Márcio Santos

After all that nonsense, he's pretty much going to have his entire team.

I mean, Marcio Santos went back overseas, the big fella.

They've given up on R.J. Lewis, which is stupid, but he somehow got a former NBA draft pick eligible in Salio Neon on the wing.

He has Bryce Desert cleared inside, so...

I don't see that.

He had that in Marcio Santos, who decided to go back to Europe.

That was a really key piece to the team that you're missing.

You'd love to have R.J. Lewis as Big East Player of the Year, but they have given up that fight, and I think that's just fine.

I mean, just...

He, so Ba- basically, Pat Forde asked Will Wade during his virtual appearance at Media Days, uh, asking him where do things stand with guys like Marcio Santos and Salieu Niang and Levi Gilad, like all players that played professionally in Europe and in the G League that are still on LSU's roster.

Very reasonable question when your football program is in a legal dispute with the conference for doing the same things.

Will Wade interrupts Pat Forde and angrily says, quote, "Pat, do you follow us at all? Because Santos hadn't been a member of our stuff since July, so I don't know where the hell you got that from." Uh, Santos had, I'm reading from Awful Announcing now, had been tied to LSU as late as September 23rd.

So there's also a couple other moves that I think are relevant to fantasy owners.

Uh, we'll start with the return of Marcio Santos with Baskonia.

He's already played.

He's fitting right into the center rotation there.

Uh, so keep an eye on him.

I wouldn't jump right, right there.

For me, Marcio Santos is a very interesting pick.

He has been great against Milan in the first game.

For LSU, as we know [laughs], they rolled the dice on a lot of international players.

They're rolling the dice on a lot of fifth-year guys, and Marcio Santos, hopefully I got that one correct, he has not been cleared by the NCAA as of right now.

Now he's returning to the EuroLeague, and he will not be a part of this team.

Like, for LSU, I just feel like there's a world where we might be seeing Austin Nunez starting at guard for this team, and it's all going to be a big, giant poop stain for them.

Like if you're going to interview 30 people for this, you're going to find somebody that fits eventually.

And he opened up, uh, can't, I think maybe an interview with Alan Cutler, I believe said, you know, I had heard about the international stuff that I was, he was waiting on some dominoes to fall with the NCAA, but you know, if, if, you're going to allow a Marcio Santos to play college basketball, then we need to be able to have an international-focused guy who's overseas constantly and does nothing but recruit internationally.

And Marcio Santos just, yes, today, yeah, today signed a deal to leave LSU and go back overseas, ruled ineligible.

So, like, clearly not trending in that direction.

So...