Maybe he could be another Tyler Harris, which would mean this was a key addition. They have a similar build. Harris never scored a lot at West. Carolina, but came here, did a lot of things well, and became a key rotation piece for us. Lack of playmaking doesn't bother me at all. We never needed Harris to be a playmaker. We just need some size, which Ball has, some good defense, some rebounding, and a little offense with some timely 3s.
Transfer commit - Andrew Ball
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sman
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we had 6 or 7 spots to fill. we weren't going to fill them all with $750k players. figure 3 in that range, and 3 in the $250k range or less. I'm estimating but you get the idea. the number for non starters has gone wild. a 6th man transfer from Monmouth would get $50k tops 2 years ago.
I'm sure we have offers out to guys we like at each range. but you take the commitment when you get it.
97spiderfan
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Hopefully, this guy doesn't turn out to be our 3rd best signee. That said, I do love that he can play defense. We saw the past 2 years, signing guys on the portal that did some nice offensive things at lower levels but nearly all of them were pretty atrocious on defense. And that was the largest reason we sucked the past 2 years, despite the fact that we could look at our team and believe that we had talent.
Maybe defense was the biggest reason we sucked the last 2 years, but let's not overlook how bad our offense was as well.
2025: 241st in offensive efficiency and 229th in defensive efficiency.
2026: 129th in offense and 223rd in defense.
* Interesting that we were still only 156th in offensive efficiency in 2024, but being 34th in defense was huge that year.
2023: 202 in offense and 117 in defense.
My goodness, those are ugly numbers. In the last 4 years, out of 8 possible outcomes ( 4 offense and 4 defense), we only have 1 higher than 117th best in the country. I will say it again....opposing coaches have figured us out.
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97spiderfan
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Oh don't get me wrong, we weren't great offensively either, mainly because Mooney doesn't develop his scheme to fit his personnel.
Spiders4ever
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And can't recruit players that fit his scheme, whatever it may be
All on Mooney. Bad offensive, weak defense, doesn’t care much for rebounding. A lot of skills required and a lot of things must go right in order to overcome the fallacies of CM’s coaching.
SpiderPrime
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Monmouth…Sounds worse and worse the more I contemplate..
sman
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if he's strong defensively like the stats say, then he's likely substantially better than what we have returning at the 4. and we're not assuming he's a starter. in a Harris role, nice pickup.
he shot 63% from 2 which is great .... comparable to JRob and AP from 2.
he'd be our 3rd leading rebounder, and he did that off the bench in 20 mpg.
he'd be 2nd on our team in blocked shots.
MrTbone
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Was he really a guard at Monmouth?
sman
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anybody can call themselves a guard. I'm not going to watch Monmouth games to check, but based on stats he's a big forward. nothing statistically says "guard".
He averaged 0.6 blocks against bad competition. I just don’t get the excitement given his stats, the school he played for, the competition he faced, and our recruiting/transfer history. It’s like we forget that we are dealing with Mooney every year and by the end wonder why our players are no good. We complain that he doesn’t coach them up, but what if they’re just not that good to begin with and Mooney couldn’t make them better even if he was competent?
sman
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well, we'll wait until we see him play.
we're filling a roster by adding 7 guys. all 7 won't be starters. heck, while we'd like to think they'd all be in the rotation, some may not.
If we’re spending NIL $ on portal players, I’d hope they’d be in the rotation. If not, then what’s the purpose of bringing them here?
