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JohnnyCockfight
Beer is God's proof that he loves us.
If he's good enough and we have a roster spot, you bring him in, regardless of whether we already have wings. He has a Harvard degree and presumably would be an addition in the locker room in addition to the court. And a 6'7" player can guard a lot of different positions on D.
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OSU_Buckguy
Head Coach
if so, i can't see an announcement until two players announce their own departure. obvious candidate is kaleb. you'd assume the other candidate is a wing. a wing lineup of sueing, jallow, ahrens, brown, and towns doesn't make a lot of sense, especially when you'll have two 2s getting major minutes and two 4s getting major minutes.
still struggling to see how another wing fits the roster based on next season's probable needs...
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OhioState001
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Assuming Sueing isn't transferring. Jallow seems unlikely since he would have left already. Ahrens and Gaffney are the only ones that make sense, unless Carton wants to move closer to home or something
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LitlBuck
Kevin Warren is an ass
Since no one knows Carton situation this is pure speculation on my part but I could see him wanting to move closer to home purely for health reasons. I do not see Ahrens transferring and the same goes with Sueing (that would be really strange). Not sure about Gaffney but his "health" concerns the past 3 weeks of the season could certainly lead to a lot of speculation. Agree regarding Musa.
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nomatta
Hall of Fame
Towns is a very smooth and smart player. He has more playmaking ability than any of our current wings. The jump to a far better conference and his health are the big question marks.
I think we're all gonna have to move on a bit from the mentality of "but we don't have enough true PGs and centers!" Clearly, Holtmann values those types of traditional roles a lot less than some of us do. Seems he'd be perfectly content to run 5 wings & forwards out on the floor if he thought they were the right mix.
You do need guard skills in today's game, one hundred percent, and I think it is fair to question whether our squad has enough of that. The good news with Towns is that, while he is a 6'7 forward, he is good on and off the ball and he is a good passer.
You do need to be able to defend and rebound the interior. They might not have ideal height but guys like Young and Liddell fight down low and have a higher rebounding percentage than many guys who have a couple inches on them (and Zed Key seems in a similar mold). Liddell has the makings of one of the more elite 6'6 shot-blockers to come along.
Holtmann is pretty clearly not a B1G-style traditionalist when it comes to roster composition and building. He's looking at what the NBA is becoming, he's looking at what programs like Nova have been for a minute, he's kind of developed his own take on that sort of versatile flex line-up that can guard and attack in a variety of ways and I think the message is starting to come through loud and clear with the guys he has recruited these past couple cycles from HS and through transfer that we need to realize this is the new wave, and Holtmann is with it.
I think we're all gonna have to move on a bit from the mentality of "but we don't have enough true PGs and centers!" Clearly, Holtmann values those types of traditional roles a lot less than some of us do. Seems he'd be perfectly content to run 5 wings & forwards out on the floor if he thought they were the right mix.
You do need guard skills in today's game, one hundred percent, and I think it is fair to question whether our squad has enough of that. The good news with Towns is that, while he is a 6'7 forward, he is good on and off the ball and he is a good passer.
You do need to be able to defend and rebound the interior. They might not have ideal height but guys like Young and Liddell fight down low and have a higher rebounding percentage than many guys who have a couple inches on them (and Zed Key seems in a similar mold). Liddell has the makings of one of the more elite 6'6 shot-blockers to come along.
Holtmann is pretty clearly not a B1G-style traditionalist when it comes to roster composition and building. He's looking at what the NBA is becoming, he's looking at what programs like Nova have been for a minute, he's kind of developed his own take on that sort of versatile flex line-up that can guard and attack in a variety of ways and I think the message is starting to come through loud and clear with the guys he has recruited these past couple cycles from HS and through transfer that we need to realize this is the new wave, and Holtmann is with it.
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nomatta
Hall of Fame
I believe Towns would also have 2 years of eligibility left, so it impacts numbers for the 2021 class, too. Not only would someone besides Kaleb need to leave for next season, someone else would need to leave before the following season for us to take anyone besides Meechie and Etzler.
I am sure that stuff will work out but Holtmann has had several interviews now where he says he'd prefer to have 10-11 available scholarship guys in any given season but it's like he doesn't know how to pass on wings he likes.
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