Tennessee Vols Basketball Recruiting

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Vols8086 said:
A 6'7" player adding range to his jumper when he was already a good FT shooter is much more conceivable than what Santi needs to add to become an NBA player. Santi probably isn't growing anymore or suddenly getting more athletic and there isn't really anything he can do about either of those things.

Not to take anything away from Grant Williams and his 3 point shooting percentage this year, but calling him "one of the most prolific 3-point shooters in the NBA in the 2021-2022 season" is laughable at best. Since the only metric you are using to say that is 3 point percentage (I assume) then you are saying he is a better 3 point shooter than guys like Durant, Irving, Steph, Klay, Harden, VanVleet, Duncan Robinson, Trae Young, etc. That sir or madam, to borrow your phrase, is a load of hogwash.
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Can you two swap numbers? This is the recruiting thread.
 
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Chris4Vols22 said:
Man, I still can't get over how absurd and how dirty all that BS was. Like, I'm still thunderstruck that the kid did the things he did HABITUALLY and with an inappropriately weak response from Duke and the ACC.
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Yup. IDK if you follow the NBA but he caused an up roar earlier this season when he under cut a guy, and caused him to fall and broke his wrist and missed some time. There was a lot of up roar and he got suspended for one game, but a lot of people were asking for a lot more.
 
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mr.checkerboards said:
That gives me too much hope. Dont do it, just dont do it.
Not saying dont come back, just dont give me hope and break my heart.
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I don’t think it’s meant to be a subtextual post referencing a possible return, so I wouldn’t let this sway you or give you any hope. It was pretty evident this team was extremely close. Seems more like a celebration of that than him giving fans false hope.
 
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johnfnkelly said:
Anybody that follows CBB knows by tourney time Grayson Allen was the engine of that Duke team. He had 16 in the championship game.

Regardless, Allen and Vescovi aren’t in the same league in terms of athleticism. So once again, no real comparison.
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I gave you the numbers and why I think they are comparable.

Similar size and stats, that’s not saying they are the same player though. That’s not saying they have the same athleticism either. I haven’t once said they were, you’re adding that cause that’s what you want to argue.

Allen drops 16 points, but had a total of 18 points in the other 5 games of the tournament prior. He wasn’t the best player on that squad, just stop. Better than Winslow, Okafor, Jones or Cook?
 
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Anyone think we reach out to Nigel Pack in the portal? He will definitely be highly sought after. That’d be a very nice addition to replace KC in my opinion.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Well that's just stupid and negativity.

He's actually a better NBA prospect than he is a college one. Why? NBA is more spread out, looser defensively, less zone, and the court is larger as well. He'd have more space to get his shot up and he'd have to burn less energy on defense.
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No that's the truth? He ll make and Chris Lofton cant? Vincent Yarbrough can't and he can? Please explain to me how he is better than they are?
 
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Pmarav23 said:
No that's the truth? He ll make and Chris Lofton cant? Vincent Yarbrough can't and he can? Please explain to me how he is better than they are?
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Yarbrough was drafted and spent a season with the Nuggets, played 59 games too.

Saying Santi has a shot at the NBA isn’t saying he’s better than any former Vol that didn’t make the NBA. All playing in different eras, all offer different skill sets.
 
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cncchris33 said:
All it is is proof that the staff isn't resting on hope of him returning. They're always working on contingency plans.
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Don’t get me wrong, I hope he has a change of heart and decides to come back but he’s pretty much guaranteed to be a 1st Round Pick at this point.

I don’t see him passing up the opportunity.

Stranger things have happened of course.
 
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MoCo_Vol said:
Yarbrough was drafted and spent a season with the Nuggets, played 59 games too.

Saying Santi has a shot at the NBA isn’t saying he’s better than any former Vol that didn’t make the NBA. All playing in different eras, all offer different skill sets.
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VolFreakJosh said:
Don’t get me wrong, I hope he has a change of heart and decides to come back but he’s pretty much guaranteed to be a 1st Round Pick at this point.

I don’t see him passing up the opportunity.

Stranger things have happened of course.
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Yeah, I don't believe for a second that he's seriously entertaining the idea of returning. But as you said, stranger things have happened, and Barnes in particular has a proven history of successfully improving an elite PG's draft stock in his second year.
 
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Pmarav23 said:
I'm not talking about playing one season. or a handfull of games. I mean having a successful career .
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Definitely not how that first post read to me. I don’t think Santi is going to have a Steve Nash type career in the NBA.

I think he could see some action, probably get a Two-Way and get bounced around before ending up playing international ball so he can have more stability and playing time.
 
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