Tennessee Vols Basketball Recruiting

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pimo1 said:
The dude is 7 feet tall and 250.... of course, he is slow-footed. You just described 90% of every 7 footer in the country.
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Arizona has like 3 7 footers who are great athletes. Plavvy will always be limited by his athleticism. It’s not something you can get better at.

Nothing of what he said was “hating on our players”. It’s just what he is. I don’t expect him to be able to defend an athletic big man. He’s a below the rim big. He’s at his best when he’s being physical with a guy and getting into their heads. He’s not blocking or altering shots.
 
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joevols89 said:
Arizona has like 3 7 footers who are great athletes. Plavvy will always be limited by his athleticism. It’s not something you can get better at.

Nothing of what he said was “hating on our players”. It’s just what he is. I don’t expect him to be able to defend an athletic big man. He’s a below the rim big. He’s at his best when he’s being physical with a guy and getting into their heads. He’s not blocking or altering shots.
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How about instead of always focusing on what he cant do focus on what he can and has? That's the hating... I know we live in the internet age. I am a server administrator for the last 25 years.. I live in it more than most. But it does not mean we all have to become detached buttholes saying whatever we want because we can hide behind a forum name. If we had a faster, better more athletic big that could beat him out he wouldn't have been playing 14 mins game and starting 21. I think we can all agree we trust in our coaching staff right? If they had a better option said the option would be out there. It would be great if he had the strength of Shaq and the speed of Iverson with the shooting of Curry.. but he does not he is what he is just like all our players are. It's kinda like what happened after the Auburn game when everyone was chanting overrated. That minimizes what our guys did out there. Uros, even before he was getting PT was a locker room and bench presence that contributed a lot to the culture and atmosphere of this past year's team. Fulky volunteered to go to the bench. I guarantee you part of that was him trusting Uros could contribute. All I'm saying is let's sometimes stop hating on our players. This guy shows up puts in the work and contributes on the court and off it without doing dumb crap that takes away from the team. Every team needs guys like that. They are a lot more important than you'd think.

Jared Dudley is a good example. In 13 years and 8 teams in the NBA he averaged 7 points a game. In his last 5 years, he averaged like 4 points a game. He retired in 2021 and was immediately given an assistant coach's job in the NBA. Why because he contributed on the bench and in the locker room and at practice. He made the team better by playing 10 mins a game and like 40-50 games a year. Half his career was healthy DNP's. There is a lot more going on in team sports than just what u see on the field. There is a reason guys that you might think aren't good enough still get PT on good teams. Things they contribute both on and off the court u can't see. Have a bit of faith and respect for our players is all I'm saying. Constantly whining the 7footer is a 7 typical footer is lame.

As far as the Arizona comment goes Arizona has 2 7 footers CHRISTIAN KOLOKO who is admittedly a beast. The Gonzaga transfer OUMAR BALLO put up similar numbers (mins/stats) to Uros and calling him athletic is quite a stretch in his scouting report his comps wee Eddy Curry and a slower Thomas Bryant (lol)...... AZUOLAS TUBELIS is 6-11 and a power-forward but if you compare per 40 numbers his stats are also similar to Uros....
 
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pimo1 said:
How about instead of always focusing on what he cant do focus on what he can and has? That's the hating...
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How about you let people who actually want to discuss the good and the bad on a sports message board do so and stop telling them what to do.

No it’s not hating. If you only want to discuss the positives why not just go to orangleglasses dot com or sunshinepumpers dot com?

Also, no way in hell am I reading that wall of text.
 
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pimo1 said:
The Gonzaga transfer OUMAR BALLO put up similar numbers (mins/stats) to Uros and calling him athletic is quite a stretch in his scouting report his comps wee Eddy Curry and a slower Thomas Bryant (lol)…

AZUOLAS TUBELIS is 6-11 and a power forward but if you compare per 40 numbers his stats are also similar to Uros....
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Thanks for the laughs.
 
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Vol49er said:
Not very imposing schools to be on a list with. While he is from close to Georgetown, not sure why he’d jump on that sinking ship
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yeah, no way he would want to go there after they just won 6 games. surely he would want to win at a high level .
 
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JRVOL11 said:
yeah, no way he would want to go there after they just won 6 games. surely he would want to win at a high level .
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Ramey said on the 247 Recruiting chat that he thinks Georgetown is the favorite since he’s from Baltimore and the Hoyas just hired the LSU assistant that recruited him.

But that is a horrible program.
 
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If two spots are what we have to work with, my gut tells me the staff would take the first to commit between Julian Philips and Brandon Murray and leave the last spot for PG. No inside info, just my guess
 
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justinvol88 said:
If two spots are what we have to work with, my gut tells me the staff would take the first to commit between Julian Philips and Brandon Murray and leave the last spot for PG. No inside info, just my guess
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Phillips is at the top of their wish list and is a guy they would make room for if they had to. He doesn't have some sort of "accept or we may not have a spot for you" type of offer.
 
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If those are his 3 I feel pretty confident. Georgetown recruited him early in HS, but given the circumstances doesn’t make much sense to go there. And IIRC we showed heavy interest in him. I don’t think Illinois did at all.
 
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cncchris33 said:
IIRC, they hired the assistant coach who recruited him to LSU (same coach who was named interim after Wade was fired).
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I think they were the first major program to recruit him and did so pretty heavily. They were in his final 4 I think, along with Memphis, Va Tech
 
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Does anyone know if Murray has some kind of connection to East Tennessee? I think he was really high on ETSU until the major offers started coming in
 
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cncchris33 said:
IIRC, they hired the assistant coach who recruited him to LSU (same coach who was named interim after Wade was fired).
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I’m not saying he’s not a draw, I recognize kids follow the coaches who recruited him all the time. I just don’t get it though, why so many make college decisions based on relationships with one assistant coach. How big of an impact is being close with one of your coaches going to be on your college experience vs the city the college is in, living facilities, program success, NIT opportunities. Seems like a trivial thing to base a college decision on

Hope this doesn’t read as anticipatory sour grapes. I’m not conceding Murray at all, and he’s not like a Banchero where I feel like we will have missed out on an enormous talent if we don’t land him. I also recognize we benefit from this phenomenon as well (Aidoo and Gainey being a great example). I just don’t understand it. High school kids gonna high school kid but you’d think someone would advise them differently
 
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Vols8086 said:
Phillips is at the top of their wish list and is a guy they would make room for if they had to. He doesn't have some sort of "accept or we may not have a spot for you" type of offer.
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True, could be QD in portal only if Phillips committed and we used 2 spots on PG & Murray.
 
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Vol49er said:
I’m not saying he’s not a draw, I recognize kids follow the coaches who recruited him all the time. I just don’t get it though, why so many make college decisions based on relationships with one assistant coach. How big of an impact is being close with one of your coaches going to be on your college experience vs the city the college is in, living facilities, program success, NIT opportunities. Seems like a trivial thing to base a college decision on

Hope this doesn’t read as anticipatory sour grapes. I’m not conceding Murray at all, and he’s not like a Banchero where I feel like we will have missed out on an enormous talent if we don’t land him. I also recognize we benefit from this phenomenon as well (Aidoo and Gainey being a great example). I just don’t understand it. High school kids gonna high school kid but you’d think someone would advise them differently
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I don't know his situation, and I really don't mean for this to be a controversial statement, but in a lot of these cases, these kids are chasing after a positive male role model, a father figure, that is often missing in their lives. They make a bond with these coaches because they show them they care and that becomes just as important to them as basketball (or whatever sport), itself.
 
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