who contributed with any significance last season returning. The players we recruited believed that URI was their best opportunity to play next season. With the one time transfer rule, players who sold themselves short or long will leave. The transformation in college basketball came at a very bad time for URI.

[adam914]

I don’t think every player is treated as a great get. If that was the case then most people on here would think we were going to win the A10 this season. When in all reality most of us think we may be able to be a mid level A10 team. An improvement. This roster has some interesting players that could end up being pieces on a top A10 team down the road, but on paper, it doesn’t seem to have any program changing players like an EC or JT. But it’s too soon to tell so I’m going to have some hope and trust in this coach.

The program is in a difficult situation with a very good head coach. There are NO players who contributed with any significance last season returning. The players we recruited believed that URI was their best opportunity to play next season. With the one time transfer rule, players who sold themselves short or long will leave. The transformation in college basketball came at a very bad time for URI.

The positive side of that is that there is only one player who contributed with any significance last season, so its all relative at this point. We'll see if that changes this season or not.

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Hopefully Archie will not use the line he said going into last season, ‘when the ball went up in game 1 I had no idea what to expect….’
Something like that. Anybody else remember that comment once the season got going, or was it post season review? Anyway, lets’s hope he has more ownership of roster in year two.

[Dino611]

Hopefully Archie will not use the line he said going into last season, ‘when the ball went up in game 1 I had no idea what to expect….’
Something like that. Anybody else remember that comment once the season got going, or was it post season review? Anyway, lets’s hope he has more ownership of roster in year two.

He said it after the A10 tourney if I’m right

Have more scrimmages and exhibitions next year plz