Jackson Shelstad

Why would you go through an off season that I, I'm legitimately optimistic about? Now, Oregon didn't stay healthy last year.

Shelstad, Evans, and Biddle, who were their core three, they played together something le- like less than 10 games.

Okay? So that, that was the biggest problem that, that they had.

I still wasn't enamored with the off season they had last year.

It's March Madness for goodness sake.

So I don't think that he would put that team together, and it wasn't a perfect off season.

I don't think they got their first or second option at point guard, and losing Jackson Shelstad can't be something they, you know, wanted to do.

It's someone Dana Altman recruited from the time he was in eighth grade.

But Evans is great.

I mean, he was a five-star kid at Oregon, kind of in that same class with Jackson Shelstad and some other really good players.

And it always felt like Evans was a bit of a disappointment because he wasn't like a one and done.

Like that's what a lot of people kind of labeled him as potentially being.

I think he and Fulgaris, you're going to need Fulgaris to shoot the ball well too.

But if both those guys are on the floor at the same time, that allows kind of Shelstad and Trimble or Woolley because Pat Kelsey is going to sub a lot.

He's going to play a lot of guys.

That's part of what he wants to do.

So it's almost kind of a good point because Montgomery, Woolley, Knox, all these dudes are going to get roughly the same amount of minutes of who starts or not.

And honestly, it might come down to whoever has the hot hand is going to be the guy that's playing in crunch time in a close game.

But for me, I'm looking at if you're playing Wooley – Tremble, and Shelstad together, those are three guys that all probably want the ball in their hands.

And I'm not saying that as necessarily a bad thing to make that work, but if I'm thinking about lineup construction, I would rather have the dude that can kind of be that role guy.

Games will be played this month, but we're gonna continue on.

We're gonna talk a little bit more about this roster, uh, just like we have leading up to this point with Jackson Shelstad, Adrian Woolley, Carter Knox, and we're gonna do so tonight with DeShane Montgomery.

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You know, like we've talked about how he didn't play as many games.

His minutes weren't really all that consistent.

I, I think- This is your off the bench chaos creator, and you know, this is the guy after Jackson Shelstad and Adrian Woolley are, uh, just lighting you up, comes on, and is giving you a completely different brand of guard play.

And it...

We are continuing our player preview series tonight with our third episode.

If you haven't seen our first two, we covered Jackson Shelstad as well as Adrian Woolley last week.

Some pretty hot takes in there.

Mm-hmm.

so let's start with that.

And I will just keep it high level for now.

I don't know that, that Carter is quite the same questions that we've asked about Jackson Shelstad and Adrian Woolley.

Mm-hmm.

So I'm excited about him.

One of the ones I'm excited to watch is Jackson Shelstad.

This is a guy that has battle injuries, but is really a very effective and dominant point guard.

Can shoot it from the outside.

He fits that system to a tee.

And you talked about it earlier in the show, Joel.

When you have guys that can shoot the ball and space the floor, and you also have rim pressure for lob threats, a guy like Jackson Shelstad is going to make a tremendous impact on that Louisville Cardinals ball team.

And keep in mind, too, they're going to play faster at Louisville than what they played at Oregon.

Duke was targeting Flory Bedunga.

I think Jackson Shelstad's fantastic.

I thought Alvaro Ferreira from Iowa was a bit of an underrated pickup.

You pick up Carter Knox.

While we expect and want both, we're going to dive specifically into what role he's played at Oregon and how we think that will translate into being the floor general.

But first, let's dive into the tail of the tape here to better understand who we're talking about with Jackson Shelstad.

He will be in his...

Fourth year as a college basketball player, transferring over from Oregon in the offseason.

I think someone that did that on last year's team was Ryan Conwell.

You can expect that same kind of the way he shoots the ball, the way he wants to shoot the ball, looks to shoot the ball.

That's what Jackson Shelstad is doing when he's out there.

When he's not facilitating, obviously, he's going to get assists.