I watched a good bit of a video of an Arizona Compass Prep game against another prep this year. Ola-Joseph came off the bench but this was a very good team (great team speed) and Ola-Joseph looked slow compared to most of the other players on his team. I think spending a year there probably was beneficial for him because of playing with and against higher level competition and also finding out what it's like to come off the bench.
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I watched a good bit of a video of an Arizona Compass Prep game against another prep this year. Ola-Joseph came off the bench but this was a very good team (great team speed) and Ola-Joseph looked slow compared to most of the other players on his team. I think spending a year there probably was beneficial for him because of playing with and against higher level competition and also finding out what it's like to come off the bench.
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Dawson Garcia? Didn’t he leave unc for a family issue? If he wanted to play, wouldn’t Minnesota be the spot?
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I don’t remember much about the lead up to Henley’s commit (I seemed surprised: did it come out of nowhere?). But the 3 MN kids (still counting the wandering Ola-Joseph as a MN kid), we had serious competition for all of them and the fan base was excited to land them. I still am. There seems to be an awful lot of potential. So, I don’t worry too much about their immediate readiness. Some may play early, some may take some development. If they play early because they are great day 1, fantastic. If it’s because they are forced to play because we have not better option, it will mean we failed with these last few scholarships to land the immediate impact players that we need. So I’m watching the GH for news of who’s coming. Git ‘er done CBJ.
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Will be interesting to see if he enters portal after unc loses. Reading that Kerwin entering the portal is a lock, even though he could possibly start next year with everyone unc will lose
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Yeah I'm with ya. These guys can develop behind the scenes while we hopefully have better guys that come in to make us more competitive now. I don't think that's asking too much of Ben.
Positionless basketball really only extends to the offensive side, defensively you're what you can guard
Most of us learned about Henley after his commitment in December 10. He committed shortly after a visit so I presume some who follow official visits knew of this. We had only offered on November 27 so things moved quickly.
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Somewhat, many teams who play positionless basketball switch everything. It's the reason why big wings are so important to good defense. It's a question of who can you guard better than they can guard you. I think it's why Battle is a better 4 (IMO). He is big enough to be an OK defender of most PF but they really struggle defending him. So it's less about who he can defend because he'd probably defend a 3 better than a 4 and more about what position gives us a bigger mismatch than vice versa.