2025 Transfer Portal

[TucsonTruckStop]

Commits:


Prospect:

PF - Nick Davidson (Nevada)
G - Darius Carr (San Bernardino CC)
G - Jaydon Young (Virginia Tech)
SF - Tyrone Riley IV (San Fran)

Riley has a nice list, but he may only have that due to popping into the portal quickly. Nick Davidson is the only one with "game". The others just aren't "Arizona" good. I don't think we have seen the market materialize at all. KJ Lewis would top the list at this point and he is only solid at best.

Maybe Tommy can buy him back and it is all a ploy to get $$$

Use the money to keep HV at all costs.

There are plenty of elite guys. Lloyd just likes to find these diamonds in the tough that end up being coal.

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He's not the only player I'm intrigued by, but the dude that caught my attention in the Portal the most thus far is Lamar Wilkerson from Sam Houston State. He's not at the Top of the portal ratings, but that could make him gettable for us. Thoughts?

https://www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/player/_/id/5105876/lamar-wilkerson

https://www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/lamar-wilkerson-1.html

[KansasCityCats]

Mixed emotions.  Wilkerson is definitely talented enough to start for Arizona.  I watched him twice this season and once was the CSUN tournament game, which wasn't his best performance.  Regardless, he plays hard and has a nice stroke.

I personally hope that we can land Burries because we have enough scorers on the roster and an "alpha" shooter wouldn't help the chemistry on the team.

[WerderBremen]

https://x.com/tiptonedits/status/1906702369934455059

[WerderBremen]

https://x.com/JonRothstein/status/1906733284106649731

How do i put tweets in here again?

[WerderBremen]

Commits:


Prospect:

PF - Nick Davidson (Nevada)
G - Darius Carr (San Bernardino CC)
G - Jaydon Young (Virginia Tech)
SF - Tyrone Riley IV (San Fran)
PF - Morez Johnson (Illinois)

[Little George]

We are not on Davidson's final 5.

[TucsonTruckStop]

Mixed emotions.  Wilkerson is definitely talented enough to start for Arizona.  I watched him twice this season and once was the CSUN tournament game, which wasn't his best performance.  Regardless, he plays hard and has a nice stroke.

I personally hope that we can land Burries because we have enough scorers on the roster and an "alpha" shooter wouldn't help the chemistry on the team.

We have enough scorers?  We lost 3 of our top 4 producers (and JB is getting offers). Lloyd needs a couple guys that can create and score.

[mvpreed2]

Carter would need to return and Tommy would need to find some real 3pt shooters. Like how Kelvin Sampson found Uzon.

For me, the one thing Tommy is missing is an affinity to find real 3pt shooters above 1 "chucker". Kerr, Boswell, Love...

I would prefer 3 guys out there that can knockdown a 3 instead of 1 guy who everyone knows is 3 outcome - 3pt make, FTs, or Brick

I think Tommy is getting closer to the UCONN design with bigger 1, 2, 3, and 4's with 1 MONSTER athletic Ogre at the 5. (Bouncy Stephen?)

I understand your point, but I believe there is more than one way to skin a cat.
Bradley is good enough to get into the lane at any point during the game.
Bryant/Dell'Orso are good enough to be good shooters, as long as it is done within the offense.
I am not sure about Aristode, but I believe James could be that, but I do not believe he will play next season.
As long as someone is able to make the defense collapse?
I believe the notion of having a deadeye shooter is not going to be as prominent.

College basketball in general is shifting to that lineup of having a lead guard, three 6'8 wings, and a huge (height + weight) big that can control the paint on both sides.
This can work with Lloyd at Arizona as long as he does not recruit the type(s) of prospects that have to have to the ball in their hands to be effective (Love).
That is the main reason why I did not want Love to come back this past season.
I do believe this offense is going to be more explosive because there will not be a guy that opposing coaches are going to be able to target as THE go-to guy.
I do believe Bradley is going to be that guy because of his ability to get into the lane and make a play (drive/shoot/pass).
#BearDown

[arxpert]

I know that pigeonholing makes the brain hurt less, but the "kid from Community College" is a former 4 star recruit with 14 D1 offers, including UCONN, St. John's, Washington, Xavier. He ended up going to a community college, because of his grades and not because of his basketball skills. If you believe the tweet, Rick Pitino is supposedly interested in him. He probably invested more time knowing this player than just looking at his current school. Furthermore the scholarship limit is going up to 15. So, long story short if Tommy believes in his potential, I wouldn't have a problem with the "kid from Community College".

By the way 247 currently ranks Davidson 11th in the portal. So he might be a bit better than decent.

Couldn't care less. Don't need to fill up a roster with players who won't play. That kid will definitely want to be playing big minutes. This has been the problem with Tommy every offseason. Over promising and under delivering. I wouldn't expect this kid from Community College with poor grades that is being pushed through the academic system to cash in NIL to want to come to Arizona and sit on our bench.