Quinn Ellis

... with our eligibility

... and Quinn Ellis and all these other guys, I don't know if they can be counted on.

Yeah.

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Uh, can we peel back a little bit more into that opinion? Um, 'cause every case is a little bit different.

Well, you know, what makes Keeshawn Hall's case different from Babacar's case, different from Quinn Ellis' case? Uh, knowing that, you know, a lot of people that are gonna be, uh, watching the show, listening to this podcast, are just diving back into college basketball after an off-season.

Maybe even trying to push all of this eligibility stuff to the side, 'cause the average fan might be a little bit frustrated by it.

Why do you have confidence in, in every one of those cases, even if their situations are a little bit different?

Quinn's in the exact same boat as them.

Okay.

So that, that's Quinn Ellis.

And every situation's different.

He's going to have a huge role for the Huskies.

And as you mentioned, it's going to, really have the benefit of playing in this conference before so again I've already kind of spoiled half of my half of my second team here because I've given you the Mullins Bird and Hines lineup but the other two I included another St. John's guy and Kevin I want your thoughts on him I went with Quinn Ellis coming over from the EuroLeague a little bit of an older guard 23 years old You and I have talked about this before.

If you're a Euro leaguer that's had productivity, now you're coming over to Big East, we're going to imagine that you'll be pretty good at the collegiate level.

So I'm taking a flyer.

I'm putting Quinn Ellis on my second team selection.

And then I went Jovan Milosevic at Xavier.

I really like his game.

I don't know if there's any player...

So always fun between those two guys.

Well, and we haven't even mentioned, I don't think, really the swing player here is Quinn Ellis, and we don't know if he's

eligible yet,

right? I mean, Keyshawn Hall is a crucial potential piece that's a 5-5 guy, but Quinn Ellis is an overseas guy that they paid.

a significant amount of money to get on campus and it's still unknown.

Um, like a lot of the international guys that have various levels of quote unquote professional experience overseas, whether or not he's going to be eligible.

And so that's a huge, that's a huge deal because if he is, then you've got, you know, again, I haven't seen a ton of Quinn Ellis tape, but by all accounts, like a totally, um, viable to potentially very good, um, Big East point guard.

But if you don't have him, then you're kind of back in the situation where you were last year in terms of your backcourt and making things figure out.

I, I think Tunde Yesufu, there's a lot, lot to his game that needs w- needs work, but the potential is seriously very high.

And Quinn Ellis is, you know, y- a 22-year-old, like, smart point, point guard who can shoot the basketball.

So with, you know, good positional stats.

So I, I think that'll, that addition will work.

Um, I am a little concerned though about if they end up having Jackson, Yesufu, and Hall.

That's three guys that don't really pass the ball a lot.

Um, Pray doesn't pass the ball a lot, and that would be leaving a lot on Quinn Ellis, who is the table setter that they didn't really have last year at the point guard spot, but he can't be the only one.

Them still finishing 56th nationally in assist rate, it's, like, mind-boggling.

Because if you give me every player that is currently committed to St. John's and they play, I think that is a national title.

I don't think we're talking enough about how good a team with Quinn Ellis, Tunde Yesafu, Keyshawn Hall, Baba Karsane, Reed Bailey.

That's a lot.

Who's the big guy with the sideshow bob hair? I'm blanking on his name.

We don't know.

We don't know how good some of these guys are going to translate.

I think they're pretty damn good if they get everybody to where, yes, if they don't have Quinn Ellis, Barbara Carsoni, Keyshawn Hall.

Those three specifically, you're talking about a team that's probably, yeah, they're probably fourth, fifth in the league and a borderline NCAA tournament team.