Idaho St transfer C Evan Otten has signed with Arizona!

[WILD]

https://x.com/i/status/2055468812489875678
https://x.com/i/status/2032503398579191869

[Naterade]

Goddam we are loading up on bigs. I think this signing is the staff knowing Koa is gone. We need girth and having two bigs on the court with 4 centers on the roster will be easy

[mvpreed2]

Goddam we are loading up on bigs. I think this signing is the staff knowing Koa is gone. We need girth and having two bigs on the court with 4 centers on the roster will be easy

The only way I can make it make sense to me is that Lloyd is going to run a 9-man rotation next season assuming Peat does return.
If he does not, I guess you plug in Otten in at PF and use Otten and possibly Aiyamenkhue as backup bigs?
The roster now looks like:

Dixon
Holt
Kharchenkov
OPEN
Krivas

Mandaquit
Holmes
Jarusevicius
Otten
James
Mawut

There is another scholarship open to get to that 12-man scholarship limit.
#BearDown

[KansasCityCats]

This is strictly a backup Center acquisition.

UJ and Endurance would likely be limited on minutes if Koa returns.

Otherwise, I assume that the roster is set. Nice pickup for depth purposes; we need a big body, who can block shots.

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It's actually pretty impressive that he led the conference in blocked shots both years without playing a ton of minutes. They're gonna have to teach him how to defend without fouling though.

[WILD]

Evan highlights

[Zona Nation]

Goddam we are loading up on bigs. I think this signing is the staff knowing Koa is gone. We need girth and having two bigs on the court with 4 centers on the roster will be easy

The only way I can make it make sense to me is that Lloyd is going to run a 9-man rotation next season assuming Peat does return.
If he does not, I guess you plug in Otten in at PF and use Otten and possibly Aiyamenkhue as backup bigs?
The roster now looks like:

Dixon
Holt
Kharchenkov
OPEN
Krivas

Mandaquit
Holmes
Jarusevicius
Otten
James
Mawut

There is another scholarship open to get to that 12-man scholarship limit.
#BearDown

Teams can have up to 15 scholarship players now.

[Jdmarti]

It's crazy that is the 4th center now unless endurance can play the 4 but I think he is a 5, I imagine  we still need atleast 2 power forwards  one to start an one to backup the starter.

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Mabil is a Stretch 4.

[mvpreed2]

It's crazy that is the 4th center now unless endurance can play the 4 but I think he is a 5, I imagine  we still need atleast 2 power forwards  one to start an one to backup the starter.

At this point, the amount of 6'11 F on this roster?
Lloyd could put one of them in at PF.
There is no point in getting someone else because all of these prospects are interchangeable at this point.
#BearDown