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2025 Transfer Portal Thread

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pimo1 said:
I dont think in Barnes tenure anyone has ever developed an offensive game... it not what he does.... other way around.
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This is idiotic. Zeigler, Mashack, Grant Williams, Schofield, Bowden, Lamonte, Kevin Punter, Aidoo, JJJ, and many more improved offensively under Barnes.

If you don’t think so, you simply don’t know basketball. And you’re hard up to criticize a great coach, so you make absurd statements.
 
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Do we have any sense for what our budget is likely to be next year? If you’re looking at 2M per and we’re targeting taking a half dozen transfers, that could get expensive fast, and that’s before you pay the returners.
 
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Will admit I do not keep up with basketball recruiting and the portal as much as football.

Under Barnes, will UT be mainly a portal team? Checked 247 and hated seeing Arkansas and Kentucky getting major high school talent while UT was in the 40s.
 
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headhunter15 said:
Will admit I do not keep up with basketball recruiting and the portal as much as football.

Under Barnes, will UT be mainly a portal team? Checked 247 and hated seeing Arkansas and Kentucky getting major high school talent while UT was in the 40s.
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We’re pretty definitively in the twilight of Barnes’ career and going portal heavy is probably the best way to consistently field competitive rosters.
 
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Lankykong said:
He objectively teaches the high release for bigs to avoid having their shot blocked
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I am not knocking Barnes (I am 100% i nthe CRB fanboy club) just saying developing an offensive game is not a thing that normally happens here. Guys develop defensively the guys that have improved offensively came in as offensive guys. DK and Lanier didn't 'develop' offensively in this system neither did Grant....they all developed defensively. WIll/have guys incrementally improve over time? Of course, in any decent program they will.

It's like saying I'm going to a camp hosted by Mugsy Bogues to learn how to dunk. I probably won't get optimal results there.
 
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Kas232323 said:
This is so factually inaccurate. Numerous examples of him Improving the offensive game of players.
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name a few? I'll wait. Have players improved overall under CRB of course he is a great coach and has a great program. But offense is not his specialty. I hate how folks get all up in arms when the truth is told even if its not negative perse. He is not gonna stagnate some ones development...but you come to UT to play/learn defense under CRB. In this system offense is a byproduct of good D.
 
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NighthawkVol said:
This is idiotic. Zeigler, Mashack, Grant Williams, Schofield, Bowden, Lamonte, Kevin Punter, Aidoo, JJJ, and many more improved offensively under Barnes.

If you don’t think so, you simply don’t know basketball. And you’re hard up to criticize a great coach, so you make absurd statements.
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What you are saying is what silly. I am not saying players don't get better. but none of those guys were offensive juggernauts.... name one that was? All of those guys came in as scorers and outside of Grant none of them were the leading scorer for UT ever...all of Barnes top scorers outside of grant were inherited, one and done and/or transfers.

ZZ his uptick in scoring tracks directly with his increase in minutes each year.. He has improved by about 1-2 points each year...his minutes per game has increased by about 3 mins a year also.. if he cant get you and extra 2 points in 3 minutes whats he doing? He started at 9 a game in 22 mins peaking now at 14 a game in 34. SO in 12 minutes 5 points.... OMFG what development.
Mashack are you kidding me?
Schofeild.. same as ZZhe came in a scorer and increase in experience and minutes tracks.
JJJ got better each year because played more games lol so if him being injured less is counted as development then sure.
Santi by most peoples opinions regressed.
AIdoo got more minutes so of course more points.
same with them all. their rate of scoring did not change drastically.

Name one guy that came in as a non-scorer and developed into one? you cant because that's not this system its not a knock on Barnes its reality.
Every player that comes and sticks to this system will improve. They will improve a lot less on offense here than they would almost anywhere else because that's not the focus.

Outside of DK and Lanier (transfers), there has been no scorer perse in the CRB era outside of the one and dones and Grant. our leading scorer most years under him has put up 12-14 points a game.

Even funnier if you go by the things I put down. transfer, one and done, grant Williams. Only one player has lead this team in scoring and averaged over 14 points a game and falls outside of that. Kevin Punter a senior CRB's first year.


Grant Williams IS THE EXCEPTION OT THE RULE WHICH AYS ITS WAS MOSTLY HIM NOT THE SYSTEM. If you equate someone playing more minutes and having their scoring increase in direct proportion to their extra minutes.. I am dead wrong. But that would mean you don't understand math either. OF course if I play more minutes I am gonna score more points. ZZ improved
 
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pimo1 said:
name a few? I'll wait. Have players improved overall under CRB of course he is a great coach and has a great program. But offense is not his specialty. I hate how folks get all up in arms when the truth is told even if its not negative perse. He is not gonna stagnate some ones development...but you come to UT to play/learn defense under CRB. In this system offense is a byproduct of good D.
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Kevin Punter, Grant, Admiral, Bone all improved significantly on offense at UT under Barnes. The fact that they had some offensive ability before they got here does not discount offensive improvement while in college. Is your point that the only players that count as offensive development for the coach is players that came in with no offensive ability and developed into great offensive players? That seems like a ridiculous metric.
 
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