Brandon Huntley-Hatfield enters the transfer portal

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TheMookieMonster said:
Woof. I’ve been avoiding this thread, but man that is the list of schools he has to work with? Unless he goes to Auburn, he’s taking a MAJOR step down in team quality and going to a much more unstable situation from a player development stand point.

I wonder how shocked his mom is. I bet she thought BHH would be some hot commodity and it’s turned out to not be the case.
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Louisville with Kenny Payne would be a pretty nice spot to land.
 
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BHH has plenty of talent and would have been a foundational piece next year. Personally, I think, the attitude and energy of the young bigs kind of altered the trajectory of this team post ON injury.

They brought energy.

BHH will be as talented as he wants to work to be. Let’s not all pretend he sucks because he’s moving a different direction.

Like it - or not - Barnes is old school. He believes you earn things, nothing is given. He believes you work for playing time. He believes a team is better if everyone is working hard and you don’t have golden calfs.

Auburn doesn’t run its program the same way.
Kentucky doesn’t run its program the same way.

It kind of is what it is.

Tennessee is adopting a hybrid model. Some core 3-4 member players and some 1 and done players.

What you see in the transfer portal are those players that think themselves as one and done and feel like time is ticking because they’ve not been a feature or superstar. I call them 2nd rounders.

I don’t know the right strategy. The transfer portal is to young to figure out a strategy. Everyone is experimenting at this point.
 
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UneducatedGuess said:
BHH has plenty of talent and would have been a foundational piece next year. Personally, I think, the attitude and energy of the young bigs kind of altered the trajectory of this team post ON injury.

They brought energy.

BHH will be as talented as he wants to work to be. Let’s not all pretend he sucks because he’s moving a different direction.

Like it - or not - Barnes is old school. He believes you earn things, nothing is given. He believes you work for playing time. He believes a team is better if everyone is working hard and you don’t have golden calfs.

Auburn doesn’t run its program the same way.
Kentucky doesn’t run its program the same way.

It kind of is what it is.

Tennessee is adopting a hybrid model. Some core 3-4 member players and some 1 and done players.

What you see in the transfer portal are those players that think themselves as one and done and feel like time is ticking because they’ve not been a feature or superstar. I call them 2nd rounders.

I don’t know the right strategy. The transfer portal is to young to figure out a strategy. Everyone is experimenting at this point.
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He does have plenty of talent, but not enough basketball IQ to get 30 mpg, if that's indeed what he demanded. He's still got a lot to learn, talented or not.
 
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Stoerner Fumbles said:
Athletic upside and height might sound similar, but they’re two different things. Very few kids of his size play 100% back to the basket in the modern game. Look at how we used him at the 4. Notice how we listed him as a F, not a C. He has one big problem, his mother wants him to play 30 minutes a game, and score 20 so she can get a new house. He’s a good kid. His situation is rotten. If you listen to his teammates, coaches and even Rob Lewis, you’ll hear his problem is not talent or ethic. It’s people running his life. His mother is the reason he reclassified, and played college too soon too. His HS coaches will tell you he was crushed to leave.
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Sounds like a good kid with a rotten home life and a controlling parental figure. If anything, this makes me hate it even more that he left. Rick would have been a hugely positive influence on him if he stayed. We all know the type of father figure he is to these kids. He's not going to get that anywhere else.
 
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TheMookieMonster said:
Sounds like a good kid with a rotten home life and a controlling parental figure. If anything, this makes me hate it even more that he left. Rick would have been a hugely positive influence on him if he stayed. We all know the type of father figure he is to these kids. He's not going to get that anywhere else.
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I noticed that Bobby Maze didn’t really post or repost anything when BHH announced he was transferring. I’m sure he wasn’t too happy with that either. Feel for BHH.
 
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orbs son said:
I just asked for one person who played a bunch that BHH was more athletic than. If that is ridiculous, shouldn't be a problem for you to do.
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Either everyone on the team but Chandler, or everyone on the team depending on who you ask.

Think about the absurdity of claiming he’s a lesser athlete than Fulkerson, Powell, VBJ, and then work your way toward reality from there.

Again, there are three players on our team that scouts rate for NBA potential. That’s it. Three. He’s one, and he’s the one whose athleticism gets talked about most.
 
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Stoerner Fumbles said:
Either everyone on the team but Chandler, or everyone on the team depending on who you ask.

Think about the absurdity of claiming he’s a lesser athlete than Fulkerson, Powell, VBJ, and then work your way toward reality from there.

Again, there are three players on our team that scouts rate for NBA potential. That’s it. Three. He’s one, and he’s the one whose athleticism gets talked about most.
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In most people’s eyes athleticism is only about how high they jump. There wasn’t a post player on the team that had a quicker first move towards the basket than BHH. Athleticism is far from his problem lol.
 
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Stoerner Fumbles said:
Either everyone on the team but Chandler, or everyone on the team depending on who you ask.

Think about the absurdity of claiming he’s a lesser athlete than Fulkerson, Powell, VBJ, and then work your way toward reality from there.

Again, there are three players on our team that scouts rate for NBA potential. That’s it. Three. He’s one, and he’s the one whose athleticism gets talked about most.
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Powell maybe a close call, but to think he is more athletic than Fulkerson or VBJ is crazy.
 
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SJAVol32 said:
In most people’s eyes athleticism is only about how high they jump. There wasn’t a post player on the team that had a quicker first move towards the basket than BHH. Athleticism is far from his problem lol.
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Fulkerson's first step was light years faster. LOL.
 
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Keon is an exceptional athlete. BHH is a big, possibly a great athlete, but I saw a glimpse of that about 4-5 times all season because he was so tentative on the court. As someone said, I think in a combine setting he is posting very mediocre numbers compared to other "NBA" guys. I wish he would've stayed, we saw a few glimpses of a great player, but overall he wasn't very good. Aidoo has the higher ceiling and it was frustrating to see BHH out there over him at times.
 
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